The basic formula is that oppression will not disappear until people start fighting for freedom.
Author: Dr. Farid Younes, Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology and Islamic Philosophy, University of California, Member of the Sangar Advisory Board
Man is a strange creature. When he reaches a high position, he imagines that everything he says is true, and people accept it. And this is not true, and such people, not understanding, fool themselves.
These people mostly get into office through connections or proximity to a strong lobbying group. One such person who speaks without thinking is Amina Mohammad, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, who caused a sensation with her inappropriate and thoughtless speech at Harvard University, the most famous educational and research center in the United States. She said: "We hope that at this meeting we can find the first (small) steps that will put us on the path to basic recognition of the Taliban."
This proposal caused an international outcry, and opponents of the Taliban began strikes and demonstrations around the world, but this author wrote in three short texts in English that the UN cannot officially recognize the Taliban. And so it happened, and the Taliban were not recognized at the meeting on May 1 and 2, 2023 in Doha.
It is true that the United Nations, as in English, is a "scam", a scam or a dishonest ploy, because it is mainly financed by large countries, especially the United States of America, and willy-nilly must fulfill the expectations of those who finance it. However, the UN failed to recognize the Taliban because of the Declaration of Human Rights, and the organization, contrary to its principles, did not do the same at the global level.
But this is not the first time that famous people have said unnecessary and inappropriate words.
In 2005, I remember, the president of this famous Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, at a scientific conference, deeply moved women when he noticed that men were more successful in science and mathematics due to biological differences. He then apologized for his remark.
In our backward society, too, there were unscientific comments. Mr. Abdusattar Sirat, a former adviser to the late Zahir Shah, stated in a speech in the State of California that a four-year marriage is permitted with the intervention of the girl's representative, causing an uproar in the foreign press. For the first time the audio recording of this lecture was broadcast by Mr. Farooq Tamiz. Mr. Sirat also refuted his statement and denied that he had said anything, although a video of his speech exists.
In any case, the UN meeting in Doha was a major defeat for the Taliban and further isolated Afghanistan. The isolation of countries in various forms is not new. North Korea is isolated, and in the Middle East, Iran is almost isolated.
In the case of Afghanistan, not only the Taliban failed, but also Taliban supporters and those naive people who wanted to understand or compromise with the Taliban inside and outside the country. This defeat gave Taliban opponents such as the National Resistance Front and the Azadi Corps high hopes to continue the fight.
Political issues are one of the disciplines of the humanities, that is, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone is right in their opinion, but in the case of Afghanistan, when it comes to Muslims, it is a matter of oppression. Oppression will not be solved by understanding and reconciliation, and by launching political and peaceful movements that waste time, especially abroad. Because in Islam oppression is like blasphemy, the only way to remove and destroy oppression is through war, that's all.
Supporters of the Taliban, mostly ethnic and tribal, are trying to negotiate with the Taliban. The author of these lines from the first day says that from the point of view of political sociology, a group that has usurped power on the basis of ideology never compromises and never understands a peaceful solution, and it must be fought. Did the Communists compromise in Afghanistan? Let's take Europe. Did Hitler compromise? Did the Russian Stalin surrender, having lost millions of people? British Churchill surrendered to Germany or fought? He fought! The basic formula is that oppression will not disappear until the people begin to fight for freedom.
