The problem of Religion was over exaggerated among Afghans during Russian Afghans War. Religion was never a problem till it was intentionally used against Russians by CIA, ISI and the Saudi monarchy as these agencies made Afghans over conscious about religion to use them for their own vested interests. It was due to this reason that religious people have not only been respected in Afghanistan but even some of them were models of Pakhtunwali. Afghans have to just distinguish between the long term motives of any religious teaching and compare it with their national interests. We saw that technically speaking many innocent and sincere Afghans fought just for the sake of God but what it brought to Afghans was mass death and destruction ,devastation and disaster making the Afghan kids orphans, Afghan women widows and destabilizing the whole nomenclature of the Afghan social fabric. All the sacrifices of Afghans were just reduced to the achievement of sumum bonum on individual level by those sincere Afghans who lost their lives and consequently there was a mass exodus of Afghans to other lands hence causing brain drain in the Afghan land. At the end of the day, Afghans were used as cannon fodders and guinea pigs to transform the world into a unipolar world with US as the sole super power and made our Muslim enemy neighbor Pakistan more powerful by giving her more opportunities to dictate her policies to our leaders. So while there is nothing wrong in religion as a cultural element of Afghan society, it is when religion becomes a tool for the exploitation of Afghans in the hands of our enemies that religion becomes dangerous. Afghans may follow the example of Malaysian Muslims, for example, who are practicing Muslims following Maliki school of Jurisprudence but are living in peace along with Chinese and Indians in Malaysia which is one of the technologically developed country in the world.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:21:57 +0000
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