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The tragedy of Afghanistan..and the priority of building people
Hossam Badrawi
I had written a comment on the Taliban’s assumption of power in Afghanistan after the country was physically destroyed by the United States, and its human destruction was expected through fanaticism and cruelty with the return of the Taliban, in which I said:
“The United States supported and financed the jihadists in Afghanistan who became the heart of the Taliban, and it also financed, facilitated and supported the Brotherhood in the Arab world to complete the work of British intelligence, which has the first credit for establishing this group and the establishment of its branches: ISIS and its sisters, Boko Haram and its brothers. The United States, under the name of calling for freedom and democracy, destroyed every place they went, and spread fanaticism and violence under the banners of freedom and human rights.
Perhaps there is a benefit in trying to answer the question: Why did the American structural experiment succeed in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and West Germany, where constitutions and post-war political systems were established?
And failed, intentionally or unintentionally, in everything else??
The historical view of what is happening in Afghanistan now will disgrace the American governments for years to come.. They have put us between the hammer of religious fanaticism and intellectual terrorism, and the anvil of dictatorship. May God protect Egypt in everything that passes and happens around it from the destruction that permeates a country that had all the possibilities of progress had it not been for the American intervention to support the authoritarian rulers in one time, then the coup against them and the creation of groups of vile religious terrorism in another time.. They made me have mercy on the traditional British colonialism that was It sucks the blood of peoples without destroying them at least.” And it was the last sentence in my comment that opened the dialogue that took place with the youth.
The young reader in history said: Do you have mercy, Doctor, for British colonialism?! Is it different from the French who was completely destroying the language, identity and culture of the occupied countries, or the Belgian colonialism with its cruelty and enslavement of the Congo and cutting off the hands and feet of everyone who opposes it, or do you compare it to the English, French and Portuguese colonialism The Spaniard of the Americas, who erased the existence of peoples who inhabited this land for thousands of years.. They were and still are destroying peoples, but in different forms?!
I said apologetically: By God, you are right, my son. I call it the “Frankenstein of Nations.” Neo-colonialism sucks blood and turns the victim into a new vampire, from the Brotherhood to al-Qaeda, from ISIS to Boko Haram, and from the Taliban to every extremist organization that kills its citizens and imposes on them its regime wrapped in the cloak of religion to destroy the identity of his country and take them back a thousand years.
I repeat my apologies.. There is no difference between the opium war that China waged against the British occupier and the wars of today.. All of them serve the economic interests of the West under the umbrella of claiming human rights and freedoms and spreading democracy.
The educated young woman said: We heard you say: “There is no such thing as the absolute truth, because the truth is only true to the extent of the information available to you and the facts your senses perceive.. Accordingly, if you work your mind by looking, inference and comparison, and then ruling out your intellectual affiliations and personal convictions, then What remains is the abstract truth, no matter how strange it seems!’.. and my question is: Why do those who take charge of religion hate the scientific method and criticism throughout history?
I said: First, Islam does not have a mediator between man and his Lord, and the story of the Islamic clergy is a repetition of the church priesthood that Islam did not approve of, and the West got rid of it by separating religion from the state. I read to my friend Sameh Askar that every independent thinker is a project against the pride and arrogance of priests. How dare he understand his own religion? How dare he criticize them and degrade their image in front of people? How does it threaten their interests and money?
The clergyman always likes to play (the role of the prophet and the guardian of beliefs), a role that causes him to hate everyone, doubt every critic, and reject any independence from his spheres of influence. Another picture is closer to the worshiper ascetic, not the jurist who interferes in people’s lives or rules them.
The idea of the caliphate, which the clergy calls for, is based on the fact that the ruler is God’s successor on earth, and he is the heart of religious rule that does not accept criticism in inheritance and beliefs, nor in actions, nor in the transfer of power.
The rational, natural person works against injustice, ignorance and chaos, and struggles for the dignity and rights of people, while the person who takes religion as a profession does not make these matters a priority, but rather the beliefs he guards, and thanks to them he obtains his influence and status… Then he begins to deceive them and delude them that his beliefs guarantee They have justice and order to remain under his obedience.. And sometimes, he does that without knowing that he is misleading them, because over time he believes himself, even the rulers who claimed divinity in history were believing themselves!.
Another young man said: What is your reading of the events in Afghanistan and the Taliban taking power?
I said: Twenty whole years (2001-2021) America spent in Afghanistan and spent nearly a trillion dollars (1000 billion dollars) in it under the pretext of fighting Al-Qaeda and the rest of the extremist organizations that revolve in its orbit.. Then it left this afflicted country to fall as a ripe fruit that is easy to pick by means of Hyenas of extremist ideologies, without even caring for their reputation and prestige by declaring the defeat of the largest country and the most powerful army in the world at the official level.
Another young man said: Egypt is far from Afghanistan..so why the interest in the first place?
I said: My son, I remind you that Afghanistan was the reservoir of strategic terrorism from which the waves of terrorism of the eighties and nineties were launched, which affected many countries in the region, including Egypt. I remind you of what was known in the eighties and nineties of the “returnees from Afghanistan” organization.
And we should not forget that many of those who were the youth of the Brotherhood and who became its leaders have many pictures that unite them with Osama bin Laden and B
Hossam Badrawi
I had written a comment on the Taliban’s assumption of power in Afghanistan after the country was physically destroyed by the United States, and its human destruction was expected through fanaticism and cruelty with the return of the Taliban, in which I said:
“The United States supported and financed the jihadists in Afghanistan who became the heart of the Taliban, and it also financed, facilitated and supported the Brotherhood in the Arab world to complete the work of British intelligence, which has the first credit for establishing this group and the establishment of its branches: ISIS and its sisters, Boko Haram and its brothers. The United States, under the name of calling for freedom and democracy, destroyed every place they went, and spread fanaticism and violence under the banners of freedom and human rights.
Perhaps there is a benefit in trying to answer the question: Why did the American structural experiment succeed in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and West Germany, where constitutions and post-war political systems were established?
And failed, intentionally or unintentionally, in everything else??
The historical view of what is happening in Afghanistan now will disgrace the American governments for years to come.. They have put us between the hammer of religious fanaticism and intellectual terrorism, and the anvil of dictatorship. May God protect Egypt in everything that passes and happens around it from the destruction that permeates a country that had all the possibilities of progress had it not been for the American intervention to support the authoritarian rulers in one time, then the coup against them and the creation of groups of vile religious terrorism in another time.. They made me have mercy on the traditional British colonialism that was It sucks the blood of peoples without destroying them at least.” And it was the last sentence in my comment that opened the dialogue that took place with the youth.
The young reader in history said: Do you have mercy, Doctor, for British colonialism?! Is it different from the French who was completely destroying the language, identity and culture of the occupied countries, or the Belgian colonialism with its cruelty and enslavement of the Congo and cutting off the hands and feet of everyone who opposes it, or do you compare it to the English, French and Portuguese colonialism The Spaniard of the Americas, who erased the existence of peoples who inhabited this land for thousands of years.. They were and still are destroying peoples, but in different forms?!
I said apologetically: By God, you are right, my son. I call it the “Frankenstein of Nations.” Neo-colonialism sucks blood and turns the victim into a new vampire, from the Brotherhood to al-Qaeda, from ISIS to Boko Haram, and from the Taliban to every extremist organization that kills its citizens and imposes on them its regime wrapped in the cloak of religion to destroy the identity of his country and take them back a thousand years.
I repeat my apologies.. There is no difference between the opium war that China waged against the British occupier and the wars of today.. All of them serve the economic interests of the West under the umbrella of claiming human rights and freedoms and spreading democracy.
The educated young woman said: We heard you say: “There is no such thing as the absolute truth, because the truth is only true to the extent of the information available to you and the facts your senses perceive.. Accordingly, if you work your mind by looking, inference and comparison, and then ruling out your intellectual affiliations and personal convictions, then What remains is the abstract truth, no matter how strange it seems!’.. and my question is: Why do those who take charge of religion hate the scientific method and criticism throughout history?
I said: First, Islam does not have a mediator between man and his Lord, and the story of the Islamic clergy is a repetition of the church priesthood that Islam did not approve of, and the West got rid of it by separating religion from the state. I read to my friend Sameh Askar that every independent thinker is a project against the pride and arrogance of priests. How dare he understand his own religion? How dare he criticize them and degrade their image in front of people? How does it threaten their interests and money?
The clergyman always likes to play (the role of the prophet and the guardian of beliefs), a role that causes him to hate everyone, doubt every critic, and reject any independence from his spheres of influence. Another picture is closer to the worshiper ascetic, not the jurist who interferes in people’s lives or rules them.
The idea of the caliphate, which the clergy calls for, is based on the fact that the ruler is God’s successor on earth, and he is the heart of religious rule that does not accept criticism in inheritance and beliefs, nor in actions, nor in the transfer of power.
The rational, natural person works against injustice, ignorance and chaos, and struggles for the dignity and rights of people, while the person who takes religion as a profession does not make these matters a priority, but rather the beliefs he guards, and thanks to them he obtains his influence and status… Then he begins to deceive them and delude them that his beliefs guarantee They have justice and order to remain under his obedience.. And sometimes, he does that without knowing that he is misleading them, because over time he believes himself, even the rulers who claimed divinity in history were believing themselves!.
Another young man said: What is your reading of the events in Afghanistan and the Taliban taking power?
I said: Twenty whole years (2001-2021) America spent in Afghanistan and spent nearly a trillion dollars (1000 billion dollars) in it under the pretext of fighting Al-Qaeda and the rest of the extremist organizations that revolve in its orbit.. Then it left this afflicted country to fall as a ripe fruit that is easy to pick by means of Hyenas of extremist ideologies, without even caring for their reputation and prestige by declaring the defeat of the largest country and the most powerful army in the world at the official level.
Another young man said: Egypt is far from Afghanistan..so why the interest in the first place?
I said: My son, I remind you that Afghanistan was the reservoir of strategic terrorism from which the waves of terrorism of the eighties and nineties were launched, which affected many countries in the region, including Egypt. I remind you of what was known in the eighties and nineties of the “returnees from Afghanistan” organization.
And we should not forget that many of those who were the youth of the Brotherhood and who became its leaders have many pictures that unite them with Osama bin Laden and B
Save the warlords of the Afghan militia leaders at the time.
I remind you that many of the leaders of the terrorist militias in Libya who control the scene now were, in their youth, members of the “Libyan Fighting Group,” the group of Libyan youth who went in the eighties for jihad in Afghanistan and pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda and fought in its ranks.. There are also leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front. In Algeria, the emperors of terrorism are all returning from Afghanistan.
We are not far away, young men, and perhaps we will be on a date with a new wave of terrorism, after we faced the Brotherhood and ISIS organizations in the Sinai and in eastern Libya.. Also, the mere approval of the Taliban for Turkey to take over the reins of matters such as airports and facilities, I consider it an indication of bad intentions.. Turkey may Be the contractor Al-Anfar to transfer terrorism to us.
Another young woman said: Shouldn’t we not rush to judge the Taliban and wait if they believe what they say about their moderation?
I said: There is no moderation in extremism. Religious conflict is the way to shed blood. All massacres throughout history witnessed either the raising of the cross in the face of a group raising the cross, or the Qur’an facing the Qur’an.
Another young man said: Doctor, the free world will not leave them… The mere arrest of an Egyptian dissident makes countries and human rights organizations move against the country!
I said: True, but look at the whole picture and not part of it. The whole world is watching the Taliban seize the American weapons and control Afghanistan, storm the capital, and the fugitives fall from the planes without international action!
A wise young man said: What do you fear from what is happening in Afghanistan?
I said: I know that the leadership of Egypt is aware of the dangers, but what I fear is that confronting this will only be security intelligence. Confrontation must be by confronting oneself with the truth and by building a free person who is able to perceive, differentiate between truth and falsehood, and respect difference.
Unfortunately, there are those among us who see the Taliban as the model they dream of. It is true that they are a minority, but they are an active and proactive minority and interact with the social media.. The majority is gradually afraid of expressing a contrary opinion, or else they will be attacked, insulted and defamed.
The Enlightenment trend to confront this manifest evil needs to be bullied into some of it and by the state, if it is really a modern civil state, as its constitution says.. It needs to be bullied by its people who removed the rule of the Brotherhood in one year, in a historical precedent, and abolished a terrifying scheme for the whole region.. So show up, speak and write without fear From terrorizing thought and stifling freedom of opinion… We understand that building a free and normal human being is the priority.
I remind you that many of the leaders of the terrorist militias in Libya who control the scene now were, in their youth, members of the “Libyan Fighting Group,” the group of Libyan youth who went in the eighties for jihad in Afghanistan and pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda and fought in its ranks.. There are also leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front. In Algeria, the emperors of terrorism are all returning from Afghanistan.
We are not far away, young men, and perhaps we will be on a date with a new wave of terrorism, after we faced the Brotherhood and ISIS organizations in the Sinai and in eastern Libya.. Also, the mere approval of the Taliban for Turkey to take over the reins of matters such as airports and facilities, I consider it an indication of bad intentions.. Turkey may Be the contractor Al-Anfar to transfer terrorism to us.
Another young woman said: Shouldn’t we not rush to judge the Taliban and wait if they believe what they say about their moderation?
I said: There is no moderation in extremism. Religious conflict is the way to shed blood. All massacres throughout history witnessed either the raising of the cross in the face of a group raising the cross, or the Qur’an facing the Qur’an.
Another young man said: Doctor, the free world will not leave them… The mere arrest of an Egyptian dissident makes countries and human rights organizations move against the country!
I said: True, but look at the whole picture and not part of it. The whole world is watching the Taliban seize the American weapons and control Afghanistan, storm the capital, and the fugitives fall from the planes without international action!
A wise young man said: What do you fear from what is happening in Afghanistan?
I said: I know that the leadership of Egypt is aware of the dangers, but what I fear is that confronting this will only be security intelligence. Confrontation must be by confronting oneself with the truth and by building a free person who is able to perceive, differentiate between truth and falsehood, and respect difference.
Unfortunately, there are those among us who see the Taliban as the model they dream of. It is true that they are a minority, but they are an active and proactive minority and interact with the social media.. The majority is gradually afraid of expressing a contrary opinion, or else they will be attacked, insulted and defamed.
The Enlightenment trend to confront this manifest evil needs to be bullied into some of it and by the state, if it is really a modern civil state, as its constitution says.. It needs to be bullied by its people who removed the rule of the Brotherhood in one year, in a historical precedent, and abolished a terrifying scheme for the whole region.. So show up, speak and write without fear From terrorizing thought and stifling freedom of opinion… We understand that building a free and normal human being is the priority.
