How does the Taliban's cultural and media terrorism manifest itself?
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
It can be seen that the Taliban media have targeted the public mentality. It is on this path that people are left in the swamp of perceptual war and prey on human emotions, and surrender to the Taliban's thinking. Because in the past two years, cultural and media terrorism has been used for the benefit of the Taliban and the whitewashing of this group, and this project has successfully affected the mindset of the people.
On the other hand, in the last two years since the Taliban came to power, terrorism in its various forms has grown in the Afghanistan’s society. From intellectual and ideological terrorism to political, cultural, linguistic and media terrorism. This is because it is said that the unprecedented increase of YouTube networks, the purposeful organization of a psychological war in order to whitewash the Taliban, preying on the general mentality of the people and trying to Talibanize our thoughts and minds are clear examples of media terrorism that The Taliban regime, without exception and without interruption, distributes money from the Taliban intelligence to the media aligned with the Taliban policies, supports the creation of other networks, changes in the way of broadcasts and the selection of presenters from among the young, fashionable and well-dressed classes. In modern clothing, it is an intelligence organization
If we are more precise, we can see who chooses where and how the interviewee is chosen and how he moves the public mentality in favor of the favorable path of Talibani? Talibi, who until yesterday was organizing his cruelty and cruelty for a purposeful war through the film, today has used elements in any way to whitewash himself. It is in this direction that exaggeration of worthless achievements such as building roads while people’s stomachs are hungry, misuse of people’s feelings in the area of poverty, lack of security and lack of justice in the past, is common tactics used by media terrorism.
From the flow of effort in the city of Kabul, which aims to curb the security challenges against the Taliban regime, to the construction of one or two roads, which is counted as nothing against the hundreds of millions of dollars paid to the Taliban weekly, mental monstrosity is being made to whitewash a flow that It has been the cause of the destruction of a country in the last three decades
Virtual space such as Facebook, X Network, YouTube, Tik Tok, etc. is serving the interests of the Taliban in a voluntary or organized manner. Its materials are selected from uninformed minds. Normalizing the situation is actually a show of the scary specter of the storm and the eruption of people's anger against the Taliban regime.
The purpose of this work is to blind the mentality of people who are stuck in the dilemma of choosing the middle status and going out of it towards an unknown path.
Establishing the rule of intimidation and terror.
We all know that terror is not an individual or emotional act, but a group action, organized and even a political strategy. Based on this, media terrorism in the grand format of the Taliban's cultural doctrine is a strategy to curb the possible crisis caused by popular uprisings. It is a one-sided effort that has been effective for now. But if we do not clarify the explanation of this strategy, it will completely turn into a dominant mentality.
The project of whitewashing the Taliban has been successful, just like the war and killing of this group in the last twenty years. So there is a slight difference: in the past twenty years, the soldiers of this war were chosen from the rural, unintelligent and emotional strata. Now the inhabitants of the cities and all the people have been led in an organized way to a goal of psychological and perceptive war to show that the Taliban are the only reality in the political scene of Afghanistan and that there is no past and future for Afghanistan. Psychological warfare with all its strength still dominates the mentality of the common people of Afghanistan and determines their mental and intellectual path towards political issues and the destiny of this country.
