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 […]
Afghanistan: Protestors chant anti-Pakistan slogans and call for freedom
Freedom advocates do not have a bright future in Afghanistan, given the ruthlessness of the Taliban. Nonetheless, “hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the capital Kabul chanting anti-Pakistan slogans and calling for ‘freedom’, a day after resistance leader Ahmad Massoud called for an ‘uprising’ against the Taliban rule.” Anything reported out of Afghanistan […]
Fort Hood jihad mass murderer crows over Taliban victory: ‘We have won’
“We have won,” Hasan wrote, and the U.S. government is institutionally committed to ignoring and denying who the “we” are that he meant. The denial and willful ignorance regarding the global jihad is near-total. It’s absolute madness. “Fort Hood gunman congratulates Taliban from death row in handwritten letter,” by Pamela K. Browne, Washington Examiner, September […]
Taliban Paint Over George Floyd Mural in Kabul
My latest in PJ Media: In a striking depiction of the eclipse of twenty-first-century woke orthodoxy by Islamic rule, the Taliban have begun painting over a series of murals in Kabul, including one depicting George Floyd with the legend, in English, “I can’t breathe.” The murals were the most visible manifestations of the kind of society […]
Sri Lankan Navy seizes 336 kg of heroin from seven Pakistanis, drug trade emerges as major sponsor of jihad
The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested seven individuals and recovered 336 kg of heroin from their possession. All of them are Pakistani nationals who were using a multi-day fishing trawler for transporting drug consignments to other vessels. The stock of heroin recovered in an exhaustive operation after three weeks of surveillance and information sharing […]
Afghanistan: Taliban bring back their Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
They call it the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice, but the Taliban are actually reestablishing an empire of fear. In the empire of fear, people 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 […]
Taliban breaks into headquarters of all-female orchestra, destroys musical instruments
Today music died in Afghanistan. And with that a huge part of our culture died too. The once renowned all-female “Zohra Orchestra” was broken into and the Taliban attacked the insteuments. #Afganisthan pic.twitter.com/60lMpVza3g — Nahid Fattahi ناهید فتاحی (@NahidFattahi) September 9, 2021 Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella […]
State Department concerned that Taliban government doesn’t include any women
The naivete and self-delusion of these “foreign policy experts” is apparently bottomless. “State Department voices concerns over all-male Taliban government,” by Celine Castronuovo, The Hill, September 7, 2021: The State Department on Tuesday expressed concerns over the makeup of the new interim Afghan government announced by the Taliban, including the lack of female leaders and […]
Afghan resistance commander makes U-turn from agreeing to negotiate with Taliban to calling for national uprising
The Taliban is strong-arming its way to legitimacy, engaging in brutality similar to that which has been displayed by the Islamic State. But unlike the Islamic State, the Taliban is openly supported by Islamic countries such as Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Oman, and Iran, as well as by Hamas and even China. According to Al Jazeera, […]
Afghanistan: Taliban’s new government made up of ex-Guantanamo detainees and FBI’s most wanted
The newly-formed Taliban government in Afghanistan includes the most hardened jihadists. Appointees include ex-Guantanamo detainees and a man on the FBI’s most wanted list. Needless to say, no women have been appointed to the new so-called government. It is ludicrous that some in the West, such as the UK government, see “scope for dialogue” with […]