WHY DO some Filipinos opt to remain in Afghanistan? Afghanistan is one country where no one dares to thread now. It’s all because of the Taliban takeover of the peace-loving Afghans’ capital city of Kabul, and its environs.
Now, its country that’s predominantly devout Muslim, and the
rest (in faith) minuscule in number, has no way out to go to restore their
freedom and democracy they used to enjoy and live the rest of their lives -
until that fateful day of August 15 when everything has turned completely its
opposite.
They’re now at the mercy of the highly-fundamentalist group
- the Taliban - that was driven away from their short-lived power by the United
States in 2001. Since then, the world’s supreme country was there with their
American troops to secure their peace and order in the most harmonious way possible
from the ousted Taliban-imposed rule.
But as time begets time, the United States gov’t has
eventually decided to withdraw its troops for good - after its 20-year long
stint in Afghanistan to give a freehand for the Afghan people to rule their
country on their own- sans any foreign intervention.
Fears however grip its countrymen who love liberty and
freedom, mostly its women and children whose Taliban leaders strictly follow
their own “misinterpreted” Sharia laws, prohibiting its women and children of
their human rights, including access to education, basic health care,
employment, and all other amenities they used to enjoy during the pre-Taliban
conquer in the late 1990s.
All their rights suddenly lost, once again, that fast. That
kind of scenario we saw on videos - depicting its chaotic and anarchic
situation at its Kabul airport for their immediate mass evacuation, stifled us
all in fear, as the whole world is watching continually its harrowing events
unfolding in real time.
Its trouble (God forbid!) may even worsen in the days to
come, as the Taliban leaders have refused to extend the deadline of the
withdrawal period on Aug. 31. This is the worst part of it, because most
political analysts said they see no change, at all, on their known cruel and
repressive regime when these Taliban leaders came to power in 1996.
The United States intervened in Afghanistan when it launched
its successful hunt on the late Al-Queda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden - slain
in 2011 by American forces - whose main stronghold in the Middle East was set
up in its land-locked country.
Since then, the United States played a key role for the Afghan
gov’t top officials to gradually regain their freedom and liberty from the hands
of the ousted Taliban gov’t then-- described as most strict, cruel, and
oppressive to women and children’s basic rights.
Afghanistan, under the Taliban regime, had one of the worst
human rights violations in the world. Who then would like to work in Afghanistan
under its re-emerged Taliban rule?
No one from a free world country, like ours, would dare come
even near its shadow. The way they all frantically crowd the Kabul airport as
they desperately hustle each other in a bid to catch a last-minute plane
journey offered by the US military and its allied countries out of harm’s way
in Afghanistan these days, is just nightmarish for us all TV viewers worldwide,
in the throes of mixed feelings, while they’re
in a mad-rush situation out there at Kabul international airport that’s
about to fall, sooner or later, too, in the hands of the Taliban wicked rulers
upon the end of the withdrawal grace period given till only August 31.
Right now, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported
that a total of 183 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Afghanistan have already
fled to safety, and are being repatriated back home by batches. And 16 more
have requested for their immediate evacuation back home, while 10 others have
opted to stay where they’re right now even as the Philippine government has
ordered their mandatory repatriation back to their home country, according to
DFA.
I presume they have no other recourse but move on albeit
being in that war-torn country for the sake of their loved ones back home, in
dire need of financial support in these times of the multi-major crises that
down us all the more in an immeasurable level.
Again, I tell you, the world is in the onset of
difficulties, hardships and all turbulence it has never seen before in these
modern times.
The man-made and all the natural disasters of all sizes are
now imminently happening before our very
own terrifying eyes, and all we need to do is repent! Go back to the One who
created us all, and this world will become new and pleasant once again the
sight of our God Almighty.
The problem is, man is so difficult to handle with, that
even God has a hard time to draw them back to Him.
Think well, my fellow Earthlings, this’s all about spiritual
now, because I repeat this’s no longer just a physical or secular problem of
man, but por Dios mio! A spiritual one. There’s a need to focus now on this so
forgotten component in the life of man, as all of us will soon inevitably leave
this world physically. But our souls, without God’s spirit in us, will surely
be damned to darkness where hell rules forever. Only the people of God will go
to heaven.
That’s for sure will happen to all of us on “Judgment Day.”
I’m not scaring anyone, but that’s our spiritual reality in life, and whether
we believe it or not, that’s still the truth, for our Lord Jesus himself has
said, “I’m the way, the life and the truth; no one comes to the Father, except
through me.” (John 14:6)
Cheer up, guys, and see you soon just the same. God bless us
all! (jayfeliciano2@yahoo.com)
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