Here’s how authors like Khaled Hosseini, who present themselves as insiders who provide special insights about their countries to Western audience, helped fan the flames of war Opinion | Zirrar_
Twenty years after the start of the US occupation of Afghanistan, the rhetoric of “who will protect the poor and helpless women?” has resurfaced. Few realise just how instrumental literature and modern media has been in swaying public opinion and concealing Western occupation and war crimes in the country.
Thus, the mission statement of the US invasion of Afghanistan by GW Bush included the supposed liberation of Afghan women. In 2003, Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini debuted with his global best-seller The Kite Runner. A New York Times bestseller, the book sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, was translated into 42 languages and even turned into a high budget film.
A country ravaged by war, is ruled by tyrant religious fanatics and its people yearning for freedom and liberation. It was easy to see why the book became a best-seller in the West. Let’s examine these two books further. In The Kite Runner, the protagonist, is a Hazar boy who flies kites to escape from the horrors of everyday life. The antagonist, Assef, is a Pashtun who believes his own race to be superior to the Hazaras. A bully who rapes boys, Assef is also a staunch Nazi supporter. The book paints the ruling Pashtun class, through Assef and his actions, as racist, misogynist and monstrous.
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