Unfortunately, while the Palestinian Resistance operation was underway, an absolutely false news was spread on the internet and social media, according to which the Taliban asked Iran, Iraq, and neighboring countries such as Syria and Jordan for the permission to cross their territory to reach and conquer Jerusalem, al-Quds. This outright fake news, still circulating nowadays, was fabricated by the X-Twitter account of the Taliban Public Relations Department, which offers pieces of satire that would also be funny per se, if there were something to laugh about the Taliban (but there is not).
The fake news was taken as true by the media around the world, to the point of forcing Taliban representatives to intervene to categorically deny it, underlining that the regime’s official position on the events in Palestine was the one explained in a statement by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this statement, there is no mention of neither the request for passage nor the conquest of al-Quds. Rather, with a surprisingly “moderate” approach, the Ministry only declared that it “has carefully monitored the recent events in the Gaza Strip”, and that it “considers the occurrence of such events to be the result
– of “Israeli Zionists trampling on the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people”;
– of the “repeated insults and disrespect to Muslims holy places”;
– of “any type of defense and the Resistance of the Palestinian people for freedom”.
To a closer look, this position is similar to the one taken by all other Islamic countries in the world, including those that signed the so-called “Abraham Accords”, namely Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain; Saudi Arabia, more pro-Netanyahu than Netanyahu; Erdogan’s Turkey and Qatar, the longtime godfathers of Hamas. None of them, on the other hand, has even dared to question the evident participation of Shiite Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah in the enterprise of the Palestinian Resistance.
Why disseminating that the fake news then? Those who fabricated it knew exactly where to strike. In fact, it seems that there are numerous “Muslims” around the world, including Italy, who believe in a naive and obsessive way, to say the least, that the Taliban, in light of their “invincibility” as mujahidin for having defeated the Russians, the Americans, and the Westerners, correspond to the army with the black flags which, according to a Hadith, will emerge from Khurasan, roughly the current Afghanistan, headed by the Mahdi saw, who will lead the march up to al-Quds to defeat the Dajjal.
This is a very specific militant trend, fueled by images and videos praising the Taliban on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Tiktok. The propaganda is probably supported by the Taliban themselves, in a pathetic marketing and promotional operation of their image, even if they likely have nothing to do with the case of fake news, since it completely contradicts the official line adopted.
The fake news, however, further excited the minds of the gullible “believers” with the myth of the Taliban. For the occasion, they produced new images and videos of their idols, where for example the white flags are together with the black ones, and armed caravans are already on their way to al-Quds. They believed the hoax so much that they themselves wanted to join the mujahidin, even though they simply don’t exist.
What is worse is that if you point it out to them, they do not listen to you at all: “We are at war now”, they declare. Wake up brothers! There is nothing true… Put your head back on your shoulders and return to reality. Will also the Taliban sign the Abraham Accords with Israel anytime soon?
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