MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Europe should support crisis-hit countries, which thousands of people are fleeing from without interfering and imposing "democracy," member of the Afghan parliament from the Committee on Human Rights Rubaba Parvani told Sputnik Dari on Friday.
In recent months, Europe has faced the biggest wave of undocumented immigration in years, with thousands of people risking a sea journey to Europe to flee violence and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East. The crisis has been escalating as many EU states toughened their asylum policy.
"I think that Europe should support those countries from which refugees arrive, including Afghanistan, and enable them to live their lives, and not to dictate the rules and not to impose 'democracy'. And if they [Europe] had not interfered with the affairs of other countries, the 9/11 would not have happened," Parvani said.
Along with the economic problems, a number of countries in the Middle East, including Afghanistan, had also faced security challenges as jihadist groups, including Islamic State cells, which started to operate all across the region, the lawmaker stressed.
Islamic State is a Sunni militant in control of vast territories in Iraq and Syria. A number of IS cells, with local insurgent groups pledging allegiance, are also known to operate in Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen and other territories across the region.
In August, Czech President Milos Zeman said that the current migrant crisis in Europe is the result of the Western desire to "restore order" in the Middle East, represented by the US-led invasion of Iraq and multi-state intervention in Libya.
