Malalay Joya from Women Right to Afghan Mellat ’s Secret weapon
Women of Afghanistan thought they had at least found a leader who would help their voices to be heard. Unfortunately, Malalay Joya did not live up to that task. She has gained her fame by using the name of the poor women of Afghanistan, pushing herself to the top, only to make it clear to the international community that she serves as a secret weapon to the most ethno-fascistic establishment.
Hamid Karzai and the Afghan Mellat Party have become very close as of late with Karzai promoting the Party’s causes. The Afghan Melat Party is made of hardcore Pashtunists from different tribes most of whom had been educated in the West and only returned to Afghanistan to promote Pashtu culture, language, and values by trying to eradicate Farsi culture, language and values which is the only unifying factor of the people and the country. Though Afghanistan is a diverse country, the aim of the Afghan Mellat Party is to Pashtunize the country; the national anthem was changed to Pashtu and was forcibly pushed upon the public, the bank notes are printed in Pashtu, post office stamps are in Pashtu, etc. This would seem like all normal procedure for any country if not for the aforementioned fact that Afghanistan is a diverse country. In Kabul, the capital, no one speaks Pashtu and most official signs are written in Farsi, as they’ve always been. Pashtuns make up only 35% of the country’s popularity and, given that, many of the Pashtuns can not speak Pashtu – it would even be a surprise if the majority of the Afghan Mellat Party speaks Pashtu.
In this glaringly obvious display of injustice, both Karzai and Malalay Joya have willingly chosen to associate themselves closely with such a blatant ethno-fascistic driven group. It doesn’t come as a surprise, however. Karzai himself is a Pashtun from the Popalzai clan and Malaly Joya is Pashtun as well from the Noorzai tribe. So definitely no surprise when they side with the Pashtunization of the country. The so-called technocrats who make up the Afghan Mellat arrived from the West after the initial collapse of the Taliban and immediately occupied cabinet posts and became governors and ambassadors. In the case of Ezatullah Wasifi who, a few years ago, was arrested in Las Vegas, USA for drug dealing. Because of his connection with Karzai, Wasifi was installed as Governor of the Farah province and is now the chief of anti-corruption. It seems like Karzai is not averse to criminals and has no problem with giving them high positions despite their questionable past.
One, though, would have almost expected something different from Malalay Joya. At first, having a woman speak out was a refreshing aspect of the newly emerged Parliament. The whole world had witnessed just how repressed the women of Afghanistan had truly been under the rule of Taliban and so the raised voices of women were a must if Afghanistan wanted to pursue a new beginning. Then, as soon as Malalay Joya opened her mouth – and continued to open her mouth – her intentions and agenda became clear. For a woman in Parliament, she uses very vulgar language. She is known to curse and insult all non-Pashtun leaders, intellectuals, and even non-political writers. It isn’t hard to see that her views are extremely biased; she hardly criticizes or talks about. To Malalay Joya, the civilians and victims of terrorist acts are just as evil as the terrorists and suicide bombers themselves. Such thinking is unfathomable to many, but Joya makes a living out of trying to pursued people that the casualties of war are just as at fault, if not more so. A former Northern Alliance/United Front fighter who was merely defending himself and his people from the terrorist Taliban and Al Qaeda’s aggression is given the same status as those of the oppressor. Such ridiculous claims should not be tolerated.
Malalay Joya has always maintained that the Northern Alliance is far more dangerous than the Taliban when just the opposite is true. The Northern Alliance occurred as a result of the horrific inhumane acts of the Taliban. During and interview with Kate Clark, a British journalist, Joya stubbornly stuck by her claims.
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As your correspondent, I am in no way claiming to justify or defend all that the Northern Alliance did, but there are many questions that I would like to pose to Joya:
(1) Has any member of the Northern Alliance beheaded innocent people like the Taliban have?
(2) Is the Northern Alliance responsible for the deaths of three thousand innocent American during the 911 attacks in the US?
(3)Did the Northern Alliance cut the hands of children because they stole things?
(4) Did the Northern Alliance destroy any historical icons like the Bamiyan Buddha?
(5) Is the Northern Alliance responsible for mass murdering of ethnic groups in Afghanistan?
Today, while the Taliban insurgents are constantly sending suicide bombers, kidnapping and killing innocent people, and destroying schools, roads, etc. only the Northern Alliance/United Front fights against the terrorists. The Taliban has been extreme enemies to peace, justice, and the well-being of a country, especially to the non-Pashtuns. The Taliban had destroyed the non-Pashtuns’ houses, kidnapped their women, killed their sons and fathers, destroyed their Farsi books as well as any type of literature that they found. I’ve never seen Karzai take any immediate action against any Taliban leader like how the Iraqi government did with Saddam Hussian when they hung him. Why is this? Is it just like Wasifi’s case? Does Karzai want every single Taliban to be appointed to office like the other criminals he surrounded himself with? Instead of bringing the terrorist to justice, Karzai has released, to date, more than two thousand Taliban members. Just whose side is this so-called elected President on?
If America brought the Northern Alliance/United Front to power and Malalay is unhappy with that choice, then one need to ask, who does she want to bring to power instead? America believes in shared power but most of Joya’s supporters are calling America as ‘invaders.’ If it hadn’t been for these ‘invaders’ Joya would not have dared even blink in the presence of the Taliban. Instead, Joya bites the hand that feeds her and ignores the fact that the Taliban were and continue burning schools –American built schools nonetheless. She still can not see who the real enemy is?
Former United Front members belonging to the Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara ethnic groups are becoming political activists – in some cases, many of them have remained involved in politics from the beginning – are only trying to counter the Pashtun dominance. The non-Pashtuns are trying to represent their people and their interest. They feel endangered and cornered in; on one end, the Afghan Mellat Party and Karzai are trying to take away their rights and their identity and on the other end, the Taliban are trying to take away their lives. These oppressed non-Pashtuns are not the bad guys. All they want is social justice, equality, equal representation. They want their governors and other officials to be elected by their respective provinces and not just appointed by the President.
Malalay Joya conveniently ignores all these points and more. Has it become her job to go on television and insult Persian Afghanistani authors and call them names? After she pursued the people of the Farah province to vote for her, she cheated them out of proper representation and stuck to her own agendas. She attended only a few meetings at Parliament and began taking sponsorship for the Afghan Mellat Party, only to have them badmouth the United Front members. Now, she is blaming Farsi writers for using pure Farsi words in their pieces and insists that they use both Farsi and Pashtu. This is a clear indication that she is pushing the Afghan Mellat agenda which is trying to do away with Farsi, altogether. Malalay seems to have appointed herself as going after the “criminals” and is ignoring the fact that there is already an Afghan Human Right Commissions. Her aim is probably to put them out of a job and steal their paycheck as well.
Malalay has had the tomb of the Pashtu singer, Awal Mir, rebuilt, despite the fact that all non-Pashtuns disliked him because of his nationalistic songs that proclaimed Afghanistan to belong only to Pashtuns. There are millions of hungry women and children who are drying of hunger because they don’t have a single loaf of bread to eat but Joya had decided that the tomb of an ethno-centric singer was more important to attend to.
If she claims that the Northern Alliance/United Front members are not true representatives of the people, then how real can Malalay Joya be herself, according to her own actions? She may call the United Front as criminals and “gang” members but one thing has been proven by history and that is that the United Front members have actually given their lives and their livelihood to fight for their people and their country. They stayed in Afghanistan and fought the enemies and did not run off to the West like Joya’s Afghan Mellat counterparts. The United Front readily gave their years and their lives to fight evil and Malalay Joya won’t even share her 1400 US Dollar salary with a disabled person who only gets a 6 dollar monthly benefit. In the 5 years that she claims to be fighting for our women, where are the results? Has any improvement come from her accusations and her “actions”? Where are the benefits? She is just merely being used like a toy in the hands of ethno-fascism and seems to like it.
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