Na’Allah Muhammad Zagga
Facts speak for themselves; you can’t turn a monkey into a model!
The woman in these pictures is Niloofar Rahmani, the first female fighter pilot in Afghanistan. Instead of being celebrated, the Taliban sent her death threats for defying their rigid order not to go to school, let alone becoming a military pilot.
She was living under death threats for months and she and her family had to be changing addresses to avoid the Taliban violent retaliation. Finally, when she realised she couldn’t afford to permanently live under the shadows of death threats, she sought political asylum in the United States. The former Obama administration readily accepted her request.
Her experience is a reality; it’s not your imaginary western propaganda. Is denying women the right to go to school an achievement? Is denying them the right to read any courses of their choice a sign of progress? Ironically, these extremists don’t want male doctors to attend to their wives because it might violate their privacy. How can you stop your women from going to school to study medicine and at the same time complain about male doctors attending to your wives? You can’t eat your cake and have it.
The Taliban have squeezed life out of Afghan society and you want to tell me that such tyranny of ruling people against their will is better than western democratic model. Ruling people by military conquest rather than election cannot be better than western democracy.
No western democracy will threaten a woman with death for going to school. No western democracy will treat its citizens like slaves. No western democracy will chop off the fingers of people in order to prevent them from voting. No western democracy will bomb campaign political rallies and kill innocent people. No western democracy will stop women from working because some roles are strictly meant for women. Funny enough extremists that sell opium for profits have the guts to send poor Muslims to jail for not keeping beards.
So Muslims in Afghanistan don’t deserve infrastructure and social services? They don’t deserve freedom? Women don’t deserve the freedom to pursue their dreams? People shouldn’t watch television or play sports? If television is a sinful western creation, why are the Taliban leaders using modern gadgets of communication? They should be using donkeys, camels, horses, swords, and bow and arrows in their warfare instead of using Hillux trucks, AK-47s, RPGs, bombs, grenades and other modern weapons. The greatest deceit is to pretend that Taliban tyrannical rule is better than western democracy.
