Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Why Afghans aren't welcome in westner's premises

Afghans need to be at least freasked in to extra place where the foreingers doesn't when they are going to airport.
It's because Afghans are more personal than the foreigners, why is that? Perhaps 3 reasons
no system: watch the rules of engagement. When system doesn't exit people revenge to make life meaning full that's why there are more chances of Afghans blowing up a place than a westener. None of the suicide attacks in the TERRORISM AGE (it starts after the cold war and continues to today) has been done by a westner. Of the thousands of Taliban and Alqaida member only a few were brit and american and they were muslim.
There is also another aspect, how many of the 1.32 billion muslims are suicide attacker; how many of 23 million Afghans are suicider attacker, probably a few, so the chances of blowing up a place by an Afghan is very low. Does it worth checking every afghan and suspecting him to be the attacker?

I would say it does to check, but in a free and fair society you are hold innocent until they prove you are guilty, in a skrewed up system you are always a suspect. Sadam Hussein had six security unit separate from each other, the closest one was the most suspected one.
This is no random suppresion, it's very systematic; thosn't this systematic thing called descrimination; shouldn't there be a law which makes everyone equal, and treat everyone equal, even if they are white and more likely innocent.
FREEDOM IS POWER, Why did Taliban supresed Afghans to take their freedoms and thereby to take their power.

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Half a day in Sayedabad of Wardak

It's 0920 on a warm Kabul summer day. Sahibzada, Fardeen and I are heading in the newly hired red Super Custom Van toward Sayedabad of Wardak, where according ANSO yesterday's security briefing around 12 gunmen have been seen and according to intelligence reports they might attack any soft targets in Sayedabad such as Voter Registration Centre, NGOs' and government building. Sayedabad is one of the four districts which is known as Wardak and together with Maidan they make a province known as Maidan Wardak.

In the northern part of the province in Jalreez, Maydanshar, Nirkh and Hisa awal Behsud the war has drastically changed the local culture and especially in the last 13 years. The soviets and later on the Najeeb government was always trying to bribe them not to provide sanctuary for the Mujahideen and not to let them to rocket kabul on the other hand Mujaheeden was trying to get their hearts and have a save heaven in their places.

we have a 0900 appointment with the Local shura of Maydan shar and later on with the Maydanshar journalist institute which is a surprise and the religious figures.
We are already late for it, because Fardeen failed to make the van ready for the time we wanted him to, although I give him specific instructions how to do that. Fardeen also didn't know the road to Sayedabad we work that out. Now he is not driving steady sometime he drives too fast and some time slow and I am telling him this is not the way a professional driver should drive.
Fardeen as every other new staff is very nervous and that's why he does things wrong; I was just telling him, it's very normal to make mistakes as every human does. (Oops, I was wrong about that, I know someone who doesn't make mistakes and his name is sculpture). He needs to process all steps of his life that includes mistakes. No one is perfect in this world and instinctively no one likes perfect people, they are boring. Whatever I was telling him he was giving me YES! YES! That's another thing of being nervous, I told him not to be so agreeable I am not his dad or his teacher or some Talib even if I am he shouldn't necessarily agree with them. If he stops being nervous he could think and once he think his thoughts are different to mine and that will make him not to agree with me.

But never mind the meeting didn't happen until 1030.
I am now in the second meeting with the religious people, I exactly don't know where but some where on this planet.

I was thinking we are here to see if you as religious leader want a radio, what do you say?
At the end he said radio is important and the community wants one.
I am on the way back; we are gonna set up a radio in Sayedabad and thinking if radio could change any thing in such a conservative society?

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Westernized Azeri radio stations

Western influenced radio contents is very intertainment oreinted, exert beneficial influence, fosters escapism, doesn't reinforce values and aspirations for other standards and model of devlopment so by constant bombardment of western culture whose emphasis on individualism and materialism media evades indeginous culture.