Note: Mansoor Hallaj, a famous 10th-century Sufi, was hanged in Baghdad for declaring "An al-Haq" which means "I am the truth" or "I am God".
Author: Ismail Furughi, analyst (Germany)
When will the screaming and fighting off a few women in Kabul shake the oppressed men and women of Afghanistan?
When will all people, like these few women, courageously rise up against barbarism and lawlessness?
At the time when, on the orders of Abufazl Jafar Muqtadir, the Abbasid Caliph, was leading Mansur Hallaj to the gallows, his sister was ordered to come and say goodbye to him.
His sister came but without a headscarf.
The men shouted to her: “Where is your hijab?”
She said: I don't see a man here but Mansoor... If you see another man besides Mansoor, show me so I can cover my hair from him.
As I memorized this valuable history lesson, I thought about the following:
Is not our time gradually turning into the time of the freedom-loving Hallaj?
What if we all have already turned into his sister?
Or maybe the people will gradually get used to the greed, extremism, and religious fanaticism of the Taliban, and the watching and unjust world in a deal with the largest religious-ethnic terrorist group will again push Afghanistan and its oppressed people with another complete destruction!
I thought why the role of our sleeping people in determining their fate has always been zero. Why are our people easily deceived and afraid to demand justice?
Is this fear the fear of the same religious tyranny that has consumed us for centuries and without a rope bound our hands and feet with hypocrisy?
At the moment, society has plunged into pitch darkness. In the sky of our earth, the star of art and culture has faded, and women have been deleted from life. Poverty is rampant throughout Afghanistan, and flogging of women and men, executions and hangings in public and in the presence of high government officials have become an everyday spectacle. With the exception of a few oppressed women in Kabul, the country's millions of men and women, as neutral and faceless spectators, look at the injustice and atrocities of the barbarians and do not even open their mouths to complain or criticize.
Don't these oppressed female fighters in Kabul look like the sisters of the historic Hallaj?
