Najibullah Quraishi Quotes

Afghanistan, Journalist
2000

Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan journalist and filmmaker. Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in Afghanistan for ten years and has a degree in journalism. Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects in Asia and the Arab states. He has worked with Jamie Doran in making Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines, and The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. Since 2002 he has lived in the United Kingdom and he is a winner of the Rory Peck Award, the Sony International Impact award and Amnesty International Media Award for his work.

Also known as Producer, Film Maker

I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.

Najibullah Quraishi
- People
- Thinking
- Children
Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.

Najibullah Quraishi
- People
- Good
- Mountain

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

Najibullah Quraishi
- World
- Want
- Risk
When you go inside something, then you are not with you. You are in the hands of somebody else, and you don't know what they will do with you.

Najibullah Quraishi
- Knows
- Hands
Our Afghanistan main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.

Najibullah Quraishi
- Believe
- Thinking
- Iraq