aboomohammad
02-12-2004, 03:41 PM
The Roving Ambassador from Afghanistan
(This is an old article posted to clarify the issue of the Buddhas)
Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi is the roving Ambassador from Afghanistan who recently visited the US. He has been active in giving lectures on the real situation regarding the Taliban in Afghanistan throughout central and southern California. Lately we have been witnessing an influx of reports about the Taliban in Afghanistan. After reading the following transcribed lecture by Br. Hashemi, the reader will find most of these reports as FALSE. It will be seen that the Media does, in fact, have an agenda. Allah says: "O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with a news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done." (Qur'ân 49:6)
Many people have questions about Afghanistan and the Taliban. Most of these questions stem from the portrayals in the media. The truth is that many of the stories in the media are inaccurate. Even the photographs that are used are inaccurate. For example, CNN has recently run a story on Afghanistan, along with a picture of a young boy carrying a grenade launcher. That picture was in fact from the days of the Russian war, and does not accurately portray the reality of Afghanistan now, as the Taliban have seized all light and heavy weapons from different areas. Many of the doubts that Muslims and other people have regarding Afghanistan are due to the misperceptions form the media stories. Allah has warned us about this when! He commanded us to verify the validity of stories that may reach us. The media is no exception.
The following is the transcribed lecture given in English by Br. Hashemi on the real situation of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Indicate words that were not heard clearly in the recording. Br. Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi: I was just coming from [a meeting with] a group of scholars, and the first thing we started there was the statues. And the first thing we started here was also the statues. It's very unfortunate how little we see and how little we know. And it really confuses me, if people really know that little or not. Nobody has seen the problems of Afghanistan; nobody saw their problems before. And the only thing that represents Afghanistan today are the statues. The problem of Afghanistan was not new. As you know that Afghanistan is called, "The Crossroads of Asia." So, we are suffering because of our geo-strategic location. We have suffered in the 18th century, 19th century, and we are still suffering in this century. We have not attacked the British. We have not attacked the Russians. It was them who attacked us. So the problems in Afghanistan you see is not our creation. That reflects the image of the world. If you don't like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror; break your face. The problems in Afghanistan started in 1979. Afghanistan was a peaceful country and it was doing its own job. The Russians, along with their 140,000 troops attacked Afghanistan in the December of 1979, just 21 years ago, stayed there for a decade, killed one and a half million people, maimed one million more people, and six million out of the eighteen million people migrated because of the Russian brutalities. Even today, our children are dying because of the landmines that they planted for us. And nobody knows about this.
After the Russians left-during the Russian occupation, on the other side, the American government, the British government, the French, the Chinese, and all of the rest, supported the counter-revolutionaries called the Mujahideen; 7 parties only in Pakistan and 8 parties in Iran who fought the Russian occupation. And after the Russians left, these parties went into Afghanistan. All of them had different ideologies, a lot of weapon[s]. And instead of having a single administration, they fought in Afghanistan. The destruction that they brought was worse than the destruction the Russians brought. 63,000 people were only killed in the capitol, Kabul. Seeing all this chaos, and the complete destruction of our country, and I don't have to forget that after the Soviets left, another million people migrated because of the lawlessness that existed in Afghanistan-7 million people. So seeing this destruction and lawlessness, a group of students called the Taliban-Taliban is the plural word of "students" in our language; it may be two students in Arabic, but in our language it means "students"-so a group of students started a movement called the Movement of Students. It first started in a village in the southern province of Afghanistan, called Kandahar. It happened when a war-lord, or a commander abducted two minor girls, raped them, and the parents of those girls went to a school and asked the teacher of the school to help them. The teacher of that school, along with his 53 students, finding only 16 guns, went and attacked the base of that commander. After releasing those two girls, they hanged that commander, and so many of their [the commander's] people were also hanged. This story was told everywhere; and this was called the "terrorist" story of the Taliban, or the Students. BBC also quoted this story. Seeing or hearing this story, many other students joined this movement and started disarming the rest of the warlords, who were worse than these. I will not prolong this story - so far, this same students' movement controls 95% of the country; they captured the capital, including the four major cities. And only a bunch of those warlords are remaining in the northern corridor of Afghanistan. So our achievements are as follows. We are in a government for only five years, and the following things that we have done, and many of you may not know:
Read the full story ============> (http://www.allaahuakbar.net/buddhism/roving_ambassador_from_afghanistan.htm)
(This is an old article posted to clarify the issue of the Buddhas)
Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi is the roving Ambassador from Afghanistan who recently visited the US. He has been active in giving lectures on the real situation regarding the Taliban in Afghanistan throughout central and southern California. Lately we have been witnessing an influx of reports about the Taliban in Afghanistan. After reading the following transcribed lecture by Br. Hashemi, the reader will find most of these reports as FALSE. It will be seen that the Media does, in fact, have an agenda. Allah says: "O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with a news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done." (Qur'ân 49:6)
Many people have questions about Afghanistan and the Taliban. Most of these questions stem from the portrayals in the media. The truth is that many of the stories in the media are inaccurate. Even the photographs that are used are inaccurate. For example, CNN has recently run a story on Afghanistan, along with a picture of a young boy carrying a grenade launcher. That picture was in fact from the days of the Russian war, and does not accurately portray the reality of Afghanistan now, as the Taliban have seized all light and heavy weapons from different areas. Many of the doubts that Muslims and other people have regarding Afghanistan are due to the misperceptions form the media stories. Allah has warned us about this when! He commanded us to verify the validity of stories that may reach us. The media is no exception.
The following is the transcribed lecture given in English by Br. Hashemi on the real situation of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Indicate words that were not heard clearly in the recording. Br. Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi: I was just coming from [a meeting with] a group of scholars, and the first thing we started there was the statues. And the first thing we started here was also the statues. It's very unfortunate how little we see and how little we know. And it really confuses me, if people really know that little or not. Nobody has seen the problems of Afghanistan; nobody saw their problems before. And the only thing that represents Afghanistan today are the statues. The problem of Afghanistan was not new. As you know that Afghanistan is called, "The Crossroads of Asia." So, we are suffering because of our geo-strategic location. We have suffered in the 18th century, 19th century, and we are still suffering in this century. We have not attacked the British. We have not attacked the Russians. It was them who attacked us. So the problems in Afghanistan you see is not our creation. That reflects the image of the world. If you don't like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror; break your face. The problems in Afghanistan started in 1979. Afghanistan was a peaceful country and it was doing its own job. The Russians, along with their 140,000 troops attacked Afghanistan in the December of 1979, just 21 years ago, stayed there for a decade, killed one and a half million people, maimed one million more people, and six million out of the eighteen million people migrated because of the Russian brutalities. Even today, our children are dying because of the landmines that they planted for us. And nobody knows about this.
After the Russians left-during the Russian occupation, on the other side, the American government, the British government, the French, the Chinese, and all of the rest, supported the counter-revolutionaries called the Mujahideen; 7 parties only in Pakistan and 8 parties in Iran who fought the Russian occupation. And after the Russians left, these parties went into Afghanistan. All of them had different ideologies, a lot of weapon[s]. And instead of having a single administration, they fought in Afghanistan. The destruction that they brought was worse than the destruction the Russians brought. 63,000 people were only killed in the capitol, Kabul. Seeing all this chaos, and the complete destruction of our country, and I don't have to forget that after the Soviets left, another million people migrated because of the lawlessness that existed in Afghanistan-7 million people. So seeing this destruction and lawlessness, a group of students called the Taliban-Taliban is the plural word of "students" in our language; it may be two students in Arabic, but in our language it means "students"-so a group of students started a movement called the Movement of Students. It first started in a village in the southern province of Afghanistan, called Kandahar. It happened when a war-lord, or a commander abducted two minor girls, raped them, and the parents of those girls went to a school and asked the teacher of the school to help them. The teacher of that school, along with his 53 students, finding only 16 guns, went and attacked the base of that commander. After releasing those two girls, they hanged that commander, and so many of their [the commander's] people were also hanged. This story was told everywhere; and this was called the "terrorist" story of the Taliban, or the Students. BBC also quoted this story. Seeing or hearing this story, many other students joined this movement and started disarming the rest of the warlords, who were worse than these. I will not prolong this story - so far, this same students' movement controls 95% of the country; they captured the capital, including the four major cities. And only a bunch of those warlords are remaining in the northern corridor of Afghanistan. So our achievements are as follows. We are in a government for only five years, and the following things that we have done, and many of you may not know:
Read the full story ============> (http://www.allaahuakbar.net/buddhism/roving_ambassador_from_afghanistan.htm)