Exposing media disinformation

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Exposing Media Manipulation

A few days ago, The Telegraph published an article claiming that the mujahideen in Mali are colluding with drug traffickers in North Africa to fund their operations. Then, Arab media outlets circulated this article as confirmed news without presenting any evidence to support its claims.

Instead of believing or denying the article, we would like to review the complete story of the global media with another region of the world, Afghanistan, to see if the media respects the intelligence of the people or not. We will take our information from official global organizations to see the extent of consistency or contradiction in them.

Afghanistan: A Model of Media Manipulation

The official website of the United Nations, the Drugs and Crime section (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), stated in its 2001 report on drug cultivation in Afghanistan that the Afghan Taliban movement had almost completely succeeded in eradicating drug cultivation in the areas under its control in less than a year.

This is because Mullah Muhammad Omar and the Taliban scholars issued a decision to prohibit drug cultivation and enforce its eradication in the year 2000, knowing that it was a primary source of income for this country, which is classified as one of the ten poorest countries in the world. Therefore, you will find in Wikipedia a description of this campaign as one of the most successful campaigns in the world to eradicate drugs, and in fact, it was the most successful ever.

The Drug Control section publishes annual maps of drug cultivation density, so the map of Afghanistan in 2001 appears to be free of drug cultivation except for the areas under the control of the Northern Alliance, which was hostile to the Taliban and enjoyed the support of many countries that wanted to weaken this Islamic movement.

This is a chart from the Drug Control section showing the sharp decline in drug cultivation in 2001, where only cultivation in the territories of the Northern Alliance remained. Of course, brothers, it is not an easy matter for a system fought by the world to impose such a decision on its poor people, but it is the firm faith and submission to the command of Allah in these heroes, while we count and Allah counts.

The Invasion of Afghanistan and the Return of Drugs

After the Taliban eradicated drug cultivation directly, the events of September occurred, and the Atlantic invaded Afghanistan. I was studying in the United States at that time, and I remember that in the first hour of the invasion, the official spokesman for the Pentagon appeared on television screens to talk about their operations against the Taliban, saying, "It is known that the Taliban depend on drugs to finance themselves, so we have bombed drug stores."

This is how the media deals with human minds, brothers! The Taliban, who eradicated drug cultivation, became dependent on the drug trade according to the media. The same newspapers that expressed amazement a few months earlier at the success of the Taliban in eradicating drugs, such as The New York Times, contributed to spreading the lie after the war that the Taliban promote drugs. Even foreign sites like Foreign Policy criticized the manipulation of The New York Times and published an article titled "The New York Times Practices Manipulation Regarding the Role of the Taliban in Drug Cultivation."

The story did not stop there, for as soon as the Atlantic Alliance and its allies from the Northern Alliance took control of Afghanistan, the drug trade flourished again under the watchful eye and care of the Atlantic. In 2003, the BBC published a report titled "Afghanistan Regains the Drug Crown," stating that in the previous year (meaning 2002, after the withdrawal of the Taliban), Afghanistan had once again become the world leader in drug production after the forces led by the United States had overthrown the Taliban system, which had banned drug cultivation.

This was the content of the report. This map from the United Nations Drug Control section illustrates the change in drug cultivation from 2002 to 2009, i.e., in the seven years following the control of the Northern Alliance and NATO over Afghanistan. The gray color represents the areas where drug cultivation flourished significantly.

This chart from Wikipedia shows how, after the eradication of drug cultivation in 2001, it increased again under international care, becoming more than it was before the Taliban took control. In fact, in 2007, 92% of the world's drugs were produced in Afghanistan.

Last year, The New York Times published a report titled "The Failure of U.S. Efforts to Prevent Drug Cultivation in Afghanistan." With a fatwa from the Taliban scholars, drug cultivation was completely eradicated, while under the international community, its cultivation increased to more than it was even before the Taliban.

The Political Agenda Behind Drugs

However, in reality, brothers, the issue is not a failure but a political will to revive this cultivation, from which the corrupt ruling class in many countries benefits. In addition, the destruction and sedation of the peoples of what is called the Third World is a demand in itself, as can be inferred from the study ordered by the former U.S. President Richard Nixon titled "Population and the American Future," which remained secret until it was brought to light by a group of lawyers at the end of the last century.

The study considers the increase in population density in the Islamic world to be dangerous because it makes these peoples compete with America for the resources available in the countries of what is called the Third World, and because this density provides the terrorist groups (according to their expression) with human momentum. Therefore, distracting, sedating, and preventing the offspring of these peoples is a demand in itself for Western politicians.

The Case of Mali and Media Manipulation

After all this, we are not surprised, brothers, when we see that before the campaign on Mali, the media circulated news that the Ansar al-Din group had banned drug and cigarette trafficking in the areas under its control, and then a few weeks later, they accused it and jihadi groups of colluding with drug traffickers.

The American writer Noam Chomsky has an article titled "The Ten Ways the Media Uses to Control the People," in which he mentions among these means: "Address the public as a small child," and also "Keep the public in a state of ignorance and stupidity." Muzzle the tongue of those who know the truth and put them in a state of bewilderment and confusion of ideas and sensory shock from the lies of the media and the naivety of those who believe the media.

Media Censorship

With the beginning of the campaign on Mali, I published excerpts from an interview with Sanda Bou Amama, the official spokesman for Ansar al-Din in Mali, on my Facebook pages, and published a statement titled "Mali and the Torch of Freedom." This interview and statement are a statement of facts with documentation and evidence, so Facebook management closed my pages, which were active for nearly eight months without any problems, and then they closed my alternative pages as well, claiming that I had violated Facebook's laws.

The simple matter, brothers, is that global media and communication tools that practice lying and manipulation want to be the sole narrators of events and prevent people from knowing the truth, so your knowledge of their ugliness even in front of their deluded peoples.

The Summary and Religious Duty

Therefore, my brothers, it is not permissible religiously, nor honorable, nor rational to believe what the media says against our brothers in any place. The media, which the Jews own many of its institutions, if the Jews have falsely accused the prophets of Allah, peace be upon them, and attributed in their book called the Torah adultery with relatives, drinking alcohol, nudity, and betrayal of followers by committing adultery with their women, they attributed all of that to their prophets, the prophets of the Children of Israel. Do you expect them to be neutral, truthful, transparent, and objective with those who expose their falsehood and reveal their extortion and enslavement of the people?

Therefore, if we hear from the media something about any Muslim, let alone the mujahideen, then our duty is what Allah the Almighty has commanded us, saying: "Why did the believing men and women not think good of themselves and say, 'This is an obvious slander'?" [Quran 24:16]

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

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