Not that the Taliban has anything to do with Islam, as all the learned experts in the West assure us… “Taliban detains American and 17 others in Afghanistan for ‘propagating and promoting Christianity,’” by Alyssa Guzman, New York Post, September 16, 2023: The Taliban raided the offices of a Swiss nonprofit group based in Afghanistan, […]
UN rights top dog says ‘human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse,’ calls on Taliban to ‘change course’
Does Volker Türk really believe his own blather? Does he have no understanding whatsoever of the fact that the Taliban have imposed Sharia, which they consider to be divine law, upon Afghanistan, and aren’t going to exchange what they think is divine law for a place in the global human rights establishment? Why does every […]
Afghanistan: Taliban appoint 550 teachers of ‘Islamic culture’ to public universities
But remember: all the most learned Western analysts continue to assure us that they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam! “Taliban moves to entrench policy banning women from HE,” by Shadi Khan Saif, University World News, September 7, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The Taliban-run higher education ministry in Afghanistan recently announced […]
Joe Biden’s World: Pakistan Shuts Border Crossing with Afghanistan After Guards Fire Upon Each Other
New in PJ Media: The world has become a significantly more dangerous place since the Biden regime began implementing its America-Last policies. The latest indication of this came on Wednesday, when border guards of Afghanistan and Pakistan fired upon one another, leading to the closing of one of the most important border crossings between the […]
Afghanistan: sharp rise in female suicides ‘explicitly linked’ to Taliban oppression
According to the Middle East Institute, the Taliban’s “religious roadmap for Afghanistan” is grounded in strict Sharia, as Jihad Watch has frequently stated. The Taliban pledge: We are devout Muslims who fight for God and oppose corrupt leaders — whether they are former Afghan communists, jihadi leaders, or educated technocrats — and we have an alternative […]
Afghanistan: Taliban warns Pakistani government about targeting Pakistan Taliban as conciliatory efforts falter
Less than two weeks ago, Afghanistan and Pakistan made efforts toward improving relations; Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada declared that the cross-border attacks on Pakistani security forces by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan were “haram,” and formally “terminated the jihad or holy war.” Afghan Defense minister Muhammad Yaqoob stated of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that if they “continue to […]
UN: Taliban tortured and killed at least 200 former Afghan officials since US left, despite promising their safety
What about the Americans still held by the Taliban, in the face of the news that at least 200 former Afghanistan officials who were “assured that they would be not targeted” are now reported to have been murdered? This is what they endured from the current Taliban regime: On August 19, 2021, Joe Biden promised: […]
Relax: UK Muslim Prof Says Taliban Are Misunderstanding Islam
New in PJ Media: Over in the Afghanistan That Old Joe Biden Built, the status of women continues to worsen. Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, who is the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said Thursday that “it is very bad to see women (without the hijab) in some areas,” but he went much farther, […]
Taliban say women’s faces must be covered, but UK Muslim convert prof says they’re misunderstanding the religion
Tim Winter, an Englishman who converted to Islam in 1979, says he knows Islam better than the Taliban and suggests that they themselves admit this: “The word Taliban means students.” He asserts that “there was no scriptural mandate in Islam for face coverings and the Taliban would struggle to find anything in Islamic scripture that […]
65 jihadis identified as ‘national security risks’ were granted entry into the US after fall of Afghanistan
Is the Biden regime really just catastrophically incompetent, or did this operation go according to plan? It does so much to weaken the United States, can it be said with any certainty that this wasn’t another such operation? “EXCLUSIVE – 65 Afghan terrorists were let into the U.S. after Biden’s chaotic withdrawal: Prisoner freed by […]