The guardians of acceptable opinion will tut-tut at the Taliban’s “hardline” stance, but they’re busy implementing speech restrictions in the West, so they don’t really have a leg to stand on to object to this. Before too long, it will likely be illegal in the U.S. to engage in “insulting verse of the Qur’an,” or […]
Biden’s handlers loosen terrorism designation to allow Afghans ‘forced’ to aid Taliban to get asylum
How can Biden’s handlers establish, at this distance of time and space, whether or not these people were “forced”? They can’t. But really, what could possibly go wrong? “Some Afghan refugees now have a chance to avoid terrorism designation that blocked their path to U.S.,” by Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2022: Doctors, […]
10 months after Biden proclaimed al-Qaeda ‘severely degraded’ in Afghanistan, UN warns it has ‘safe haven’ there
“We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We did that. We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan.” — Old Joe Biden, lying again on August […]
Afghanistan: Taliban leader backs women’s education, as long as it’s only in Sharia
How will they learn to be properly subservient without a good Sharia education? “Taliban Leader Backs Girls’ Right To Education But Wants Them To Only Learn Sharia Lessons,” by Riya Baibhawi, Republic World, May 23, 2022: A senior Taliban leader has advocated for women’s right to education, saying that it is right based on Islamic […]
Taliban Stop Pretending to be Nice, Order Women to Wear Burkas and Stay Home
After their takeover, the Taliban initially began pretending that they had a brand new attitude. What the Islamists were really after was cash. Billions in foreign aid and Afghanistan’s foreign holdings. They seem to have decided that they’re not getting them anyway and it’s time to stop pretending. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan […]
Pentagon Says It Only Left Behind $7,000,000,000 in Equipment to Terrorists
Some arguments are not really worth having. The debate over how much American military equipment had been left behind in Afghanistan is one of those. The real answer is that we don’t know and by ‘we’, I don’t just mean us, but the White House and the Pentagon don’t really know. The sheer amount of […]
TikTok vs. Taliban
One is a bunch of hardened sociopaths and the other are the Taliban. While humanitarian aid workers keep claiming that everyone is dying in Afghanistan, it sounds like the Taliban have a lot of spare time on their hands. Taliban on Thursday enforced a ban on TikTok and PUBG in Afghanistan saying that the apps were leading Afghanistan’s youths to go astray. Sharing the […]
Taliban Threaten Pakistan With War, Pakistan Bombs Afghanistan
It’s sad when friends fight. Also entirely deserved. Pakistan’s intel people and regime are the major backers of the Taliban. They also helped shield Al Qaeda and other Taliban allies. But there are the “good Taliban” in Afghanistan and the “bad Taliban” in Afghanistan. Like most Islamist regimes, the Pakis are enthusiastic about Jihad… somewhere […]
Russia hands over Afghan embassy in Moscow to the Taliban, Islamic flag is raised
Russia’s move gives legitimacy to the Taliban, but India’s Rakesh Sood is correct that the most important endorsement the Taliban needs is from the West, since it wants Western money. But Sood observes that “their actions on girls’ education have further restricted that option.” It isn’t only girls’ education that’s the problem. The Taliban has […]
Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover
The Taliban’s greatest asset isn’t opium. It’s our foreign aid. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Over two decades the United States and its international partners poured billions in humanitarian aid into Afghanistan. Much of that aid […]