No one claimed responsibility for the attack during the awards ceremony for journalists at the Tabian Farhang Centre in Mazar-e Sharif, but the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) is the primary suspect, since it is a key rival of the Taliban and has intensified its attacks of late. ISIS-K seeks to regain control over […]
Afghanistan: Taliban’s vice and virtue agent murders a teenage girl for refusing marriage proposal
Mullah Yasin was not acting according to Islamic law, which does not require a woman to marry a man simply because he wants to marry her. However, the commodification of women under Islamic law leads to the idea that a woman is being intolerably and inexcusably impertinent if she doesn’t submit to anything she is […]
Afghanistan: Taliban shoots couple dead by for ‘moral corruption’
The Taliban‘s primary mission is to establish and expand the scope of the Sharia. Jihadis never hesitate to kill in pursuit of this. Not long after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, reports emerged that they were going door to door executing people. Days ago, a couple in Balkh Province was shot dead by the […]
Afghanistan: Taliban impose new restrictions on women, force men to grow beards
Is this the United States’ problem to solve? Should we stay in Afghanistan until doomsday? The U.S. should concentrate on making sure the Taliban don’t export their jihad activity. That’s all. But of course, our military today has other concerns, such as making sure there are no patriots among our armed forces. “Taliban Impose New […]
Afghanistan: 30 Muslims killed in mistake at bomb-making class at mosque
Don’t be Islamophobic, you greasy Islamophobe. This could happen anywhere. Remember all the close calls you’ve had at bomb-making classes at your local church. “30 Taliban killed in own IED explosion,” Khaama Press, February 13, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Security sources say a bomb blast at a mosque in Balkh province has […]
Afghanistan: Eight Muslims killed when the bomb they were manufacturing in a mosque blows up
A mosque? Why didn’t the mosquegoers explain to those storing this materiel that Islam was a religion of peace and that they shouldn’t thus desecrate a house of worship? No doubt that most learned of imams, Pope Francis, is on his way to Chahabar Bolak now to explain to the leaders of this mosque that […]