Reflection on the terrorist attack on a Shia mosque in Herat
Author: Sayed Ahmad Mosawi Moballegh, director of the Atlas agency
1 - Mawlawi “Islamjar”, the Taliban governor in Herat, considers the Shiites to be heretics in his book “Motamid Maturid man Mu’taqid Maturid”, and the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Haibatullah, writes a preface to the book of Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Haqqani - Al-Amara al-Islamiya wa Nizamha - and confirms the Salafi and Takfiri beliefs of this book. In a government whose intellectual structure is such, the killing of heretics is not, in their opinion, something heinous, so it is not surprising that this government is especially unwilling to arrest and punish the killers of heretics.
2 - “Madar Ali Karimi” shouts in the presence of hundreds of Shia Hazaras that Mullah Haibatullah is the “Amirul Momineen” (emir of the believers) of all. “Sayed Hasan Fazelzadeh” and some others write praise to Mullah Omar. "Mohammad Akbari" emphasizes that he is a subject of the Taliban. “Jafar Mahdavi” is praising Sirajuddin Haqqani, and the Afghan Shia Ulama Council is knocking on the offices of religious authorities in Qom and Najaf to assure them that Shia rights are fully guaranteed in the Taliban emirate. This amount of humiliation makes every unjust master increase his oppression.
3 - “Amir Khan Mottaqi” accuses Iran of supporting ISIS, but Hassanin - two Hassan - Hasan Kazemi Komi and Seyed Hassan Mortazavi - instead of answering Amirkhan Mottaqi, in meetings and television interviews they emphasize that they do not allow the opposition to act against the Taliban inside Iran. This position could mean that the troubling situation with Afghan Shiites and what the Taliban is doing to them is not Iran's top priority.
4 - The elites and intellectuals of society do not even think about important and pressing issues until they find a topic to criticize each other and split. What is happening now in virtual battles may be important under normal circumstances. Of course, now is not the time to go into them. And yet the result is that we are so divided that no matter what the enemy does to us, we still cannot become a unified force and fight back.
5 - Sheikhs and other aspirants for leadership in society opposing the Taliban, destroyed each other with all their might when they had the means and now they are in immigration waiting for the US to do something for them. That illusion of expecting others to do something for us and take our rights away from the Taliban is just a mirage.
And the result of this;
In such a situation, why must terrorists be afraid to kill us? I think our biggest problem is that we still don't understand the scale of the risk. We see the butcher with our own eyes, but we still don’t believe that the butcher will kill us all one by one. Therefore, we do not think about exiting and finding a strategic ally who can support us in difficult times.
