With the Talibani terrorists taking over Afghanistan, Afghan citizens are desperately fleeing the country to protect themselves from persecution. While the Afghan citizens are forced to flee their motherland, few organizations and left political parties, along with Samajwadi Party, have touched a new low to defend the Talibani terror.
A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, is caught up in the controversies for defending the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, by comparing the invasion of Afghanistan with India’s freedom struggle. Shafiqur Barq justified the Taliban by saying that India too fought for independence under British rule. The Samajwadi Party leader, in his statement, referred to the Taliban as a force that did not allow Russia or the United States to establish in Afghanistan and said, “They want to run their own country”.
“They want to be free. This is their personal matter. How can we interfere?” he added.
When India was under British rule, our country fought for freedom. Now Taliban wants to free their country & run it. Taliban is a force that did not allow even strong countries like Russia & America to settle in their country: Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal pic.twitter.com/yQFsEOH7tp
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) August 17, 2021
Miffed by the statement, Yogi Adityanath slammed SP leader and said, “He was shamelessly supporting the Taliban. It means supporting their barbaric act. We are a parliamentary democracy. Where are we heading? We are supporting people who are a blot on humanity.”
Maulana Sajjad Nomani, a member of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), also applauded the Taliban, for the fall of Afghanistan. Maulana congratulated the Talibani terrorists and said, “this Hindi Muslim salutes you”.
He said, “I on behalf of India Muslims send our salam (greetings) to you for showing courage. You have created history. These are men with not sophisticated weapons or other resources but they forced the world’s mightiest military to leave their country.”
Taliban assumably draws its inspiration from the Deobandi movement. As per the Wikipedia, Taliban is a Deobandi Islamist movement and a military organization in Afghanistan, engaged in waging a jihad within the country. The New York Times in 2002 too had emphasized the Taliban’s association with the UP town of Deoband. The article titled “Indian town’s seed grew into the Taliban code” narrated the ideology of radical Islamism that grew in a town in Uttar Pradesh and influenced the jihadist movement on the other side of the Durand Line, the line that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As reported by TFI, Umar, a resident of UP’s Sambhal, who had studied at Deoband’s Darul-Uloom left India in 1995 to join Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based terror outfit. He then stayed in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Officials alleged that through online videos, Umar instigated many Indian youths. Hence, there is a possibility that Taliban-affiliated organisations will try to instigate such ideology in India. Yet, the Yogi government has already come up with the solution and thus established commando centres to nip any pro-Taliban voices in the bud.
Read more: Deoband in India is the home of Taliban’s ideology and Yogi is all set to clean it
With the Taliban is emerging as a power in Afghanistan, there is an atmosphere of anarchy in Afghanistan. The anarchy seems to pleasure some left liberals, which can eventually become a threat to the sovereignty, including the country’s internal security. In such a situation, when some fundamentalists have started supporting the Talibani ideology, it is a clear wake-up call for the government of India to disband these bodies at once.
