Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

Afghan Civilians: The Victims of Ideological Conflicts

No one has the right to live in peace. No one has the right to work. No one has the right to think of adapting according to the modern age. We will torture, eradicate and slaughter, if you are found working for the enhancement of the society. These are what our so far called annoyed brothers have been doing with us for almost more than a decade.

Taliban who claim of imposing the Islamic constitutions have promised many times that they will not target the civilians, but recently within a month they have killed dozens of innocent civilians intentionally.

We can exemplify the attack incidents such as, "comprehensive bloodshed attack on Spozmai Restaurant, Qargh, Kabul during the month of June in which militants killed 20 innocent lives, the abduction and inhumanly torturing of five private security guards in between Kabul and Maidan Wardak route and the latest attack on a Mini-Bus between Paghman and Kabul route in 07, Aug, 2012," are the very recent devotion that our long lost brothers, as Mr. Karzai have been calling them have gifted to the society.

The ideological war that we have long been hosting almost enters its fourth decade. It is not war against terrorist. In fact, it is an ideological war that has long victimized Afghan people.

Since the soviet invasion in the region, there have been mainly three political types of business targeting to victimize Afghan society: Islamic Radicalism, Socialism and Nationalism. Today's human tragedy in Afghanistan is the result of imposing these three political ideologies in the society.

The nationalists have long been challenging to fashion a Western nation state in a country consisting of various ethnics distinct from each other by their linguistic and cultural features.

The socialists have been struggling to enforce a secular ideology in society where its citizens are well known of their strong commitment to Islam, the constitution which is much different than of a secular believes and ideologies.

The Muslim radical including Mujahidin and Taliban have been trying to shape a pure Islamic society. But the poor people of Afghanistan are lost in ideological conflicts and have gotten puzzled that whose music to dance with, the ideological war instead of gifting the society with a better condition has led the country to its worst destruction.