In Afghanistan, the illegitimate marriage of ethnicism and religion has betrayed both the religion and the nation.
Author: Dr. Farid Younes, Former Professor of Islamic Anthropology and Islamic Philosophy, California State University, USA, Member of the Sangar Advisory Board.
One of the branches of history as a science is comparative history, with which the researcher compares different eras. Today, some are wondering why women are sitting at home, freedom of the press is not allowed in the country and people do not have the right to speak. In principle, this is not a new phenomenon.
In the recent history of Afghanistan, Nadir Khan, Zahirshah's father, was the mastermind behind usurping the rights of the people and forcing schoolgirls to stay at home, but today the younger generation does not know and thinks this is happening for the first time. But they should know that in addition to the Decade of Democracy (1963-1973) and two decades of American export democracy, there were deep civil rights problems in Afghanistan, especially freedom of speech.
People have been deprived of political rights since the time of Nadir Khan. Ghubar, a well-known historian of our country, writes: “At a big meeting on the internal policy of the government, the Shah made such a warning: the current government will not allow everyone to talk about politics, as in the era of Amanullah Khan.”
Since then, people's mouths have been closed. Students were severely punished if they talked about politics. Historians of Afghanistan call the reign of Nadir Shah a period of reaction and suffocation. Spying on and controlling people who almost didn't have to breathe was scary and intimidating.
After the author's father returned from France, Nadir Khan told him in a short conversation: "If you say anything even to your classmate, it will reach me." My father was a supporter of His Majesty Amanullakhan (from the unpublished memoirs of Muhammad Yunus, known as a chemist, father of the author).
Since then, inside Afghanistan, people have become accustomed to being silent, as they are today.
It is interesting (I also wrote earlier) that an illegitimate marriage between ethnicity and religion took place after Naderkhan came to power, which historians mentioned indirectly. Only Nadir Khan was condemned, but representatives of the religion were also responsible. They, who were supposed to defend their religion, have teamed up with Nadir Khan and silenced themselves in the face of this oppression that silences people. They forgot that the Qur'an says that the science of expression and the science of writing!!! That is, he taught you the science of expression and the science of writing.
What was more interesting was that Nadir Khan and his brothers lived in European countries; They didn't study religion, but they didn't learn anything from Europe either, and in order to maintain power, they silenced the people, as they do today. They never implemented the legal article on the press that they had approved, because they were very afraid of a free press. They should have taken the path of dictatorship, as they do today. Supporters of Nadir Khan and representatives of religion have their own arguments that cannot be justified from the point of view of civil or Sharia law. We always maintain that Afghanistan is not yet ready for change. He was ready for oppression, but he was not ready for transformation???
Nadir Khan also played an important role in keeping women at home, and this is not a new problem, but the clergy and reactionary forces supported him just as they do today.
The comparative history of Afghanistan is very interesting. All the problems that occurred during the time of Nadir Khan are repeated in our days. The book "Afghanistan on the Path of History", the second volume, which was a continuation of the first volume, was arrested in Afghanistan during the reign of Zahir Shah and was not allowed to print. In 1999, it was published in America by Heshmat Ghubar, the son of the late Ghubar. Having come to power, Nadir Khan, with his first 10-point decree, as today, sentenced women to stay at home. Gubar writes: “The first act of the monarchy was the blocking of women's schools, the women's association of Kabul, and the women's newspaper Irshad”.
The problems you see in Afghanistan today are the result of the illegitimate marriage of ethnicism and religion that was established by the Nadir Khan dynasty. In their opinion, this is based on the teachings of Hanafi madhhab, and the first article was that the government should be created on the basis of the Hanafi madhhab. And the first thing the clergy did was to forbid girls from going to school and the women's movement was absolutely suppressed. And you see the same problem repeating itself today.
