Pakistan has been busy helping the Taliban concretize its legitimacy. Last year, Pakistan gave visas to Taliban “diplomats” and began collaboration at the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. Yet the goal of the Taliban, and in fact, every jihadi and jihad state, is a worldwide caliphate, established by means of violence and/or deceit. The free world […]
Taliban’s supreme leader declares: ‘We will engage with global community based on Sharia’
In Islam, no law is higher than the Sharia, so it should have been obvious from the outset that the Taliban’s supreme leader would eventually say that the group will engage with the global community “based on Sharia.” The Taliban has always enforced the Sharia, and will continue to do so, as well as to […]
Taliban willing to send troops to India for training
In a world without America as leader, the order becomes the laws of the jungle and survival of the fittest. Alliances are now being strengthened in a manner reminiscent of those seen in maximum security prisons, where in order to survive, one must ally with friends of mutual convenience, no matter how dangerous they are, […]
Taliban enforces face-cover order for all females, including TV anchors
The Taliban is following Islamic teachings about female coverings. (Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their […]
Afghan analysts: Oslo talks and other forms of engagement imply ‘de facto’ recognition of Taliban government
To include the jihadist Taliban in diplomatic negotiations is no different from engaging the Islamic State. It is an inexcusable normalizing of Taliban jihadists and demonstrates how clueless Western leaders are in understanding the jihadist modus operandi. The Taliban has made no secret about its intention to spread the Sharia regionally and ultimately globally, using extreme […]
Christian extremists blow up girls’ school — no, wait…
Everybody knows that Christianity is just as likely as Islam to inspire murderous violence in its adherents. Someday everybody will get some evidence to support this. The point is not really about Christianity or moral equivalence at all. It is about the continued evasion and refusal to confront the doctrine and ideology behind this kind […]
Progress: Jihadis dynamite schools in NW Pakistan
If the books agree with the Koran, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical. “Taliban dynamite schools in NW Pakistan: official,” from AFP, December 9 (thanks to James): PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys’ schools in Pakistan’s Khyber district, where troops are pressing an offensive against […]
Obama adviser to McChrystal on defeating the Taliban: “Is that really what you think your mission is?”
Of course not. We’re way beyond “victory” now. Everyone knows that enemies are defeated by building schools, roads, and hospitals. In any case, now we know that Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan is not intended to subdue (much less “kill every member of,” as an Obama aide describes defeating them) the Taliban. What it is […]
Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art
Imperiled Islam, of course, forbids representational art. And we all saw what happened to the Buddhas of Bamiyan. More on this story. “Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art from the Gandhara period,” from Asia News, November 27 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Pakistani and foreign archaeologists have set off the alarm bell, warning […]
Taliban misunderstands Islam, promises repeat of Fort Hood jihad massacre
“Taliban” means, of course, “students.” I.e., students of Islam. But somehow they have missed the peaceful teachings of Islam that are so plain and patent to everyone else that only “Islamophobes” have trouble seeing them. How is it that these students of Islam don’t know, as Obama put it yesterday, that “no faith justifies these […]