From: endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan)
Subject: Re: Propaganda Sheet  ? 
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:27:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.022141.11758@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> hyetim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Hasan Yetim) writes:
>
>Assalam-u-alaikum
>Mr endevour, let me tell you something. The interview I posted was from
>a reliable source, Mr Muhammed Javid Mirza whom I know for four years.
>He has graduated from my university and he was a sincere muslim as far as
>I observed. He made that interwiev and sent the tape to us. I know his
>voice, his history, his actions, his speechs everything. 
>However, I have known you from this newsgroup, I am not sure about you.
>I don't know you well enough to make decision that you are good muslim
>whom we trust or not. Therefore, that interwiev seems to reflect the truth.
>Because, I know the interviewer and I am more confident of his word than
>yours. Please don't try to cover the facts for the sake of Allah,
>we will be asked hereafter whatever we have done in this world.
>Best wishes for all muslims.
>Hasan 

Mr.Yatem let me tell YOU something. Maybe Javid Mirza is an old
friend of yours and maybe he graduated from your university and
maybe to the best of your knowledge you judged that, more or less,
he was "a good muslim". Now a good muslim has become quite an
arbitrary term. Hekmatyar is a "good muslim" for his followers but is
a heck of a bad one for the rest of Afghanistan. The terrorist who
blows up civilian air lines is a "good muslim" for Abu Nidal but a
bad muslim for the rest of the muslim world. I think you got the
picture. So I am sorry, but I can not rely on your judgement of
what a good or bad muslim is. And as far as I can remember we were
not discussing the piousness of Javed Mirza but on the contrary I
was attempting to put his master piece, the interview, in perspective.

Now, obvious as it is, I am forced to spell out what I really think
of Mr.javed Mirza's journalistic endeavor. Not only his questioning
seems fixed and devoid of any kind of journalistic integrity but
also we see Mr.Javed Mirza actively involved in kissing
Mr.Hekmatyar's bottoms. Unfortunately it is very difficult for us
Afghans to stoop that low. All I did was to try to warn the readers
that the interview was yet another propaganda sheet which every now
and then makes its way in this news group in form of "Goood News"
or "Gulbudin, an Awliya" or "Rahbar Hekmatyar" etc etc. Now you
have to realize that this is an Afghan news group and is not a
slogan sheet for Hekmatyar or the international Ikhwani movement.If
you are so fond of crowing for Hekmatyar or your buddy Javed Mirza
maybe you can creat a new news group and call it
alt.hekmatyar.fans. In this news group I for one will call a spade
a spade. If you can not take the heat get out of the news group. 

I must say that your argument about believing Javed Mirza over me
was really very convincing. Since you do not know me and do know
Javed Mirza you conclude that what Javed Mirza says must be the
truth.Well on that line I will argue back ( though I really feel
silly doing so) that since I know me and I have no idea who you or
Mirza are therefore I am telling the truth. By the way, I am good
muslim too. Not your kind of good but Afghan kind of good. A word
of advise: I hope you are not planning to be a lawyer. Try
astrology because you seem to have just the right IQ for it. 

Since you seem to know ( I am surprised that you know as much )
that we shall have to answer for what we have done in this world,
I ask you to go and tell Mr.Hekmatyar to put a rope around his neck
and go to every Afghan mother whose children he has murdered in
Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan and beg for mercy. It will make
his journey through hell much much easier. 


Best wishes for Afghan brother and sisters.

LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN

H.Abed