By Rafiq
What did Afghans not have before, but have today?
Despite decades of war in Afghanistan, politics, politicians, ethnic parties, and religious and extremist factions did things that stripped Afghans of their achievements, sacrifices, and values. Different policies and laws, imposed on Afghans by foreigners and then forced through by politicians using coups and other bloody methods, were among the things that severely crushed Afghans.
Ethnic parties crushed the unity and solidarity of Afghans. They split Muslim brothers apart from one shared table, over party, ethnicity, and language. History bears witness that ethnic and linguistic leaders and parties crushed Afghans to such a degree that history itself is unable to fully describe and convey the horror and oppression.
What’s interesting is that while they were dividing Afghans by ethnicity and language, this same current also gave rise to a string of religious and imitation-based parties. These groups split Afghan jihad and struggle into party-based imitations and different paths, to the point where, after victory, they made Afghans fight among themselves because of several jihadi factions and extremist groups.
But today, all of that has come to an end, the very thing that had dragged Afghans into blood, into linguistic, ethnic, sectarian, and extremist strife, instead of honor, innovation, and progress. Let me lay out a few major examples here:
1. The End of False Politics, Politicians, and Law
The biggest obstacle to Afghan unity, progress, strength, and honor was false thinking, and politics, politicians, and laws built on foreign ideas, which for decades dragged Afghans toward internal and external wars. The enemies of Afghans insisted on keeping their false, puppet politicians and leaders ruling over Afghans and defending them, because that same idea was exactly what could block Afghans’ path toward strength and a brighter dawn.
That’s why, for decades, they poured trillions of dollars and countless sacrifices into their own ideas and Western modern culture, but the faith-driven, Muslim, resolute, mujahid determination of Afghans shattered all of that scheming and thinking. Today, instead of false politics, politicians, and laws, we have politics, leaders, and sharia law built on our own belief, religion, culture, and truth, and this too is counted as the result of decades of sacrifice and dedication.
2. The End of False Western Economics, Unemployment, and Idleness
As a result of decades of war and foreign interference, alongside crushing Afghans intellectually, doctrinally, militarily, politically, and culturally, the West and the Jews kept up an economic, educational, moral, and commercial crushing too.
They’d thrown Afghans’ economic power into a false, Western-minded politics. Anyone who didn’t fall under the umbrella of that policy and thinking had no economic survival. The system used itself as a source of its own gain, while the black flag of beggary and poverty flew over the markets. Markets and trade were tied to the system, the politics, and the politicians, if they weakened, the markets weakened too. They threw Afghans into a pit of idleness and unemployment that wrecked society’s peace and dignity.
Afghan poverty rates reached from eighty to ninety percent. On top of that, they made education so low-quality and corruption-ridden that Afghans came to see their future not in education, but in power and money. With the IEA’s rise to power, the deceptive black curtain drawn over markets, trade, and education was pulled back. The veil of false abundance was lifted, and the real hidden hunger and poverty beneath it was exposed, the same veil that for decades had gathered Afghans around an empty, deceptive market and trade.
So the IEA became the model for a real economy, education, and trade, one that tied Afghans’ future to their own effort and determination. IEA rule opened the path for Afghans toward educational, commercial, economic, and all-around innovation and progress, and toward competing with the demands of the time. Afghan trade became independent, education and innovation across the board became independent and secure. Politics turned away from linguistic, ethnic, and other extremist ideas toward a single sharia and Islamic belief. The path was cleared for promoting culture in Afghan soil according to Afghans’ own belief and culture.
Today, the old threats and obstacles of decades past have been blocked. The IEA brought Afghans back to life. Today it’s Afghans’ own turn and task to take up the path of determination and effort to compete and stand face to face with the world, because now the circumstances and the time are for Afghans to become self-sufficient.
