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The Afghanistan Of Islam Rejects
Pollution By Democracy And Westernization
15 June 2011 By Abdul Wahhab
Kabuli
In the Name of Allah, the Most
Compassionate, the Most Merciful
For 90 years the West has been
trying to Westernize Afghanistan and plant the vile
tree of democracy in it by way of its henchmen, but
the land of Afghanistan refuses to accept this alien
plant.
The first who tried to import
Western ideas and spread them in this country was King
Amanullah Khan who ascended the throne of power in the
wake of the recovery by the Afghan people of their
freedom from the English as a result of the great
Jihad in the cause of Allah Almighty in 1919 CE.
After he assumed the reins of
power and the situation stabilized, he became
fascinated by the capitals of Europe. He visited them
in a strange visit, perhaps the strangest visit
undertaken by a king or ruler in recent centuries,
which lasted for seven months from December 1927 CE
until July 1928 CE and in which he visited the most
important European countries like Italy, France,
Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Britain, Poland and the
Communist Soviet Union.
After an absence of seven months,
he returned to Afghanistan inspired by what he saw in
the West of material progress and moral liberation.
Western democracy hardened his mindset and he forgot
his affiliation with the Islamic religion and the
Afghan people who reject abandoning their Religion and
its Islamic values in exchange for any price, no
matter how lucrative.
After arriving back in
Afghanistan, he wanted to turn this country within a
short time into a piece of atheist Europe which
followed secularism and democracy after rebelling
against burning Christianity which assailed the life
of the people with the tyranny of the church and the
irrational and cruel clerical regime.
The king resorted to issuing laws
and Western statues upon Islam and the traditions of
its Mujahid people. Among them were the following, as
recalled by Mir Ghallam Muhammad Ghobar, the Afghan
historian and contemporary of the king, in his book
Afghanistan dramseer of History.
Sent a group of Afghan girls,
traveling without a Mahram or proctor, to study
in Ataturk’s Turkey.
Introduced a group of German
teachers to instruct girls in Kabul. That group was
the first nucleus of the women’s liberation movement
in Afghanistan, along the Western model.
Issued orders for the coeducation
of boys and girls for the first time in the history of
Afghanistan.
Issued instructions forbidding
multiple wives for official employees of the state.
Issued laws abolishing underage
marriage and setting the age for legal marriage from
18 to 24 years.
He was not satisfied with issuing
laws which were alien to the spirit of Islam and the
rulings of Shari’ah. Indeed he was driven by his
Westernizing excess to reshape the appearance of the
people in the Western mold by using compulsive power.
He set up signs on some of the streets of Kabul on
which it was written: Women wearing the burka are
forbidden to pass.
Not only this, he forced the
residents of Kabul city to wear pants and a French
cap, and employed the police in the markets to oversee
implementation of this law and fined those who
violated it. In order to save themselves from the
oppression of the police and paying a fine, people
would place any cap they could get on their heads,
regardless whether it was civilian, military or
vocational.
What was laughable was that the
kuffar mud who considered the turban to be part
of their religious clothing were also forced to place
a cap above their turban, so that the city looked like
a humorous caricature in which French caps and
clothing marred dignified and innocent Afghan
appearances. Moreover, the king also issued a statute
forbidding the greeting (Salaam) in the Islamic manner
and forced people to doff their caps in the French
manner if they wanted to greet someone from afar.
This and similar strange behavior
was for the sake of imposing secularism and
Westernization under the banner of engaging in
democracy, incited the people against this king who
was smitten with Western lifestyle. The people charged
him with unbelief, rebelled against him and expelled
him from the country, nullified all of his
Westernizing projects and forced him to flee to exil
in al-Malouk (Italy) until he died there unmourned.
After that the West replayed its
Westernization card again, represented by the reign of
Zahir Shah which lasted forty years and in which he
took Westernization measures like engaging the
ministry of information to introduce Western culture
to the Afghan people, summoning Western educational
experts to craft educational programs suffused with
the Western spirit and permitting Western countries
and the Soviet Union to establish educational programs
there and establishing leftist or secular parties
which were working for Western democracy and
distancing people and groups from serious work for
Islam and hindering the role of Islam in shaping
society.
The doors of the country were
opened in front of imported foreign ideas and views
which led to an ideological confusion within the
conservative Afghan society.
All of these Westernization
measures aroused the anger of the Afghan people
against the king and his regime. The result of this
was that the Ulema protests in anger and
rejection against the Westernizing policies of the
king. From another aspect, the university and
institute students and teachers came out to organize
work for Islam in a contemporary, organized manner. In
these circumstances, the contemporary Islamic movement
in Afghanistan was formed.
When the Communists saw the
aggravating effects of the movement among the new
generation it launched a military coup which resulted
in the occupation of the Afghanistan by the Russians.
European ideas began to dominate the country this time
under the guise of Communism represented by the Afghan
Democratic People’s Party which wanted to detach the
Afghans from their Islamic religion and history, just
as the Communists have done (before) in the countries
of Central Asia.
The Afghans, however, rejected
the Communist thought imported from Europe and
announced a great Jihad against it which last two
decades during the course of which they offered two
million martyrs, but they did not surrender to adopted
European thought.
When the Afghan established
Islamic rule represented by the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan, the West did not hesitate but began to
plot by every method and means to eradicate this young
Islamic government. The West created an alliance
against it, which included all the infidel powers in
the East and the West, and attacked this Muslim
country again to establish democracy in the country.
They destroyed the country,
killed tens of thousands and spent billions of dollars
to establish democracy and ideological system in
Afghanistan. But all their efforts met with failure,
their money was squandered and democracy was not
established in the country.
Here are the Afghan people
fighting Western democracy and its heretical tenets
for ten years. They are not content to accept the
contamination of their faithful society with the
pollution of infidel democracy and dissolute
liberalism.
Why do the
Afghans reject Secularism and Democracy?
It is known that historically the
Afghans are a people who cling to Islam and Islam is
what organizes all aspects of this people’s life,
whether in the regime and politics, or in the economy
and society and moral values. This is because Islam is
a religion which absorbs all aspects of human life and
does not need to complete itself with some other
philosophies or prescriptions such as democracy,
communism or other patchwork regulations.
As for democracy, it is a
religion drawn up by godless Europe to save itself
from the tyranny and injustice of the church and its
first structure was erected on the basis of hostility
to religion and rule in the name of religion.
Among the most
important characteristics of democracy are the
following:
1. Forbid any divine faith
from organizing the affairs of mankind, because
religion, in the view of democracy, is a set of
restrictions which shackle human freedom. Because
religion inspires its adherents with a sense of
privilege and democracy rejects privilege on the basis
of religion, calling instead for equality, and
equality cannot be achieved unless people renounce
their religion.
2. Democracy rejects being
guided by divine revelation and in matters of
forbidding, permitting and taking guidance it defers
to human whims represented by “the majority”. The
truth therefore is what is agreed upon by the majority
and falsehood is what is rejected by the majority. The
majority sees democracy as its god and its servant
whose decree may not be violated.
3. Democracy looks to
humankind with the human eye stripped of religion and
creed. In democracy, there is no difference between
the Muslim and the infidel, or the pious and dissolute
one, because they are all human and all humans are
equal in the scales of democracy. Therefore the
opinion of the dissolute infidel is equivalent to that
of the pious Muslim.
4. Democracy enjoins
political diversity and freedom of parties on whatever
basis except the basis of Islam, which says:
“And fight them until there is
no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail
justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere”.
Anfal 39.
Likewise, it says “If anyone
desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be
accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be of
those who have lost all spiritual good)”. Al-i-Imran
85.
But democracy says that all
religions are equal, and mankind can choose to accept
some or reject them all. In all these situations he is
in the right and no one else is responsible for it.
5. Democracy says that
mankind is free to adopt any kind of rule or regime
and draft any laws or constitutions and it is not
Allah Almighty – Allah forbid! – who compels mankind
to follow a certain law or constitution. Rather it is
mankind who chooses what they want.
6. If these ideas are the
spirit of democracy and its creed, then there is no
doubt that these views are kufr and
contradictory to Islam. It is not possible for any
Afghan or other Muslim to accept them or be silent
about them in his country. The people must rebel
against it and destroy it, because it infringes upon
the power of Allah Almighty on earth.
The Muslim Afghan people
therefore have waged war against democracy and its
system of ideas, whether in the form of godless
communism or in its liberal secular mold.
Then, in addition to the
corruption of its ideas and concepts, democracy and
its adherents in Afghanistan and the Muslim world have
committed vicious crimes against the Muslims. The
communists and their democratic party in Afghanistan
killed almost 1.5 million Muslims for the sake of
implementing their ideas and democratic principles.
They turned the country to destruction and ruin, and
forced almost five million people from their homes, in
addition to handicapping millions of others. Our
wounds from the arrows of eastern democracy had not
yet healed when Western democracy under the banner of
America and its allies invaded and for the past ten
years has poured down upon our people millions of tons
of fire, steel and poison gases. Its excuse for doing
this is to “establish freedom and democracy” in the
country.
Almost 100,000 children of this
country have fallen victim to this democracy over the
past ten years.
So for almost a century the
Muslim Afghan people have been suffering from
democracy and its wicked people in a way they have not
suffered since the time of Genghis Khan until the 20th
Century.
The destruction created by
communist and liberal democracy has no precedent in
the land of Afghanistan.
The West understands well that
the ideas of the Afghan people will not be
contaminated by the pollution of Western ideas through
any centralized effort, for they will still love
Jihad, freedom, and defense of religion and country.
They will offer all that they own for this cause.
Therefore, in its current military campaign in
Afghanistan, the West has accompanied its soldiers
with thousands of educational, cultural, social and
economic establishments to Westernize the conservative
Afghan people. The Westernizing and Christianizing
establishments focus their efforts on four axes:
education, media, changing the structure of the social
fabric of the Afghan people and Christianizing efforts
among some minority sects and the remnants of
communism in Afghanistan.
In the field of education, the
West has changed the educational curriculum three
times in the past ten years. They have removed from it
all materials and words which are connected to Jihad,
defense and fervor for the Religion, and what would
infuse the student with a sense that the Muslims are a
community (Ummah) and that the infidels are another
community. In place of these there have been
substituted Western philosophical and literary
definitions, such as democracy, humanism and religious
tolerance, the necessity of peaceful coexistence with
the kuffar and rejection of any kind of violence.
Likewise they put in place definitions of of the
theory of human rights, the rights of women and
individual freedom according to the Western concept of
these definitions. Moreover, these definitions brought
political and cultural subordination and dependency on
the West in the name of globalism and common needs of
humanity.
In the cultural field, Western
forces and establishments have set up 180 radio
stations and 40 television stations, in addition to
750 monthly and daily publications. The occupiers have
employed in these cultural and media establishments
which they have set up the elite of thinkers, media,
writers and experts in ideological warfare, and has
made available to them all means of communication and
influence. In the realm of changing the structure of
the social fabric, Western military forces and their
civilian establishments have created hundreds of
administrations to change Islamic tribal society into
what is called a civil society through youth and women
associations, councils, shuras, technical unions and
political blocs in the cities, villages and
countryside. Western establishments have begun to make
available to these new organizations cultural
materials and are beginning to make them aware and
Westernize them through conferences, seminars,
classes, radio programmes and the distribution of
tapes and radio sets among the people.
In the field of Christianization,
Western missionary groups have spent huge sums and
have bought many beggars and naïve people in the
cities to form missionary cells from them. In addition
they focus their efforts of educators among the
minorities, like the Agakhaniyah and those who think
like them among Afghanistan minorities.
They educate new converts, the
missionaries have established a strong radio station
which transmits in all Afghan languages, and provides
them with Christian instruction and missionary
methods. There is strong cooperation among the
missionary and Western organizations in Afghanistan
because each of them aids the work of the others.
Nonetheless, despite the zeal and
size of this Westernizing battle, the variety of its
methods, its multiple battlefronts, its results and
impact upon members of the religious Afghan people are
not great. This is because the people are faithful by
disposition and they hate Western values, which have
lost their shine and their credibility has been broken
in the land of reality because of its coexistence with
barbaric injustice, bombing, killing, dispossession
and the great slaughters conducted by these Western
forces in the land of Afghanistan.
In the face of all this, the
people are increasingly receptive to the media of the
Mujahideen, and their adherence to the dictates of
religion and its pure morality because secularism,
Westernization, democracy and Western establishments
offer them nothing but prostitution, depravity and a
departure from noble human nature.
All of this makes the people hate
the West because of the folly they send to us in the
name of culture, the folly they send to the land of
Jihad and Martyrs in Afghanistan.
Despite all of this, the West has
not despaired of Westernizing the Afghans and
polluting them with the contamination of secularism
and democracy, but this time through what is called
“democratic Islam” which employs groups which have
grown tired of Jihad and patience in the face of
tribulations and have begun to be carried away in the
currents of Western ideas paid for with euros and
dollars, despite what they are reckoned to have done
in the past for the Jihad and the Islamic movement. We
will talk about them in a future article, Allah
Almighty willing.
Translated From The Islamic
Emirate Of Afghanistan: Al-Somood Magazine Issue #59
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