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From: reg
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: [C-I] Northern Alliance = Taliban from the Oread
Daily Now we are beginning to hear and read stories about the heroic Northern Alliance, those "noble" figures who have been fighting the Taliban for years and who want to act in concert with the US "War on Terrorism." Folks, we've been here before. The Northern Alliance is not all that different then the Taliban. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (which these days seems to me to be the only group in the world at the moment that makes any sense) had this to say which the Oread Daily considers quite relevant today: In our opinion, the Taliban and other jehadi fundamentalist cliques of Rabbani, Sayyaf, Masoud, Khalili, Hekmatyar and their like are brothers in arms. They are all of the same hue, because: All of them have a Klashnikov in one hand and the Quran in the other to kill, intimidate, detain and mutilate our people arbitrarily. All are violently misusing Islam, interpret the Quran according to their own personal whims and political interests, and use religion as a cover to hide their heinous crimes. They are all proud of stoning men and women to death, cutting their limbs, public executions and punishing the people without trial in an authorized court. Educational affairs during more than four years of the jehadi fundamentalists' rule were not better than what we find today under the Taliban. All of them are equally hostile to science and culture… All of them are not indigenous and are dependent on foreign countries. The Taliban too cannot last long without foreign support and the same holds true for other jehadi fundamentalists as well. They are not only incapable of providing any economic relief to the Afghan people but are also unwilling to take any step that benefits the masses… Unprecedented abuses of human rights were committed on mass scale under the domination of both types of fundamentalists. … Although Taliban's hostility against our women goes far beyond in intensity than what they had been experiencing during the rule of Rabbani & Co., it must be noticed that it was Mr Sibghatullah Mujaddedi who instead of paying heed to any of the numerous serious problems of Afghan people, raised hue and cry for imposition of "Islamic hejab". It was in the light of such injunctions that Rabbani & Co. too started to ban women from appearing on TV and working in the offices. … Of course, presently the rate of murdering, raping young girls and boys, and looting houses by the Taliban has been somehow less than jehadi fundamentalists; but the degree of brutalities of Taliban only against Afghan women is enough to understand the bigotry and fanaticism of this group. They physically force people to pray and destroy audio/video cassettes as haram (forbidden), and regard hearing even the sound of a woman's steps as a sin! … In view of what we said, it is easy to understand that the current infighting among different types of fundamentalists is nothing but a bloody war of Islamic bandits over booty. And since they are controlled by their foreign masters, the conflicting interests of these patron countries are also playing havoc with the fate of the Afghan people… The Oread Daily provides daily (Monday-Friday) progressive, left, anti-racist, anarchist, commie, activist, environmental, Marxist, revolutionary, etc. news and information from around the US and around the world. The Oread Daily was a mimeographed sheet that came out first in the summer of 1970 in Lawrence, Kansas. It was irreverent, radical, spicy, revolutionary et. al. Now, three decades later it returns. To view the entire Oread Daily, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OreadDaily |
