After the Koran burning incident at Bagram Air Base, Taliban militants have been making attempts to reassert their view of how Afghanistan should look like. They claimed responsibility for the death of two American officers inside the Ministry of Interior in the capital, Kabul. The Taliban militants also asserted responsibility for a car bomb explosion at the Jalalabad air that killed about nine people.

Although the Taliban insurgents' claim of responsibility is open to question, the rationale they stated to justify the motive for carrying out these deadly acts was to revenge for the burning of holy Koran. There were several other violent protests that left many deaths and injuries. What comes out of the acts and the stated rationale behind them is a hardline ideology of violent nature. If such an ideology returns and becomes dominant in Afghanistan, it will once again turn into a violent and an isolated nation. Unfortunately, a violent view was expressed by some politicians as well.

For instance a senator from southern Zabul province, Mohammad Hassan Hotak, told a senate session this week, "Don't call for peaceful protests. My demand is that protests should go on for a month. We should show infidels that we can defend our religion." He suggested that violence was needed to show outrage against the disrespect to the holy Koran. These remarks and calls for revenges have been or are made while the US forces, commanders and officials have said that the reported desecration has been unintentional and inadvertent. They apologized to Afghan government, officials and people.

This comes while Taliban militants have increased their violent attacks to showcase that they are winning the war and have upper hand or vantage point in the ongoing peace talks with Afghan government and international community, particularly the US. The Taliban may try to impose their violent ideology but they will be resisted. Afghan people do not want to return to those dark days when they were deprived of freedom, and women were deprived of education and confined to home. In addition, they cannot afford to remain out of touch and contact with international community.