Faisal Kawusi spoke about what happened in his second home, Afghanistan. What happens there breaks his heart.
Faisal Kawusi’s (30) job is actually to entertain. Make people laugh. In view of the events in and the associated reporting on his second home, Afghanistan, the comedian inevitably has to strike a serious note. He does that in one in which he not only vividly describes his view of things. He also does so in a very nuanced way, explaining how, in his opinion, the failures of the past few years have led to what we now have to see with horror on the news.
It is obviously difficult for Kawusi to start with his monologue. He takes a deep breath and takes another sip of water. He was “not a politician, not an activist, not an expert”, he immediately made clear at the beginning of the recording – but “just the Faisal”. And as that he first had to “emotionally process” what was currently going on in Afghanistan. “I cried every day.”
The result of many mistakes
It is particularly frustrating for him that the warnings from Afghanistan have been ignored for months. Especially since, in his opinion, the failures go back a long way – long before the Taliban took Kabul. Because Afghanistan has not only become an insecure country for a few weeks.
The fact that the Taliban were able to gain strength there so quickly is also a homemade problem. A “corrupt Afghan government”, for example, while people are starving. Or drone attacks that would have killed countless civilians. All of this has contributed to the fact that more and more people have become radicalized in recent years, explains Kawusi.
The innocent Afghan people – above all women – have to foot the bill for this mismanagement. “I’m afraid for our women in Afghanistan,” said Kawusi. He says that as “son, brother, uncle”.
Afghanistan in his heart – and on his skin
At the end of the video, Kawusi talks about how heartbreaking it was to watch the Afghan flag hang down in Kabul. He then takes off his shirt and shows a new tattoo that is reminiscent of the black, red and green flag on his shoulder. “As long as I exist, the Afghan flag will not die either.”
He shows the statement on his skin again, about which he writes, among other things: “I could not bear that these Taliban want to abolish the flag of our forefathers and ancestors. But they cannot take what is in our hearts, they can don’t take from us what we are. The Afghan flag belongs to us like our skin, you can’t take it from us, we don’t give up. “
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