“It’s hard to explain what the thinking was in letting out people who were a threat to the Taliban.” No, it isn’t, but it’s not surprising that a senior UN counterterrorism official would be clueless and ignorant. Either al-Logari was not actually a threat to the Taliban, or the Taliban knew (or were hoping) he […]
Afghanistan: Taliban ‘sentences TV to death,’ smashes musical instruments as forbidden in Islam
“‘Imran bin Husain narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: ‘In this Ummah there shall be collapsing of the earth, transformation and Qadhf.’ A man among the Muslims said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! When is that?’ He said: ‘When singing slave-girls, music, and drinking intoxicants spread.’” (Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2212) “It was narrated from Abu Malik […]
‘It is the duty of the world, especially the US…to come and rebuild the Afghan economy’
“It is the duty of the world, especially the US…to come and rebuild the Afghan economy.” Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center specializing in investigative reporting on the Left and Islamic terrorism. The Biden administration could pull the troops out of Afghanistan, but the actual withdrawal will never […]
Afghanistan: Taliban forbid drivers to play music in cars
Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella songs encouraging jihad), I am excoriated as a greasy Islamophobe, but it’s nonetheless true: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith Qudsi, or […]
Taliban: No Hijab, No Taxi
Islamist propaganda claims that the hijab is empowering for women, when in reality it’s a sort of vaccine passport. You need it to set foot out of the house, creating the illusion of a mobile purdah, a form of ritual segregation. The Biden administration recently praised the Taliban’s openness to women’s rights. Meanwhile, the Taliban […]
Afghanistan: Taliban implements ‘no travel for women’ rule unless accompanied by male guardian
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have stated “that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.” Why, of course. The male guardianship program is a stipulation of Islamic law. What’s more, the Taliban has fashioned its system of governance after that of […]
Taliban Already Seizing ‘Humanitarian Aid’
The Biden argument has been that we can and should dispatch over a hundred million dollars of humanitarian aid and that we can safely fund and stock aid efforts in Afghanistan because somehow the Taliban won’t get their hands on it. That fiction has quickly fallen apart. Taliban militants pulled guns on United Nations aid workers and took off […]
Did the Taliban Put People on Biden’s Evacuation Flights to Cash In On Remittances?
The big question of the Biden evacuation from Afghanistan is who were the +50,000 Afghans he brought to America? The vast majority of them had no visas (though Biden’s people will retroactively make sure they get them) and don’t fit the profile of the interpreters or human rights activists his administration claimed were coming. […]
Taliban Minister: U.S. Must ‘Come and Rebuild the Afghan Economy’
Didn’t we already build the Afghan economy? And finance the Taliban? But enough is never enough. Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said the US is responsible for the existing crisis in Afghanistan and that the US should play an active role in the Afghan economy because Afghanistan’s economy was damaged over the past 20 […]
Pakistan: Muslims murder cop guarding polio team amid claims vax is Western conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children
This has happened in Afghanistan as well. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers. “Militants Kill Policeman Guarding Pakistan Polio Team,” by Ayaz Gul, VOA News, December 11, 2021: Officials in northwestern Pakistan […]