Introduction: The Reality of Twenty Years in Afghanistan
This is your brother Daniel, Dr. Iyad Quneibi, one of the most prominent preachers in the Arab world. He recently published a critical video about Afghanistan and the end of the occupation. I would like to share a translation of this video so that English speakers can also benefit from it.
With the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and growing concerns about an Islamic government taking power, international institutions and media claim to be worried about women's and human rights in Afghanistan. Today, we will review some examples of women's and human rights that Afghanistan enjoyed during twenty years of occupation to see the extent of the integrity, transparency, and concern of international institutions and global media during those years.
International Reactions and Hypocrisy of Institutions
Recently, the United Nations issued a historic response to the end of the occupation, stating: "At this critical moment, the people of Afghanistan look to the Human Rights Council to defend and protect their rights. The need to prevent the commission of wider and more serious human rights violations makes this meeting necessary."
Media headlines have followed suit with warnings; American magazine "Time" asked: "What will Afghan women lose?", and French newspaper "France 24" wondered about the fate of women after the return of the Taliban. Even in the Islamic world, there are those who expressed their severe displeasure, such as the producer of the documentary "In Seven Years," who considered the Taliban's policy of requiring the hijab for work and study to be a dictatorial and oppressive policy.
U.S. President Joe Biden affirmed in his speech: "We will continue to defend the basic rights of the Afghan people, especially the rights of women and girls, as we do around the world." Therefore, let us examine examples of these "amazing rights" that the world fears will be lost, and everything I will mention is documented from Western sources.
Goals of Documenting This Phase
This presentation aims to achieve three highly important goals:
- Building Islamic Awareness: Exposing the truth about media and international organizations that claim to be humanitarian.
- Documenting History: There is a systematic effort to erase the traces of this occupation from the internet, so these facts must be preserved for future generations.
- Calling to Islam: The world is now looking in astonishment at how the great powers were defeated by a simple state, and they are searching for the secret of the strength and steadfastness of the Muslims.
We will focus our presentation on four key points: children's rights, women's rights, prisoners' rights, and human rights in general.
First: Children's Rights Under Occupation
These innocent children, who have not harmed anyone, have received a generous share of the "rights" of the occupation:
- Direct Killing: Over the past ten years, the occupation has directly killed approximately 7,800 Afghan children, and hundreds of thousands have died as a result of displacement, epidemics, cold, and hunger.
- Orphanhood and Disability: Hundreds of thousands of children have been orphaned or permanently disabled due to airstrikes.
- Targeting Education: The occupation bombed religious schools and Quran memorization graduation ceremonies. In April 2018, a graduation ceremony in "Kunduz" was bombed, resulting in the death and injury of around 200 people, including students and parents.
- Cultural Agendas: Under the name of "sexual education," organizations affiliated with the United Nations and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) promoted homosexuality and abortion, targeting children in primary and secondary education.
- Sexual Exploitation: Reports documented the involvement of contractors and soldiers in the enslavement and rape of children (the phenomenon of boy play), with instructions given to occupation soldiers to keep these practices secret.
Second: Women's Rights and the False Pretext
Reports from "Fox News" and "WikiLeaks" acknowledged that the United States used the issue of women's rights as a pretext to reduce Western opposition to the military occupation. The reality on the ground was completely different:
- Human Suffering: The Afghan woman is the mother who saw her children killed, starved, or raped.
- Corruption and Exploitation: In 2019 (after 18 years of occupation), BBC reports described Afghanistan as one of the worst countries in the world for women, where high-ranking officials in the puppet government would bargain with women for jobs in exchange for sexual services.
- Targeting Wedding Ceremonies: Wedding ceremonies were repeatedly bombed in a suspicious manner in Uruzgan, Kandahar, and Helmand, turning celebrations into mass funerals for women and children.
- Spread of Drugs: After the Taliban eradicated opium cultivation before 2001, this trade flourished under the occupation, leading to addiction among women.
Third: Prisoners' Rights and Prisoners of War
While the occupier claims to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, the facts revealed brutal violations against prisoners:
- Systematic Torture: Amnesty International issued several reports on the inhumane treatment of prisoners, including dragging, beating, and detention in humiliating conditions without regard for the elderly.
- Mass Graves: Northern Alliance forces supported by the occupation were involved in killing prisoners and burying them in mass graves, with documented cases of dragging wounded soldiers to death.
- Moral Comparison: This can be compared to what happened with British journalist "Yvonne Ridley," who was captured by the Taliban, treated with respect, and released without conditions, which later led her to convert to Islam after studying it.
Fourth: General Human Rights and Killing for Fun
The disregard for Afghan human blood reached terrifying levels:
- Competition in Killing: Soldiers from Western nationalities competed to kill the largest number of defenseless civilians for entertainment, as documented by reports about Australian and British special forces.
- Posing with Corpses: Occupation soldiers took commemorative photos next to their victims, cut the fingers of the dead to keep as "souvenirs," and even broadcast scenes of urinating on and burning corpses.
- Targeting Funerals and Hospitals: Funerals were not spared from bombing, as happened in "Kunar" province where the mourners were bombed twice. Hospitals such as the "Kunduz" hospital run by Doctors Without Borders were also targeted, resulting in the charring of patients' bodies.
- Poverty and Displacement: Thanks to the occupation, the poverty rate reached 72% in 2020, and Afghanistan became the second highest country in the world in terms of the number of displaced persons (2.7 million refugees and 4 million internally displaced persons).
Hypocrisy of International Law and Selective Justice
When the International Criminal Court attempted to investigate American war crimes in Afghanistan, the American response was decisive:
- Threat of Sanctions: The Trump administration threatened to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court investigators and accused the Court of The Hague of corruption.
- Presidential Pardon: The U.S. president issued a general pardon for officers accused of committing war crimes, proving that "human rights" and "international law" are merely tools used against the weak only.
A Message to the Ummah and Muslim Youth
The goal of this presentation is not to defend every action of the Taliban, but to expose the psychological defeat that makes some people listen to those who kill Muslims while teaching us lessons about women's rights.
- Source of Legislation: The one who obligated the hijab is the Creator of women, the Most High. Those who object to it have an issue with Allah, not with a specific group.
- Responsibility of Rulership: We emphasize that the Sharia is not merely about clothing and boundaries, but about establishing justice, combating poverty, protecting people's dignity, and reforming their affairs.
- The Dark Side of Occupation: Do not be deceived by those who talk about "reconstruction," electricity, and the internet. Do these services erase the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people? Would a Westerner accept the annihilation of their family in exchange for internet service?
Conclusion: A Historic Opportunity
This is a historic moment for us to realize that humanity is in dire need of true Islam. Some soldiers of the occupation have seen the truth of Muslims and their patience and have embraced Islam.
The blood of the Afghans, which has been spilled for twenty years, is the greatest testimony to the falsity of Western claims. We ask Allah to alleviate the distress of Muslims everywhere and to restore the Ummah's status to lead humanity with justice and mercy. You are the best nation brought forth for mankind.