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[ English Section ] [ Feedback ] Published in issue #456 on 15 January 200
Synod for slaughterBased on this week's Dari-Persian editorial column (A11). Last Wednesday, 10 January 2001, in Akora Khatak near Peshawar, they assembled. They who? They that have for the past eight years tyrannized and murdered tens of thousands of innocent Afghans, destroyed countless hundreds of Afghan villages, burned untold acres of Afghan farmlands and orchards, torched thousands upon thousands of ancient Afghan texts and artifacts, and basically ruined that which had survived the Soviet scourge. They congregated in a show of “anger” and “defiance” against the fresh United Nations sanctions against the Taliban militia. These sanctions are, of course, intended to limit and ultimately peter out the militia’s access to arms and manpower -- resources acquired through Islamabad that have allowed the militia and its terrorist allies to trample Afghanistan and lay the foundations for the world’s first terrorist hub. The list of attendees in Akora Khatak’s Haqania seminary -- the location of this convention, and a center that trains thousands of tomorrow’s terrorists and religious radicals -- included Pakistani terror masters Sami ul-Haq, Fazl ur-Rahman, Qazi Hussein Ahmad, Masood Azhar, Ejaz ul-Haq, Gen. Hamid Gul and Gen. Aslam Beg. A list of criminals no less bloodthirsty and evil than those sentenced at Nuremberg. All of whom have committed crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. And all the ink in the world would dry up in any attempt to fully outline all these crimes. Such an attempt would begin with Hamid Gul’s and Aslam Beg’s treachery against Afghanistan’s true mujahideen throughout the Soviet-Afghan war, which was part and parcel of today’s ISI plot to annex the country into a fifth province. The chapter on Qazi Hussein Ahmad and Ejaz ul-Haq would describe their continual rejuvenation of Gulbudin Hekmatyar, the Butcher of Kabul. Each time the Butcher was crushed by Afghan government forces of the Islamic State, the two interjected to conjure up a false ceasefire, giving him another chance to rocket Kabul and slaughter thousands more Kabulis. Sami ul-Haq and Fazl ur-Rahman, of course, are the duo who’ve led the call by fomenters of radical Islamism -- defamers of the true, universal religion revealed to Prophet Mohammad the Praised -- for a “jihad” against the Muslim nation of Afghanistan and her sainted defenders. And with that call, they have unleashed in Afghanistan thousands of their disciples -- many children forcibly taken from their parents and taught an illegitimate form of Islam rooted in Wahhabism and Deobandism -- equipped with modern weapons of death and carnage. (It should be asked from these false worshippers, what jihad? Against whom? Against Ahmad Shah Masood and Afghanistan’s national resistance force? Against our very nation? Against the people of northern Afghanistan? Against the non-Pashtoons? It’s a question that no Taliban apologist has been able to answer.) As most Afghans now know, these so-called “Islamic” politco-military organizations based in Pakistan are covered up to the neck with the blood of the innocent and martyred people of Afghanistan. And so when such a crowd gathers to discuss Afghanistan it can only mean more bloodshed and the slaughter of more guiltless Afghans. The synod of terrorists and radicals -- in classic Pakistani fashion -- labeled the sanctions as “anti-Islamic” and “targeting” the Muslim world. While in reality, the sanctions have only one victim: the Taliban, barbaric foreign-born minions of Pakistan’s military establishment. But which the radical’s propaganda is trying hard to portray as the rightful representatives of not only ethnic Pashtoons, but the entire nation of Afghanistan -- a fallacy on both levels. According to recent counts, there are an estimated 10,000 religious seminaries in Pakistan. Undoubtedly, some of these institutions teach the true, untainted doctrines of orthodox Islam -- from law to spirituality. They are producing students who will work for the good of the Islamic world, and thus the world at large. But unfortunately, the vast majority that ostensibly call themselves madrassahs, or Islamic schools, are infusing their students with unorthodox ideas and beliefs. Their teachers -- which include the likes of Sami ul-Haq, Fazl ur-Rahman, Mufti Nizam ud-Din Shamzai and other sycophants of the ISI -- give lessons on the killing of men and women, the torture of children and the elderly, the slaughter of Muslims and all People of the Book [eds: Quranic reference to Jews and Christians, and according to some Islamic scholars, also followers of Zoroastrianism and even Hinduism], the pillaging of towns and cities, and the annihilation of all that oppose them. Were the attendees of this recent gathering to tap into their seminaries and unleash another batch of murderers on Afghanistan, it would mean only one thing: more slaughter of the people of Afghanistan. The addition of just ten, twenty or thirty “students” from these so-called Islamic seminaries to the ranks of the Taliban and their allies would truly cement hell on earth for the Afghans. Pakistan to undermine UN sanctionsAn item that was missing from the news report on the troublous moot in Akora Khatak, is their decision to use a religious tithe -- collected from Pakistan’s majority unsuspecting and truly pious Muslims, and such tithes collected from Muslims the world over, especially oil-rich Arab sheikhs -- to replenish Taliban coffers as a counterweight to the UN sanctions. (It remains to be seen how many more millions of dollars will go toward the continued slaying of the people of Afghanistan.) As such, Afghan watchers speculate that the Musharraf regime will try to convince the world of an impending “revolution” by these radicals in order to weaken the sanctions, exclude Pakistan from any responsibility, and alleviate any pressure on Islamabad to cut-off its lifeline to the Taliban. But, Pakistan may not have to worry. The UN, in its usual custom, has already enervated the sanctions by, for example, allowing the Taliban to repair their remaining fleet of civilian airplanes -- which the militia uses to ferry troops within Afghanistan. Switzerland aiding the Taliban cause?While the Akora Khatak coven was not surprising, there was news this week of a “peace seminar” to be held in Taliban-occupied Kabul, sponsored by the Swiss government. Essentially, it is imperspicuous why the government of a
civilized nation, seated in the heart of Europe and renowned for
its value of human rights, would undertake such an event that will
clearly be under the aegis of the Taliban, the world’s foremost
violators of human rights. But should such an event take place in Taliban-occupied Kabul, it would, without a doubt, provide the ISI with the opportunity to paint a picture for the world of a city that is at peace, governed by rulers -- the Taliban -- who are civilized and enlightened, respectful of human rights and women’s rights, promotes learning and scholarship, and in step with the modern world. In other words, to paint a completely false picture of a city that is, in fact, oppressed, without protection of human rights and women’s rights, ruled by barbarians, and on the brink of revolt. The news item, however, may be false for a couple of reasons: it’s only appeared in the Frontier Post; and Switzerland has been one of the world’s leading nations on the promotion of human rights. Nevertheless, the story shows the depths to which the ISI will sink to further its foul strategy in Afghanistan. Fmr president Mojadedi indicts Pakistani clericsSays Islam sanctions national resistance against foreign invadersFollowing are brief excerpts of Omaid Weekly’s January 14 interview with Prof. Sibghatullah Mojadedi, the first president of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. He is one of Afghanistan’s prominent Islamic scholars, who has studied at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the world’s preeminent Islamic university. Prof. Mojadedi is also head of the Afghanistan National Liberation Front, one of the main mujahideen parties during the Soviet-Afghan war. The full text of the interview is available in this week’s Dari-Persian pages. Omaid Weekly: What is your reaction to the recent “religious” gathering in Akora Khatak? Prof. Mojadedi: These are the very people responsible for sending the Taliban to Afghanistan, and fanning the flames of war to ultimately deliver the country into Pakistani hands. They have never worked for the good of Afghanistan. Have we ever heard them call for the withdrawal of Pakistani troops and militias, and Arabs from Afghanistan? Have they ever asked Pakistan to let the Afghans themselves decide their fate? Much of Afghanistan’s crisis can be blamed on these very clerics. OW: Is resistance to Pakistan’s de facto occupation of the country religiously sanctioned by Islam? PM: No country has the right to invade another. The people of Afghanistan have a right to defense; they have a [religiously sanctioned] right to fight this war [against Pakistan and the Taliban] in order to defend their land and their honor. I know of atrocities [by these occupiers] that are too horrible to mention -- cruelties that not even the Soviets committed! Resistance is necessary. And may God Almighty grant the Afghans the power to defeat the foreign invaders who shed the blood of our people. *From this week's English-language page
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