Fighting the Taliban under any name is the right way.
Author: Rustam Rushangar, analyst, especially for Sangar
In Afghanistan, many people think that you can only fight for God and religion and that nothing else is worth fighting for. The reason for this is that our people are very religious and see everything through the prism of religion. According to this religious view, every war should be called a jihad.
Many military and political movements in Afghanistan are trying to find a religious justification for their war and struggle, relying on such a widespread opinion among the people. Even military groups, whose main goal is not to fight for religion and God and do not consider this necessary, but at the stage of recruiting their forces, must tell people that our war is for God and religion. When you ask them why they do this, they say that this is what people want and under this name, they can gather soldiers and fight the enemy. This argument is correct. People are like that.
But people are wrong. People do not know that God and religion do not need their war, but people themselves need war. For freedom, honor, land, honor, bread, water, justice, humanity, civilization, work, etc. It turns out that fighting for them is wrong and illegitimate.
I believe that while the war against the Taliban is justified by any name, the forces fighting the Taliban must realize that their war is not only about religion and God and that there are other values at play in this war that are worth fighting for. And this is all human and earthly and for man and humanity.
The conceptual impasse of theistic and religious warfare is that when a warrior with religious beliefs discovers a religious narrative that his war with the enemy is wrong from the point of view of religion and God, he renounces the war. Of course, he can quote the religious narrative that his opponent's propaganda apparatus has extracted from religious sources.
Many have done this from different sides during the forty years of war in Afghanistan. They fought under the leadership of such and such a leader, party and organization, but when they saw that their enemy was a Muslim, had religious beliefs and prayed like them, they stopped fighting and called the war the killing of Muslims and fratricide. Because they thought that war was only allowed for the sake of religion and God.
If you can base your war on human reasons and motives, you may find fewer real soldiers in the religious society of Afghanistan, but the same small number of soldiers are like the same two hundred warriors who are better than a hundred thousand.
Of course, this does not mean that the war with the Taliban is unacceptable from a religious point of view. From a religious point of view, the war against Talib is correct, but from the point of view of the human mind, it is more correct.
