My latest in PJ Media:
In a striking depiction of the eclipse of twenty-first-century woke orthodoxy by Islamic rule, the Taliban have begun painting over a series of murals in Kabul, including one depicting George Floyd with the legend, in English, “I can’t breathe.”
The murals were the most visible manifestations of the kind of society U.S. authorities had hoped Afghanistan would become, honoring all manner of secular saints revered in the West. Painted on Kabul’s concrete blast barriers by a group of Afghan artists calling themselves the Artlords, the murals celebrated, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, “gender equality and the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace,” among other things.
Omaid Sharifi, co-founder of Artlords, said: “Some of these murals were the soul of Kabul. They gave beauty to the city and kindness to the people of Kabul who were suffering.” They may have given beauty to the city, but murals celebrating George Floyd and gender equality were not expressions of the soul of Kabul, but of the woke, post-modern, Leftist West, the soul of the people who have spent twenty years since 9/11 stigmatizing and demonizing opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression as “Islamophobia,” the soul of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and their supporters.
Sharifi added: “Our aim was to promote critical thinking and put pressure on the government to accept people’s demands. Taliban was and is an armed movement that only understands guns, violence, beating, beheading, suicide vests and bombs. There is no vocabulary about art in the Taliban’s dictionary. They even cannot imagine art. I think they don’t understand it, that’s why they are destroying it.”
Well, yes. They don’t understand it because they don’t care to understand it. They believe that representational art is un-Islamic and thus must be destroyed, as the first Taliban regime destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001. And they have nothing but contempt for “critical thinking,” gender equality, and the woke hagiography of George Floyd. Their values are quite different, and they don’t feel the need to make any apologies for that fact, or to genuflect to the postmodern West’s Leftist pieties.
In place of the murals, the Taliban have painted the Islamic profession of faith and other Islamic statements, as well as a claim that they are the “true defenders” of Afghanistan. The contrast is telling, and those in the West who are more concerned about “Islamophobia” than about jihad terror should take note: no matter how much aid witless Western countries give them, the Taliban and other jihad groups intend to destroy Western Leftism along with every other manifestation of secular liberalism.
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Dan says
Dang.
Once again proof nobody is 100% evil.
gravenimage says
Dan, the Taliban didn’t care *who* was being depicted here.
Infidel says
Doesn’t matter: at least they had the sense to remove that ugliness from those landmarks in Kabul. One can condemn them for destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas or the Hazara statue, while lauding them for removing the George Floyd mural
mortimer says
The Taliban discriminates against everyone who dissents from their views and then punishes them for dissenting.
Racism is embedded in Islam … anyone who reads the hadiths will soon find it.
Ade Fegan says
Never spoil a good story with facts !
Dan says
Graven,
It was a “Gallows Humor.”
“Floyd’s followers are JUST as bad as the Taliban.
They’ve got their radical destructive killer nut jobs.
Those who “quietly” just support the cause.
And ALL of them hate America
gravenimage says
OK, Dan. Agreed.
Ade Fegan says
God bless ’em one and all !
somehistory says
When I read it, I had to laugh, but also wondered just who painted it in the first place.
And completely understand your comment.
gravenimage says
Taliban Paint Over George Floyd Mural in Kabul
…………….
Not so “woke”, apparently..
Actually, it is just that Islam trumps everything–and Islam does not allow any depictions of people. This is the same reason they blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas and tore down a statue of a Shia leader.
bill says
Gravenimage: You are the one who got it right
mortimer says
Naturalistic art is ‘haram’ and so it is sinful and so you will go to Islamic hell and the Islamic angels will avoid your home, etc.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Bill and Mortimer. Agreed.
THX 1138 says
Black lives don’t matter in da Kabul ‘hood yo! Raisin heads just can’t get no respect in Kabul yo!
mortimer says
Muslims enslaved more black Africans than any group in history. 120 million black Africans were killed by the Islamic slave trade. Most of them black men captured were murdered or castrated … most of the castrated died within three days of the cruel ‘surgery’.
James Lincoln says
Apparently, famous Blacks like Mohammad Ali did not get the memo.
Peacelover says
‘Taliban Paint Over George Floyd Mural in Kabul’
– good
Infidel says
Precisely! I never thought that I’d have any reason to praise the Taliban, but here they are…
Raja says
Infidel,
George Floyd is no match for “our” allah and Mohamed. Floyd don’t wont fetch votes or evoke sympathies like a man dressed as a terrorist, with an automatic firearm. George Floyd was never a “force” to reckon with among the Muslims.
All these must seem like a child’s play for Taliban !
Aussie Infidel says
How pathetic the US military seems to be, with its recently acquired woke culture. But of course, it’s culture only a reflection of the political culture of the time – and you’ve got a naive incompetent wokeist in the White House. The generals do the bidding of the Commander-in-Chief, or they’d soon be collecting their pensions; and Biden – or at least his leftist handlers – are calling the shots.
Down here in Australia, we have what I refer to as the ‘Ned Kelly Syndrome’. Ned was our most notorious outlaw, or bushranger, as they were called back in the 1870s, who was caught after murdering a policeman, and eventually hanged in Melbourne jail.
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-theme/australian-history/ned-kelly/ned-kelly-fact-sheet
However, some woke leftists still revere Ned as a folk hero. But he was a criminal, a murderer and a thief; and like George Floyd, he deserved no sympathy, let alone being idolized.
But if the Taliban keep going this way, all rational thinking people might have to consider moving to Afghanistan?? But of course, pigs might also fly!
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m sure they will keep George Floyd’s memory alive in other ways – if only by growing more poppies so the U.S will never run out of the likes of George Floyd.
mortimer says
Saint George Floyd patron of drug addicts and dealers.
Raja says
Mortimer,
In India, some nuts have the penchant for building temples for cine stars, may be cricketers and what not . Saint George Floyd deserves one. But don’t hold your breath, Indians have strong prejudice against dark skinned people.
Walter Sieruk says
There is a saying which is “Give the Devil his due.” For the one and only time ,we may be sure ,, never to be repeated the Taliban did the right thing, That’ amazing ! As in totally unbelievable, the Taliban acted in a good way. No doubt that is the first and last time they behaved in a proper way.
This is because George Floyd was a criminal drug trafficking, robbing, threating vicious hooligan.
That thug was so evil that ,in spite of how some confused politically correct might feel , he the name of that no good malicious lawless ruffian will in time ,surely start to rot.
As the Bible reveals “The name of the wicked shall rot.” Proverbs 10: 7. [K.J.V.]
JimJFox says
The taleban obliterated artworks for reasons totally unconnected with any Western ideals, so stop all this praise! The ONLY thing they can do for OUR APPROVAL is disappear forever.
gravenimage says
Absolutely agree, Jim. This is not an actual criticism of George Floyd or anything his stands for.
James Lincoln says
Does anyone have a read on the reaction from BLM, antifa, Leftists, etc.,???
Giacomo Latta says
So replace US troops with BLM and Antifa troops. The latter are sympathizers of Islam so all should be well and good.
Infidel says
Yeah, I just wish we could do that. Round up all BLM and Antifa members throughout the country, and put them all over Afghanistan. Let the Taliban take them, convert them to islam and then have them implement their laws. It will be funny to see how well they implement their misogynist, anti LGBTQIA… and other islamic laws
James Lincoln says
I remember that the city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody.
Maybe I’m overly cynical, but I wonder if Floyd’s family would give it all back if it would “bring back George”….
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-to-pay-27m-to-settle-floyd-family-lawsuit
tgusa says
Floyd was a drug abusing drug dealer. He would have received the death penalty for that in most if not all muslim countries. The state department also flew the lgbt flag on a building in Kabul. Forcing your ideals on other countries is fascism but as democrats say, President Trump is Hitler. How does a person or persons stay that stupid in and through adulthood? Democrats believe that their ideals are supported by the world but they are very very wrong on that.
gravenimage says
Tgusa, these murals were painted by Afghan artists, including Omaid Sharifi and his group Artlords. The implication that they were painted by Americans is mistaken.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/07/the-soul-of-kabul-taliban-paint-over-murals-with-victory-slogans
tgusa says
“painted by Afghan artists”
Good to know. It never crossed my mind as to who painted it.
I wonder how those artists are faring under taliban rule now that bug-out biden has had his mission accomplished moment. I guess they were attempting to suck up to the establishment left in the USA. Big mistake.
tgusa says
Ugh! Should have been a reply to gravenimage.
somehistory says
They didn’t want to wait around and find out if lightning would strike twice on the same ugly face. They really couldn’t count on their fake ‘god’ to take care of it.