「法の支配の弘布による地球の解放 ー日本的視座からの新カリフ制樹立」

「法の支配の弘布による地球の解放 ー日本的視座からの新カリフ制樹立」
“Role of Interfaith Dialogue on Peace Building and Conflict Resolutionz”
2010年12月9日 ファーテヒ大学 イスタンブル・トルコ

Liberation of the Earth through Spreading Rule of Law
- Reestablishing a new Caliphate from a Japanese Perspective
 
Dr. Hassan Ko Nakata, Professor, School of Theology, Doshisha University
 
1. Introduction
Japan was the second country, after the Othmani Caliphate, which promulgated the idea of constitution, among non-Western countries. In 1890 the Meiji Emperor received a letter from Caliph Abdul Hamid II, brought by the Battleship Ertu˘grul, to the effect that both countries would promote mutual relations. At that time, both countries had suffered from the hegemony of Western colonialism and been trying to defend their political independence and civilizational identity, thus the victory of Japan over Russia in 1905 was accepted enthusiastically by the Othman Caliphate.
Now the Othman and Meiji regimes have finished, both countries face a similar critical situation under so-called “Globalization”, advocated mainly by the US and its allies, and have to respond.
In this historical context, I hope my presentation will be a Japanese response in the era of American hegemony under the name of “Globalization”, to the historical mission of Othman Caliphate for the liberation of nations colonialized by Western countries.
 
2. Caliphate for Liberation of the Earth
Contrary to the false globalization, which is in fact a new form of colonization by the USA, true globalization should be the liberation of the globe, the earth, and all human beings.
In Fiqh, Khalifah is the abbreviation of Khalifah Rasul Allah, i.e., the Successor to the Apostle of Allah (in ruling), not Khalifat-ullah, the vicegerent of Allah on the earth. However, the connotation of the vicegerent of Allah on the Earth has never been forgotten.　Al-Qurtubi (d.1272) in his famous commentary on Qur’an says in regards to Surah 2:30: ‘This verse (“ I am going to create a vicegerent on the earth! Q:2:30) is the base for the appointment of Imam or Khalifah, Caliph, who is listened to and obeyed in order that the opinion would be agreed and rules of the people be carried on.’
Allah is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Rabb al-Samawat wa-al-Ard. In this context, the term “al-Ard (the earth)” in Qur’an is always single, in contrast to “al-Samawat (heavens; plural)” . That is because the earth is one and indivisible, and Allah is the Lord of this one and indivisible earth, not any country, or “territorial nation state”.
Besides the famous verses “I am going to create a vicegerent on the earth! ”(2:30), and “O Dawūd, We have made you a vicegerent on earth, so judge between people with truth”(38:26), in which the singular form of Khalifah appears, there are verses in which the plural forms khala’if and khulafa’ are used, calling human beings as you like  “Or the One who responds to a helpless person when He prays to Him and removes distress, and who makes you vicegerents(khulafa’) of the earth?”(27:62) and “It is He who made you the vicegerents(khala’if) of the earth”(6:165) . All these verses combine khalifah, khala’if and khulafa’ with al-Ard (the earth).
Human beings are vicegerents of Allah on the earth, meaning that they are in charge of the execution of the Divine Law of Justice on the earth. Allah is the sole Lord of the earth, thus human beings as his vicegerents should be united to apply the sole Divine Law, Shari`ah, all over the earth with Justice, without any discrimination by countries, or nations. We will return to the concept of Caliphate in details later.
In Islamic Scholarship, Khalifah, Imam, and Amiru-l-Mu’minin are synonymous. The name Caliphate is not important. What is important is its substance, i.e, supreme political authority and sole legitimate regime of Islam. But we call it as Caliphate only for sake of convenience.  
 
3. Role of Turkey for Re-establishing Caliphate
Turkey would play a key role for establishing a new Caliphate, not only because it is situated geopolitically at the nexus between Western Europe and Muslim world but also because it had been one of the important political players in Europe since Franco-Turkish alliance was established in 1536 between the king of France Francis I and the Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Caliph Suleiman the Magnificent. At the same time it was the Caliphate, the supreme Islamic regime, that was called  “the sick man of Europe” by the 19th century.
Therefore we should start our argument from confirming the fact of our “modern history” that the Othman Caliphate was the universal supreme government of Islam, whilst a member of the European community at the same time. Meaning it is not conjecture but a fact that the Caliphate as the Islamic universal supreme government is able to be a member of European society, in the very land of Turkey - historically, civilizationally and geopolitically.
Why not? There has never been genocidal wars between Othman Caliphate and the European countries, aimed at annihilating the enemy, as happened between Protestant and Catholic in European Wars of Religion in the 16th-17th centuries and the Second World War which resulted in around 20-30 millions of casualities in Europe alone. It is is true that “normal” wars occurred sporadically between the Othman Caliphate and European countries just as they happened between European countries, as they did between Muslim countries inside and outside Othman Caliphate.
Hence, we should not be deceived by the illusion of incompatibility of Turkish being of a member state of the EU and a Caliphate in the land of Turkey, as the Othman Caliphate had been an actor on European politico-diplomatic stage for centuries.
It is most desirable for the future of the human beings on the earth that Turkey be admitted to EU and at the same time a Caliphate be established in the land of Turkey.
The issue is: what kind of Caliphate is to be established? First we will look at the concept of Caliphate in Fiqh or classical Islamic jurisprudence.
 
4. Caliphate in Fiqh
Islamic law is said to be a archetypal jurist’s law alongside Roman law. Actually, while Roman law became law after its authorization by the Emperor and he is above the law, formulation of the Islamic law was independent from Caliph’s authorization. Indeed the jurists, Fuqaha’, rejected any interference from Caliph in its formation, and rejected declaring that the Caliph was above it.
“Islamic and common law thus shared the common characteristic in so far as both appealed to an law higher than the state”. Even Wikipedia (English,2010/11/13) admits that Caliph is not above Islamic law but under Islamic law, saying that in “ Islamic jurisprudence rule of law was formulated before the twelfth century, so that no official could claim to be above the law, not even the caliph.”
Islamic law is still valid for all Muslims, despite the fact that the rulers of the Western-made territorial nation states in the former Dar al-Islam, or Muslim World, have no longer enforced Islamic law, because the ruler has nothing to do with the formation of Islamic law, and consequently its validity is not dependent on its enforcement by the government.
Islamic Law is valid as far as it is taught by Fuqaha’. And classical text books of Fiqh are still being taught from elementary Schools, Kuttab and Madrasa’s  to Universities as main reference books almost immune from state control all over Muslim countries. In spite of lack of application of Islamic law by governments, Islamic law is still valid for Muslims as we currently witness that billions of Muslims are observing rules of Islamic law without any compulsion from government, rather in spite of severe oppression from governments against observing them.  
In classical Fiqh literatures, the obligation of establishing the Caliphate is not only an agreed upon consensus but also the most important matter of the religious duties as Ibn Hajar al-Haitami (d.1566) says; Companion of the Prophet agreed that election of the Imam (Caliph) after passing of the Prophetic Era is obligatory and considered it as the most important duty because they gave it the priority to His burial. 　
Among the contemporary jurists, Fuqaha’, there is still consensus that the establishment of the Caliphate is obligatory. Not only the most widely-read book of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) among the contemporary jurists, al-Fiqh al-Islami wa Adillatu-hu(11 vol.), written by Dr. Wahbah al-Zuhaili, but the most voluminous and authoritative Encyclopedia of Islamic law officially edited by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs of Kuwait and Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs of Arab Republic of Egypt, al-Mawsu‘ah al-Fiqhiyyah,(45 vol.)(http://islam.gov.kw/cms/index.php/mousoaa/, and it is endorsed by Ministry of Islamic Affairs of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also, http://feqh.al-islam.com/bookhier.asp?DocID=100) declare definitely that the establishment of Caliphate, Nasb al-Imam, is obligatory.
After confirming the obligation of establishing Caliphate in classical Fiqh, we next try to explain the real characteristics of the Caliphate in terms of modern social siences.
 
1. Islamic Rule as “Rule of Law”
Caliphate, Khilafah, means succession to Nubuwwah, the mission of the Prophet Muhammad. So we must know first what the Prophetic mission in its complete form is. In a word, we can say that the Prophetic mission in its complete form is to expand the “Rule of Law” all over the world.
Here we say “Rule of law”, not “Rule of Islamic Law or Shari`ah”. It may require explanation. Now we try to argue that Islamic governance is nothing but the rule of law, moreover, that Islamic governance is the very Rule of Law and there is no rule of law except Islamic governance in the contemporary world.
A famous German legal philosopher Gustav Radbruch (d.1949) pointed out that the law has 3 mutually contradicting elements, Gleichheit (justice), Zweckmäßigkeit (purposiveness or effectiveness) and Rechtssicherheit（legal certainty), but the most fundamental is the legal certainty. The legal certainty means stability and predictability. The law should be unchanging and continuous to some ranges of time as well as understandable and well known to people.
As for the stability, the Islamic law system started to be formed around in 8-9 century and had been established around in the 12-13 century and has changed little since then. It remains unchanging and valid, thus it is still taught from the elementary school to the graduate school of the university in the Muslim world.
Comparing to Islamic law, only Common Law of England has some limited stability, but “the rule of law” had been established only late in 17 century thanks to the efforts of Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke (d.1634) and the like, and it had never ceased to be transformed until courts of law and equity were combined in 1873 and 1875 and the current features of the common law had been completed.
Criticizing the famous British legal positivist jurist John Austin's (d.1859) theory that law is the command of the sovereign backed by the threat of punishment, H. L. A. Hart (d.1992), one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century, pointed out in his famous The Concept of Law that the ad hoc orders of the rulers cannot be called law. Such things like 12,000 yen flat-rate benefits enacted in 2008 under Aso Cabinet in Japan, 200 million dollar of bailout for AIG(American International Group), which was legislated under Obama government in 2009, do not deserve the name of law. Even if they were legislated by parliaments or Congress under the name of law, they are in reality nothing other than arbitrary ad hoc commandments of “men”. Nowadays there is no country where the true “rule of law” exists, even though there might be a Rechtsstaat which rules “by law”.
Western political thought can scarcely imagine form of the rule other than “rule of the man”, i.e., rule of the single person, monarchy or dictatorship, rule of the minority, aristocracy or oligarchy, and rule of the majority or democracy. The idea of “rule of law” only appeared quite recently in 17th century in England and even this new borne concept of “rule of law” has soon degenerated into “rule by law” or Rechtshtaat, or “rule of the commandments of the rulers” in our terminology. We can only find trace of concept of “rule of law” in Western political thought in the concept of “human rights” as supplement to “rule of man” of the democracy to complement its defects and to neutralize its evils.
It seems self-evident to Sunnite Muslims that Islamic rule is “Rule of Law” because the scholarship of Sunni Islam has elaborated its theory of Caliphate as “Rule of Law” counter-arguing Shiite Imamology which is typically “Rule of Man” of the divinely nominated infallible Imam.  
As for the legal certainty as the predictability, Muslims are familiar with Islamic law, both substantial rules, Ahkam Taklifiyyah, and legal concepts, Ahkam Wad’iyyah, because the learning of Islamic law is obligatory on every Muslim. So it is not unusual that ordinary Muslim children learn classical texts books of Islamic law even in elementary school or junior high school.
Islamic rule is the “Rule of Law” and Prophetic mission in its complete form is to spread “Rule of Law to all over the world”.
 
2. Caliphate as spreading “Rule of the Law” all over the world.
Sunnite Caliphate has been the very Rule of Law since the first day of the reign of Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, as he clearly declared it in his inaugural speech;“as long as I follow Allah and His Apostle, follow me. Supposing I disobey Allah and His Apostle, it is not obligatory for you to follow me.”(narated by al-Tabari)
Prophetic mission in its complete form was to spread this “Rule of Law” to all over the world even with resort to military force, if possible. Allah says; "Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day, and who do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, nor do they practice the religion of truth, from among of those who have been given the Scripture, until they pay the Jizyah tribute, readily being subdued.”(9:29) And al-Mugirah, a companion of the Prophet, said to the Persian army on the day of battle of Nihavand,; the Prophet who is the Apostle of our Lord ordered "Fight until you worship only Allah or you pay the tax (Jizyah)". ( al-Bukhahri).
Here we should not confuse between fighting for enforcing Islamic faith and fighting for spreading “Rule of Law”. The Islamic mission is fighting, Jihad, for spreading “Rule of Law”, not for enforcing Islamic faith.
If only the Jizyah tax is paid, fighting is no more allowed, even though they don’t embrace Islam. But fighting becomes inescapable when tax payment is refused. That is, the purpose of Jihad was admission of the Islam governance by tax payment, not conversion to Islam. In other words, spread the Islamic order of “Rule of Law” was the first priority which must be promoted even with military force.
The Muslim community started to perform their mission toward the whole world after the completion of the revelation to the Prophet Muhammad and the unification of the Arabian Peninsula under the banner of Islam. However, what was not allowed to refuse in confronting this mission and was to be forced even by military power was the payment of the Jizyah tax, not conversion to Islam. That is why we can say that the mission of Islam in its complete form is to spread this “Rule of Law” to all over the world even by resort to the military force, though there is no compulsion in the religion.
Therefore, Caliphate is defined as a political institution established for continuation of the Prophetic mission of spreading “Rule of Law” all over the world. Thus Caliphate is the governance of “Rule of Law”, the most stable divine law in the world, which liberates all the human beings from the rule of men and guarantees the security of life, property, and honor for all the inhabitants, ant this law-governed space is called Dar al-Islam or “House of Islam”, in which Caliph the head of the Ummah, rules according to Islamic law and plural religious communities coexist enjoying religious self-government. The fact that Caliph should be single symbolizes the unity of “Dar al-Islam” to guarantee the freedom of movement of human beings, commodities, money or capitals, and information. So the abolishment of borders which hinder the movement of the people is the indispensable essential part of Islamic governance. And the outside of this law-governed space, Dar al-Islam, is called Dar al-Harb, literally “House of War”, or “Lawless Land”.
 
7.  Caliphate as Secular Governance
And this regime of Caliphate is rather "secular", although it may sound unexpectedly. Strictly speaking, the concept “secular” is so Western culture-laden that we can not apply it only to Islam but also any other religion like Judaism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, but we use it here just as a matter of convenience for comparative study.
The Western political sciences cannot describe the Islamic governance effectively with the analysis of the Religion-and-Politics-relation because of the lack of clear consciousness of difference of legal system and political system, but if we can differentiate them, it is rather obvious rather that Caliphate is "secular".
The Prophet Muhammad’s governance was based on "unity of Religion and Politics", thus "religious." The Prophet Muhammad was governing based on Allah’s revelation. That is, a political decision of the outbreak of war etc. was also made based on Divine Will. And much of revelation had taken the form of the individual command responding to each situation, a legal system had not been formed yet, a political system and legal system were still undifferentiated. That is, the Prophet Muhammad’s government is "religious", in the meaning that it was based on the transcendental authority of the divine will of a revelation of Allah to which common believers has no access except through him, and is based on the “unity of Politics and Religion” in the meaning that both of the law and the politics were based on his transcendental authority in the undifferentiated form because the legal system and the political system was still undifferentiated.
The Prophet Muhammad’s government was typical "hierocracy" or "theocracy" in terminology of Western political sciences in the meaning that the religious person who represents divine will governs. However, the revelation ceased since the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and the Caliph has no special access to the Divine Will. Thus there was no transcendental element in the Caliph’s political determination, it was carried out through the realistic worldly calculation of political interests, and it was completely the same with the Caliph’s subordinates.
In the 8th century of the infancy of the Islamic legal system, Fuqaha’, jurists as specialists of the Fiqh, Islamic law, appeared and Qudaa, official judges, came to be appointed out of such jurists since Abu Yusuf(d.798) took the position of Qadi, Islamic Judge, a famous disciple of Abu Hanifah(d.767) who himself staunchly rejected its position in spite of persecution. After this, although the idea that the Caliph inherits the judicial duty of the Prophet was not lost, it becomes a custom that the Caliph entrusts his judicial authority to jurists, Fuqaha’, thus executive power and judicial power has been divided completely.
The Islamic legal system is a legal system after all, in the same way that Common Law of Britain is a legal system, though in both of these law systems the law does not exist in the form of a “code” compiling laws enacted by the parliament, so both of them are neither irrational nor mysterious beyond the understanding by the reason, but completely rational, in the meaning that the function of both these legal systems has nothing to do with the divine inspiration, and what is needed is not an understanding by faith but an understanding by professional training of legal reasoning.
We can understand this more clearly, if we take into consideration the fact that the existence of the mystic called Sufi who receives the inspiration from Allah is recognized widely in the Islamic history, and among jurists there are a lot of such mystics or Sufis, but at the place of a judicial trial, such inspiration is never adopted as a proof.
The Islamic law was "secularized", after the system of Islamic law had been materialized and the jurists had become professionals. That is, the trial is not performed by the transcendental authority which receives the inspiration from Allah to which common people has no access, but by the jurist who receives special professional training of legal reasoning, based on the legal provisions found in the authoritative classics of Islamic jurisprudence to which any lettered man can refer.
The transcendental authority which has access to the divine will to which common people has no access, i.e., the religious authority which Western political science assumes, is in the hand of mystics called Sufis in Islam.
In Sunnite Islam, the Prophetic authority, is divided into political authority, “legal authority”, and “religious authority” in the narrow meaning, and succeeded by Caliph, Fuqaha’ and Sufis respectively.
That is, in Islam, law, religion, and politics are completely divided and the Caliphate is secular political regime separated from religion not only in its administration but in its jurisdiction.
 
8.  Caliphate as a Pluralistic and Anti-totalitarian Regime
Moreover, the Islamic law is pluralistic because it is divided into “shared public” law which all the residents should obey and “religious” law which only Muslims should obey and admits for the other communities their autonomy according to their own religious law.
The Caliphate based on this pluralistic Islamic law is secular because it secures the safety to all the residents by ruling according to Islamic “shared public law” and leaves to Muslims and non-Muslim communities the self-government or autonomy in the domain of religion which contains not only a religious rite but family law, a dress code, etc.
Moreover, pluralistic Caliphate is anti-totalitarianism. All residents are not forced conversion to Islamic ideology, although the Caliphate is based on Islam. Non-Muslim are not required any inward commitments to Islam. It is sufficient for them to observe Islamic “public law” only externally. Even for Muslims, Caliphate does not interfere in the inside of their mind. The obligation of Caliphate is merely the enforcement of the “external” Islamic law.
Thus, the Caliphate does not interfere in individual’s “privacy” in private space as well as it does not interfere in ones interior faith. It is because Islam strictly prohibits revealing the hidden wrong, and inquiry and espionage by the Holy Qur’anic verse " And spy not "(49:12).
So the Caliphate is located just in the opposite poles of a police state. The Caliph only controls the infringement of the Islamic rules in public space, and he leaves the the individual act in private space to the final judgment of Allah.
Unlike the nation-state based on the totalitarianism, in the meaning that it presupposes that the “nation” is homogeneous entity, which kidnaps its children and confines them to brainwash with its official ideology during a certain period under the name of compulsory education, the education is not the job of Caliphate regime. In Islamic history, although Caliphs and kings built schools, Madrasah, it was not their “official” job but their personal or individual contribution. That is, in the Caliphate, education is left to the family and the society.
The political responsibility for the maintenance of security, order, and peace under the pluralistic and anti-totalitarian Caliphate is shared only among Muslims under Caliph according to their capability, contrary to the deceptive fabrication of national representative system of so-called "democratic" nation-state, in which it is to be assumed by all the citizens.
Under Caliphate non-Muslims are not required any political responsibility for the cause of Islam in which they do not believe but required only tax payment and outward observation of Islamic “shared public” law as “passive citizen”, while all the Muslims assume the responsibility for participation in the Caliphate as a judge, a soldier, etc. according to one’s capability as a “active citizen” because of his faith in the cause of Islam.
Such secular, anti-totalitarian and pluralistic Caliphate is the political system that enables the realization of the Islamic order which Muslim community has the mission to spread to the whole earth even with resort to military force.
 
9.  Caliphate As an Antithesis of Territorial Nation State　
​We have already stated that Caliphate is global because Allah is the sole Lord of the earth and Shari`ah, His Divine Law, should be enforced all over the world. Now we emphasize that the concept of Caliphate contradicts the idea of “territorial nation state” definitely.
As we have mentioned, the uniqueness of Caliph symbolizes the unity of the lordship of Allah and His divine Law, Shari`ah, and the integrity of Muslim community, Ummah, and Muslim world, Dar al-Islam.      
Fiqh prescribes the uniqueness of Caliph and strictly forbids its plurality, because the Prophet Muhammad said; “When the pledge of allegiance is given to two persons who are Caliphs, kill the second one." (Muslim)
It is worth mentioning here that the territorial nation state system is contradicting not only Islamic Caliphate but the ideal of the justice and the humanity which the West claims to advocate. The climate on the earth differs regionally, and there are also differences in its underground resources. Additionally, life in a particular area may be made temporarily difficult by a natural or manmade disaster. So, freedom of migration on the Earth is the first step to enabling the justice and equality of life among mankind. John Rawls (d.2002) argued that the unfairness is the situation, in which a rational person cannot choose, living under the veil of ignorance, i.e., without knowing whether he or she is part of the poor members or the rich. Without doubt, the contemporary “territorial nation state” system is unfair, in which the small number of nations of the advanced countries enjoy the wealth while the majority of human beings are forced to live inside the under developed countries separated by borders of “territorial nation state” from the advanced countries in order that they cannot immigrate, and number of the poor who live in starvation with less than 1 US dollar per day is 960 million, which any rational person can accept, assumed under the veil of ignorance.
Islamic rule includes security of the freedom of immigration. Ibn ‘Abbas explains Qur’anic verse "But was not God's earth spacious that you might have emigrated therein?. (4:97)” as; “‘My earth is spacious’ means ‘the land of al-Madinah is safe, so immigrate to it’.” Namely, al-Madinah, the infant Dar al-Islam should be the place to which all the Muslims can immigrate. The oneness of the Caliph symbolizes the oneness of the Islamic rule, and the Islamic rule secures the free movement of human beings and commodities within its territory, Dar al-Islam.
The earth belongs to nobody, but solely to Allah. No one is allowed to cut it into parts and restrict immigration within it. Islam not only rejects dividing the earth into territorial states which prevents freedom of movements for human beings, commodities, and money, but also dividing the human beings into nations each of which is supposed to be homogeneous and have loyalty to its territorial state.
Contrary to the ideology of the “territorial nation state” of modern Western Europe, Islam does not allow human beings to be divided into separate nations. This is because Allah created human beings as various ethnic groups so that they could know each other, as Allah says; "We have indeed created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another.” (49:13), and the freedom of the immigration is the precondition for mutual-understanding. And Allah orders us to travel in the earth to learn the history of nature and the history of human beings by saying,; "... travel in the land and observe how He originated creation." (29:20), "...so travel in the land and behold how was the end of those who denied." (3:137, 6:11, 16:36). And Allah stressed the most important thing is neither nation nor tribe, but the piety by saying; “…surely the noblest of you, in Allah’s sight, is the one who is most pious of you….”(49:13)
In order to understand the true implication of Islamic globalism, we should reconsider the conception of nationalism in the light of Islam. Nationalism is a form of neo-tribalism born in Western Europe in the second half of the 18th century. And this tribalism is the very core concept of the main target which the Prophet Muhammad tried to eliminate, ie., Jahiliyah (pre-Islamic ignorance). This “tribalism” was called “Asabiyyah” by the Prophet.
He said; “Those who were killed under the flag of delusion which appeals for or support tribalism(`Asabiyyah) died the death of the Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance)" (Hadith: Muslim) He also said, "Those who appealed for tribalism are not our fellows. And those who fought for tribalism are not our fellows. And those who died for tribalism are not our fellows.”(Being asked “What is tribalism?") He answered; “It is supporting your tribe in injustice." (Abu Dawud)
Tribalism was of the ideological background of the life for the Arabs of the Jahiliyyah（pre-Islamic ignorance), and the good tidings for all mankind was the advent of Islamic justice. Now the conquest of this "neo-tribalism" has become the major objective of the Islamic mission. In fact, this “neo-tribalism” of the modern Western nationalism is by far more dangerous than the ancient Jahiliyyah, because the modern Western nationalism is so totalitarian that all member of the “nation” are brainwashed by the nation state through the compulsory national education, every detail of their life is deeply involved with state control, and consequently they are alienated or dehumanized systematically by the “nation state”.  
Therefore, global, anti-totalitarian and pluralistic Caliphate will bear the Islamic mission of liberating human beings and the earth from Jahiliyyah of the false ideology of the “territorial nation state”, i.e., the modern Western nationalism.
 
10. Co-existence of the Caliphate and the Outer World
 
When the Caliphate is established, what will be the relationship between this new Caliphate and the external world?
As already stated, the Caliphate should spread “Rule of Law” to all over the world, even with resort to military force, by Jihad, if it were possible. However, it seems unlikely that the newly reestablished Caliphate will rush into Jihad, waging a total, all out war against the entire the Outer world, Dar al-Harb or “House of War” by his initiative, because contemporary war methods contradict the instructions of Islam completely.  
Indeed Islam does not reject war categorically. Islam predicts that there will always be jihads (wars) until the Last Day, as told in Hadith（word of the Prophet）; “Jihad will continue to be fought from the time Allah sent me until the last generation of my Ummah fight the Dajjl (Anti-Christ).” (Abu Dawud) This Hadith does not illustrate the militancy of Islam, rather it is the expression of its realistic view of war and peace. The Islamic view of war is realistic from two aspects. First, it is characterized by the cool realism that, (1) neither will wars cease nor will the world will be perfectly peaceful, because there will always be evil forces which try to hinder the rule of Islam, even by resorting to military action, and (2) Islam cannot win the final decisive victory against the evil forces in the normal run of history as long as there is no direct Divine intervention by means of the return of Jesus and advent of the Mahdi (therefore it suspends the Final War or Armageddon). From these points we could say that the inevitability of the necessary coexistence with other religions and civilization as “the reality” of this world is built in into the Islamic world view.    
The concept of “war” in the time of the Prophet Muhammad is so different from the concept of “war” in this age that we might hesitate to call them both by the same name.
When Umah b Zaid, a companion of the Holy Prophet  was going to kill a polytheist enemy of the Juhainah tribe during a battle, the man confessed; "There is no God other than Allah", but Usamah did not care and killed him anyway. The Holy Prophet heard the report later and scolded Usmah, saying, "Did you kill a person who confessed that there is no God other than Allah?" When Usamah answered, "He said so out of fear of my weapon", the Holy Prophet said, "Did you cut his breast open and hear that he said so?" (al-Bukhari, Ahmad) And the Prophet ordered the killing of the enemy but prohibited burning them to death, saying; “Tormenting by fire is not allowed for other than the Master of Fire"　(al-Bukhari, Ahmad)
While in a contemporary war, soldiers are slaughtered indiscriminately by missiles, bombs, and heavy weapons, without having the opportunity to surrender, and without even seeing the face of the enemy who kills them. Not only soldiers, but even innocent civilians too are massacred through being caught up in the battle. In modern warfare this is called collateral damage, but in Islam it is a serious crime. Even if Muslims win such war, it can never be considered a desirable victory from an Islamic viewpoint. Although it might be unavoidable, if for example the "House of Islam" were to be invaded, to be forced to fight such a battle, it is quite unthinkable that the Caliph would initiate such war by himself for the purpose of expanding the Islamic domain.
Although Islam does not forbid war itself, it is a completely groundless fear that if the Caliphate were reestablished, it would soon start jihad to expand the Islamic mission, because contemporary warfare in which inhumane weapons of mass-destruction are used quite clearly opposes the war ethics of Islam.
Therefore the relation between the Caliphate, or the "House of Islam" and the external world might be “peace” by a cease-fire agreement in principle.
The reestablished Caliphate or Dar al-Islam, “House of Islam”, is open unconditionally for all Muslims to immigrate to, irrespective of their nation or race, and even non-Muslims are allowed to immigrate there if they agree to pay the tax and abide by Islamic “shared public” law among all citizens.
Conversely, there might be Muslims who do not like to live under the rule of Islamic law and might flee from the Caliphate. As stated above, Muslims should not live in an environment in which they cannot enforce Islamic law openly and should immigrate to the Caliphate in principle. However, this decision is left to the individual, and such a thing as "departure control" from the "House of Islam" by a "state" does not exist under Islamic law. Thus, probably the coming Caliphate in the "House of Islam" will vie with the external world concerning immigration under the cease-fire agreement, as to which area is more comfortable to live in.
 
11.  Conclusion
We are now living in the age of “globalization”. The Caliphate, the legitimate Islamic polity, is “global” in principle, if we reinterpret duly its concept.  The global, anti-totalitarian and pluralistic new Caliphate will bear the Islamic mission of liberating human beings and the earth from Jahiliyyah of the false ideology of the “territorial nation state”, i.e., the modern Western nationalism.
Turkey, the land of Othman Caliphate, one of the most vast and long-lasting empires in the human history in which co-existing of various religio-ethnic communities had been realized under the “Rule of Law” of Islam, seems the most suitable place for establishing New-Caliphate considering its geo-political and historical background of being situated at the center of Eurasian continent, as the nexus between Europe and Muslim World.
 
 
 
 

「イスラームのディーナール金貨とディルハム銀貨の紹介」 ウマル・バディロ

Introducing The Islamic Dinar and Dirham By Umar Vadillo

Achnagairn House, Scotland 1995



From the beginning of Islam until the fall of the Khalifate the dinar and dirham were the Shari'ah currency of the Ummah



THE HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC DINAR AND DIRHAM



In the beginning, the Muslims used the gold and silver by weight and the dinar and dirham that they used were made by the Persians.

The first dated coins that can be assigned to the Muslims are copies of silver dirham of the Sasanian Yezdigird III, stuck during the Khalifate of Uthman (radhiaAllahuanhu). These coins differ from the original ones in that an Arabic inscription is found in the obverse margins, normally reading “In The Name of Allah”. Since then, the writing in Arabic of the Name of Allah and parts of Quran on the coins became a custom in all minting made by the Muslims.

Under what was known as the coin standard of the Khalif Umar ibn al-Khattab, the weight of 10 dirhams was equivalent to 7 dinars (mithqals).

In the year 75H (695 CE), the Khalif Abdalmalik ordered Al-Haddjadj to mint the first dirhama, thus he established officially the standard of Umar in al-Khattab.

In the next year, he ordered the dirhams to be minted in all the regions of Dar-al-Islam. He ordered that the coins be stamped with the sentence 'Allah is Unique, Allah is Eternal'.

He ordered the removal of human figures and animals from the coins and that they be replaced with letters.

This command was then carried on throughout the history of Islam. The dinar and the dirham were both round, and the writing was stamped in concentric circles. Typically on one side it was written the 'tahlil' and the 'tahmid', that is 'La ilaha illa Allah' and 'Alhamdulillah'. And on the other side was written the name of the Amir and the date. Later on it became common to introduce the blessing on the Prophet salalLaahu alayhi wasalam and sometimes, ayat of the Quran.



Gold and silver coins remained the official currency until the fall of the Khalifate. Since then, dozens of different paper currencies were made in each of the new pot-colonial national states created from the dismemberment of Dar-al-Islam.



LAW OF ENTRUSTING PROPERTY

>Allah says in the Qur'an :

'And amongst the People of the Book there are those who, if you were to entrust them with a treasure (qintar), he would return it to you. And amongst them is he, who, if you were to entrust him with a dinar would not return it to you, unless you keep standing over him.' Al-Qur'an 3, 75

Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, the greatest authority on Qur'anic Law wrote in his famous 'Ahkam al-Qur'an' about this ayat:

'The benefit that can be taken from this is the prohibition of entrusting the People of the Book with goods.'

Qadi Abu Bakr said “ The question concerning entrusting property is legislated by the text of Qur'an.”. This means that the ayat is a legal judgment of absolute validity and of the greatest importance to the Deen.

Entrusting wealth to a non-muslim is not allowed, but furthermore, taking a non-muslim as a partner outside Dar-al-Islam (where we stand over them) is extremely restricted, because they might misuse or might use our wealth in a forbidden transactions.

Since paper money is a promise of payment, can it be permitted to trust the issuers while they hold the payment (our property) outside our jurisdiction ?

History has also demonstrated repeatedly that paper money has been a permanent instrument of default and cheating the Muslims. In addition, Islamic Law does not permit the use of promise of payment as a medium of exchange.

WHAT IS THE ISLAMIC DINAR AND DIRHAM

According to Islamic Law ….

The Islamic dinar is a specific weight of gold equivalent to 4.25 grams. The Islamic Dirham is a specific weight of silver equivalent to 2.975 grams.

Umar ibn al-Khattab established the known standard relationship between them based on their weights: '7 dinars must be equivalent to 10 dirhams' in weight.



HOW CAN I USE THEM?

1. I can save them because they are wealth in themselves

2. I can pay zakat as it is a requisite in the Islamic Law

3. I can use it as dowry in marriage.

4. I can buy and sell with them as they are a legitimate medium of exchange.



IJMA (CONSENSUS) ON THE MITHQAL

'The Revelation (wahyu) undertook to mention them (dinar and dirham) and attached many judgments to them, for example zakat, marriage and hudud etc. Therefore, within the Revelation they have to have a reality and specific measure for assessment (of zakat etc.) upon which its judgement may be based rather than on the non-shari'e (other coins or commodity).

Know that there is a consensus (ijma) since the beginning of Islam and the time of the Companions and the Followers that the dirham of the shari'ah is that which, ten weighs seven mithqals (weight of a dinar) of gold. The weight of a mithqal of gold is seventy-two grains of barley, so thet the dirham which is seven-tenths of it is fifty and two-fifths grains. All these measurements are firmly established by consensus.' Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddimah

SAVING

Gold or silver are the most stable currency the world has ever seen from the beginning of Islam. Until today, the value of the Islamic bimetallic currency that the remained surprisingly stable in relation to basic consumable goods:

A chicken at the time of the Prophet salalLaahu alayhi wasalam costed one dirham. Today, 1400 years later, a chicken costs approximately one dirham.

In 1400 years, inflation is zero. Could we say the same about the dollar or any other paper currency in the last 30 years?

In the long term, the bimetallic currency has proven to be the most stable currency the world has ever seen. It has survived despite all the attempts by governments to transform it into a symbolic currency by imposing a nominal value different from its weight.



RELIABILITY

Gold cannot be inflated by printing more of it. It cannot be devalued by government decree, and unlike paper currency, it is an asset which does not depend on anybody's promise to pay.

Portability and anonymity of gold are both important, but the most significant fact is that gold is an asset that is no one's liability.

All forms of paper-money instruments : bonds, shares and even bank deposits are promise to repay money borrowed. Their value is dependent on the investor's belief that the promise will be fulfilled. As junk bonds and the Mexican peso have illustrated, a questionable promise soon loses value.

Gold is not like this. A piece of gold is independent of the financial system, and its worth is underwritten by 5000 years of human experience.

PAYMENT OF ZAKAT



Zakat cannot be paid with a promise of payment. Zakat can only be paid with tangible merchandise, called in Arabic 'ayn. It cannot be paid with a promise to pay or a debt, called in Arabic dayn.

From the beginning of Islam, zakat was paid with dinars and dirhams. Most significant is that the payment of zakat was never allowed in paper-money during all the Ottoman period right until the fall of the Khalifate in 1924.

Shaykh Muhammad Illish (1802-1881) the great Maliki qadi said that if you were to pay zakat with paper-money, only its value as merchandise (value of paper) can be accepted. Therefore its nominal value is irrelevent as payment of zakat.

'If the zakat was obligatory by considering its substance as a merchandise, then the nisab would not be stipulated according to its value but according to its substance and its quantity as is the case with silver, gold, grain or fruit. Since its substance (paper) is irrelevant (in value) with respect to the zakat, then it should be treated as the copper, iron or other similar substances.' Shaykh Illish

The return of the payment of zakat in gold and silver is an essential part of the re-establishment of Islam.

BUYING AND SELLING

The Dinar and Dirham are the currency of the Ummah. No more hundreds of different paper currencies diseased by inflation. In the past, the Muslims were able to travel throughout the Islamic World and trade with Dinars as they could at home. From the 15th century onwards the Europeans started to introduce the banking promisory note in the Muslim lands. Paper-money gave European traders an incredible purchasing power that overwhelmed and eventually surpassed the Muslim's superiority in world trading.

Gold was money, and for at least two centuries before, most bonds including government ones were gold bonds. The financial demands after the First World War led governments to print paper-money in excess, at first suspending convertibility to gold until it was finally terminated.





HOW IMPORTANT IS THE DINAR AND DIRHAM TO THE DEEN OF ISLAM ?

Al-Qurtubi (d 1273), one of the greatest commentators of the Qur'an wrote in his renowned Tafsir about the following ayat in the Qur'an :

'O you who believe ! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in command among you …' Qur'an 4, 59

The ayat is an order to 'obey the Sultan with respect to seven things : the minting of the dinar and dirham, fixing weights and measures, legal judgements, Hajj, Juma'ah, the two Eids and Jihad.'

The minting of the dinar and dirham is therefore the first obligation of the Sultan to be commanded and to be followed.



FATWA ON PAPER MONEY

Paper-money is not a legal medium of exchange.

If paper-money money is a debt representing a merchandise (dayn) :

The debt must have a definition of what is owed. Even if it is defined as a proper debt, a debt cannot be used as a medium of exchange. Paper-money as wealth is not allowed to be entrusted to non-Muslims.



If paper-money is a tangible merchandise ('ayn) : Its value only corresponds to its weight as paper. Equally, we take the value of the dinar by its weight and not by its nominal value. Either way, paper-money cannot be accepted as a medium of exchange.



IMPOSITION AND TYRANNY

We have heard the economists saying ' We need a flexible currency.'

'We need a currency that can be expanded and contracted according to the needs of the economy'>

'An increase in currency will quicken industry.'



These are fallacies to justify the insolvency of the issuers of the notes in order to avoid their obligations to pay. There is in truth a great charm in the idea of being able to pay off all our needs, satisfy all the governments expenses and o make the whole community prosperous, just by printing a few characters on bits of paper. But when a man is capable of believing that, he will believe anything. Another fallacy to justify theft is to say 'It is an emergency'. Certainly a war can influence people to accept what appears to be solutions. After the emergency comes the semi-emergency of a crisis, or an almost-emergency time or an almost-normal time. In any case, our individual rights are no longer in our hands. Any failure to repay in whole or in part what is due by the promisory note is but a form of theft.



THE RING

Up until the 15th century, the Muslims were in total charge of world trading. From then on, the Europeans started to take over by the power of the Ring. The ring is a simple mathematical equation, which as mentioned by Richard Wagner in his famous opera, gives total power to the person who uses it, although it contains a curse : 'Whoever uses it, will never be loved'. Power was not wielded by gold, but by storing it in a guaranteed cave. People slaved to mine it, but ruled by whoever possessed the Ring.

The Ring did not just conquer the nation-states, for its power was so fascinating that it transformed the states themselves into banks. And the states becomes banks.

This convenient method of coining credit was soon discovered by the governments and they issued their own promisory notes (legal tender) in payments of their expenses. It was the only way for them to be able to borrow money without paying interest. Their promises to pay on demand being, in the estimation of the holders, equivalent to money in hand.

The governments who are incapable of containing their own expanding deficits, then created legal money. The Law of Legal Tender established that all money issued by the issuing authority must be accepted by force for any debt.

The Law of Legal Tender abolished the contractual law that guaranteed the freedom of the people to choose their medium of exchange. It imposes on the citizens an artificial currency with a value established by the government.

FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING

This mathematical formula is called the Fractional Reserve Banking and it is attached to debt and symbolic money which destroyed the Muslim Khalifate. This mathematical formula is what banking is all about.

The Fractional Reserve Banking needs a pre-condition. The existence and acceptance of symbolic money. Then it consists of lending at 'interest' this symbolic money that the banks do not have. By lending 20 times more than they have, all repayments of 10% become in accounting like 200% (20 X 10%).

We deposit $1. Fractional Reserve Banking allows banks to create 20 times the money deposited by customers. When this money is lent out as loans, and with a repayment with 10% interest rate to it, the banks have created 200% credit from $1 deposited. Hence creation of credit out of nothing.



The losers are the passive users of the currency who will suffer the inflation originated from the money created out of nothing.

Once the Muslims accepted the banks symbolic money they inadvertently endorsed the magical system which gave the banks a previously unthinkable world dominion.

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アフガニスタン大統領顧問サバーウーン大臣「アフガニスタン国際イスラーム大学設立案」

Prospectus for Foundation of International Islamic University Afghanistan (IIUA)
2010/11/27

Preamble
The people of Afghanistan are worldwide famous of defending Islam against frequent foreign invasions, while receiving foreigners as guests with hospitality through their history.
Unfortunately, due to the foreign aggressions and following civil wars, Afghanistan suffered the loss of many lives. The land and industries ruined. Numerous socio-cultural problems are breaking out today. Problems including drug trading are insecurity factors for the International Society.

1. Urgent Need of Improving Islamic Education
There is no way for solving these problems but the proper understanding of Islam and its practice which all the Afghan people respect regardless of their position, ethnicity and religious affiliation. Instead of introducing a dominant interpretation of Islam for certain Muslim country, we have urgent and pressing need of training Muslim intellectuals who master the Islamic scholarship (`uloom shar`iyyah) of Hanafi/Maturidi school, the predominant school in Afghanistan. It is also necessary for young Islamic scholars to acquaint themselves with operational skill of applying Islamic legal theories to social practice. The society of Afghanistan is now in the turning point to face with the globalization. Islamic young scholars must familiarize themselves with both traditional Islamic sciences and modern worldly sciences.

2. International Islamic University of Afghanistan (IIUA)
The most desirable form of realizing the aim mentioned above is Islamic University of Afghanistan (IIUA) whose stuffs will be recruited from the international community, which serves as think tank to participate in policy making of Afghan government and also serves as institution of research and education which is in charge of education and training of Afghan youth, especially teachers of secondary educational institutions including madrasahs. Madrasahs should be reformed by young Islamic scholars educated in modern higher education.

3. Curriculum of Islamic University of Afghanistan (IIUA)
This university(IIUA) is mainly focuses on subjective or practical research and education of Islamic sciences（`Uloom Shar`iyyah） according to Hanafi/Maturidi school, to which majority of Afghan people belongs. However, it should have chairs not only for other Islamic schools including 12 Imami or Ja`fari school but also for other religions, which are based on objective discipline of comparative religion. As like International Islamic University of Malaysia, the sciences　developed in the West such as economics, political sciences, medicine, engineering and so on are to be taught after being adapted to Islamic teaching.

4. Recruitment of Scholars
In order to make Islamic scholarship based on Hanafi/Maturidi school capable of adaptation to contemporary issues, the preference should be given to Muslim sholars (`Ulama) of Turkey and Syria who has made tenacious effort for defending Islam based on Hanafi/Maturidi school. However, it is also necessary to recruit ‘Ulama of Indo/Pakistan of historical deep relations, scholars of Saudi Arabia and Egypt for Arabic, and Muslim scholars of various kinds　from non-Islamic world who are familiar with non-Islamic cultures and how to adapt to them.

5. Land of the University
As for the land of the university(IIUA), Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is in charge of its acquisition in suitable place.

6. Making Afghan Experience Share with the World: Peace Building Studies
This university (IIUA) is not only the place to import various Islamic trends of thought from the outside of Afghanistan, but the one to “export” the understanding of Islam deepened in Afghanistan. Afghanistan boasts of the history of noble scholarship of Islam which combines the knowledge and practice through protecting Islam against the invasions of foreign forces and their interferences (Jihad) and giving patronage to others or foreigners as guest with generous hospitality with open heart. IIUA invites learned scholars (`Ulama) of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as its professors. IIUA can contribute for peace building through providing employment for Islamic scholars who are supporting Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan at the moment. IIUA can be a worldwide center of peace building studies in research and education through practice.

7. Education for Women
Education is the obligation of all the Muslim men and women, as the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) clearly declared. Therefore the university (IIUA) should be open to the men and the women equally. However, women are to be separated in space by men according to Islamic law (Shari`ah) and Afghan tradition.

8. International Committee for International Islamic University of Afghanistan
The Planning and preparation for the International Islamic University of Afghanistan will be conducted by International Committee for International Islamic University of Afghanistan. The Committee will be consisted of prominent leaders of the Islamic World. They are supposed to be political leaders, NGO leaders, and heads of research institutes. The Committee will request Islamic NGOs and educational institutes to contribute. The Committee will request land and permission for the University to the Government of Afghanistan.

9. Role of Japanese Government in IIUA Project
Japan has never sent troops to Afghanistan. In addition to the fact that Japan has earned the trust of Afghan people for its political neutrality, Japan can take initiative in establishing an International Islamic University whose curriculum is acceptable to the majority　of　Afghan people.
Hopefully, Japanese government may take initiative in establishing International Islamic University of Afghanistan in Kabul in coordination with other donor countries aiming for the peaceful future of Afghanistan and the whole world.

Eng. Waheedullah Sabawon,


Advisor Minister of the President in Tribal Affairs
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

アフガニスタン大統領顧問サバーウーン大臣「正義に基づくアフガン和平案」

「正義に基づくアフガニスタンの和解のための提案」
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2010/11/27

関係者各位

　周知のようにアフガニスタンでの反体制運動の増加の主たる理由は、INSAFの攻撃による民間人の犠牲、いわゆる"巻き添え被害（collateral damage）"です。
　元司令官MacCristal将軍は2500ドルをアフガニスタン民間人犠牲者のために2500ドルの賠償金を提示しましたが、その金額があからさまに正義、平等、人道に反していたため、アフガニスタンの国民の激怒を招きました。
　それゆえ私たちは、民間人の犠牲者に、アフガニスタンの国民が受け入れることのできる正義に基づく賠償の提供を日本政府にお願いしたいと思います。それは、シャリーア（イスラーム法）に基づく1000ディナール（1ディナール=22カラットの金4.25グラム）、あるいは１万ディルハム（1ディルハム=純銀3グラム）であり、アフガニスタンの裁判所が、（殺害時に）実際に戦闘に関わっていたと認定した者を除く全ての犠牲者に対して支払われます。
　我々は、この案が（イスラーム教徒のアフガン人だけでなく）人間の尊厳と平等を信じるすべての者にとっても受け入れられるものであると確信しております。日本政府がアフガン人の犠牲者の遺族のためにディーナール金貨を発行するならば、それは（アフガン人が重んずる）シャリーアの正義に対する日本政府の敬意を示すことになり、和製のディーナール金貨はその（日本のシャリーアの正義への敬意）の目に見えるシンボルとなるため、アフガニスタンの人々はそれを非常に高く評価するでしょう。
　ISAF（の攻撃）による（アフガニスタンの）民間人の犠牲者の犠牲者の数を約50,000人と見積もり、私たちは日本政府に10ディーナール金貨500万枚あるいは、１０ディルハム銀貨れらのための補償のための10ディルハム銀貨5000万枚の発行を提案いたいます。

ワヒードゥッラー・サバーウーン
（署名）
民族部族問題担当大統領顧問大臣

Proposal for Afghan Reconciliation Based on Justice
2010/11/27

To whom it may concern

It becomes well known that the main reason of the increase of insurgence movement in Afghanistan is the anger of people for so called “collateral damages”, which are in fact civilian victims of INSAF force’s attack.
When General MacCristal, the former Commander, offered 2500$ for Afghan civilian victims, Afghan people got to be furious because it seemed blatantly contrary to justice, equality and humanity.
So we propose to Japanese government offering compensation for civilian victims based on justice acceptable to Afghan people, which is 1000 Dinar (1 Dinar =4.25g 22 Karat gold) or 10,000 Dirham (1 Dirham = 3g pure Silver) according to Shari`ah for all the victims except whom Afghan court proved that they are actually fighting with weapons.
We believe that it is acceptable as well to all who believe in human dignity and equality, and if Japan’s government would coin Dinars for giving Afghan heirs of the victims, Afghan people would appreciate very much because it proves respect of Japanese government for the justice of Shari`ah, and Japanse Dinar will be the visible symbol of it.
The number of casualty of civilian victims by ISAF's is approximately　considered 50,000, so we suggest to Japan to coin 5,000,000 pieces of 10 Dinar or 50,000,000 pieces of 10 Dirham for compensation for them.


Eng. Waheedullah Sabawon,
(signature)
(Advisor Minister of The President in Tribal Affairs
Islamic Republic of Afgnanistan)

アメリカはアフガニスタンで何を望んでいるのか？

アメリカはアフガニスタンで何を望んでいるのか？
 
慈悲深く、慈愛あまねきアッラーの御名において。
 
2001年10月にアメリカの侵略軍がアフガニスタンの空爆を開始した時、彼らは技術的な優位性をもって容易な勝利を予測していた。そして続く戦場における武装衝突も最初の空爆による猛攻撃と同様に簡単な仕事だろうと考えていた。彼ら自身のプロパガンダに惑わされて、かつてすでにこの歴史ある土地に立ち向かったロシア人やイギリス人、モンゴル人、マケドニア人、そしてペルシア人などより自分たちは勝っているとアメリカ人は信じていた。全面的な戦闘に入る前に新たな敵の強さと能力を見極めるアフガン人の習慣的な用心深さは、彼らの弱さの証拠だと誤って受け取られた。このことがアメリカ人を大胆にし、アフガン人の国で彼ら自身を徴兵し、国の中に壮大な軍事基地を重点的に建設させた。ムガール帝国を建てたアクバル以来、我々の国の中心地の険しい高原に愚かにも彼らの軍勢を進めた人間は誰もいなかった。しかしながら、避けがたい敗北と莫大な損失とによって、アメリカ人の将軍たちは早くも彼らの試みがいかに無駄なものであるかを教えられた。そのため彼らは地方での作戦戦略を放棄し、人口の集中する地域に関わる新しい戦略に着手した。彼らはアフガニスタンの南部諸州の支配権を得ることを優先した。しかし、全ての賞賛は全能なるアッラーのもの、ムジャヒディーンは彼らの計画を失敗させた。
 
野蛮な国連治安支援部隊（I.S.A.F）はマルジャアを確保することに失敗した。また彼らがカンダハルやヘルマンドにいかなる重要な支配地域も得られなかった事は、侵略者の戦略の完全なる失敗を明らかに示している。軍事的に成功できないことを知ると、敵は代わりに新たな策略に打って出た。アフガン傀儡政権とアフガニスタン・イスラーム首長国とが会談して交渉を行ったという噂を広めることで、ムジャヒディーンの間に不和の種を蒔いたのである。そのようなペテンによって、彼らはムジャヒディーンの仲を裂くか、あるいはその代わりにムジャヒディーンのうちのいくらかの人々に戦闘から手を引かせるか、または少なくともムジャヒディーンの士気をくじこうとしたのである。千もの感謝をアッラーに捧げる。敵のこの策略もまた失敗した。それは敵にとって利益となるよりも、むしろ敵がどれほど脆弱かを白日のもとに晒すことになった。アフガニスタンにおいてなんら明確な成果を上げられないアメリカ軍の失敗を見て、当然のことながらアメリカの市民たちは、そもそも何故彼らはアフガニスタンに行ったのか、そして一体なにを達成しようと望んでいるのか、と尋ねている。
 
アメリカでの9・11のテロ攻撃の後、ワシントンはまるで狂った犬のように反応した。彼らの頭の中だけにある作り事に基づいて世界中の政府を脅迫したのである。軍事指導者たちによって引き起こされた混乱した状況に終止符を打つことを望んだアフガニスタン・イスラーム首長国は、もっとも野蛮なやり方で攻撃され、彼らの国と民衆を防衛せざるを得なくなった。アメリカ政府は、彼らの国で起きた9・11テロの根本的な原因を究明しようとしたこともなく、理性的な答えを明確に述べようと努めたこともなかった。その代わりに、財源を使い果たし、今やどうにか苦境から逃れようとしている。現在まで、アメリカはテロとの戦争という明白なスローガン以外にアフガニスタン攻撃の背後にある目的を明確にしてこなかった。このスローガンは、よく知られているように前もって準備された口実にすぎない。アフガニスタンに駐留しているアメリカ兵の間で行われた調査によれば、彼らの多数派は彼らが何のためにアフガニスタンで戦っているのか、何のために駐留しているのかを知らなかった。またアフガニスタンにアメリカ軍が存在していることがその地域と世界の平和と安定化のために役立つことがあるのかということも明白ではない。
 
アフガニスタン・イスラーム首長国がアメリカやその他の国々に対して一度も攻撃を行ったことが無いという事実は言及するに値する。アフガン人にとってアフガニスタンは彼ら自身の住む国土である。アフガニスタンの人々は単に我々のイスラーム的規律に従って平和に生活することを望んでいるだけであり、我々の国土と宗教を守るために生きそして死ぬという以上の望みは持っていない。我々はいかなる外国軍もすべてアフガニスタンから撤退するまで、我々の名誉と国土を守り続けるだろう。アメリカにとってアフガニスタンにおける彼らの目的を再確認することは明らかに必要である。なぜなら彼らのアフガニスタン駐留は彼らの安全保証にとってなんら価値ある成果を生んではいないし、そしてまた新たに一日アフガニスタンで過ごすごとに経済崩壊と政治機構の衰退への道が敷かれているからである。もしアメリカがアフガニスタンから軍隊を撤退させ、相互に恩恵をもたらす建設的なやり方でアフガニスタンのような国々の人々と関わるなら、彼らは今よりずっと良くなるだろう。
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What do the Americans want to achieve in Afghanistan?
Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:35 Hunzala Mujahid
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent

In October 2001, when the invading American aerial attacks on Afghanistan began, they had predicted an easy victory by dent of their technological ascendancy and thought that the subsequent armed clashes at the battle

fields would be as easy as the initial aerial onslaughts.  Being under the delusion of their own propaganda, the Americans believed that they had advantage over the Russians, English, Mongols, Macedonians and Persians who had already faced route in this ancient land. The Afghan nation’s habitual prudence in testing   the strengths and capabilities of their new enemies before embarking on a full scale struggle was mistaken for being signs of weakness of the Afghans. This emboldened the enemy to take on the Afghans on their own land and focused on building grand military bases in the country. Not since the days of Akbar of the Moghul’s India, had anyone been so foolish to bring their armies to the precipitous heights of our heartlands.  However, the inevitable defeat and tremendous losses quickly taught the American generals how futile their venture was. So they abandoned the rural area operations strategy and embarked on another strategy--concentrating on the main population areas. They gave priority to taking control of the southern provinces of Afghanistan. But all praises be to the Almighty Allah, the Mujahideen have foiled their plan.

 

 

The brutal I.S.A.F’s failure to hold Marjah and their inability to gain any significant ground in Kandahar or Helmand illustrates utter defeat of the invaders’ strategy.  Seeing that they can’t succeed militarily, the enemy has resorted to a new stratagem instead: sowing dissension in the ranks of the Mujahideen by spreading rumors of talks and negotiations between the Afghan puppet government and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. By such deception, they hope to create a split within the Mujahideen or alternatively draw away some of the Mujahid combatants from the armed struggle, or at least to demoralize Mujahideen. A thousand thanks to Allah, this ploy of the enemy also went awry.  Rather than benefiting the enemy, it exposed how weak the enemy was. In light of the U.S. military’s failures to achieve any tangible results in Afghanistan, naturally, the U.S. public is asking why they went into Afghanistan in the first place and what do they want to achieve?

 

After the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., Washington reacted like a mad dog, threatening every government on earth on the basis of the   evidence that only existed in the figments of their imagination. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which wanted to put an end to the chaotic situation created by warlords, was attacked in the most barbaric manner and forced to defend its country and people. The U.S. government never bothered to identify the underlying causes of the 9/11 attacks on its territory nor sought to formulate a rational response to it. Instead it emptied its resources, and now seeks to somehow extricate itself from the quagmire it got itself into. To date, America has never clarified its goals that are hidden behind attacking Afghanistan except the so-called apparent slogan of war on terror which is a well-known prefabricated pretext. According to a survey conducted among US soldiers in Afghanistan, majority of them do not know what they fight for in Afghanistan and why they are stationed there. It is also not clear, that the American military presence in Afghanistan will ever serve the cause of peace and stability in the region and the world.

 

It is worth mentioning that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has never carried out any attack against the U.S. nor any other county. For the Afghans, Afghanistan is their land where they live. The people of

Afghanistan simply wish to live peacefully according to our Islamic principles and have no higher aspiration than to live and die in defense of our land and our religion. We will continue to defend our

honor and land, until any and all foreign forces leave Afghanistan. As for America, it clearly needs to re-evaluate its objectives in Afghanistan because its presence in Afghanistan serves no valuable purpose for its security and every extra day it stays in Afghanistan, paves the way for its financial melt-down and decline in political stature. America would be far better off if it withdraws its forces from Afghanistan, and instead, engage with people of countries like Afghanistan, on a mutually beneficial and constructive way.

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カンダハル報告

カンダハル報告
カンダハル市司令官Haji Ahmad Saeed氏との詳しいインタビュー


最近のカンダハール州における国連治安支援部隊（I.S.A.F）による作戦行動は西洋のメディアによってムジャヒディーンに対する最後の軍事的攻撃であると見られている。彼らの多数派は、この作戦もまた失敗したものと見ている。もはやアメリカ人にはアフガニスタンを立ち退く以外に選択肢はないだろう。

敵はこの作戦の主要な目的がカンダハール市（アフガニスタン第二の都市）がムジャヒディーンの手に落ちることを防ぐことだと認めている。この目的を達成するため、敵はカンダハール市の周辺地区において作戦行動を行っている他に、今やカンダハール市の中心部においても軍事行動を開始した。これらの作戦行動がムジャヒディーン軍に正確にどのような影響を与えているのか知るために、我々はカンダハール市のムジャヒディーンの軍事司令官であるHaji Ahmad Saeed氏と会談した。以下がこのインタビューの詳細である。


アル・エマーラ：まず始めに、侵略軍の近頃の作戦に関する全体的な情報について教えてください。侵略軍が現在行っている活動はどのようなものでしょうか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：全ての賞賛はアッラーのもの、カンダハール市は過去9年間ムジャヒディーンのもっとも偉大な作戦行動とその勇敢さの目撃者となってきました。そのカンダハール市においてムジャヒディーンによる攻撃は現在も行われています。これらの攻撃により国内外の敵たちは恐慌状態に陥り、それがイスラーム首長国の兵士たちの手に落ちることを認めざるを得なくなりました。それ以来、敵はもっぱらカンダハール市と周辺地域に焦点を絞って、その戦略を完全に変更しました。この戦略に沿って敵はその地域において人員を増加しつつあります。この増加はカンダハール市中心部においても目撃されており、そこでは歩兵と車両に乗った軍勢を増加させています。彼らはまた周辺地域全域において市民に対する大規模な踏み込み捜査を行い、家々を回って武器やムジャヒディーンを探し回っています。またムジャヒディーンの支配下にある地域においても作戦を開始させました。彼らは市の中心部に通常の警察署のほかに外国や軍事的な在外基地を数多く設置しています。道路にはどんどん検問所が増え、情報収集のためのスパイ網は広がっています。これら全てのことによって、カンダハール市はまるで包囲攻撃を受けているかのように見えます。

敵はこの地域における我々の活動を阻止しようとしてこのような騒動を起こし、これらの方策を実行したのですが、アッラーの幾重ものご加護によって、市中心部における我々の最近の活動は、敵がまったくこの目的を達成できなかったことを示しました。西洋人自身の政府あるいは非政府組織までが、カンダハール市におけるムジャヒディーンの活動は減少するどころか24パーセント増加したと述べることによって、我々の成功を裏付けました。


アル・エマーラ：敵はムジャヒディーンがカンダハール市から出入りすることを阻止するためのベルト地帯を作ったと主張しています。このことに関してどのような情報をお持ちですか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：敵がカンダハール市に入る道や主要街道に数多くの検問所を設け、大規模な軍の駐屯所を十箇所建設したのは事実です。この駐屯所の一つはKobaiの近くのPanjiwaee道にあり、もう一つはSeelo近くのHeart道、もう一つはMir Ahmad Khan`s Kalachi近くのArghandab道、またShah Wali Kote道、Ainoominy近くのKabul道、またはShurandamからカブール市へ向かうBoldak道にあります。彼らはMahlajatから通っている道にも新しい軍の駐屯所を二ヶ所設置しました。それらの在外基地は、西洋が使用可能なもっともハイテクな身元確認や探知の道具を備えています。しかしそれにも関わらず、彼らはムジャヒディーンを一人も捕まえることができず、爆発物を積んだ車両を検挙することもできていません。毎日我々の爆発物を積み込んだ車両は、これらの軍事検問所や駐屯所を発見されることも逮捕されることもなく通過しています。これらは全てあらゆる機会に我々に好意を示してくださるアッラーのご加護のおかげです。敵が呼ぶところの「ベルト地帯」は地元の人々を困らせている以外になんら成果を挙げてはいません。ご覧のように市内での我々の攻撃は減っているというよりむしろ増えているのです。それゆえに、このベルト地帯はムジャヒディーンの活動にとってまったく障害にはなっておらず、彼らはその能力をはるかに超えた成果を目指しているのです。


アル・エマーラ：カンダハール市内でのムジャヒディーンの活動はどうなっていますか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：市内では以前と同じように暗くなると同時にアメリカの手先の政府による支配は終わり、我々の軍隊がパトロールをはじめ、我々の作戦が開始されます。夜には全ての主要道路において我々は待ち伏せを行い、敵が在外基地から出て来れないようにしています。我々の待ち伏せのために敵は別の在外基地がもし攻撃を受けた場合にも支援はできないということを今や認めています。同様に、ムジャヒディーンは日中もずっと彼らの活動を見張っています。毎日敵のスパイや兵士が我々の射撃手によって撃ち殺されています。何日か前、カンダハール・バイパスでムジャヒディーンは敵の兵士のもとに物資を運ぶトラックの捜索を行い、結果それらのトラックを燃やしました。これらの全てのことはムジャヒディーンが彼らの主導権のもとで市内での作戦行動を行う能力と熱意を持っていることを証明しています。一方、敵は士気と戦意を完全に失っています。


アル・エマーラ：この新しい作戦が開始されて以来、多くの無実の市民が行方不明となっていますが、彼らのうちの幾人かは結局アメリカ人と傀儡政権の役人たちによって誘拐されていたことが分かったといわれています。このことに関してなにか情報をお持ちですか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：敵が多くの無実の人々を逮捕したことは事実です。彼らの大多数は未だに刑務所に入れられています。これらの人々は政府の情報局だけでなく現地の市民軍によっても捕らえられました。彼らの多くは個人的なあるいは部族間でのライバル意識のために逮捕されたのです。これらの事件に関しては徹底的な調査が必要とされています。なぜなら無実の逮捕者たちの多くはいかなる法的なプロセスも経ないまま拷問されて死に至っているからです。彼らは無実のアフガン市民であり、その死については全てのアフガン人と国際社会によって調査が行われるべきです。


アル・エマーラ：敵は最近ムジャヒディーンの大規模な武器や爆発物、地雷の隠し場所を検挙したと発表しています。このことに関してはどうでしょうか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：これもまた敵の根も葉もない主張です。我々は敵の情報収集によってムジャヒディーンの武器や地雷が発見されるなどという状況には遭遇していません。しかしながら、時折我々の地雷が技術的あるいは電子工学的な失敗によって爆発しないということは起きています。これらの地雷は後に敵の手に渡り彼らをさらにうぬぼれさせたのでしょう。


アル・エマーラ：市民の死傷者の問題がカンダハールにおいて激しく議論されています。敵の宣伝ではムジャヒディーンの作戦によってしばしば市民が殺害されているとされています。このことについてあなたはどのように仰いますか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：カンダハールでの作戦の責任者として私はこの問題に非常に敏感になっています。まず第一にアッラーの御前において、またアフガンの人々に対してもです。もしも我々が自分自身の同胞を傷つけることを恐れていないならば、我々のカンダハールにおける作戦行動は今の十倍にもなるでしょう。我々は、我々の側の行動によって市民の死傷者が出る事態を完全になくすために常に最善を尽くしています。我々はしばしば市民の死傷者が出る可能性を恐れるために作戦を中止しなければならないことがあります。一方で、敵は常に人口の多い地域の中心にいて動き回っており、もしムジャヒディーンが彼らを攻撃した場合、その結果生じる民間の被害はどのようなものでもムジャヒディーンが非難されることになるのです。我々は敵を攻撃したいと思っているのですが、彼らが自分たちの身を守るために我々の同胞を人間の盾として用いたいと思っていることを知っています。そのため我々はそれらの地域で敵と交戦することを避けています。


アル・エマーラ：最近の様々な作戦と政府役人を狙った襲撃によってカンダハールのいくらかの人々はこれらの銃撃や爆撃は無差別的なものなのではないかと考え始めています。そのため人々は現在の状況を非常に恐れています。これらの人々にメッセージはありますか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：私はこれらの人々にもし彼らが政府の役人ではないならまったく落ち着いてリラックスしているようにと伝えたいと思います。カンダハールでの作戦は無差別でもその時の勢いに任せたものでもなく、それぞれの段階が徹底的に計画され注意深く実行されているものです。イスラーム首長国のムジャヒディーンは、まず始めにターゲットの背景を入念に調べ、彼らと傀儡政権や外国人の雇用主との関係がはっきり確かめられてから、これらの協力者たちを罰することに取り掛かるのです。私の在任中にたった一度だけ、あるムジャヒディーンが間違って無実の人間（ターゲットと非常によく似ており、また近所に住んでいました）をターゲットと取り違えて殺しました。その時には我々は死者の家族と連絡を取り、シャリーアの法に従って問題を解決しました。その一件を除けば、誰一人無実の人間がこれらの暗殺によって殺されたことはありません。勇敢なムジャヒディーンは決して彼らの同胞を無差別に殺すような極端なことはしないと述べることで私は我々の同胞を元気付けたいと思います。傀儡政権や外国の侵略者たちが市内にスパイを送り込んで敬虔なムジャヒディーンを中傷することで人々を怖がらせているということは極めてありそうなことです。もしこれらの傀儡政権の詐欺師たちと対決することになった時に助力を得るためカンダハールの人々とコンタクトを取っています。


アル・エマーラ：カンダハール行政府についてどのように考えていますか？

Haji Ahmad Saeed：カンダハールの行政府には自らを守る力もほとんどありません。カンダハール行政府には役人がおらず、機能している官僚制度もないのを我々は知っています。
唯一機能している機関は警察署のみで、しかもそれはアメリカ人侵略者たちによって運営されています。その一方で、ムジャヒディーンは様々な委員会を立ち上げており、カンダハールの人々の日常的な争いごとを解決するためにいつも忙しくしています。


アル・エマーラ：最後に何か仰りたいことやメッセージがあれば自由にどうぞ。

Haji Ahmad Saeed：一人のムジャヒードとしてまたアフガン人ムスリムとして、行動を起こせば、いずれアッラーのご加護によりこの世界と信奉者に勝利がもたらされるだろうという三つの点を述べたいと思います。

私の一つ目のメッセージは傀儡政権の職員たちに対するものです。一人のアフガン人ムスリムとして私は彼らにこの政権から離れるように言います。その政権は合法的なものでもなく、（アッラーの支配に適用される）シャリーアに則ったものでもなく、アメリカ人によって彼らの帝国主義的目的を達成するために設置された奴隷的な組織なのです。そのような組織で異教徒のために働くことはムスリムにとって良いことではありません。彼らは急いでこの組織から離れるべきです。そうすればムジャヒディーンは彼らの権利を擁護するでしょう。

二つ目のメッセージは、金銭と引き換えにアメリカ人のために働いている様々な請負人たちの責任についてです。私は彼らに言いたい。もしあなたたちが外国人と協力することによって富を得ているとしても、それによって同時に外国によって占領されたアフガニスタンの悲惨もまた増しているのだと。この理由から、あなたはそのような非合法な富を得ることを止め、アメリカ人侵略者たちと協力することを止めなくてはいけない。

三つ目のメッセージはアメリカの侵略軍によって設置され運営されているカンダハール周辺の様々な市民軍に向けてのものです。これらの市民軍の司令官や兵士の多くは、イスラーム首長国が建国される前にカンダハールにはびこっていたゲリラと同じ人々です。侵略後これらのゲリラたちは一端非武装化されましたがアメリカ人の道具となるためにもう一度武装化されました。私は彼らに気は確かかと問いたいのです。侵略が始まった当時アメリカ人が彼らをどのように利用し、そしてその後で彼らをゲリラ、無法者として公然と非難してみせたか。今や彼らは再び膝まで泥の中に埋まり、あなたたちに彼らの代わりに汚い仕事をやってくれと懇願しているのです。あなたたちにとってそれは過去の間違いから学ぶのに十分ではないのでしょうか。あなたたちはこの危険な戦争に再び関わるべきではないのです。




An indepth interview with Haji Ahmad Saeed, head of operations in Kandahar city
Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:01 -
The recent operations in the province of Kandahar, by the enemy I.S.A.F forces are viewed by the western-orientated media, as the last military push against the Mujahideen. The majority of them are of the opinion that should these operations fail as well; the Americans would have no other option but to leave Afghanistan.

The enemy admits, that the essential objective of this operation is to prevent the collapse of Kandahar city (which is Afghanistan’s second largest city) to the Mujahideen forces. To achieve this, the enemy, besides conducting operations in the districts surrounding Kandahar city, has now also started military operations in the city centre as well. To find out exactly what impact these operations have had on the Mujahideen forces, we talked to Haji Ahmad Saeed, who is in charge of Mujahideen military operations in Kandahar city. This detailed interview is presented below.

 

 

Alemarah: First of all, please give us some general information of the recent operations of the invading forces: what are some of the activities the invaders have undertaken?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: All Praise is to Allah, Kandahar city, which has in the past many years, bore witness to some of the Mujahideen’s greatest operations and bravery, has seen sustained attacks by Mujahideen warriors. These attacks have caused our internal and external enemies’ to panic, to the point of admitting that could very well fall to the banner of Islamic Emirate’s soldiers. Since then, the enemy has completely revised its strategy, focussing almost exclusively on Kandahar city and its surrounding regions. In line with this strategy, the enemy has increased its presence in the region considerably. This increase has been witnessed in the city centre as well, where the enemy has increased its infantry and motorised battalions. They have also carried out large scale raids against civilian population by surrounding entire districts, then carrying out house to house searches for weapons and Mujahideen. They have also started operations in regions that are under Mujahideen control. They have infested the city centre with numerous foreign and army outposts, besides the normal police stations. They have set up more and more check points on the roads and increased their intelligence gathering spy-rings. All this has given Kandahar city the appearance of a city under siege.

 

The enemy has caused all this commotion and carried out these measures to stop our activities in the region but Alhamdulillah and again Alhamdulillah, as our recent operations in the heart of the city have shown, the enemy has utterly failed in this objective. Even the westerners’ own governmental and non-governmental agencies confirm our success by stating that Mujahideen activities in Kandahar, instead of decreasing, have increased by over twenty-four percent.

 

Alemarah: The enemy invaders claim that they have set up a belt our Kandahar city to choke the movements of Mujahideen into and out of the city. What information do you have regarding this?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: It is true that the enemy has set up various check points on the roads leading into the city and on the main highways and constructed some ten large army stations. One of these army posts is on the Panjwaee road near Kobai; another is one the way from Khanjakak towards Soop; another is on the Heart road near Seelo; another is on the Arghandab road near Mir Ahmad Khan’s Kalachi; one near Kotal, one on Shah Wali Kote road, on Kabul road near Ainoominy; on the Boldak road from Shurandam towards the city. They have also set up two new army posts on the roads leading from Mahlajat. All these outposts have some of the most high-tech detection and identification tools available to the west. Yet despite this they have never captured any of our Mujahideen, nor detected any explosive-laden vehicle. Everyday our explosive filled vehicles pass over these army checkpoints and army posts without being detected or captured. This is all by the Grace of Allah who has favoured us in all opportunities. The enemy’s so called ‘belt’ has achieved no other purpose besides harassing the local populace. As you can see, our attacks on the city have increased rather than decrease. Therefore this belt is no impediment to the Mujahideen operations and its purpose has been inflated far beyond its capabilities.

 

Alemarah: How are Mujahideen’s operations inside Kandahar city?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: In the city, as of old, as soon as darkness spreads the stooge governments rule comes to an end, our battalions start their patrols and our operations begin. At night, we set up our ambushes on all the major roads, sealing the enemy inside their outposts. Due to our ambushes, now the enemy has accepted that they cannot provide support to their other outposts if and when they get attacked. Similarly, the Mujahideen always watch their activities during day time. Everyday enemy spies and soldiers are shot dead by our snipers. Several days ago, on the Kandahar bypass road, Mujahideen conducted searches of cargo trucks finding and subsequently burning those trucks carrying supplies to enemy soldiers. All this proves that the Mujahideen have the capabilities and willingness, to conduct operations in the city according to their own initiative, while the enemy has lost all morale and determination to fight.

 

Alemarah: It is said that since this new operation was launched, many innocent residents have gone missing, some of whom have subsequently been found and have reported to have been kidnapped by American and puppet government officers. What information do you have regarding this?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: It is true that the enemy has arrested many innocent people, the majority of whom are still suffering in prisons. These people have been arrested by government intelligence services as well as by various local militias. Many of them have been arrested due to personal or tribal rivalries. These incidents require a thorough investigation because many of these innocent arrestee’s have often been tortured to death without any legal process. These are all innocent Afghan civilians whose death should be investigated by all Afghan and global societies.

 

Alemarah: Enemy has been announcing recently that they have captured a large cache of weapons, explosives and mines from the Mujahideen. What is your information regarding this?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: This is yet another of the enemy’s baseless claims. We have not yet faced a situation where the Mujahideen’s weapons or mines have been captured due to the enemy’s intelligence gathering. However, it has sometimes happened that some of our mines have failed to explode due to some technical or electronic failure. These have subsequently fallen into enemy hands further inflating their egos.

 

Alemarah: The issue of civilian casualties is hotly debated in Kandahar. The enemy propaganda claims that civilians are often killed in Mujahideen operations. What do you have to say about this?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: I, as the head of Kandahar operations, feel very sensitive to this issue, first in front of Allah and then in front of our Afghan people. If we did not fear for causing harm to our own people then our operations in Kandahar would be ten times more than they are today. We have always tried our best to completely end any civilians casualties on our part. We often have had to cancel our operations when we fear the possibility of civilian casualties. On the other hand, the enemy always seeks to stay and move in our population centres so that if Mujahideen attack them, any resulting civilian damage would be blamed on the Mujahideen. As much as we want to attack the enemy, we know that they want to use our people as human shields for their protection and therefore we abstain from confronting them in these areas.

 

Alemarah: Partly as a result of the recent operations and partly due to the targeted killings of government workers, some people in Kandahar are beginning to think that these shootings and bombings are random and indiscriminate. For this reason these people are very fearful of the present situation. What is your message to these people?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: I want to tell these people that if they are not government workers then they should be completely calm and relaxed. The operation in Kandahar are not random and spirit of the moment operations, instead each step is thoroughly planed and meticulously executed. The Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate first conduct thorough background research into their targets and when their relationship with the puppet government and their foreign paymasters is fully confirmed, do they proceed to punish these collaborators. Only once during my term has one of our Mujahids mistaken an innocent person (who fully resembled the intended target and was present in the same neighbourhood) for an intended target and killed him. On that occasion we contacted the family of the deceased and resolved the matter under the law of Shariah. Other than that no innocent person has been killed in these targeted assassinations. I want to console my fellow countrymen that the valiant Mujahideen would never steep to randomly killing their own countrymen. It is quite possible that the puppet government and the foreign invaders have put some moles in the city that terrify the populace by defaming the name of the pious Mujahideen. We have provided a contact number to the people of Kandahar to seek our help if ever confronted by these stooge government bandits.

 

Alemarah: How would you describe the Kandahar government?

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: The government in Kandahar is barely capable of defending itself. We can see that the Kandahar government has no staff or functioning bureaucracy. Its only functioning organs are the police stations, which are run by the American invaders. On the other hand, the Mujahideen have set up various different committees which are always busy resolving the daily disputes of the local people in Kandahar.

 

Alemarah: To end, if you would like to say something or send a message, feel free.

 

Haji Ahmad Saeed: I, as a Mujahid and Muslim Afghan, would like to outline three issues which, if acted upon, will Inshallah bring success in this world and the one to follow.

 

My first message is to the puppet government workers. I say to them as a Muslim Afghan to leave this government. The government they work for is neither lawful nor Shar’ee (which applies the rule of Allah) but is a slave institution set up by the Americans to further their imperial goals. It does not befit a Muslim to work for the infidels in such an institution. They should hasten to leave this institution, and the Mujahideen will uphold all their rights.
 

My second message is to the various different contractors responsible for working for the Americans in exchange for money. I tell them that even if your collaboration with the foreigners brings you wealth; it also increases the misery of Afghanistan under foreign occupation. For this reason you must give up on earning such unlawful wealth and give up your collaboration with the American invaders.
 

My third message is to the various militias around Kandahar that are set up and run by the American invaders. Most of the commanders and soldiers in these militias are those same bandits that infested Kandahar before the inception of the Islamic Emirate. These bandits were once disarmed after the invasion but have once more been re-armed to serve as the shovels of Americans. I ask these men to consult their consciousness. How the Americans used them at the start of the invasion and then denounced them as bandits and miscreants. Now that they are again knee-deep in the mud, they invoke you to do their dirty deeds. Is it not enough for you to learn from your previous mistakes. You should not involve yourself once again in this dangerous war.

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この機会を利用していくつかの問題についての私の見解をお伝えできることを嬉しく思います。これらの問題はアメリカとアフガニスタンの平和を愛する人々だけではなく、その地域と世界中の全ての人々にとって、関心と憤りの的となっているものです。彼らは今や、現状は耐え難いものであり、改革のために思い切った手段が取られなければならないと公然と述べています。

アメリカの議員諸兄！

今年の6月7日、アフガニスタン戦争はその長さにおいてベトナム戦争を超え、アメリカ史上最も長期化した戦争となったことを貴方方はきっとご存知でしょう。しかしアメリカ政府は今までと同じ見解の上に立ってなおも戦争を続けようとしています。しかしながら我々は、始めから「この事件」に全く関与しておらず、外国で作戦を行わないことは我々の指針の一つでもあることを、明らかにしてきています。

あの九月の事件に関して調査が行われてきた中で、どちらの側にとっても納得できる中立的な組織は存在しないということもまた言及するべきでしょう。手短に言って、この戦争はアメリカがその武器庫にある最先端の非常に強力な武器を使用した時に始まったのです。これに立ち向かって、我々は我々の国と宗教の尊厳を防衛せざるを得なくなりました。戦争の初めから、アメリカ軍とその同盟軍、中東地域でアメリカにへつらう連中と代理人たちは、アフガン人が惨めな状態にあり、頼るべき相手もないことを知っていて、戦争の普遍的な慣例と規律をまったく無視したのです。それゆえに、アフガン人を殺し、逮捕し、虐待し、また侮辱することは、単に合法なだけではなく推奨される任務なのだという風潮が定着しました。テロとの戦争という名目のもと、アフガニスタンのいくつもの村々が貴方方の爆撃によって完全に破壊されました。それだけではありません。果樹園は燃やされて灰になり、アフガニスタンの北部と中心部においては大規模な殺人が一度ではなく何度も繰り返し行われました。現地の人々の家は破壊され、女性たちはレイプされ、緑の大地は飛散性爆弾によって枯らされました。人々は、単なる疑いのためだけに悪名高いJouzajanやGuantanamo、Bagram、そしてKandaharの収容所に何年にも渡って抑留されました。これら全てのことが、「テロとの戦争」という名目によって行われたのです！

過去9年間を通して、アフガン人はこの強いられた戦争の渦中での主な被害者でした。彼らは日常から喜びと安堵を奪われたままにされてきました。すでに日常茶飯事になっている大量殺人や収容所への収監、夜間の家々への襲撃や略奪の幻が、絶えず彼らを苦しめています。毎朝、アフガン人がベッドから起き上がる時、無差別的な爆撃や銃の流れ弾の被害者になるかもしれないことを考えれば、彼らには自分が果たしてその日の夕暮れを見ることができるのかどうかさえ分からないのです。時折、メディアはこれらの事件のうち顕著な出来事を伝えています。しかしこれらの恐ろしい出来事のぞっとするような現実の姿は、我々の民衆の胸のうちにだけあるのです。すべての災難に直面しながら、我々の民衆は、正しい道に堅固に立ち続けています。戦争が時間の経過と共に長期化するにつれ、結局のところアメリカの軍隊の死傷者数と経済的な損失はうなぎ上りになりつつあります。このことは当然ながら普通のアメリカ人の間にこの不正な戦争の無価値さについての激しい議論を巻き起こしました。民衆の不安と関心は国家における彼らの代表者たちの元へもその声を届けて、今やそれは貴方方にとってもっとも危機的な未決定の問題の一つとなっています。

国防長官ロバート・ゲイツは、演台に上がるといつでもアフガニスタンにおける軍事的進展について述べています。ペトレイオス将軍は、この戦争の主導権は我々の手にある、と言っています。しかし、過去二年間に渡って、アメリカの軍事責任者たちは軍隊の増派、新しい軍事基地の建設、市民軍の設置、カブールの傭兵部隊の支援などを含む様々に異なる戦略を実施しました。しかしながらこれらの全ての方策は、基本となる現実を考慮しないまま行われてきました。それが全ての失敗の原因なのです。我々の民衆のレジスタンス運動は、軍事将校たちの努力を全て容易く挫折させてきました。昨年、オバマの新しい戦略に基づき、我が国の南部において軍隊が配備されました。しかし反対に、我々は新しい前線を国の北部と東部に開き、その地域で我々の作戦行動を強化しました。貴方方は地方の支配権を確保するため作戦を開始し、我々はカンダハールとカブールなどを含む様々な都市において力を浸透させ、そこでも作戦行動を拡大しました。貴方方はレジスタンス運動を後退させることを意図していましたが、我々はジハードを国家規模のレジスタンス運動に拡大したのです。今や米国の軍隊は、アフガニスタンのどこにいても安堵の息をつくことはできません。最近貴方方はDagger's Strikeと称する作戦をヘルマンド州において実行しました。この作戦は命運をかけた実験的な戦略と見なされていました。しかしその作戦はただ死傷者を出しただけで失敗に終わりました。作戦行動が行われた地域ではどこでも、レジスタンス運動は比較的拡大しています。それらの地域ではアメリカの軍隊はもっとも甚大な死傷者を出したのです。国の東部においては、ムジャヒディーンによる作戦の成功によって、クリスタル将軍は田園地域を守る戦略を放棄して、もっとも人口の多い都市部に軍隊を集中させるという新しい戦略を発表せざるを得なくなりました。その後、貴方方は大規模なメディアによる宣伝と共にマルジャア作戦を決行しましたが、それはただ命取りとなる悲惨な戦闘に巻き込まれただけに終わりました。毎日、米軍の戦列には新たな死傷者が齎されています。同様に、今年に入ってアメリカの将軍たちはカンダハール作戦を行うことを望みましたが、いつでもそうであるようにムジャヒディーンがその手に主導権を取ることとなりました。彼らは襲撃と撤退を繰り返す攻撃を行い、戦略的成功によって徐々に前進しています。民間支援プログラムの一環としての市民軍の設置と、カブール政権の軍隊の支援は、それを行うに先んじて大規模に喧伝されたもっとも重要な計画でした。しかしこの計画もまた失敗しました。その軍隊と軍隊の制服を着た兵士たちは、彼ら自身の武器で貴方方を狙っています。しかしそれでもなお、米軍の軍事将校たちは、彼らの失敗について熟考する代わりに、このまま戦争を継続させようとしています。彼らは無責任にも貴方方に敗北した戦争に関して歪曲した情報を提供し、彼らの失敗を貴方方の目から隠そうとしているのです。

米軍の将軍と情報局の責任者たちは現在のアフガニスタンにおけるレジスタンス運動は近隣諸国による干渉の結果であると主張しています。しかし、彼らはそう述べることでこの長引いた戦争を正当化したいのです。彼らは時にレジスタンス運動を外国からの要因に帰し、現在のアフガン人による武装ジハードをタリバンだけが行っている戦争であるかのように見せようとしています。あるいは、レジスタンス運動をアフガニスタンの特定の部族や民族によって引き起こされた暴動であるかのように意図的に描いているのです。しかしながら、事実としては現在の武装ジハードはアメリカに対する国を挙げたレジスタンス運動に他ならないのです。どの部族や民族、社会階層、そして地域の出身者であれ、老若男女の全てがアメリカに対抗するために立ち上がっています。そのため、レジスタンス運動を掃討するという貴方方の意図を実現するためには、全国民を虐殺するしか選択肢は無いのです。

考えて頂きたい。世界のもっとも強大な国々を含む40カ国の連合軍に対して、少数の戦闘員だけで立ちはだかることができるものでしょうか。なおかつ米軍の将軍たちが主張するように、戦争の主導権が侵略者たちの手中にあるという状況下では？（外国からの）ごく僅かの密かな干渉によって、これらの軍隊と対決することができるでしょうか？ただ「タリバン」すなわち学徒たちだけの力で、これらの巨大な軍隊と対決することが出来るでしょうか？多民族国家であるアフガニスタンのある特定の人種だけの力で、そのような強大で非常に良く装備された軍事同盟に抵抗することができるでしょうか？もし外国からの干渉が社会的安定性の維持のための決定的な要因であるとすれば、カルザイは現在までにその目的を達することが出来ているはずではありませんか？

もし現在のレジスタンス運動がアフガン人によるものではない要素によって引き起こされていると主張するなら、米国政府とその同盟国は、全ての人が見られるように具体的な証拠を提示するべきです。貴方方は、アフガニスタンの占領と対抗するジハードの開始以来、疑いなく数十、数百、数千でもきかない何万人もの人々を抑留してきました。しかし米国の将軍たちは彼らの主張を証明するために、その何千人もの抑留者たちのなかから僅か百人程度の非アフガン人しか示さないのでしょうか？そのような状態で、この年月、非アフガン人のムジャヒディーンが貴方方に対して戦ってきたという彼らの主張を、我々が認めるでしょうか？さもなくばその主張は単なる推定に過ぎません。もし貴方方が我々の提案に基づいて行動することを嫌がるのであれば、このような別の試みはどうでしょうか。実情調査のためのチームをアフガニスタンに送り込むのです。しかしこのチームのメンバーは行動の自由を保障されなければならず、また米国の情報局の支配から距離を置くことを許可されなくてはいけません。そうすれば、彼らは自分の目で、将軍たちが彼らに軍事基地やホテルから出歩く許可を与えるかどうか、あるいは彼らを特別な抑留者として基地やホテルに閉じ込めておくかどうか見ることが出来るでしょう。そして、彼らが貴方に根本的な現実を知るために出歩くことを許したと仮定しましょう。その時貴方にはカブールの非常に限られた通の近隣を越えた他の地域まで移動していくことができるでしょうか？さらにもし思い切ってカブールの外へ出たとしたら、貴方は自分が無事に帰ってこられると信じていますか？貴方は、アフガニスタン全土において、軍事基地の近隣二ｋｍを越えたところでは自由に公然と出歩くことのできる場所はほとんどないという事実を理解するでしょう。その一方で、ムジャヒディーンが米国側の兵士Bergh Dalを捕虜にした時には、彼らは徒歩で五百kmを旅して移動したのです。Bergh Dal自身がその長い旅の最中一人の政府軍の兵士も彼を止めることはなかったと述べています。しかしもしなおも貴方方が我々の提案に則ることを嫌がるのであれば、私の言葉に耳を傾けてください。それらは苦いものでしょうが、しかし現実なのです。責任ある人間として、この問題の重みを感じて下さい。貴方方は自分の国をこれ以上の破滅に追いやるべきではありません。

さらに、アフガニスタンが国際社会の脅威となるだろうという恐れは単なる根拠の無いプロパガンダに過ぎず、貴方方の考えの中から追い出されなくてはいけません。それはいわゆるテロとの戦争という非合法で不当な、非理性的戦争の継続を正当化させるために、支配者たちが捏造した嘘なのです。

貴方方はアフガニスタン戦争に敗北したという事実を知るべきです。アフガニスタン戦争は、ある特定の派閥や部族によってではなく、五千年もの古い歴史を持つ国家が一丸となって戦った戦争です。そしてその国家は、米国側の軍隊に対する戦争においてその勝利と殉教の両方を、現世のみならず来るべき世界においての成功のための切なる願いだと考えているのです。

近代的で進歩した戦争技術と最先端の技術を活かした武器は、ムジャヒディーンよって打ち負かされました。貴方方が数十億ドルをかけて維持してきた戦車や軍事機器、そして兵士たちは、簡単にそして安価にごく普通のアフガン人によって完敗を喫したのです。例えば、69歳になるSaleh Jan Akaは彼の18歳の息子を伴い、ヘルマンド州においてその目的のため彼に支払われたたった2500ドルの出費で、連合軍の32台の戦車と9台の警備車両を破壊しました。

Saleh Jan Akaは軍事学校で訓練を受けたことは一度もありません。またこのために農業の仕事を離れたり、村を出たりもしていません。その上、彼は見返りにいかなる報酬も求めませんでした。同時に彼がアメリカとその同盟国の戦車や車両を吹き飛ばすために使用した全ての物品は、Lashkar Gahから運ばれてきたのですが、売り手は彼がこれを何に使うか知らなかったなどということがあるでしょうか？

彼によれば、彼の家はこれまで四度に渡ってアメリカ軍とその同盟軍によって捜索されましたが、彼がそのような活動に関わったことを示す証拠は何も見つかっていません。一端IED爆弾を使って同盟軍の戦車を破壊した後で、その疑いを晴らし、さらに彼らの傷を悪化させるために、怪我をした兵士たちに冷たい水を与えたのだと彼は言っています。

次のことは考えてみる価値があるでしょう。アフガニスタンに駐留する、全ての進歩した軍事技術と近代的な装備を備えた米国の軍隊、そして数十億ドルをかけて行われたExpectation、Mountain、Dagger、Dragonなどの諸作戦、そして貴方方の仕掛けたメディア戦争によって、Saleh Jan Akaやその他の数千人もの人々のような民衆に、彼らの「任務」を行うことを止めさせたり、その活動の進行を遅らせるようなことが出来るのだろうかということです。それは全く不可能です。

つまり、はるばるアフガニスタンへやってきたアメリカの軍隊は、アフガンの民衆が彼らを喝采で向かえ、彼らがやりたいことをやっている間黙ってみているだろうと期待していたのでしょうか？あるいは、彼らが軍事基地や兵舎や飛行場などを忙しく建てている間、アフガン人はただ手をこまねいているとでも思っていたのでしょうか？または、アフガン民族が彼らの国家への外国軍の駐留や軍事的干渉を寛大にも許容するだろうという幻想を信じていたのでしょうか？アフガン人が立ち上がりその答えを示したとき始めて、貴方方は事実を知ることになるでしょう。

この機会にどうか考えてみて下さい。もし外国軍が貴方方の国を侵略しそこで軍事基地を建てようと試みたら、貴方方と国民はそれらの行為を許容するでしょうか？その侵略行為が公正で妥当な行為であり、国に駐留するその軍隊が治安維持のためにそこにいるのだと納得するでしょうか？

いずれにせよ、貴方方の普遍的なスローガン（民主主義）の信条に則って、議会の決定は最終的なものと見なされます。何故なら全ての作戦行動の財源を承認するのは議会だからです。そのため全ての関連する問題や事件は決定の材料として議会で言及されます。

最後に一つ指摘させて頂きたいと思います。アフガニスタンにやって来て貴方方が目指している目標とは何なのでしょうか？（戦争を通じて）一体これまでに何を成し遂げ、将来に何を成し遂げる可能性があるというのでしょうか？貴方方はアフガニスタン戦争だけを通してその地域における長期的な目的を達することができるのですか？

貴方方は国民の代表者であり、アフガン問題に関する決定を行う権限を与えられた存在です。それゆえに、私はアフガニスタンの現実についての真実を貴方方に対して描いて見せたのです。コインの裏側は、米国の将軍たちによって貴方方に何度も示されたもう一方の側とはまるで異なっているとお分かり頂けたでしょう。


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Open Letter of Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi, to Members of the American Congress
Sunday, 07 November 2010 09:15 -
Open Letter of Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi, Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate aof Afghanistan,  to Members  of the American Congress

To Members of the American Congress:

Availing myself of this opportunity, I am pleased to share with you my views about certain  issues that  have become a cause of concern and  resentments  for   many peace-loving people, not only in America, Afghanistan but for   all people at  the region and the world. They now openly say  that the status quo is unbearable and that drastic measures must be taken to  change it.

Messrs American Congressmen!

You certainly know that on June 7, the current year, the war of Afghanistan,  surpassed that of Vietnam in terms of longevity--thus becoming the longest war in the history of America. Ironically, this war began on the basis of an event which in itself is a mystery to many people. But your government is bent on continuing the war further more on the same  basis. However, we have made it clear from the day one that we have no role in this event, nor participation in operations on foreign soil is part of our policy.

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It is also worth mentioning that , no neutral entity which is acceptable to all sides, has ever carried out  investigation into the September Event. In short, the war started as you resorted to the usage of most sophisticated, lethal and latest weapons available at your arsenal. To confront this, our people had to  put up resistance to your offensive out of sheer feeling  of patriotism to defend the country and the religious sanctity. From the beginning of the war, your army, your coalition allies,  the regional sycophants and proxies turned a blind eye to all universal norms and principles of the war, seeing that the Afghans were miserable and friendless. Hence, a new trend set in where murdering , capturing , harassing and insulting   the Afghans became not only legal but a commendable work. Entire villages of Afghanistan were razed to ground as a result of your heavy bombardment, ostensibly under the name of mopping-up havens of so-called terrorists.  Not only that. Orchards were burnt down to ashes; mass murders were committed in northern and central Afghanistan, not once but recurrently.  Houses of local people were destroyed, women raped and  green field scorched by  using daisy-cutter bombs.  People were put under detention in the notorious Jouzajan, Guantanamo, Bagram and Kandahar prisons for many years on mere suspicions. All these were done under the name of war on terror!

 

Throughout the past nine years, the Afghans have been   festering   in the vortex of an imposed war.  They have remained deprived of the delight and solace of a normal life. The apparition of mass murder , imprisonment, night house raids and plundering which has  become  the order of the day, constantly haunts them. Every morning, as the Afghan wake up from the bed, they do not know whether he or she will see the next sunset, thinking that they might fall prey to your blind bombardment or straying bullets.  Some times, media reports highlight these events. But the real and gruesome picture of these horrendous events  remains stored in the chests  of our people.  In face of all these adversities, our people remained firm as they were   in the right. Ultimately, casualties of your troops and your material losses began to spiral up as the war hauled along with the passage of time. This naturally sparked off  hot discussions among common Americans about the worthiness of this unjustified war.  The worry and concern  of people presumably found way to the echelons of the representatives of the people in your country and now it has become one of the most critical issues pending before you.

 

As we monitor the developments, we see that,   after every few days, a military official submits you distorted information about Afghanistan.  They want to keep you snarled up in an environ of a misleading optimism and are trying to give vent to their own grudges. By doing so, they  want to show themselves victorious, to obtain financial gains and add fuel to the fire of the war.

 

Your defense Secretary, Robert Gates,  whenever he takes the floor at the podium, he speaks of military advancement in Afghanistan.  General Petreous says, the initiative of the war is in our hands. But in fact,  in the last two years, your military high-ups implemented different strategies including troop’s surge, construction of new military bases, forming  militias, boosting the Kabul mercenary army etc. However,  all these steps have been taken without considering  the ground realities.  It is why they  all failed. The resistance of our people easily thwarted all efforts of your military brasses.  Last year, on the basis of Obama’s new strategy, the south of our country saw rise in troop’s deployment, but,  on the contrary, we opened new fronts in the north and east of the country and beefed  up our operations there. You launched operations for the capture of rural areas, we infiltrated into different cities including the cities of Kandahar and Kabul, expanding  our operations there. You intended to reverse the resistance but we extended the jihad to become a country-wide resistance. Now your troops are not able to take a breath of relief in any part of Afghanistan. Last, you launched military operations dubbed as Dagger’s Strike in Helmand province, considering  it  as  your experimental initiative to test your  fortune.  But it only  brought  in  casualties and failures. Resistance has increased comparatively in areas wherever you  have carried out operations.  Your troops have  the highest life losses in these areas. In the east of the country, the successful operations of Mujahideen forced General Crystal to waive the rural areas protection  strategy by  announcing  a new strategy of concentration of forces at  most populated urban areas. Then you launched the Marja operations with great fanfare but only turned out to entangle  you in a deadly and crippling battles.  Every day,  brings new fatality to your ranks and files.  Similarly, in this current year, your generals wanted to launch Kandahar operations but Mujahideen took initiative in their hands as they always do so. They  launched tip-and run attacks there instead and  have been forging ahead with the tactic successfully.  The formation of militias as a part of civilian support program and the boosting of the Kabul administration’s army was your most prominent plan, propagated with most fanfare,  prior to launching it.  But this plan also went awry. Soldiers in the army and in military uniform targeted you with their own weapons. Still, instead of pondering over their mistakes, your military officers are bent on continuing the war. They irresponsibly give you distorted information about a losing war, trying to conceal from you,  their failures.

 

Your generals and intelligence high-ups claim that the current resistance in Afghanistan is the result of interference by neighboring countries. However, by doing so, they want to justify the prolongation of the war. Sometimes, they ascribe the resistance to foreign elements and  are trying to show the current armed Jihad by  the Afghans as being a war  waged only by Taliban or  they intentionally portray it as an insurgence being put up by a given tribe and ethnicity of Afghanistan-- whereas, in fact,  the current armed Jihad is  a country-wide resistance against you . Men and women, old and young from every tribe, ethnicity, caste and area have arisen to oppose you. Thus by your intending to wipe out the resistance, you have chosen the way of committing genocide of the whole nation.

 

Think,  can a few militants  stand up to armed  forces of  40 countries including the strongest countries of the world—still more in circumstances that the initiatives of the war is in the hands of the invaders, as your generals claim?  Can a clandestine and weak intervention (by foreigners) be able to confront these troops?  Can only Taliban i.e. students, confront these large number of forces? Can a certain race in a multi-ethnicity nation of Afghanistan, be able to resist such a strong and well-equipped military coalition?  If the intervention had been a decisive factor for the maintenance of stability, then the Karzai would have been able to achieve that goal by now?

 

If you claim that the current resistance is being put up by non-Afghan elements, then your government and the coalition should produce concrete evidence for all to see. Following your occupation of Afghanistan and the inception of armed Jihad against you, you have undoubtedly detained not only tens of people, or hundreds of them, or thousands of them, but tens of thousands of them,  would your military generals produce only one hundred non-Afghans from among those thousands of detainees to prove their case?  If they did so, we would accept your claim that non-Afghan Mujahideen had been fighting against you all these years? Otherwise, the claim is a mere assumption. If you are not willing to act on our suggestion,  then how about another experiment?  Send a team to Afghanistan on fact-finding mission.  But members of the team should have freedom of movement, and should be allowed to remain far from the clutches of your intelligence agencies. Then they should see for themselves whether the military generals give them permission to go out of military barracks and hotels or they try to keep them in barracks and hotels as distinguished detainees? Presume, if they permit you to go out to find the ground realities, would you be able to travel to other areas beyond the vicinity  of the few limited streets of Kabul?  Even if you venture out of Kabul, do you  believe,  you will come back safe?   The fact of the matter is that you will hardly find any area in all  Afghanistan beyond   proximity of  two kilometers of the  military bases  where you can walk freely and openly.   On the other hand, when Mujahideen captured your soldier Bergh dal, they traveled with him 500 km on foot. Berg dal himself says that no  government soldier ever stopped him  on the way during that long journey. But still if you are not willing to put to experiment our proposal, then you should listen to my words , however, they may be bitter but are the ground realities. By feeling the burden of the issue, as responsible persons, you should not plunge your nation into  perdition furthermore.

 

Moreover, the fear  that Afghanistan may turn out to be a threat to the world peace must  be put out of your minds as it is a mere baseless propaganda and a lie fabricated  by your rulers to justify and continue their illegal, unjustified and irrational war, the so-called war on terror.

You had better know the ground reality that  the war of Afghanistan is a losing war, being  fought by the  indigenous people, not just by  a given  faction , a tribe but  by an entire nation which has over 5,000 years old history; a nation  that considers both  victory and martyrdom in the war against your forces as  a cherished wish of success not only in this  world but  in the world to come as well.

 

Your modern and advanced military warfare and arms with state-of the-art technology have  failed  against Mujahideen. Your tanks, the military hardware  and  your soldiers that  you have  been spending  billion of  dollars on them  to keep, are simply and inexpensively  wiped out by ordinary Afghans. For example,  69 year-old Saleh Jan Aka along with his 18 year-old son, destroyed  32 tanks of the coalitions and 9 ranger  vehicles  in Helmand, by spending  just  $ 2500 —the only amount paid to him for the purpose.

 

Sale Jan Aka who has never been trained in any military academy, neither he left his farming work   nor his village to do this. Besides, he has never asked for any reward as quid pro que. Meantime,. All the items which he  used to blow up  the US and its allies tanks and vehicles has been bought  from Lashkar Gah,  while the seller not knowing what he bought them  for?

 

According to him,  his house has been searched four times so far by the US and its allies but nothing was found to prove  that he was involved in such activities. He says,  once after destroying  the coalition forces tanks by  using IEDs, he gave some  cold water to the wounded soldiers to brush away their suspicions and to cause their injuries to get worse.

 

It is worth  to consider  whether your forces in Afghanistan with all the advanced hardware  and modern military equipments  that they have  and your various operations such as Expectation, Mountain, Dagger, Dragon which cost you  billion of dollars and  the media war by you, will ever be able to  prevent people like  Saleh Jan Aka and many  thousands others from carrying out their mission or  even slow  down the tempo of  their mission?   Not at all.

 

Is it that, that   your force have come all the way to Afghanistan,  expecting the  Afghan people  stand  for them in ovation and keep  watching while    your forces will  do what they  wish to do? Or just  the Afghans be sitting hand on hand while   your  forces  will be busy building  military  bases, barracks,  airbases and so forth?  Or are you under the illusion that the Afghan nation would  ever tolerate the presence of your forces  and military interference in their country? You will only come around to know it when the Afghans  rise to show their response.

 

Come  and  think, a moment for the sake of pondering. Suppose,   a foreign force invades your country and tries to build military bases  there, would you and your  nation tolerate  all these ? or would you be  convinced that the invasion was a fair and just act  and the forces in your country were there  for security purposes?

 

Anyway, on the basis of  the principle of your universal  slogan( democracy) , the decision by parliament is considered  final because it is the parliament that  approves  fund for each and every mission.  So  all relevant affairs  and events  are referred to the parliament for decision.

 

I would like to bring one last point  to your notice, what was your goal to come to Afghanistan?  what have you achieved so far ( through the war)   and what will possibly you achieve in future?  Will you be able to obtain  your long-term goals in the region only through the war in  Afghanistan?

 

You are representatives of people and are an  authorized  entity to take decision about the Afghan issue, therefore,  I presented you with a true  picture of the ground realities of Afghanistan--  say,  another side of the coin,  more  different from the one  which is submitted to you by your generals,  time and again.

 

Qari Mohmmad Yousaf Ahmadi

Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan