Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Kandahar: Taliban kill 18-year-old woman working at development company

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The intrepid mujahedin, killing 18-year-olds on their way home from work. And still they seek to establish a pious earthly paradise through terror, and enforced ignorance and squalor. Funny how that never quite seems to work. “18-year-old Afghan woman slain in campaign of fear,” by Kathy Gannon for the Associated Press, April 13: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan […]

U.S.-backed Afghan President Karzai threatens to join Taliban

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Now wait a minute: isn’t Karzai a modern moderate Muslim who abhors the Taliban’s extremism and twisting and hijacking of the peaceful religion of Islam? “Lawmakers: Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban,” by Amir Shah and Christopher Bodeen for AP, April 5 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): KABUL (AP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over […]

Taliban actively training child suicide bombers

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The intrepid mujahedin, bravely outsourcing the jihad to children. “New West Point report details meticulous training Taliban kids go through at Pakistani terror school,” by James Gordon Meek for the New York Daily News, March 28: WASHINGTON – Pakistani terror camps are teaching children the three R’s: reading, ‘riting and rage. Taliban suicide schools dotting […]

Iranians training Taliban: “Our religions and our histories are different but our target is the same. We both want to kill Americans.”

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If I had a nickel for all the times people in audiences where I’ve spoken, or emailers to this site, or learned analysts with whom I’ve debated, or any number of other people have told me confidently that Islam is not a monolith, that the umma is rent by deep divisions, and that the simple […]

Pakistan: Mob of “pro-Taliban radicals” beats student to death for playing music

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Emulating Muhammad’s profound hostility toward music. “Student beaten to death for playing music,” from Big News Network, March 20: A student has died after being beaten to death by pro-Taliban radicals at a Pakistani university. The beating, which occurred earlier in the week, culminated in the death of Anan Khan, who attended the University of […]

Japan offered to hide Bamiyan statues, but Taliban asked Japan to convert to Islam instead

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As far as the Taliban is concerned, the Bamiyan Buddhas were worthless trash from the jahiliyya period of Afghanistan — the time of pre-Islamic ignorance. “Japan offered to hide Bamiyan statues, but Taliban asked Japan to convert to Islam instead,” from Japan Today, February 27 (thanks to Twostellas): WASHINGTON — Japan offered to hide Afghanistan’s […]

Premature detonation kills five Taliban

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If these premature detonations continue, there will have to be a fatwa on whether these guys are entitled to the virgins or not. “Five Taliban killed while planting bombs in Kurram,” from the Daily Times, February 24 (thanks to Twostellas): PARACHINAR: Five Taliban were killed and four others were injured on Tuesday when the explosives […]

“I conspired with others to join the Taliban, to fight along with the Taliban against the United States”

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Islamophobia at its most intense: “He pleaded guilty to three counts: conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to a terrorist organization.” More on this story. “Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty in New York terrorism plot,” from CNN, February 22 (thanks to Mackie): NEW […]

Taliban Rape Tapes: A “Muslim Abu Ghraib”

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Unspeakable barbarism among the Taliban, the students of Islam. “Taliban Rape Tapes: A ‘Muslim Abu Ghraib,’” by my friend the bestselling novelist Brad Thor at Big Journalism, February 12: With breaking news out of Palestine today that a top aide to President Mahmoud Abbas has been literally caught with his pants down, rape tapes seem […]

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