My latest in PJ Media:
When the Taliban distributed their list of members of their new government, Biden’s terminally naïve and deluded State Department handlers were not happy. State wonks issued a strongly-worded statement Tuesday scolding the jihadis: “We have made clear our expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government.” On what basis State’s “experts” have decided that what the Afghan people really deserve is a government that looks like Georgetown was not explained, but the statement went on to complain that the Taliban’s new government “consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates and no women.” And not only that: the Taliban have dropped the Ministry for Women’s Affairs altogether, and replaced it with a feature of their first regime: the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
A Kabul resident explained what is likely coming: “People have stopped listening to loud music in public … fearing the past experiences from when the Taliban last ruled. I personally didn’t see any forced prayers. But there is fear in everyone’s minds.” According to the Washington Post, the last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, there were “forces patrolling the streets, shutting down shops and markets at prayer time. They beat people caught listening to music and frowned upon dancing, kite-flying, and American-style haircuts. Squads of the ministry’s morality police punished those who disobeyed modesty codes, with beards too thin or ankles that showed. They banished girls from school and women from the workplace and the public eye. A woman could not venture outside without a male guardian.”
They call it the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice, but what the Taliban are actually doing is reestablishing an empire of fear. This police force (which apparently entered the headquarters of an all-female orchestra and destroyed the instruments, because music is un-Islamic) doesn’t really have anything to do with authentic virtue at all. Virtue involves choosing to do what is good because it is good, out of love for God and/or a conviction that it is right, no matter what the cost may be involved in choosing it.
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By contrast, in an empire of fear such as what the Taliban are setting up today, people don’t choose the good because it is good. They obey the dictates of those with the guns and the whips. They do so because they don’t dare step out of line, not out of an authentic understanding that the path of moral and ethical uprightness is preferable to the alternative, much less out of love for God, but because they are afraid of what would happen to them if they did depart from Islam’s vision of morality.
When people are unable to choose to do evil, their choosing of the good is merely a manifestation of fear and the power of coercion. Those who have no choice but to be good demonstrate nothing about whether their beliefs enable or inspire them to choose the good when they could just as easily not do so.
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gravenimage says
The Taliban’s Sharia Police Are Back, and They’re Mad
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When are they *not* mad–in both senses of the word?
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By contrast, in an empire of fear such as what the Taliban are setting up today, people don’t choose the good because it is good. They obey the dictates of those with the guns and the whips. They do so because they don’t dare step out of line, not out of an authentic understanding that the path of moral and ethical uprightness is preferable to the alternative…
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This is quite true.
But another deeply concerning issue is that what Islam deems good and evil seldom has much in common with that of the civilized world. Under Islam, raping a small girl is prefectly Islamic, but a girl speaking to an unrelated relative is grounds for stoning her to death.
God, I hate Islam.
jule says
Who is a prophet whose beliefs and teachings are opposite jesus? Who says stone the woman do not forgive, use a sword of steel not truth, die for holiness not live for God, etc. What is ANTI?
jule says
The insanity that is Taught to people. They are not born that way but created. What would create such horror?
bill says
Just as totalitarian as USSR and Nazi Germany and in some ways worse.Thye are modelling themselves on Iran.
mortimer says
No, Bill. They are using Sunnite books and Sunnite Sharia law manuals. PURE SUNNISM.
Bruce Watt says
like in the book Gulivers travels, the Sunnis open the eggs at the small end and the Shiites open the egg from the large end, very little of their Sharia law dictates differs. they will kill each other as heretics but will kill any one else as infidels.
Walter Sieruk says
The title of this above article is “The Taliban Police Are Back ,and They are Mad.”
Well so what their always man. They are madmen. Meaning crazy , Islamic crazy.
jule says
psychopathic saddists.
Walter Sieruk says
What you keyboarded is 100% true.
By the way,above I made an error ,again, what I meant to keyboard is “So what ? Their always mad… “
JimJFox says
“So what? They’re always mad”?
mortimer says
When I read the following, I was stunned by the ignorance: “We have made clear our expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government.”
With unprepared know-nothing in the State Department writing such clueless messages, it will not surprise me when general jihad breaks loose in several place.
The State Department now has a sign on its back reading ‘KICK ME’ … and all jihadists see it.
wpm says
The state department and everyone else appointed and approve by a senile angry old man(Biden the unvax Americans are the real enemies of America) are manning this ship of fools straight over the water falls. They will help bring about the fall of western civilization ,trying to shame with idiotic wokeism these jihadist whose in their Islamic addled minds have a god given right to either enslave us, convert us or kill us nothing else matters to them in this end game fought over 1400 years .What is the state departments tools to stop the Jihadist? Mean statements issued by the state department, tweets, disapproving frowns by talking heads on MSM, leaving 100,200 ,unknown number of Americans at the tender mercies of the Taliban in Afghanistan as hostages ?Leaving billions worth of American arms, leaving state of the art airports for future use by the Taliban, or Pakistan ,or the China ??Woke generals trying to teach CRT and sort out their “white rage” as they order our brave troops the truly good brave Americans to stand down to not getting Americans safely home from Afghanistan. Will this encourage future jihadist to attack America or the west in general? Will our allies have any reason to trust us with a president who hides in his basement on vacation!! and refuses to answer their questions as this operation cut ,run , Afghanistan leaving their citizens British, French citizens who worked side by side with Americans in Afghanistan??WE could have withdrew in some kind of an orderly manner, taking our citizens our allies and Afghan people who worked wit us ,taking or destroying our arms left behind .No we have a senile old man set a date announce what where and how we withdraw. We have an Afghan army that after 20 years our CIA(who have been involved there since 1979 40+ years) and other intelligence agencies could not foreseen they would cut and run??When they the Afghan Army did start to cut and run in early July we did nothing to protect our people there or our allies??Because of the deadline our senile old man in the Whitehouse set!! Now on September 11,2021 we have a cowardly ,senile, angry, confused ,old man who strugglers to read and follow the script his handlers give him what could possible go wrong?
OLD GUY says
Taliban sharia police, talk about defunding the police, now here’s a cause worth the fight. Put no Joe and the left ran away. The state department has its head so far up its ass they can’t see day light. Diversity, inclusiveness, and freedom don’t exsist under islamic rule. Maybe if the state department sends them a few billion more of our tax dollars the Taliban will put a token women in a cabinet seat? What a deal, and the state department cronies will brag about their great success.
Ed says
These so called police are the same still used in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabism is the poison that keeps fueling this behavior via Saudi money. American Muslims largely use cafeteria style adherence to Islam. Many view their version as Islam as Reformed. Problem being, in majority Muslim countries there is no such thing unless you are incredibly wealthy along the gulf and then can basically party all you want.