fghanistan, Imam Pallavicini: “No dialogue with the Taliban, will we one day legitimize Isis?”

The international community ” must do everything to not legitimize the Taliban ” and not dialogue with them, ” pirates of the mountains as were the air pirates who carried out the attacks of 11 September ”. Instead, he must “find alternative interlocutors, even if it is difficult”. Because “legitimizing the Taliban is not possible, it is as if one day ISIS opened an embassy and then the international community condoned all the attacks it has committed”. At the Adnkronos Yahya Pallavicini, imam in the Al-Wahid mosque in Milan and president of the Coreis-Italian Islamic Religious Community, describes the Taliban as ” creatures who have an ideological interpretation of the nation and religion ” and who ” do not know other than blackmail or barter. What criteria of reliability would the transactions be based on? ”. It is ” unthinkable to sit at the table ” with them, who ” are below the threshold of ignorance ” and cannot ” become a model of government and family ”. They, who make the “trade and cultivation of drugs the main economic and commercial resource, without any vision of the family, popular identity and politics”. Pallavicini is also said to be ” struck by the inability to imagine a training process that allows them to build interlocutors while respecting their roots. Either we colonize, or we credit savages ” and speaks of the ” failure of the West in Afghanistan. ” For Pallavicini ” it is incredible that in Afghanistan groups of guerrillas with a closed mentality, retrograde, macho, a mini radical ideology return to power ”. But this was ” possible for a short-sighted politics that did not invest in culture and in the formation of civil society, in knowledge, education, in political training. The Taliban know neither what politics is, nor what Afghanistan is, nor what religion is. ” Instead, it is necessary “to invest in the enlightened elites of every people so that they can pull a model of life towards goodness” because “pirates cannot be rulers.” Historically, he remembers, “Islam has also come to freeing the tribes from macho and narrow-minded visions. Instead in Afghanistan we find Islam used to pit one tribe against the others, the pirate tribe against the rest of the civilized world which, however, fails to select serious interlocutors ”. But ” the Afghan and Islamic civilization is not all Taliban, Isisi, al-Qaeda Boko Haram, al-Shabab. There is a majority of thinking men and women who want to live, love and know. Pragmatic and commercial solutions do not prevail over the vision of man’s identity ”.