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Uncovering The Misleading Media
Watch to see if the media respects our minds!
Watch to see if the media respects our minds!
Peace be upon you, dear brothers.
A few days ago, "The Telegraph" published an article claiming that the Mujahideen in Mali are collaborating with drug traffickers in North Africa to fund their operations. Arab media outlets then circulated this article as confirmed news without providing 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 whether the media respects the intellect of the people or not. We will take our information from official global organizations to see the extent of agreement or contradiction within them.
The official website of the United Nations (Drugs and Crime Section) stated in its 2001 report on drug cultivation in Afghanistan that the Afghan Taliban movement succeeded almost completely in eradicating drug cultivation in the areas under its control in less than a year.
Indeed, Mullah Muhammad Omar and the Taliban scholars issued a decision to prohibit drug cultivation and 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. Thus, 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 graph 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.
After the Taliban had directly eradicated drug cultivation, 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, dear brothers; the Taliban, who eradicated drug cultivation, became, in the media, dependent on the drug trade! The very 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 this lie after the war. Even foreign sites like "Foreign Policy" criticized the deception of "The New York Times" and published an article titled: "The New York Times Practices Deception Regarding the Role of the Taliban in Drug Cultivation."
The story did not stop there. 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."
The report's introduction stated that in the previous year (i.e., 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.
The maps of the United Nations Drug Control Section illustrate the change in drug cultivation from 2002 to 2009, where it increased again under international care to become more than it was before the Taliban took control. 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, it increased to more than it was even before the Taliban. However, in reality, dear brothers, the issue is not a failure but rather a political will to revive this cultivation, which benefits the corrupt ruling class in many countries.
In addition to this, the destruction and sedation of the peoples of so-called Third World countries is a demand in itself, as can be inferred from the study ordered by former U.S. President Richard Nixon titled "Population and the American Future," which remained secret until it was revealed 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 so-called Third World countries, and because this density provides the "terrorist" groups - in their terms - with human momentum. Therefore, distracting, sedating, and preventing the proliferation of these peoples is a demand in itself for Western politicians.
After all this, we are not surprised, dear 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. Then, a few weeks later, they accused it and other jihadist groups of colluding in drug trafficking.
Therefore, dear brothers, do not be surprised by this blatant and exposed deception practiced by the media; the bigger and more brazen the lie, the harder it is to refute; it silences the tongue of those who know the truth and puts them in a state of bewilderment, a clash of ideas, and a sensory shock from the media's lies and the naivety of those who believe them.
With the start of the campaign on Mali, I published excerpts from an interview with "Sanda Oumama," the official spokesman for Ansar al-Din in Mali, on my Facebook page, and published an article titled "Mali and the Spark of Freedom." This interview and statement are merely a statement of facts with documentation and evidence. Facebook's management then closed my page, which had been active for nearly eight months without any problems, and then they also closed my alternative page, claiming that I had violated Facebook's laws.
The simple matter, dear brothers, is that global media and communication outlets that practice lying and deception want to be the sole narrators of events and prevent people from knowing the truth. Knowing the truth will expose their ugliness even to their misled peoples.
Therefore, my brothers, it is not permissible religiously, nor honorable nor rational, to believe what the media says against our brothers in any place. This media, which the Jews own many of its institutions; even though the Jews have falsely accused the Prophets of Allah, peace be upon them, and attributed to them in their book called the Torah, fornication with relatives, drinking alcohol, nudity, and betrayal of followers by committing adultery with their women - they attributed all of this to their prophets, the prophets 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 peoples?
Therefore, if we hear from the media something about any Muslim, let alone the Mujahideen, our duty is what Allah the Almighty has commanded us, saying: "Why did the believing men and believing women not think good of themselves and say, 'This is an obvious slander'?" [Quran 24:12]
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.