It’s amusing to see Ebrahim Raisi, the infamous “butcher of Tehran” who sentenced 5,000 political prisoners to death, now expressing his alarm over the reemergence of ISIS in Afghanistan. As a Shi’a mass murderer, Raisi is naturally alarmed at the Sunni mass murderers regrouping right next door. And as a past master of taqiyya […]
Afghanistan: Taliban replace women’s ministry with Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
This is part of the systematic subjugation of women under the Taliban. Other forms of subjugation are more crude and abusive. The UK’s Sun describes the graphic truth about how the Taliban treats women as it continues to gain global legitimacy: WORSE THAN ISIS Inside Taliban’s horrifying medieval executions as women are beheaded & stoned […]
When the Taliban Teamed Up With Bill Gates and UNICEF
Is taxpayer money going to train the terrorists of tomorrow? Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. When the Taliban set up their political operation in Doha, under the aegis of the Islamist state of Qatar, it […]
Afghanistan: Jihad suicide bomber who killed 169 Afghans and 13 Americans had just been freed from Bagram prison
If Biden’s handlers had spent more time planning the withdrawal from Afghanistan and less on enforcing woke orthodoxy upon the military, these people might be alive today. “Kabul Airport suicide attacker was freed by Taliban after four years in CIA custody for New Delhi terror plot,” by Praveen Swami, Firstpost, September 19, 2021: The Islamic […]
The Taliban’s Broken Promises On the Treatment of Women
As soon as it came to power, the Taliban assured the world that it had mellowed considerably since it last ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. Now, we were assured, the Taliban would uphold the rights of women. Girls would be allowed to go to school, even to university; women would be allowed to […]
Afghanistan: Taliban Demand a Billion Dollars in Aid to Stave Off Mass Poverty
Now that the Taliban have won, they want everyone else in the world to pay for Afghanistan’s upkeep. Their foreign minister has warned darkly of terrible suffering to come, if huge amounts of aid are not quickly forthcoming, and at once transferred to the Taliban, whose leaders are waiting with hands confidently outstretched in […]
Blinken Warned Taliban Could ‘Make Rapid Territorial Gains’ in March Letter
The architects of Biden’s Afghanistan disaster are all playing the, “I Knew Nothing” game. But there’s a good deal of evidence that they did know. In Wednesday’s article, I discussed Secretary of State Blinken’s culpability. 23 staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul signed a memo warning that the Taliban were about to take over Kabul and that […]
Phyllis Chesler Discusses Women under the Taliban, Past and Present
Feminist Phyllis Chesler is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at City University of New York and author of over 20 books. The return of Taliban jihadists to power in Afghanistan has particular resonance for her, as in 1961 she endured five months of seclusion in Kabul, Afghanistan, under her new Afghan husband’s command, […]
After years of publicly disavowing the group, Pakistan calls for world leaders to ‘engage’ with the Taliban
“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 52, Hadith 269) For years, Pakistan denied helping the Taliban, even as its support for the group was an open secret. Yet Westerners continue to take Islamic supremacist leaders at their word, including the Iranian regime that continues its pursuit of a nuke deal. For decades, Pakistan […]
Afghanistan: Taliban to remove subjects contradicting Sharia from university curriculum
Unfortunately, the report doesn’t list which subjects are considered to be contradicting Sharia. In any case, the Leftist Taliban in American universities is doing much the same thing, removing or deemphasizing subjects that don’t fit the far-Left agenda. That’s one reason why Leftists and jihadis get along so well: they’re both authoritarians who hate the […]