Is taxpayer money going to train the terrorists of tomorrow?
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
When the Taliban set up their political operation in Doha, under the aegis of the Islamist state of Qatar, it wasn’t just the Americans and the Europeans who came to negotiate with the terrorists.
Last winter, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, conducted its own negotiations with the Taliban. The UN agency, like many other non-profits, wanted to operate in Taliban territory and the representatives of the Islamist killers were willing to listen. What the Jihadist organization wanted from the UN was the same deal that Hamas got from UNRWA.
UNICEF would enable an ad-hoc school system that would operate under Taliban control.
While we often talk about terrorists indoctrinating children, few realize that our tax dollars and our non-profit organizations fund educational systems that are under the control of terrorist groups. The UN’s aid agencies routinely enable these operations, most notoriously in Gaza, where UNRWA schools are not only staffed by Hamas members, but have been used as bases for rocket attacks against Israel. But Gaza’s UNRWA setup is actually fairly typical of the UN.
The Helmand Sangin Workplan deal between the Taliban and UNICEF was said to have created 4,000 classes while reaching 140,000 Afghan children. There’s no way to know how true these numbers are, but the most significant part of the agreement was also the least reported part.
As a quarterly report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction noted, “the Taliban will recruit the teaching staff, who must then be able to pass a test set by the MOE.”
And since the Taliban took over Kabul, the Ministry of Education is now under Taliban control.
But throughout the year, UNICEF was helping the Taliban run an educational system. These classes often took place in mosques. And the only ones to know for sure what was being taught in these “informal classes” were in the room. It’s not clear if USAID was providing any funding to the Taliban’s educational system, but some American non-profits appeared to be doing so.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was reported to be picking up some of the cost.
An “inspiring” UNICEF photo feature from earlier this year shows a female teacher in a burka that leaves only her eyes exposed teaching a group of women in burkas while a scowling man stands at the door. The classes are supposed to be taking place somewhere in Kandahar, and the funds are coming, at least in part, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Helmand Sangin Workplan is scheduled to run until December 2021. The Biden administration has announced an additional $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Some of this appears as if it will be routed through UNICEF and other UN agencies.
Will American taxpayers be funding a Taliban school system? The answer is we likely will.
The Taliban have often been portrayed as hostile to education, but the Jihadis who built the organization were the product of Madrassas, Islamic schools set up in Pakistan that were funded by Saudi Arabia. The name “Taliban” even means students in the Pashtun tongue.
The Islamic educational system is a military institution whose primary subject is Jihad. Its teachings focus on the need to defeat infidels and impose Sharia law on the human race. The Madrassa system is the means by which the Jihadis indoctrinate the next generation of killers.
The Taliban are not against educating boys or even necessarily girls. They run madrassas aimed at girls in some areas. What they are against is any educational system that they don’t control and can’t use to indoctrinate children into functioning as the next generation of their cause. And the United States and Americans appear to be willing to fund the Taliban schools.
What is the distinction between Taliban madrassas that were already in place and UNICEF schools? The UN wants to ensure that the Taliban teach math, science, and assorted secular subjects to students. Whether or not Taliban teachers end up doing this, no one can really know.
But that’s also hardly the point.
The United States should not be funding a Taliban education system or allowing it to be funded.
Two decades after the 9/11 Commission had warned about the dangers of the Madrassa system, the Biden administration and its donors may actually be helping to fund Islamic schools that will indoctrinate a new generation to hate and kill non-Muslims.
The Biden administration is not alone in this treasonous madness.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote an op-ed urging G-7 nations, a group that includes the US, to commit $8 billion to Afghan education even after the Taliban takeover of the country. “Aid should be distributed based on the work already done by UNICEF who to their great credit negotiated an agreement last December to cover 120,000 girls and to ensure they received home schooling in Taliban controlled areas,” he argued.
The 120,000 number is nonsense. And with “ghost schools” a common phenomenon in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the actual number of students attending classes is unknown.
But more importantly throwing billions into a Taliban educational system is funding terrorism.
The Taliban has been known to “tax” teachers and non-profits. And when they select the teachers, they are bound to be either members of loyalist families, or those who have bribed them. Either way, funding schools controlled by the Taliban means funding the Taliban.
Tests, either of the teachers or students, are meaningless in a system controlled by the Taliban. Any metrics will be administered by the Taliban making them entirely worthless.
“Our obligation is to help the children of Afghanistan grow up to become the leaders of tomorrow,” Brown concluded. The question that he seems incapable of grappling with is the leaders of what? The current leaders of Afghanistan came out of Madrassas. And even if the Taliban go along with some sort of mass educational program for women, Iran, Pakistan, and Hamas have shown that Muslim women, just like men, can be indoctrinated to believe that their role in life is to raise children to kill non-Muslims or even to go ahead and carry out attacks.
The window when we might have helped educate the children of Afghanistan to believe anything else has closed. The Taliban won and their spoils include Afghanistan’s children.
The last thing we should be doing is funding the Taliban’s indoctrination efforts. Any money that the Taliban and its backers in Pakistan or Qatar spend on education is at least diverted from more direct forms of terrorism aimed at us. And the same holds true for all aid to Afghanistan.
The Taliban have taxed and regulated non-profits handing out aid in areas under their control. There’s every reason to believe that they will go on expecting Americans to feed their population even as they skim as much as they can from the millions in taxpayer money being used as aid.
Biden has claimed that he retreated from Afghanistan because the United States couldn’t keep spending money indefinitely on the failed country. And yet, as soon as he fled, abandoning Americans behind enemy lines, he’s spending another $64 million on Afghanistan.
And a percentage of that money will inevitably fall into the hands of Islamic terrorists.
America can pull out of Afghanistan, but our leaders refuse to stop funding the Taliban.
Infidel says
I regret all the years I was a fan of Microsoft. Right now, this computer I’m typing on runs Debian Linux, and I recently (somewhat reluctantly, given it’s Google) bought a Lenovo Chromebook. Windows gets worse by the day, and the day Microsoft switches it to Windows 365, where you pay them annually for the same OS, I’m gone from there (it’s there on my other laptop)
Raja says
Infidel,
Bill Gates, was never a “straight man”. He bent the rules, probably bribed governments (as his product was sold to mainly govts), tried eating up smaller competitors by hitting below the belt and so on. But post exit he has been into education, and charities, some with good intentions. I understand, he is lately converted to conservative values. I still need to know more on that before commenting further.
Though ignorance is no excuse in law, he can be shown some leniency for ignorance about evils of madrasas. Those with mountain of evidence on the allah, the seeker of blood sacrifice of infidels, like mullah Francis and mullah Biden are biggest threat to world order.(whatever order is left)
Infidel says
Raja
No, he’s not into conservative anything. His pet project worldwide is population control, which has been working too well just about everywhere, which explains why in Europe, Japan and the US, you have an aging population. The only countries that are seeing population booms are muslim countries as well as the rest of Africa, which could potentially one day dwarf both China and India
As you probably know, he recently celebrated the fact that his older daughter is marrying a muslim, and that too an Egyptian one, rather than a home grown muslim who’s merely a nerd about islam. And coming to think about it, Arabic was one of the first non-Roman script languages supported by Microsoft Office, back in the day when IT hadn’t yet taken off in a big way
Raja says
Infidel,
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, the computer nerd has gone cuckoo in many ways. These are the people who don’t even acknowledge God and suffer the consequences. The first organ to be impaired is the brain, called heart in the Scriptures. Such people are beyond redemption, that is why we are seeing so many wokes, nuts and what not. They have everything but commonsense and an iota of self respect.
Romans 1: 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
Self-abasement was a problem in Europe, like in India. But the Europeans and their offshoots have perfected the art of self-abasement, mainly due to Leftism (lately) islam is having a gala time harvesting on the evil spirit sent theories of class struggles and other valuable nonsense.
Colossians 2
18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.
Notice here that mullah Francis is a proponent of just the opposite of what the Scriptures say! The eternal speculation that a pope could be an anti-Christ is unfolding right in front of our eyes !
somehistory says
The infamous Windows 95 was supposed to make life so much easier…supposed to be something wonderful produced by those more intelligent than the rest of us. However, many people who used it, and who use other versions, are unaware that 95 was built full of errors…and released full of those errors intentionally.
gates wanted it on the market. $$$ was all that mattered.
he wanted members of the public who bought the program, who bought computers containing the program, to find the errors and report them…so his team could fix them in the next version.
What a; creep. And he cares nothing for children. His infamous vaccinations that were supposed to save Africa’s children, actually were for the purpose of lowering the population…by killing children out-right and by causing infertility.
There is video of gates saying that he could lower earth’s population by “vaccinations.” he is a big funder….and gaining big dollars…in the latest clot shot.
The u.n. is filled with mozlums. The u.n. has a large number of its member nations run/controlled by mozlums. Many mozlums came out in favor of the taliban when it was announced that they had “won” the war and Americans had lost in afghanistan.
Putting all of those facts together, the children of afghanistan have nothing to gain and much to lose by attending “school.”
Infidel says
On Windows 95, it was something that was heavily hyped and kept getting delayed: I’d keep reading about it in computer magazines like PC Magazine, Byte and others when I was in college in 1993-94 (it was code-named Chicago, and got the name Windows 95 when Microsoft got the name ‘Windows’ registered). Yeah, it was a pretty brittle OS, and Windows 98 was even worse. What changed things for Windows was when they merged the NT and the 95 codebases in Windows XP
No, that’s a more recent trend that happened under Steve Ballmer. Previously, Microsoft did have a Quality control group that managed releases, which is why most of them took a while to get released. Every one until Windows 7, the last good Windows
Windows 8 was what changed everything: Microsoft disbanded its QC group and decided to have the public beta-test it, and report all errors. I too participated in the initial beta test for Windows 10 until it was first released. Unfortunately, the Windows 8 interface – Metro – absolutely sucked: one major peeve of mine was that if the cursor that I was typing on got to the right edge of the screen, it would pop up the settings bar and stop accepting my keystrokes until I moused over. It was so irritating that I deleted Windows 8 from this laptop, and ever since then, always had either a FreeBSD or Linux distro running (it’s now running Debian)
If Gates puts his population control plans into full throttle in muslim countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Egypt, ‘Palestine’, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, et al, I’d be fine w/ him. However, it wouldn’t make me go back to Windows
somehistory says
I worked for a temp company and when 95 came out, I was sent to a large company to work in their credit department because some of their staff was learning the program…they were going to install it in all their offices and needed people to know how to use it.
They had the program installed and there were two people in the office where I was sent who had gone to chicago to train on it.
They had come back all ready to go.
I was doing some data entry and processing and suddenly, the system told me that I couldn’t perform a function because it was “copyrighted”…and yet, it was information that **I ** had entered.
I tried several times to change it, but it kept telling me I didn’t have the authority to change it due to the copyright…that it was copyrighted material.
I went to first one and then the other employee who had trained on the program…the company had spent big money to get them trained, and they were the experts in the office.
I told the first one exactly what I had done and then tied to do. She worked for some time, asking me questions and trying to get it to work, but got the same message I had.
The other guy was called in and he worked for some time on it, asking questions, etc. but he couldn’t change it either.
Because it was a huge company and had spent a lot of money on the program, they contacted the office in chicago.
This is when it was revealed to them…and then to me…that the error was one they had allowed to be and that the next product would fix it.
So, I stand by my statement. I was *there,* so to speak. And I recall it clearly because when it happened, I actually thought it was my fault that the *error* happened.
Infidel says
Interesting! Typically, w/ Microsoft, every other OS tended to have bugs – 95 had bugs, 98 was okay, ME had bugs, then XP was okay…
somehistory says
It rattled me. I was sure I had broken their new computer, and even after I was told that I had not done anything wrong, I didn’t want to do any more computer work…and my specialty was data entry, being fast at it, at so many different companies.
It took me some time to get over my fear of another bad experience.
Silly, I know, but it was my ‘work’ and the others had been specially trained on that ‘new’ program.
I liked the XP the best. I think they should have stopped there and not made any more “improvements.”
The 8 was kind of poor, and the 10 is not near as good as XP, imo.
mortimer says
Shocking that they are making Americans pay for the Taliban to indoctrinate children with hate directed against Americans.
ABSURD! Would these Leftists pay for the Nazis to indoctrinate the Hitler Youth? It’s analogous.
Oren says
Whats A few token terrorist attacks killing A few western people, if you get to mass murder muslims with the vaccines? You need to kill A few Jews and white people in order to get street credentials. Haven’t you heard that the jihadis weren’t allowing vaccinations to occur? That is A disaster for the punishment arm of the UN. In G-d I trust.
CogitoErgoSum says
Why does Gordon Brown believe it is the obligation of the West to help the children of Afghanistan to grow up into the leaders of tomorrow? Why does he think that? What moral code taught him to think that way? Do the parents of those children in Afghanistan have the same moral code as Gordon Brown and do they want their children to be taught to be leaders of tomorrow who will use the same moral code as Gordon Brown? Do the people of Afghanistan think that Gordon Brown’s children should be the leaders of tomorrow? If Gordon Brown is going to start educating people he should first make sure the leaders of tomorrow will not someday be leading an army into his country and forcing his grandchildren to learn a moral code far different from his own – a moral code that teaches his grandchildren should be treated like shit if they dare question the moral code of Islam.
Infidel says
It’s that ‘White Man’s burden’ myth, started by one Rudyard Kipling. When the worst thing the Brits did was prevent the complete deislamization of India in their ‘Great Game’, whereas Russia, by contrast, ensured that Turkistan never again became the source of muslim marauders pillaging everything from Delhi to Moscow when they terminated the khanates of Xeva and Buqhara
Raja says
Exactly Infidel,
The same thing was popping my mind. ! Economist Swaminathan Ankleshwar Iyer, deals with this subject rather curiously.
I wonder if deislamization will ever be 100% successful, though the West has the means to get closer to that with all the tech giants and censorship. A reverse osmosis if you will.