Reply to Dr. Faizullah Jalal, who said: “Masood will never compare with Gandhi, Mandella, and Che Guevara...”
Author: Soraya Baha, critic and writer.
How funny it is when a university professor stoops to the level of a media lumpen and needs a few likes and comments from Facebook thugs!
From time to time, Ustad Jalal unbridledly expresses absurd thoughts about Commander Masood, and the next day he apologizes for his rash words when it is too late and the arrow has already been launched.
To belittle Commander Masood, Ustad Jalal compares Commander Masood with Gandhi, Mandella, and Ernest Che Guevara, without any reason and at the wrong time. Firstly, Gandhi and Mandell had a different fighting style from Masood, with Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister of India and Mandella becoming the leader and President of South Africa. Ernest Che Guevara, who like Massoud was a chirik or guerrilla, is a little different.
Che Guevara fought to overthrow capitalist governments and establish a communist system, in the special conditions of the jungles of Bolivia and Argentina in South America. He fought his own government, not the world's superpower. After the government campaign, he hid in large forests covered with trees and forest plants.
Commander Massoud fought for the freedom of his country against the world's largest superpower of the time, that is, the Soviet Union, the Red Army, and the 40th Army, in mountainous conditions and in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, which had nowhere to hide when bombed by Russian Tu-16 aircraft.
Even a writer from Latin America wrote that the commander Massoud was the founder of mountain wars worldwide, and Che Guevara was the founder of guerrilla wars in the forests. But Mas'ud's war was more difficult.
The story of Commander Massoud's 5-year resistance against the terrorist army of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda is completely different, and understanding this struggle is beyond the power of a scientist like Ustad Jalal.
Commander Massoud was an undisputed military genius. This is why Masoud's death became a sensation, changing world politics.
I feel sorry for Dr. Jalal, who is mired in the quagmire of his personal complexes without political wisdom.
If Ustad Jalal compared himself to Noam Chomsky, a linguistics professor at the University of Arizona, what would be left of him? Nothing...
