Once again, the Taliban demonstrate ignorance of or indifference to the West’s universal assumption that they have nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam or Sharia.
“‘Voice of Sharia’: Taliban rename radio station after capturing Afghan city,” by Nick Hardinges, LBC, August 15, 2021:
A radio station in Afghanistan’s second-largest city has been renamed ‘Voice of Sharia’ and music has been banned after the Taliban captured Kandahar.
The group released a video of an unnamed insurgent taking to the airwaves and announcing the rebrand of the city’s main station.
He claimed all staff were present and would, from now on, broadcast news, political analysis and recitations of the Koran. However, it was unclear whether the previous employees had been ousted.
The channel will reportedly no longer play music, mimicking a previous station with the same name that the Taliban operated from Kandahar when they last occupied it at the turn of the century.
Most residents of the city – the birthplace of the militant organisation – wear traditional clothing favoured by the group and the man in the video congratulated them on the Taliban’s victory.
The group have run mobile radio stations in recent years but have not operated a station within a major Afghan city since ruling the country between 1996 and 2001.
It comes amid a rapid offensive by the organisation that has raised fears of a full takeover less than three weeks before the US is set to withdraw its last troops….
CogitoErgoSum says
Watch this report from Tucker Carlson. One of the contributing factors to the fall of Afghanistan was drug use and the physical and mental ineptitude of the Afghani soldiers. How could these recruits not even get the hang of doing jumping jacks after a few tries? Apparently they were just pushed through by the American trainers who knew they would only show up for roll call on pay day anyway. This went on for 20 years? Incredible corruption beyond my imagination.
This will be the future of the U.S. military if things continue on the road we are going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbjbK1Mtms&ab_channel=FoxNews
commonsense says
Cogito Ergo Sum:
Yes, I watched Carlson last night, and saw the segment. It served to make abundantly clear why the “Afghan army,” three hundred thousand strong, was so easily routed. They were nothing more than mercenaries who were only interested in a fat paycheck and access to drugs, and who, apparently, routinely stole U.S. military hardware to sell or transfer to other jihadi groups in Afghanistan, including, in all probability, the Taliban. All this went on for TWENTY YEARS, and was never reported.
Just a few minutes ago, I saw former Republican strategist Karl Rove indignantly deny, in response to another pundit’s assertion, that the Afghan military had had no interest in fighting the Taliban. Rove evidently did not watch Tucker Carlson last night.
PRCS says
“the Afghan military had had no interest in fighting the Taliban”
How Muslim military personnel (in any nation) rationalize fighting other Muslims has never been rationalized–to me–however.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
I guess that the only way it is “rationalized” by muslims is that it’s okay to kill “other muslims” who are not “devout” enough.
gravenimage says
Yes–very few in the Afghan army ever really intended to oppose the Taliban.
PRCS says
I believe that jumping jack exercise was staged–for fun (not sure by whom, though).
CogitoErgoSum says
If it was staged it would perfectly exemplify how the Afghanis failed to take fighting the Taliban seriously. I wonder if they aren’t having a good laugh about it all with the Taliban right now.
gravenimage says
I doubt it. I have also heard accounts of Muslims being unable to do simple exercizes like leg lifts. Muslim cartoonist Joe Sacco–an apologist for Islam–related Iraqi army recruits *sobbing* when asked to do leg lifts (part of my daily morning routine). He just blamed the US for being “insensitive”, though.
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/afghanistan-conflict/afghan-army-jumping-jacks/658467320001
It’s not just Afghan army recruits who can’t do jumping jacks–here are Iraqi recruits having the same problem:
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/iraqi-war/iraqi-cadets-cant-do-jumping-jacks/658436429001
Eleanor says
Yep Cognito — it also makes you wonder how many Afghan interpreters they needed? It appears it may number in the thousands.
Infidel says
I still don’t get why the military can’t get some people to learn languages like Pashto, Urdu and Dari, and plant those people as interpreters? Yeah, I know that learning a language does involve a lot of cultural immersion to understand a lot of contexts, but that shouldn’t have been beyond the reach of Americans willing to make the effort
Infidel says
After seeing that video, I’m not remotely sympathetic towards Afghan soldiers who the Taliban executed
gravenimage says
Taliban rename captured radio station ‘Voice of Sharia’
………..
Not exactly hiding their goals here…