By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
    
On August 14 two international criminals had a long distance telephone talk. The next day two terrorist attacks took place in two different countries but against persons sharing more or less the same set of religious beliefs.
As a result, more innocent lives were lost, with blood flowing like water in Kabul’s Dasht-e Barchi neighbourhood and Hodeidah’s Duraihami district, amidst wails of lamentations amongst survivors in the two places and, of course, peals of laughter in Washington and Riyadh.
If the casualty toll at the school for elite Hazara students in the Afghan capital surged to 50 dead and scores other others injured, the victims of the airstrike in the densely populated area of the besieged Yemeni port city of mostly Zaydi Muslims were around 30 men, women, and children dead and dozens of others wounded.
In Afghanistan it was the Daesh terrorists – recently relocated by the US from Syria and Iraq – who unabashedly admitted their crime against humanity, while in Yemen it was the US-armed Saudi-Emirati coalition of invaders which sadistically said it will continue to bomb the Arab world’s most impoverished people for refusing to yield to the American-Zionist yoke.
It was not disclosed if the principal plotters of both the bloody incidents, that is, the gangster Mike Pompeo and the overgrown imp MBS (Mohamed bin Salman) –notorious for their intense hatred of devotees of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt, whether Sunni or Shi’a Muslims – had exchanged congratulatory cables the day after their telephone talk that discussed destabilizing measures in various countries, primarily directed against the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose influence in the region and beyond has scared the daylights out of the Yankees, the Wahhabis and the Zionists.
Now, coming to the dastardly terrorist attack in Kabul, it is a matter of deep regret, as voiced by members of the Hazara community, the government of Afghanistan, whose hands are tied by the US occupation forces, has left them unprotected in the face of growing target killings by the Daesh, which with the help of Americans seems to have infiltrated the security apparatus itself.
In the words of a 19-year old survivor, Soraya Samar, who addressed the mourners, "there is no security for us. Every time an incident takes place, we ask for more security, but nothing comes. The government has done nothing to protect us since Deh Mazang.”
She was referring to the peaceful protest staged by Hazara people two years ago at a traffic circle in Kabul, where terrorists had triggered bomb blasts to martyr almost a hundred men, women, and children, thereby putting a big question mark on the efficiency of the Afghan security forces.
Wednesday’s attack on the Mowoud Learning Centre was another assault on the educational and professional aspirations of the Hazara Shi’a Muslims. It is worth noting that the said Centre has built an exceptional record, with large numbers of its students scoring high marks on national college entrance exams.
In view of this state of lawlessness in Afghanistan, coupled with the unholy trinity’s (US-Saudi-Israel) intense hatred of Muslims, especially the followers of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt, it is time for people to wake up from slumber and identity the archenemies of Islam.
Unless the masses in Afghanistan, as well as in other lands in the crosshairs of the Great Satan, marshal efforts for forming popular mobilization units, in order to protect the life, property, faith, honour, and national dignity, they will continue to be viewed as sitting ducks by the terrorists.
It should be recalled that earlier this month, following the last US-Saudi hatched terrorist attack on Afghan Shi’a Muslims, Kayhan International had said in its Viewpoint Column: "Friday’s killing of worshippers in the mosque in Gardez will not be the last unmanly act of the Takfiri terrorists, unless, of course, the Afghan authorities coordinate views with neighbouring states, especially the tried and trusted security apparatus of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its experience in fighting terrorism by mobilizing the local people.”