I’d like to put a few things into context here if I may. This is a man that was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and systematically tortured both physically and mentally by the Americans with the sole purpose of extracting information from him. His faith as a muslim kept him sane and his love of writing poetry. He wrote many books whilst he was there only for the Americans to take them away from him and burn them all.
After his release, he wrote a book called The Broken Shackles of Guantanamo. (Da Guantanamo Matay Zawlanay) detailing his experiences in that infamous detention camp.
I was told that over the years, both CNN and the BBC have requested interviews with him, which he granted. Their promise to Muslim Dost was to print the positive aspects of those interviews. That just didn’t happen. And why? simple, these news corporations are only interested in what they can sell, negative aspects of Afghanistan rather than promoting his Islamic beliefs and all of the positive aspects of his great country.
Muslim Dost had many opinions on what I asked him, via Hamza of course. One thing was for certain though, and this was a question I asked many Afghani’s whilst I was there, Trump? Strange isn’t it, they all had similar opinon’s, as did Abdul. He’s a fool, an idiot, with far too much power and very little sense.
My meeting with him was a humbling one, a positive one and an interesting one. He greeted me as a friend, I shared tea and soup with him and I found him to be a softly spoken man and a true Afghani. Deera Manana Abdul….
