The Washington Post got the Army report on the debacle in Afghanistan and it tries to spin things discreetly. The report itself carefully leaves out key names and basic information. This would not have been tolerated from a GOP administration, but we all know how that goes. Even in this carefully filtered form, the story is […]
Biden Admin Only Told Staff to Evacuate As Taliban Took Kabul
How badly did the Biden administration mishandle the Afghanistan debacle? Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation. Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in […]
Biden’s handlers moving toward recognition of Taliban regime in Afghanistan
Why not? Biden’s handlers have supplied the Taliban with billions of dollars worth of military materiel. Why shouldn’t recognition follow? “America Appears To Be Edging Toward Recognition of Taliban Regime in Afghanistan,” New York Sun, January 28, 2022 (thanks to the Geller Report): America and its European allies, in what would be a final humiliation, […]
Afghanistan: Intelligence agents dump 3,000 litres of liquor into Kabul canal
Remember: if you suggest that some aspects of Sharia may be incompatible with Western society and law, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone altars, and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” (Qur’an 5:90) A hadith […]
Taliban released Islamic State Kabul airport jihad mass murderer from prison days before attack
“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 […]
Afghanistan: Women protesters injured in stampede after Taliban fires shots in the air
Recall the UN’s warning that Afghanistan women’s rights are a “red line.” That “red line” has been crossed repeatedly by the Taliban without any consequences from the UN. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council just “unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution that facilitates humanitarian aid to Afghanistan,” which is said to be “on the verge of economic […]
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 […]
Afghanistan: Jihad suicide bomber injures several people at passport office in Kabul
The jihadi was likely pursuing the promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111). Those trying to flee Afghanistan deserved this, in the bomber’s view, because they were trying to flee the governance of Allah. “Suicide bomber killed at Kabul passport office gate,” Reuters, December 23, 2021: A suicide […]
US, EU ‘deeply concerned’ about Taliban’s broken promises, condemn its ‘summary killings’
The Taliban is a jihadist group, similar to the Islamic State. Nonetheless, the UN takes the Taliban at its word. Western taxpayer money sent to Afghanistan will serve the Taliban’s primary goal of expanding the scope of the Sharia and abetting the group’s brutality, toward women in particular. The US and EU are apparently surprised […]