Author: Abu Raef
Colonialism (Part 28)
Dominating the media and controlling them
Among the most important things that the colonialists did in the media sector, the following can be mentioned:
1- Spreading prostitution and vices through television channels and creating an atmosphere of mixing and disorder among young people; In fact, this was the most important goal and desire of the colonialists to dominate the media, and they tried to implement it with different methods and ways.
2- Setting up mixed meetings between young girls and boys and deceiving them in this case with the false term “freedom of expression”; In these types of meetings, which were usually held with titles such as “Dialogue Frame” or other titles, girls and boys with very disgusting clothes modeled on western culture, sat together and were engaged in speeches and words that spread immorality and moral corruption and demoralization of society to all degrees.
3- Playing music and dance and singing programs; In such a way that in all the TV programs and after every few minutes, dancing, singing and playing parties were broadcasted. In this case, many times it happened that on the same day or night, hundreds of Afghan people were killed or wounded; But the media was busy broadcasting the singing and dancing of women and men.
4- Preparing and broadcasting a program called “Afghan Star” with the aim of attracting Afghan youth in the field of music and spreading moral corruption and deviance of youth; This program was held seriously and every year with extensive advertisements, and they pretended that this program would solve one of the fundamental problems of Afghanistan, while many young people in Afghanistan were unemployed and living in poverty, and having a normal life and Normal for them was like a dream, but this program had allocated very exorbitant costs and expenses and huge sums of money were allocated to it every year.
5- Bringing Afghan women and girls on TV screens in the form of presenters, reporters, experts, etc., with very poor clothing and without the Islamic hijab, making this look normal; This case was actually a normal part of the daily broadcasts of television channels, and no one even objected to this process.
6- The attempt of television channels to discredit Islamic Jihad and to name Mujahideen and Jihadi movements as “terrorist” and terrorist and extremist; Somehow, in the news, analyses, anniversaries and various meetings, they sought to discredit the Islamic Jihad and the Mujahideen.
7- Broadcasting and broadcast of foreign series and films, whose actors and representatives appeared on the TV screen were not under the cover of Islam and the national culture of Afghanistan, and their themes and subjects, sexual issues and family corruption were promoted and disseminated.
8- The media and television channels refrain from broadcasting religious concepts and Islamic moral issues and propagating and spreading correct religious beliefs; In such a way that the television channels did not have any broadcasts about Islamic zeal, religious and Afghan hijab and modesty, the need for piety, avoiding eye contact, sins and illicit relationships, and other important religious rules, and only about some moral matters that are useful for their goals and ideals. They had programs such as women’s rights and…
9- Broadcasting songs and mixed groups of men and women on the radio; In such a way that most radio programs were focused on music, dance and singing.
10- Magazines and newspapers, their publications were in the service of colonialism and colonizers, and all their efforts were to make the occupation of the country and the presence of colonialists appear normal and needed in Afghanistan; In such a way that the political analyzes and articles published in these magazines were derived from the views and opinions of people who were influenced and accompanied by the secularists and aggressors and sought to beautify falsehood and its people with their poisonous writings and analyses.
This situation of the Afghan media during the colonial era and their diverting plans and programs had fed up the people of Afghanistan, and even the officials of the government showed their reactions from time to time. The dignity and character of Afghans were questioned with this type of broadcasts, and anyone who was familiar with Islamic teachings and understood the national culture of these people, would be upset and dissatisfied with the broadcasting of such programs.
