SUPPORT COMMITTEE FOR FAWZIA KOOFI
Ms. Fawzia Koofi, a Selfless Leader, a Modern Thinker, Poet,a kind mother, an articulated teacher and a Linguist
There is no such thing as good Taliban or bad Taliban
Announcement from the office of Fawzia Koofi
2/4/10
I understand that the international community is trying very hard to find a clarification to make the the Taliban give up fighting and is as such an achievement much appreciated by the people of Afghanistan. However I have to address the fact that there is no such thing as good Taliban or bad Taliban. We are fighting a mentality not a personality. We cannot separate them one from another. Talibanism is an ideology based on a radical belief system and every single Taliban follower is loyal to it.
Perhaps some of them agree on making a peace deal with the government, but that doesn’t mean we will be able to erase the suicidal whisper from their minds which murmurs in their ears that non-Taliban are the infidel. The infidel needs to be killed anywhere and everywhere and by any means. This new idea of paying off the Taliban to make a peace deal takes Afghanistan back to the 1990’s. We should have learned something from the Jordanian double agent, who killed seven CIA officers at the U.S. outpost in Khost province.
The ‘Paying for Peace’ idea may urge other people to take arms against the people of Afghanistan in order to earn money from International community. In the entirety of human history nobody has paid off their enemy.
The solution is to strengthen National democratic initiations (institutions), deliver good governance and justice, putting political pressure on the source of terrorism will eventually defeat it.
According to the latest report of UNOPS 42 percent of the population of Afghanistan is living in dire poverty. Poverty is the worst enemy of our people which is as ruthless as the Taliban. We already spent money on building militarized national defense system. Now it’s unacceptable for us to pay money and do the job of this ministry. It’s the responsibility of our international friends to listen to the local people of Afghanistan and seek their ideas instead of foreign lobbyists who haven’t studied nature of our enemy.
