20 Years in Afghanistan: The Untold Story
Introduction
The speaker introduces himself and the topic of the video, which is about Afghanistan and the end of the occupation. He shares that he will be providing a translation of Dr Eyad Qunaybi's video so that English speakers can benefit as well.
Introduction to Afghanistan
- Dr Eyad Qunaybi is one of the most renowned duat in the Arab world.
- The video is about Afghanistan and the end of the occupation.
- The speaker will provide a translation for English speakers.
Women's Rights in Afghanistan
The speaker discusses how international institutions and media claim to worry about women and human rights in Afghanistan with the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan. He reviews examples of women’s rights and human rights that Afghans enjoyed under 20 years of occupation.
Concerns About Women's Rights
- International institutions and media claim to worry about women's rights in Afghanistan.
- With the withdrawal of foreign forces, there is rising fear of an Islamic government coming to power.
- Examples will be reviewed on women’s rights and human rights that Afghans enjoyed under 20 years of occupation.
Statements by United Nations
- Recently, United Nations issued a statement reacting to end of occupation.
- UN urges countries to provide immediate assistance to human rights defenders including those working on women’s and cultural rights as well as artists trying to flee country.
- UN states "Afghanistan faces a “cultural disaster”, following fall of Kabul to Taliban forces."
Media Coverage on Women's Rights
- American newspaper, The Times titles an article "What Afghanistan's Women Stand to Lose."
- French newspaper, France 24 enquires about fate of women after return of Taliban to power.
- Al-Arabiya titled an article: Women's Fears from Taliban Rule.
Documenting Human Rights in Afghanistan
The speaker documents the amazing human rights that Afghans enjoyed under 20 years of occupation. He mentions that everything he will mention is documented from Western sources.
Goals of Documenting Human Rights
- Building Muslim awareness.
- Documenting this historical period of “the 20-year occupation”.
- Taking the opportunity to invite the world to Islam.
Examples of Amazing Human Rights
- Everything mentioned is documented from Western sources.
- There is a systematic effort to erase traces of contemporary history from the internet.
- Wall Street Journal published an article titled: The Unconquerable Islamic World.
- Muslims are strong and steadfast, and Islam is the source of victory.
Introduction
The speaker introduces the message they carry to all people of the world and their main objection against those who block the path to Allah. They also explain what is meant by client-government and client-army.
Message to All People
- The speaker introduces their message that they carry to all people of the world.
- Their main objection is against those who block the path to Allah and drive their people to unjust wars for personal profit.
Client-Government and Client-Army
- The speaker explains that when they use words like client-government and client-army, they mean Afghan mercenaries from whom the occupation formed a puppet government and puppet army.
Children's Rights
This section discusses children's rights in Afghanistan during the occupation.
Rights of Afghan Children During Occupation
- The speaker talks about how children are innocent and deserve a large number of rights as they have not killed anyone.
- In the last ten years, approximately 7800 Afghan children were directly murdered by the occupation forces, with hundreds of thousands more killed as a result of displacement, epidemics, cold, hunger, and malnutrition.
- Hundreds of thousands of children were orphaned as a result of occupation forces murdering their parents in airstrikes.
Education Bombings
- The speaker talks about how education was encouraged in Afghanistan but it consisted mainly of bombing children in schools such as religious schools where many students were killed or injured during graduation ceremonies.
Sex Education in Afghanistan
This section discusses sex education in Afghanistan during the occupation.
War on Children Documentary
- The speaker mentions a documentary titled "War on Children" that shows the horrifying details and associations meant to teach children obscenities and groom them under the banner of sex education.
UNFPA
- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is mentioned as an organization that promotes comprehensive sexuality education, which includes teaching life skills in developing better relationships with romantic and sexual partners. They promote gays, lesbians, transgender men and women, as well as abortion.
UNFPA's Role in Afghanistan
- The UNFPA has worked to inject its ideas for generations into primary and secondary school education in Afghanistan. They consider all of this to be children's rights but from their own warped perspective.
- The UNFPA was complicit in assisting some governments to induce sterilization and abortion in women, including Muslim women in Turkestan. Even the Trump administration withheld US funding when it was discovered that this UN fund was involved in such activities.
The True Agenda of Western Organizations in Afghanistan
This section discusses the true agenda of Western organizations in Afghanistan, particularly with regards to sex education and women's rights.
Sex Education and Abortion
- The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a British association, offered "sex education" in Afghanistan.
- IPPF promotes homosexuality and transsexualism, stating that girls and women have the right to own their bodies and have sex with whomever they please.
- IPPF stipulates the need for abortion to be available to all women and actively combats any attempt to legally criminalize abortion.
- Other organizations also go after Afghan women in refugee camps for the purposes of "sex education".
Occupation Forces' Abuse of Children
- Documentations show rampant child molestation from occupying soldiers.
- A group of Afghan women and girls were dragged to a military base and brutally raped, resulting in one girl's death from hemorrhaging.
- Contractors who worked for DynCorp were found to have bought drugs and boys with the help of Afghan authorities. They then held the boys hostage, forcing them to dress up and dance before sexually assaulting them for extended periods of time.
Women's Rights Under Occupation
- The US used women's rights as a pretext to justify invading Afghanistan.
- Afghan women suffered just as much as children under occupation forces.
- Afghanistan ranks as one of the worst countries in the world for women, with victims of sexual crimes and violence being pressured to withdraw their complaints.
Women's Rights in Afghanistan
The speaker discusses the reality of women's rights in Afghanistan during the occupation.
Women as Sexual Commodities
- Afghan women were able to play football, but at the cost of being treated as sexual commodities.
- Female prisoners were sexually molested by police officers to such an extent that they described them as ravenous wolves.
- Northern Alliance gangs carried out sweeping operations and systematic rape of women to humiliate them and their families.
Merciless Wedding Bombing Campaign
- The occupation enjoyed bombing weddings, with multiple incidents reported over the years resulting in many deaths and injuries, including women and children.
- The army spokesman apologized for any innocent people killed during these bombings, but continued their campaign nonetheless.
Other Issues Faced by Afghan Women
- Many Afghan women were displaced into refugee camps due to airstrikes from the International Coalition.
- One-third of inmates imprisoned for security issues or so-called terrorism, including women and children, were subjected to torture or ill-treatment in Afghan prisons.
Comparison with Treatment of British Journalist Yvonne Ridley
- Yvonne Ridley was arrested by the Taliban under suspicion of being a spy. However, she was treated well and released for free after learning about Islam. She later converted to Islam herself.
Treatment of Opium Production Under Taliban Rule vs Occupation
The speaker compares how opium production was treated under Taliban rule versus during the occupation.
- Taliban scholars made fatwas against opium production, resulting in the elimination of the industry.
- The industry resurfaced and flourished under the occupation, causing addiction among many Afghan women.
- One-third of inmates imprisoned for security issues or so-called terrorism, including women and children, were subjected to torture or ill-treatment in Afghan prisons.
The Rights of Afghan Women and Prisoners
In this section, the speaker discusses the treatment of Afghan women and prisoners during the occupation of Afghanistan.
Treatment of Prisoners
- The speaker highlights that those who claim to be worried about human rights in Afghanistan should look at how prisoners were treated.
- The Northern Alliance forces supported by the occupier used to kill their prisoners in horrific ways, as reported by American newspapers at the time.
- Amnesty International released a report titled "Afghanistan: NATO countries at risk of complicity in torture" which detailed the inhumane treatment of prisoners.
Treatment of Women
- The speaker mentions that Afghan women's rights were also violated during the occupation.
- The speaker compares the treatment of Afghan women with what Muslims used to do with their captives when they heard the words of their Lord, All-Mighty and Sublime, "And they give food to the poor, the orphan, and the captive."
- The speaker asks if listeners now understand what is meant by women's rights.
Violations of General Human Rights
In this section, the speaker discusses violations against general human rights during the occupation.
Killing for Amusement and Competition
- Male and female soldiers from different Western nationalities competed about who kills more defenseless and unarmed Afghans.
- One headline reads "Australian SAS ‘killed for sport’ in Afghanistan."
Treatment of Civilians
- The speaker describes how soldiers let their dog loose on an Afghan farmer who was working for his livelihood, tearing his flesh and then shooting him three times.
- Occupying soldiers cut off the fingers of dead Afghan civilians and kept them as trophies. They also took pictures next to their victims.
- The occupation bombed weddings and funerals, killing many innocent people.
Other Violations
- The speaker mentions that occupying soldiers enjoyed urinating on the dead bodies of Afghan Muslims and cremating their bodies.
- Hospitals were bombed, such as the bombing of Kunduz Hospital which claimed the lives of 42 patients and staff.
- Poverty in Afghanistan has risen to 72% in 2020 due to the occupation, causing countless women to suffer.
Casualties and Displacement
In this section, the speaker discusses casualties and displacement caused by the occupation.
Casualties
- About a quarter of a million people died during the occupation, with more than 70 thousand being defenseless civilians.
Displacement
- 2.7 million Afghans have been displaced to other countries, while another four million have been rendered homeless and internally displaced inside Afghanistan.
Conclusion
The speaker highlights various violations against human rights during the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces. These include mistreatment of prisoners, women's rights violations, killing for amusement or competition, bombing of hospitals and innocent civilians, and displacement.
War Crimes in Afghanistan
The speaker discusses the war crimes committed by US and UK forces in Afghanistan, and how they have gone unpunished.
Atrocities Committed by US Forces
- Western media circulated pictures of an American soldier laying a quilt over a detainee during a mission in southeastern Afghanistan.
- The International Criminal Court issued a report about "Evidence that US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan".
- The United Nations issued a report stating that the allied forces killed more civilians in 2019 than the Taliban did.
- The envoy of the United States of America replied "We never targeted innocents" to these accusations.
Cover-up by UK Government and Military
- The UK government and military were accused of war crimes cover-up.
- The Trump administration warned on Thursday, accusing a Hague-based court of corruption and maintaining that the United States can prosecute its own military and intelligence personnel.
Lack of Accountability for War Crimes
- Show trials may be held just to save face and throw some low level perpetrators under the bus to give the appearance of accountability.
- Trump pardoned two U.S. Army officers accused of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- All traces of such crimes are deleted from the internet.
Human Rights Violations
- Human rights, women's rights, and children's rights have been violated for twenty years in Afghanistan.
- Afghan women may lose all their rights and be forced to wear the hijab.
- The Taliban's catastrophic human rights record, including the practice of gender apartheid, use of cruel punishments and systematic destruction of cultural heritage, when in power, is well documented.
Lack of Action by International Community
- All governments and the international community must act with urgency today to prevent a massive human rights and cultural disaster in Afghanistan.
- UN forces themselves are involved in rape and murder.
The Taliban and the Western Media
In this section, the speaker discusses how the Western media portrays the Taliban and their treatment of women. He questions the validity of their vows and highlights their atrocities towards Muslims.
Misrepresentation by Western Media
- The speaker criticizes the Western media for neglecting to report on the atrocities committed by occupation forces in Afghanistan.
- He questions the validity of Taliban's vows regarding women's rights, given their history of violence against Muslims.
- The speaker highlights how some in the West promote immoral behavior while criticizing Sharia law.
- He criticizes how Western media portrays Taliban as extraterrestrial beings who hunt down human women to torture and kill them.
Ignorance and Psychological Defeat
- The speaker highlights how some Muslims listen to those who disbelieve in Allah when it comes to women's rights and human rights.
- He questions why some allow themselves to be fooled by those hostile to Muslims and who shape their priorities.
Sharia Law
- The speaker reminds viewers that Allah is responsible for imposing hijab on women, not any specific group.
- He emphasizes that condemning occupation is separate from endorsing everything attributed to Taliban, whether rightly or wrongly.
Two Important Points
In this section, the speaker establishes two important points regarding oppression in Afghanistan.
Mercy Required
- The emerging leaders are required to have mercy with Afghan people because they have endured similar calamities as themselves.
Definition of Sharia Law
- The one who takes charge of the affairs of Muslims has to take care of people’s affairs, establish truth and justice, distribute wealth, fight poverty, fear Allah in foreign relations, populate the land, and teach people the rulings of Islam and what is necessary for the righteousness of their religion and their lives.
Occupation's Positive Side
In this section, the speaker criticizes those who focus on the positive aspects of occupation while ignoring its dark side.
Blood of Muslims
- The speaker highlights how a cheap person finds the blood of Muslims to be cheap too.
- He emphasizes that if any incident happened to Westerners like it did to Muslims in Afghanistan, they would have gone mad.
Pharaoh's Policy
- The speaker compares occupation forces' policy with Pharaoh's policy mentioned by Allah Almighty.
The West's Role in Afghanistan
In this section, the speaker discusses the role of the West in Afghanistan and refutes claims that they did favors for the Afghan people.
The West's Actions in Afghanistan
- The speaker advises against claiming that the West did favors for Afghans.
- Afghans fled their country despite general amnesty due to destruction caused by Western planes.
- The speaker highlights how some occupation soldiers converted to Islam after seeing Muslim patience, steadfastness, and dignity.
Call to Action
- This is a historic opportunity to call Muslims to Allah Almighty's religion.
- The speaker quotes a verse from the Quran about Muslims being the best community brought forth for mankind.
Overall, this section focuses on debunking claims that the West helped Afghanistan and highlights how some occupation soldiers converted to Islam after witnessing Muslim resilience.