FAITH and hypocrisy never meet ... hence the discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood Group has been exposed since the emergence of the group. It used hypocrisy as a way to reach people, but its misrepresentation behind the mask of faith exposed its reality more than concealing it.

Based on this fact, the group cheering for the Taliban’s invasion of Afghanistan and the rapid collapse of the Afghan government and army is nothing but a smoke screen. Their talk about the return of “awakening” and “jihadi liberation from the abomination of foreign occupation” represent an attempt to float the self mired in political failure, following their disappointment in capturing Egypt, Syria and Libya, and the collapse of the spider web they built in Tunisia.

All this makes those who are looking for a mirage to consider it as a sign of the victory of their political line nothing but a handful of hypocrites and advocates of sabotage and terrorism, especially those who seek to undermine the institutions of governance in stable countries, such as the Kuwaiti Brotherhood members who are in the country or fleeing to Turkey.

They started cheering from the very first moment when the Taliban launched its attack weeks ago. They spoke in a language that suggests that we have gone back to the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs and the Muslim conquests during the Umayyad or Abbasid Dynasties.

Those who follow the speech of that group and the terminology it uses can read between the lines sparks of sedition, and an explicit call to divide society. They made religion a path to sedition when they brought it into such a political matter. Their goal is not to support that movement that took Islam as its slogan. It works according to clear foundations of ethnicity, and therefore its leaders seek to achieve goals of their own and the ethnic groups they represent. They also seek to incite naive public opinion against the governments in their countries.

They miss the fact that the negotiations that took place in Doha for years between the Taliban, the Afghan government, and the Americans did not have any religious or sectarian agenda outside the interests of the internal movement.

The “Brotherhood of Sedition” have tried over the past few days to indicate that what happened in Afghanistan stemmed from their deviant ideology on which the group was founded, as well as the ideas of Abu Al-Ala Al-Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutub and others who viewed violence as a way to establish an Islamic state according to their vision.

On the other hand, they forget that the Taliban made its way to control with the clear support of the Iranian regime, and those whom the Muslim Brotherhood Group considered for decades as atheists and infidels... Here I mean, Russia and China.

After the fall of Kabul, they immediately announced that they would recognize the new government. At the same time, the Muslim Brotherhood Group supported enemies in several Arab countries. This makes us wonder how summer and winter can exist under the same cloud!

About four million Afghans left the country immediately after the movement announced its control. Also, nine million have been displaced since the beginning of the war in 2001, and five million left the country without returning after the Afghan Mujahideen took control in the 1980s.

Currently, most of the international organizations are calling on neighboring countries to open their borders to accommodate more displaced people.

Who will rule the Taliban after the departure of such a huge number of its citizens. Does the Muslim Brotherhood Group, which is cheering for what they called an “Islamic victory”, want it to become the countries they seek to rule in this way - forsaken by the international community, as is the case with Iran and North Korea?

There is no doubt that Afghanistan will be added to them because the world in the 21st century will not accept a medieval state. Therefore, congratulations to the cheering Taliban for their return to the caves of Tora Bora.

By Ahmed Al-Jarallah

Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times