Text and photographs by Victor de Currea-Lugo | January 31, 2025 (from Syria) I remember that, in the early 1980s, arguing with communist militants, they tried to convince me that the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan was not an invasion but an act of «proletarian internationalism.» Years later, I learned the concept of the «umma» of the Muslim world and became aware of the duty of every believer to go to war, if necessary, to defend the Muslim community. These two ideas, the def...
