Officially, Iran is unperturbed by the rapid Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. After all, America’s 20-year effort came apart more quickly than anyone imagined; that should gladden the Iranians. But there is also uncertainty about what a Taliban takeover will mean, in the end, for the Islamic Republic. A report on Iran’s view just before […]
Afghanistan: Sunni jihadists murder 13 Shi’ites on a minibus
The Sunni/Shi’te jihad has killed far more people than the trumped-up propaganda term “Islamophobia.” Yet no one seems particularly concerned about it as a human rights issue. Perhaps too much concern about it would in itself be “Islamophobic.” “Gunmen kill 13 civilians on a minibus in north Afghanistan,” Reuters, September 5, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): […]