Tag: Afghanistan

Taliban leader orders followers to kill soldiers women and children…

* Again, we hear no protests from the ‘Islamic world’- that same Muslim ummah that constantly whines about “civilians, wedding parties, innocent women & children” being killed by those evil American soldiers is mute, blind and deaf when it comes to Taliban atrocities. Why could that be?

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Coordinated attacks in Peshawar; Taliban leader instructs followers to target soldiers’ homes and children

The Taliban launches another attack on Peshawar, even as they ask to return to the truce they failed to observe in the first place, so they can regroup and fail to observe it some more. “Bombs, gun battle, rock Pakistan’s Peshawar,” by Alamgir Bitani for Reuters, via JW

US Kills 35 Taliban Fighters in Combined Air and Ground Attack, Six Talibs Detonate Suicide Vests…Killing Nobody but Themselves…ZIP

Beslan every day: Taliban blows up (yet another) girls’ school

They did warn that, “If we now kill schoolgirls, you shouldn’t be surprised.” “Taliban blow up girls’ school in Hangu,” from the Daily Times, JW

Pakistan: Jihadists attack historic church, burn Bibles, destroy altar and cross — police reluctant to investigate

“They are not investigating it as they would if the attack had been on a mosque.”

“Suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban Militants Destroy Pakistan Church, Christians Say,” from Worthy News, May 26 (thanks toWeasel Zippers and JW)

Paki government vows to wipe out Taliban from Swat in the next 2-3 days

  • I’m not holding my breath:

“In Swat valley’s capital, Mingora, the business and administrative hub of the district, the military said troops carried out house-to-house searches, while clashes in the area left eight insurgents dead.” Now the Taliban’s “concern” for the people of Mingora makes sense.

“Swat capital to be clear of Taliban in days: Pak,” by Lehaz Ali for AFP

Moorthy S. Muthuswamy:

 The United States fails to understand Pakistan – whose army, not incidentally, sports the motto “Faith, piety, and holy war in the path of Allah” – for what it is: a member state of what the author calls “the axis of jihad,” which also includes Saudi Arabia and Iran. These three nations – with their arm’s-length proxy armies of the Taliban, al Qaeda and Hezbollah – are the most aggressive purveyors of what the book describes as “political Islam,” the jihadist creed based on Islamic doctrine that is destabilizing the world, from India’s Kashmir region to Britain’s old mill towns, from all of Israel to Parisian banlieues. More>>

U.S.: Afghan Taliban may receive as much money from foreign donors as it does from opium sales

“Senior U.S. officials said the Taliban received significant donations from Pakistan — where sympathy for the group is widespread in the country’s Pashtun community — and Gulf nations such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.”

Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert. And with respect to the involvement of Gulf nations, this story again demonstrates the urgency of achieving as much energy independence as possible, as quickly as possible. “Taliban’s Foreign Support Vexes U.S.,” by Yochi J. Dreazen for the Wall Street Journal, May 29 via JW

“The simple ultimatum — ‘stop hurting people or face death’ — is the only way you can talk to freaks that hate you and want you dead”

Some interesting Fox News opinions on the Taliban and truces: “Truces Mean Nothing to Nuts,” by Greg Gutfeld for Fox News, May 28, JW:

On Tuesday, the Pakistani Taliban decided that it wants a peace deal — kind of like the one they had originally before they ramped up killing and maiming people in awful ways (which to them, is basic yard work.) And then, quickly and appropriately, they got their hairy asses handed to them on a goat. 

No wonder they’re up for a truce!

And here we find another lesson on how the world really works: Truces mean nothing to people consumed by fanatic ideology. And a resident fool, I’m willing to suggest it’s the very unwillingness to compromise that makes them fanatics! And vice versa.

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One Day Sunni, Next Day Shiite

Afghanistan destroys books deemed insulting to Sunnis

“Books like these are more dangerous than Taliban bullets,” Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad told The Associated Press.

In the recent case, it was a load of pro-Shi’ite books from Iran that was destined for the bottom of the Helmand River. Ironically, the Afghan government has thus ignited sectarian strife by supposedly aiming to prevent it. And the question remains: are they concerned about Shi’ite Islam as a vehicle for Iranian influence, or simply because it is not Sunni Islam? Beyond that, there are several points of interest:

First, transparency is a prized attribute of a functional government, at least in the Western sense; it does not co-exist well with official corruption. But when a society and a government believes it is permissible to lie or equivocate in order to smooth things over or guard against non-believers (cf. Qur’an 3:28), there exists a disastrous precedent for how the government may do business when officials think no one is looking.

Second, the principle is expandable: What else will the government suppress in order not to “insult” this or that brand of Islam? Quite a bit, if the case of Syed Parwez Kambakhsh is any indication. And that begs the question of what kind of government Western forces are spending untold amounts of blood and treasure to prop up.

Above all, however, the story belies the harmony that would supposedly break out under a pure Islamic state: To say nothing of unbelievers, there could be no harmony as long as everyone was not in agreement about the “purity” of said state, and its fidelity to and enforcement of Sharia law. Even without the sense of entitlement of the “true believers” to govern and the call for open-ended warfare against unbelievers, stories like this make quite a case for the separation of religion and state.

From our Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss department: “Afghan gov’t destroys books it says insult Sunnis,” by Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt for the Associated Press, May 27, via Marisol from JW

Pakistan: Jihadists attack historic church, burn Bibles, destroy altar and cross — police reluctant to investigate

“They are not investigating it as they would if the attack had been on a mosque.”

“Suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban Militants Destroy Pakistan Church, Christians Say,” from Worthy News, May 26 (thanks toWeasel Zippers):

Yusuf rubs it: "serious development" fizzles…

  • Update: Conversion of Afghans to Christianity not imminent, go back to sleep, Yusuf!

Afghanistan: U.S. Military burns Bibles for fear they’d be used to convert Muslims

(CNN) — Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday. More>>

Today’s kuthba:

“He was delighted as it stiffened
And ripped right through his sock”- from  Frank Zappas Father O’bliviion

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Islamo agit prop Yusuf Irfan did his own little Abu Laban jihad, when he tried to follow the playbook of the deceased  instigator  of ‘cartoon Rage’,  who was so successful in stirring up kuffar-hatred a few years ago.

Yusuf tried to whip up a bit of fake outrage over US-troops,  accused  by Al Jizz  of evangelizing and handing out Bibles in Afghanistan. What could be a worse crime?

Somehow the ummah, which always spins like Iranian centrifuges, just didn’t take notice. Or could it be that they’re just getting tired of their own fanatical frenzy which, according to Winston Churchill, is more dangerous than ‘hydrophobia in a dog?’

 The malevolent Abu Laban  kicked the bucket since,  but the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy made history, when the soldiers of Allah went on  worldwide rampages that saw burning embassies and over hundred people killed in the process  (Muslims usually kill each other, when there are no infidels to murder and terrorize…)

All in all a classic case of incitement. As a lawyer Yusuf should know which laws apply for subversion and inciting violence . If the Fed’s are not onto him yet, concerned readers should bring it to their attention.

 Irfan should at least be on a watch list. His incitement could have worked. The stirring could have resulted in hundreds, if not thousands of Yusuf’s co-religionists running amok, smashing stuff and killing people. 

Whatever you do, have a nice day. And no matter how you do it, don’t forget to flush!

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Progress In Afghanistan

Crack me up: 

“the Islamic Republic never takes a fanatic, tribal-oriented and one-sided view”

oppressinggirlsUS court ruling may bankrupt the PLO

  • Was there ever a time when they were not bankrupt?

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people than the ‘Palestinians.’

A United States District Court judge in Rhode Island has rejected a motion to vacate a default judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), allowing a $116 million judgment in favor of the family of two victims of ‘Palestinian’ terror to stand. The case involves the family of Yaron and Ephrat Unger HY”D (may God avenge their blood), who were murdered by ‘Palestinian’ terrorists in 1996. The Ungers left over two children, one of whom was in their car with them when they were murdered, who are being raised by Mrs. Unger’s parents. In the process, the judge, Ronald Lagueux of the District of Rhode Island, ripped the PLO and its leadership.

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Fatwas of the day

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 “Only the Taliban had enforced sharia when they were in power in Afghanistan”

  • With thanks to the Elder of Ziyon
From the Daily Times (Pakistan): 

LAHORE: It is un-Islamic for anyone to be photographed, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad has said.

Talking to a private TV channel, he said any duplicated image of a person, whether a “still picture or video” was un-Islamic. Referring to the various systems of governance, he said democracy, communism, socialism and fascism were all un-Islamic. He also said there was no need for a constitution in the country in the presence of the Quran and Sunnah, adding these were the “biggest laws” available to humanity. Focusing on democracy, he said it was un-Islamic, as infidels invented it.

Sufi Muhammad said the sharia system of governance not currently in force anywhere in the world, not even Saudi Arabia or Iran. “Only the Taliban had enforced sharia when they were in power in Afghanistan,” he added.
On the status of women in a Taliban-run society, he said women were not allowed to come out of their house for any reason other than to perform Haj. However, he added, a female patient was allowed to visit a male doctor to seek a cure for her ailments.

Glad he cleared that up, heh!

Diana West: Time to Pull the Plug on Afghanistan!

West: “Trying to transform Afghanistan into an anti-jihad, anti-Sharia player…is like trying to roll Sisyphus’ rock up the hill”

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As we have long noted here, in a state like Afghanistan, the proponents of Sharia will never accept a democratic republic — it’s Islamic law or war. So what exactly are U.S. forces going to accomplish there?  (Or, in the words of Sheik yer’mami: “is it progress if we teach cannibals to use fork and knife?)

“Let Afghanistan Go,” by Diana West, April 23 (thanks to JW):

[…] Don’t get me wrong: If killing small bands of Taliban is in the best interest of the United States, I’m for it. But I do not believe it is — and certainly not as part of the grand strategy conceived first by the Bush administration and now expanded by the Obama administration to turn Afghanistan into a state capable of warding off what is daintily known as “extremism,” but is, in fact, bona-fide jihad to advance Sharia (Islamic law). Anybody remember Sisyphus? Well, trying to transform Afghanistan into an anti-jihad, anti-Sharia player — let alone functional nation — is like trying to roll Sisyphus’ rock up the hill.

This is not to suggest that there is no war or enemies to fight, which is what both the Left and the Paleo-Right will say; there most certainly are. But sinking all possible men, materiel and bureaucracy into Afghanistan, as the Obama people and most conservatives favor, to try to bring a corrupt Islamic culture into working modernity while simultaneously fighting Taliban and wading deep into treacherous Pakistani wars is no way to victory — at least not to U.S. victory. On the contrary, it is the best way to bleed and further degrade U.S. military capabilities. Indeed, if I were a jihad chieftain, I couldn’t imagine a better strategy than to entrap tens of thousands of America’s very best young men in an open-ended war of mortal hide-and-seek in the North West Frontier.

I decided to ask someone with real military experience how we could fend off jihad without further digging ourselves into Central Asia. I called up retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, one of the few top military leaders who talks on the record, to ask for his strategy recommendation for Afghanistan.

“Basically, let it go,” he said.

Find out why. Read it all.

New Afghan law does not allow marital rape… but lets men refuse to feed wives who deny them sex, says cleric

Well, that should keep everybody happy, no? Sounds like  the result of some ‘outreach-program’- because after all it was the women who said  “We do not want total freedom. We wanted it to be limited and to be within Islam.”

“If you speak of human rights or women rights in Afghanistan you get accused of having converted to Christianity.”

She said it.

An update on this story. “Afghan women want West to back off ‘rape law,'” by Matthew Fisher for Canwest News Service, 

By Mail Foreign Service/Mail

Ayatollah Mohammed Asef Mohseni   

Afghan cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Asef Mohseni claimed the law he devised did not condone marital rape (Note the ‘zebibah’ on his forehead, the mark of a serious headbanger…/ed)

A new Afghan law that has drawn Western condemnation for restricting women’s rights does not allow marital rape as its critics claim, but lets men refuse to feed wives who deny them sex, the cleric behind it says.

Ayatollah Mohammed Asef Mohseni’s Shi’ite personal status law sparked controversy abroad because of a provision that ‘a wife is obliged to fulfil the sexual desires of her husband’.

This was read by some as an open door to marital rape, and together with clauses restricting women’s freedom of movement denounced as reminiscent of harsh Taliban-era rules.

The law has been criticised by Western leaders with troops fighting in Afghanistan, including U.S. President Barack Obama, who called it ‘abhorrent’. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who signed the law last month, has since put it under review.  

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Women's Biz

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  • Hopeless: The UAE’s first woman MP agrees to restrict speech
  • Christian Woman Divorced and Beaten for Leaving Islam…
  • Iran Imprisons Two Christian Women for Distributing Bibles…
  • Muslim Women Tell West to Back Off Rape Law – ‘We Don’t Want Total Freedom. [We Want] Islam’
  • No Women’s Equality in Islam  (Islamist Monitor)
    There aren’t too many ways for the apologists to spin Islam’s very shameful history of treating women like second hand luggage.
  • An interview with Bat Ye’or  (FrontPage Magazine)
    One of Europe’s foremost experts on the Islamization of the continent discusses the OIC, Geert Wilders and the assault on freedom of speech.

  • “Death to the slaves of Christians”: Afghan men hurl stones at women protesting rape law

    300 women had the courage to protest the law, which all too many women were prepared to accept and attempt to rationalize. “Afghan men hurl stones at 300 women protesting law that allows husbands to rape their wives,” from theDaily Mail, April 15 

    France seeks to stop forced marriage, mutilation   By LAURENCE JOAN-GRANGE – AP

    • PARIS (AP) — France’s government launched a campaign Tuesday against forced marriages and genital mutilation, seeking to protect women from practices that quietly thrive in immigrant communities the nation is struggling to integrate. Continue reading Women's Biz

    Hamid Karzai, "our man in Kabul": law permitting men to rape wives under review

     The Times

     “Our Man in Kabool” Hamid Karzai, who is turning more Talibanish by the day, meets resistance…

    President Karzai’s Taleban-style laws for women put troop surge at risk

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    Tom Coghlan in Kabul, Catherine Philp and Suzy Jagger

    Video: Taleban flog girl | Persecution index – Afghanistan

    President Karzai of Afghanistan provoked international outrage yesterday with draconian Taleban-era restrictions on women and laws that explicitly sanction marital rape.

    A leaked copy of the laws obtained by The Times details new strictures for Afghanistan’s Shia minority. Women are banned from leaving the home without permission. A wife has the absolute duty to provide sexual services to her husband, and child marriage is legalised.

    Video shows radicals beating girl in Pakistan

    ANALYSIS: Karzai is an inconvenient ally

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    Clinton Delusions: "Let's find us some moderate Taliban…"

    Moderate Taliban’ is like ‘moderate killer.’ Where do you find such a thing?

    * Where’s the Moderate Taliban?  By Robert Spencer

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    Hillary backs reconciliation talks with Taliban “if they are willing to abandon violence”

    APTOPIX Democrats UnionsHillary: Yes, the “war on terror” really is over

    So apparently, if they are willing to abandon violence and pursue their goal of implementing Islamic law by other means, that is just fine with her. Here is yet another demonstration of the danger of misdiagnosis of the global jihad threat: the problem is not the means the Taliban use, the problem is their goal. The Taliban are not bad because they are violent — after all, so are the forces that oppose them. However, as far as the President and the Secretary of State are concerned, that is the only problem with them. If they try to accomplish their goals at the ballot box rather than with guns and bombs, Obama and Clinton would welcome them as partners. The fact that the Taliban want to impose a law upon Afghanistan that would subjugate women and non-Muslims as inferiors, denied equality of rights with Muslim men, and extinguish freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, means nothing to them.

    And why should it? Karzai’s Afghanistan is already a Sharia state, according to the Afghan Constitution.

    “US backs reconciliation with non-violent Taliban,” from AFP, March 31 (thanks to JW):

    * Our man in Kabul Hamid Karzai:  signs law ‘legalising rape in marriage’

    President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission.

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