The Texas Taliban wing of the Republican Party

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 3, 2021 | Rev. Jesse Jackson

[Oldeconomybuyer]

American papers are filled with pundits speculating about the horrors the Taliban may inflict on the people of Afghanistan, particularly its women. Less attention has been paid to the horrors Texas Republicans — the Taliban wing of the Republican Party — are inflicting on the State of Texas. In total control of the state, Republicans have a free hand that they’ve used to enforce extremism.

Dubbing them the Texas Taliban isn’t just name-calling. The parallels are chilling. The Taliban scorn democracy. They see their opponents as heretics and heathens. The Taliban are bigots, rejecting people of other religions. The Taliban enforce a religious zealotry with suppression of women a central tenet. The Taliban invoke religious law to supplant the civil law. The Taliban reject modernity, scorn science, and seek return to a fundamentalist society that never was.

In the last two weeks, the Taliban honored an agreement to help the U.S. military get 123,000 Afghans and Americans out of the country and promised to do more as they seek to work with other nations.

In that same period, the Texas legislature and Abbott sought to restrict voting and take away a woman’s right to self-determination. Who are we to not trust a newly emerging Taliban as it seeks its place in the family of nations while being asked to trust a Republican Government of Texas that attacks democracy and the rights of women?

It’s the old tried-and-true Confederate State of Texas, the last state to inform its slaves they were free, for which we now celebrate Juneteenth.

[Impy]

The young chippy he’s screwing probably wrote it. He just got out of the damn hospital (cause “the jab” didn’t stop him from getting delta)

[SunkenCiv]

And Naphtali, perhaps more.

Quest for the lost tribes of Israel Pashtuns / Pathans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-H1-uoAuDM

[Eleutheria5]

Bucharan Jews are from Naftali. They are pretty strange, though. I used to study with one in yeshiva.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh, probably those centuries of isoloation.

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All over the world groups of peoples are holding onto age-old traditions and customs that earmark them as very possibly being descended from the tribes of Israel.

In this episode we see even among the Taliban there are Hebrews who know to keep the Torah over and above the Quran.

A Timeline documentary conducted by Professor Simcha Jacobovici

Quest for the lost tribes of Israel Pashtuns / Pathans | April 19, 2020 | Ahavah Fellowship

[Eleutheria5]

Yitzhak Ben Tzvi, the second President of Israel and a distinguished historian, did a study of these isolated communities, some of whom are now taking an active part in modern Israeli life; i.e., the Bnei Menashe who came from Northeastern India, have oriental features, and meticulously keep some complex Torah precepts, and the Ethiopians, who are black, but in a lighter tone than other, non-Jewish Africans. They claim descent from the tribe of Dan, and do keep quite a few halachas and have peculiar customs of their own, entirely in keeping with Torah traditions. Others remain isolated, but I think Yitzhak ben Tzvi covers them all.