Taliban 2.0. is younger. These are men who were toddlers when the Trade Center fell. Many of them speak English and are social-media savvy, posting memes on Twitter.
Posted on 09/08/2021 5:43:23 PM PDT by massmike
The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, morality police roamed the streets, implementing the group’s austere interpretation of Islamic law — with harsh restrictions on women, strictly enforced prayer times and even bans on kite-flying and chess.
Nearly 20 years later, the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is back.
While the Taliban was in power from 1996 until 2001, the ministry enforced a severe interpretation of Islamic law.
Religious policing predated Taliban rule. The government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, who served as president between 1992 and 1996, created the vice and virtue ministry. But under the Taliban their role expanded. Human Rights Watch later called the institution a “notorious symbol of arbitrary abuses.”
Accounts from the time detail forces patrolling the streets, shutting down shops and markets at prayer time. They beat people caught listening to music and frowned upon dancing, kite-flying and American-style haircuts.
Squads of the ministry’s morality police punished those who disobeyed modesty codes, with beards too thin or ankles that showed. They banished girls from school and women from the workplace and the public eye. A woman could not venture outside without a male guardian.
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“The Taliban is bringing back its feared ministry of ‘vice’ and ‘virtue’”
This headline appears on the same day that authorities in Richmond are coming down hard on everything that smacks of dissent against orthodoxy.
Somewhere in a large city in Illinois, a mayor is going, “Hmmmm...”
...as is many a blue State Governor.
I don’t care about anything the Taliban does in Afghanistan.
Not.at.all
Total Control. Sounds a lot like slavery. And there seems to be no way to avoid it for them over there. I mean, for 20 years they tried. It just did not work. Freedom lost. Slavery won. A sad lesson for those who hoped for the better. Next up: Civil wars for control of the future. Which form of slavery will prevail?!
Americans can no longer look down on banana republics as we are one now too.
What are they going to do about drug addiction?
(One of the vets who served there said that half of the men they tried to work with were addicts. But at least opium isn’t alcohol...)
This won’t be a romantic idealized 7th. century caliphate, it’s going to be the real thing to watch.
No sympathy for these people, they had 20 years to wipe out these bastards and did not do it, so now they live with the consequences.
Sounds like what the left is trying to impose on us under the guise of protecting us from COVID.
back to corporal punishment for flying a kite?
9/11 +20 is a day that was absolutely unimaginable at one time.
If you are unwilling to fight for your freedom, you get whatever they want to force on you.
No sympathy for these people, they had 20 years to wipe out these bastards and did not do it, so now they live with the consequences.”
The western civilization we tried to impose on them with gay pride flags, leftie riots and trannies was not a model they wanted to follow.
No tranny story time at the library?
Same.
Taliban 2.0. is younger. These are men who were toddlers when the Trade Center fell. Many of them speak English and are social-media savvy, posting memes on Twitter.
I’m sure the State Department will shortly release a statement expressing concern.
Freedom won in Afghanistan.
“Freedom” must include “freedom to do what?”
The people of Afghanistan fought for the freedom to practice their savage religion - and they won.
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