August 31, 2025

Mughal Sheikhs (شَيْخ)

Sunday:
My views on Afghanistan – August 31, 2025

The Taliban lead Afghanistan (1996 – 2001) (2021 –) appears as a strange and mystic land in an ocean of confusion: really a land surrounded by a world in decay and disarray and indeed compared to those lands Afghanistan can be said to be a shining beacon of divinely inspired hope. Of course, the Taliban and  their predecessors the Mujaheddin have repelled two invaders: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (The USSR) and The United States of America, two imperialist powers who came to Afghanistan to implement the agenda of the beast and to disseminate the propaganda of the serpent far and wide, but so far all invaders have been repelled and not only the USSR and the USA, but also the British Empire, the Macedonian Empire a very long time ago. In some ways it could be said that Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires, because both the USSR and the British Empire collapsed/died shortly after their futile attempt to subjugate the people's of Afghanistan. What I am trying to say is this: Afghanistan is perhaps the only, at least one of very few, places on Earth where the humanist axiom does not reign supreme, and where there is some semblance of a time prior to the inception of this latest and so far most erratic part of the latest cosmic cycle, the Kali Yuga. Indeed, Afghanistan has fallen victim to the Kali Yuga, but Afghanistan has shown an amazing ability to resist the attempt by the serpent and his disciples to become like the rest of the world. Well, this has been true in particular on the countryside, for in the larger cities such as Kabul and Kandahar the devolution, the degeneration, had gone a long way in the 1970's when a dastardly communist/socialist regime attempted to incorporate not only the largest metropolis into the humanist axiom, but indeed the whole country. What the socialists attempted to do in the 1970's, in Afghanistan, was to create a nation-state in this land where no-one nation ruled the entire state as their own, for Afghanistan has been since many long ages ago a land of diversity, trade, and transience: indeed people have always been moving in and out of Afghanistan, for reasons of security and cultural exchange, real cultural exchange, not that modern imposed so-called cultural exchange. The Afghan socialists where supported and funded by the USSR, but the men of the Afghan countryside wouldn't have it, they refused to live by the dictates and the laws issued by the socialists in Kabul, so they took armed and a civil-war broke out, which lead to the USSR invading the country in the late 70's. In the end, the USSR took major casualties in Afghanistan and the socialist puppet government fell, and the Taliban eventually took power in 1996, in the United States toppled the Taliban government in 2001, following the Al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The United States invaded Afghanistan because the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin-Laden, was housed inside the country, and the American president (George W. Bush's) reason for invading Afghanistan was to take out Osama Bin-Laden. Of course, none of that happened: the United States didn't catch Osama Bin-Laden, because he fled to the neighboring country of Pakistan, and instead of going into Pakistan and actually getting Osama Bin-Laden, the Americans decided to engage in "nation-building", something that George W. Bush had promised not to do so when he ran for the United States president in 2000. So, once again in 2001 an imperialist power attempted to impose the concepts of nation, nationhood, and nation-state on the people's of Afghanistan, and it took 20 years for the rulers of the American empire to accept that this, creating an Afghan nation-state, wasn't going to happen and that they had just wasted many thousands of millions on that stupid intervention. Indeed, there are many other places in the world where the humanist axiom has failed to reach, but I believe that Afghanistan and perhaps Somalia are outstanding in this regard, and as such they're both the target of constant meddling and intervention from organizations such as the United Nations and World Bank, both of which are constructed to influence states to move in a liberal and western direction, for we live under the liberal paradigm.

    What then are my overall opinions on Afghanistan? Well, I am positive from a spiritual point of view when it comes to Afghanistan: that is I approve of the people of Afghanistan's resilience in being able to stand up to power and resist the call from the serpent and the ways of the beast, to be able to remain true to the ancient and sacred ways. I do however not approve of every aspect of Taliban rule, but I do recognize that the Taliban rule of Afghanistan reflects that countries parochial and peculiar ways of life, and while they may at time seem radically different from my own ways of life, I respect them and I will not allow myself to impose my views on what is righteous on the people's of Afghanistan, something the liberal and western man has already tried to do. Also, since I am a subject of a western power, I would be remiss if I failed to mention that of course I am profoundly affected by the humanist axiom in ways that of course must be expected to influence my attitude towards not only Afghanistan but the world at large: yes Afghanistan does come across in a lot of was as rearguard and brutish, but that is precisely because of the lies and the propaganda I've been subject to in this part of the world; I am living in the midst of the imperial core. But the amazing ability of the Taliban and their predecessor to avert colonization from western man is simply fascinating and it moves me and makes me believe that perhaps, just perhaps, there are islands of sanity and cosmic order in this ocean of chaos and confusion that is the modern world governed by the principles of the humanist axiom: maybe Afghanistan is that island? Again, there are many things that the Taliban regime have implemented that I quite frankly disagree with, but it is clear to me that the Taliban are attempting to put the scales of the celestial order into proper balance in that part of the world, and as such Afghanistan is still being attacked from all corners, and now more so by the communist regime in China, who has sought a short-term alliance with the Taliban. I will only say this about the Chinese: tread carefully with communist, especially the communist of orientalist predilection, for he is a fatalist and a fanatic with nothing to lose and nothing to gain, for the only thing the oriental communist believes in is the utter destruction and desecration of the creator (Allah) and his sacred and divinely inspired order. Be aware...

Carolingian Evangelist portrait
from the Codex Aureus of Lorsch

    As a person of conservative inclination, I may not agree with all the actions and all the beliefs of the Taliban, such in how they are treating women, but I believe that the Taliban have been forged in the fires and furies of the deserts of Afghanistan and the long history of that country and as a result the Taliban is a reflection of the sacred and the divine in that part of the world: it is not that the Taliban are wrong, it is rather that the Taliban are right for Afghanistan, and indeed this has to be the case since that assertion flies in the face of the rationalist and humanist claims of the liberal man: that all men are equal and of the same order. No, all men are not equal and of the same order: the Taliban are surely far more ascendant than the likes of western man, men that are completely ruled by the serpent and men that have fully embraced the anti-transfiguration and become the beast. Yes, for the populist hordes of the imperial core I can see why a country like Afghanistan would be considered something quite evil and odious, but for a man with far-seeing eyes Afghanistan appears as a natural reaction to the whims and to the ways of the beast: it is not that Afghanistan is a perfect paradise, but Afghanistan does showcase how fragile western and liberal man actually is. What does acceptance, egalitarianism, tolerance, and peace mean to the likes of the Taliban and Al-Shabab? Again, I am not on the side of the Taliban or Al-Shabab, I am merely attempting to showcase how the liberal paradigm has warped modern men's sense of righteousness. I condemn all violence!

Reginald Drax – August 31, 2025.