RASC News Agency: The Taliban’s Ministry of Education announced that around 5,000 students from schools in Kabul participated in an “Emarat Studies” examination. According to the ministry, this “competitive” exam was administered to students in the seventh educational district of Kabul. In an official statement, the ministry confirmed that religious subjects continue to be regularly taught to employees of the provincial education departments.
The “Emarat Studies” textbook, which the Taliban have widely circulated, contains distorted and propagandistic material about Afghanistan’s leaders and historical events, promoting the group’s ideology. This textbook serves as a tool for indoctrination, aimed at reshaping public opinion by presenting a narrow, manipulated narrative in which scholars, anti-colonial fighters, and advocates for independence are exclusively depicted as Taliban or Pashtun.
Notably, the book excludes any mention of prominent figures from other ethnic groups in Afghanistan, with the central “hero” being Mullah Omar and suicide attacks glorified as the ultimate Islamic weapon. Previously, the Taliban distributed tens of thousands of copies of the “Emarat Studies” textbook to schools and religious institutions, holding similar examinations across various provinces.
Afghanistan’s history, as presented by the Taliban, has been systematically falsified, from its so-called “heroes” to those deemed the founders of independence. These historical fabrications are unique to the dark chapters of Afghanistan’s past, lacking validation from any credible historical sources. The Taliban now seek to impose these distorted narratives on the Afghanistani population, cloaking them in a veneer of Islamic justification.
