Taliban Quotes
Prevent kite-flying. The kite shops in the city should be abolished.
The Chinese were lovers of kite flying and this sport spread throughout Asia and became a favorite in Afghanistan. However, it was never mentioned in the Koran, and therefore to the Taliban was not desired by God. This ultra fundamentalism not only prohibits what the Prophet forbade, but also forbids that which he did not mention.
Taliban, Afghanistan Political and Islamic Fundamentalist Movement, Law, General Presidency of Amr Bil Maruf, Kabul December 1996
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See {608419}, {604665} and {604664} regarding the government’s destruction of Buddist statues.
See Quadratullah Jamal {604665} and {604664}.
The OId Testament prohibited Jews from shaving which is why Orthodox Jewish men today wear full beards. Mohammad ordered his followers to keep this commandment of God’s and to the Orthodox Muslim, shaving is wrong. However, the Orthodox Jews do not make a law that every male must not shave…though it is not clear what they might do if they controlled a Jewish theocracy. The Orthodox Jews are the minority in Israel and shaving is not illegal. It is not illegal in most Muslim nations today either.
Most Muslims do not agree that play and recreation are anti-Islamic. There are some fundamentalist Christian sects that do not allow dancing or other forms of recreation, The Puritans had such a philosophy.
“Martyrdom” is the euphemism that fundamentalist Muslims use to denote being killed while “fighting for Islam” or on a suicide mission for same. Many believe that such people ascend directly to Paradise where they are given a bevy of virgins and other “perks.” Ironically, this was the last interview that he gave before he himself was “martyred”—he was killed by coalition troops. This mental perspective is one of the reasons that fighting fundamentalist Islamic terrorists is so difficult. They perceive victory whichever way the battle or even the war comes out.
The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House
Despite the fact that the statues were holy symbols to Buddhists, they were offensive to Muslims who say statues as “graven images” prohibited by the Koran. See Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil {608419} and Jamal’s other quotation {604665}.
See Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil {608419} and Jamal’s other quotation {604664}
Her reference was to the fact that when the Russians invaded Afghanistan in the Cold War, the United States decided to arm and train Islamic fighters to oust the Russians. They did, but then the Mujahideen, as the fighters were called, formed the backbone of Al Qaeda and the Taliban who turned on us.
The Taliban opposed all education except orthodox Muslim religious education.
Most Islamic fundamentalists oppose the education of girls. Malala Yousafzai as a teen ager spoke out encouraging girls to go to school. This offended some of the Taliban fundamentalist terrorist, who threatened her if she continued to speak out. When she continued, they tried to murder her. They shot her in the head, but she was airlifted for medical treatment and survived. She was the winner of the European Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Many of the Taliban leadership attended this Madrassa when young including Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Haq is often called “Father of the Taliban.”
Huqqani was specifically referring to Muslim religious scholars, but his point is more general and applies equally to some religious scholars and clerics of Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and other persuasions.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey recently described the Iranian leadership as “rational actors.” Lewis, the Western World’s greatest Islamic Historian, was advising regarding the Iranian effort to enrich uranium. The Iranians if they enriched enough could develop a nuclear weapon. Historically, nuclear powers have always been deterred by using them as the retaliation would wipe out most of their country and people. This Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Lewis felt might not inhibit the Iranian leadership who have glorified suicide bombers and have sent tens of thousands of young people to their deaths (and immediately to Paradise) leading Iranian troops through Iraqi minefields in the Iran Iraq War. The national security question was should Iran be allowed to get a nuclear weapon?
After years of minority Sunni Muslim rule of Iraq, the U. S. invasion gave the majority Shiite Muslims political control. The Sunnis and Shiites have been at each others throats for centuries despite the fact that they are both Muslims. Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and many of its religious extremists issue edicts advocating the suicide bombing of Shiite mosques and other facilities and assuring martyrdom for the suicide bombers.
Abdul Rahman, Afghan citizen, had converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years before. Conversion from Islam is a capital crime under Sharia Law which was the law of Afghanistan even after the Taliban had been overthrown. He was jailed and threatened with death. Statements like this and others made directly to the government persuaded the Afghan politicians to go against their mullahs who demanded the death penalty as is proscribed by Islamic Law—Sharia. The judges tried to get Rahman to recant and he would not (see {589518}). So they finally decided that he must be mentally insane and therefore could not be tried, and the problem was solved that way.
The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students') or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), are a Sunni Islamist movement and military organisation in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country. Since 2016, the Taliban's leader is Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
