Days ago, the Taliban announced that religious scholars would lead the incoming government in Afghanistan.
Amid the news that Muslim countries including Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran, as well as Hamas have endorsed the Taliban, and the Western woke Leftists continue looking for every signal that the Taliban will magically become moderate, now we have a glimpse of the Taliban’s actual direction, which was obvious to begin with.
According to a Council on Foreign Relations report:
[Iran] has welcomed the departure of U.S. forces and pledged to work with the Taliban government. New Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said, “America’s military defeat must become an opportunity to restore life, security, and durable peace in Afghanistan.”
Iran has long played a double game with Afghanistan, pretending to be a friend to former Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, while also undermining his administration. And now, with the Taliban takeover, Iran is all to eager to mend the relationship. An alliance between the Taliban and Iran strengthens both Islamic terrorist entities, which poses a serious security threat to the U.S. and Israel. Even more worrying is that the Taliban is Sunni while Iran is Shia, but they both share the vision of global Islamic jihad.
“Taliban to follow Iran model, appoint Supreme Leader as highest authority,” Al Arabiya, September 1, 2021:
The Taliban are designing a government based on Iran’s model through appointing the group’s leader Hibatullah Akhundzada as the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, CNN-News18 reported on Tuesday.
While Iran has a president and a cabinet, the supreme leader is the religious authority who holds the highest office in the country with powers to dictate policy, overrule laws and override the president. He has the final say in all matters of state.
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“Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada — who has never made a public appearance and whose whereabouts have largely remained unknown — will most likely be the Supreme Leader, presiding over a Supreme Council of 11 to 72,” CNN-News18 said citing sources.
The report added that Akhundzada, who led the Taliban since 2016, will mostly work out of Kandahar.
Kandahar was the birthplace of the group and the epicenter of the Taliban’s iron-fisted government in the 1990s.
The Taliban announced on Sunday that Akhundzada is in Afghanistan. “He is present in Kandahar. He has been living there from the very beginning,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Mujahid also told Reuters on Saturday that the group will announce a complete cabinet within a week…
mortimer says
The new claim of American Leftists :
“The Taliban’s new ruling religious scholars and experts (who have studied Islam academically for ten to twenty years each) actually know NOTHING about real Islam and their doctrines (purportedly based on Sharia law) have NOTHING … absolutely NOTHING … to do with Islam.”
(sarc/off)
So we are expected to accept that while Islam’s top scholars know NOTHING about Islam, western neo-Marxists know MORE about Islam than Islam’s top scholars. Western Leftists are now defining Islam for the benefit of Muslims. Mullahs are no longer needed.
bill says
The mere fact that the Tban have banned music, an art form that in its many forms gives joy comfort and inspiration to many millions around the world, shows to the world what a mean, miserable and joyless religion Islam is. To be fair many Muslims enjoy music and not all Islamic states ban it.
It is one reason why Islam will never succeed
mortimer says
The general mission statement of Afghanistan’s new ‘SUPREME LEADER’ Is something like this “to remove the human rights and civil liberties of women and kafirs.”
To the extent that the Supreme Leader removes human rights and civil liberties, he will be judged a success by the Talibans.
Janet says
It sounds an awful like the Pope having Supreme Leadership over England and the USA that dates back to the law of 1813.
gravenimage says
What is this supossed to refer to?
England had not been a Catholic country for three centuries in the early 19th century, and the US never was a Catholic country.
Then, the idea that Catholicism was ever like the savagery of Islam is also absurd.
Christopher Watson says
Hate to mention it but the Spanish Inquisition and Mary Queen of Scots burnt quite a few Protestants.
Walter Sieruk says
A supreme leader in the Taliban tyranny being “modeled ” from Iran’s tyrannical Islamic regime seems strange at first because the Taliban is based in Sunni Islam and Iran brutal rule is based on Shiite Islam and the Sunni Muslim hate the Shiite Muslims and likewise the Shiite Muslims hate the Sunni Muslims.
Nevertheless , heads of both those two branches of Islam hate the United States and her citizens and the State of Israel and her citizens much more than they hate each other.
As this article reads “An alliance between the Taliban and Iran strengthens both Islamic terrorist entities, which poses a serious security threat to the U.S. and Israel.”
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As this Asian -Middle Eastern mindset is one that accepts the shallow idea of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
This Taliban /Iran alliance fated to fail in the long run and those who head it and take part in it will have all their scheming insidious hostile evil come back down them hard.
As the Bible reads “Though they join forces , the wicked will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That the Taliban modeled their new leader Hkhundada , on Iran’s new Head of state Rasis shouldn’t be that much of a surprise for they do actually have much in common. In they they both are cruel despicable harsh despots who hold much tyrannical power are brutal and oppressive.
As it’s written in the Bible reads “All the days of the afflicted are evil ” Proverbs 15:15. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore ,in the Bible it brings of “The tears of the oppressed…” because power is on the side “of their oppressors.” Ecclesiastes 4:1.
Likewise, Psalm 28 ;15 reads “Like a roaring ,lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.”
gravenimage says
Taliban follows Iran’s model, appoints Supreme Leader of Afghanistan
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Hibatullah Akhundzada has issued fatwas on Taliban matters and served as the head of the Sharia courts of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Last time the Taliban was in power he was a member of the the vice and virtue police
So much for the idea that the Taliban has nothing to do with Islam.
Infidel says
So in return for Iran’s support, will the Taliban stop persecuting the Hazaras?
OLD GUY says
Trust me he’s not religious, he is a dictator who kill anyone who gets in his way.