KABUL, Afghanistan — Religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women’s freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. The fierce opposition highlights how tenuous women’s rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam once … Continue reading »
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Families of Seal Team VI to Reveal How Islamic Appeasement Led to their Murder
The event appears to be set for tomorrow at the National Press Club and it may have revelations as shocking as those about Benghazi. Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose … Continue reading »
Taliban declare spring offensive across Afghanistan
Afghan policemen stand at the site of a Taliban attack in Farah province, April 4, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer KABUL: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Saturday announced the start of their annual “spring offensive” against the US-backed government, vowing a nationwide series of attacks as foreign troops withdraw. The Islamist extremists said that multiple suicide bombings, … Continue reading »
Al-Qaeda Toddlers Filmed Firing Guns At Weapons Training Camp (VIDEO)
Screen shot of child taking target practice. Photo: Youtube. A video making the rounds on the internet shows children as young as five shooting weapons at an Al-Qaeda training camp. The boys stand, sit and lie in rows while taking target practice. The weapons of choice appear to be AK-47s, pistols and, ironically, Israeli-made Negev … Continue reading »
#myjihad:Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls taken to hospital after poison attack by Taliban
The girls were treated after smelling gas at their school in Takhar province Several of the pupils remained in a critical condition on Sunday Officials said it was carried out by ‘enemies’ opposing women’s education By Becky Evans Up to 74 girls in Afghanistan have been treated after a suspected poisoning attack at their school, … Continue reading »
Burqa businesses go bust in Afghanistan
Despite advances in women’s rights, Afghanistan remains a deeply conservative country. (AFP) The Associated Press – Afghanistan’s homegrown burqa industry is facing a decline in demand, with fewer young women choosing to cover their faces. Despite advances in women’s rights, Afghanistan remains a deeply conservative country and most women continue to wear the all-enveloping garment. … Continue reading »
U.S. may be wittingly funneling millions of dollars to Taliban in Afghanistan
Of course. Why not? What’s to stop this? There is no reliable way to discern jihadists from “allies” in Afghanistan, as the numerous green-on-blue attacks indicate. And even to try to institute some control would be “Islamophobic.” “US May Unwittingly Fund Terrorism in Afghanistan: Report,” by Lee Ferran for ABC News, April 12 (thanks to … Continue reading »
Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sun Apr 7, 2013 12:16am EDT (Reuters) – A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east. The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in … Continue reading »
Where Pakistani Muslims Go to Party
The view of Afghanistan from the top of Bumboret, the largest of the three Kalash valleys. Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” is a 19th-century tale of empire, madness, and idolatry centered around two roguish British soldiers who take a perilous journey into Kafiristan, a hostile mountain region populated by pagans who kill … Continue reading »
Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference
Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference By Lisa LundquistMarch 2, 2013 Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Pakistan Ulema Council. Image from TOLOnews. The tortuous path of the Afghan government’s plan for a regional ulema conference that would issue a fatwa condemning suicide attacks reached a new impasse yesterday when the … Continue reading »
Remembering 1960s Afghanistan, the photographs of Bill Podlich
Before the Islamists ripped it apart. .. In 1967, Dr. William Podlich took a two-year leave of absence from teaching at Arizona State University and began a stint with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to teach in the Higher Teachers College in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served as the “Expert on Principles … Continue reading »
Afghan Catastrophe Under Obama
After meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday, President Obama said this weekend that the U.S. is speeding up the schedules for pulling American forces out of Afghanistan and for ending most unilateral combat operations. Tragically, that’s too late for Joseph Griffin. Just before Christmas, an Afghan policewoman slipped through “security checks” with … Continue reading »
Obama’s unserious Afghanistan war plan
President Obama ran in 2008 on the premise that Afghanistan was the “good war.” But soon enough he was setting out a timetable for withdrawal. Then he sped up the withdrawal of surge troops in time for reelection. Now he gives every indication he will not leave behind any significant military presence, which (as many independent experts who … Continue reading »
Abandoning Afghanistan
When Senator Barack Obama was running for president back in 2008, he accused the Bush administration, his opponent Senator John McCain, and their supporters of taking their eyes off the ball by fighting a war in Iraq and ignoring the “necessary war”—the war in Afghanistan. Well, four short years later, by Obama’s lights, Afghanistan is … Continue reading »
Inside The Taliban Bombmaking Industry
“I am here in Kandahar on a short vacation,” says the young man, about 27, who we will call Mullah Kalam. His beard is trimmed neat; he is wearing a black leather jacket and a striped beige turban. Kalam has been a student for five years at a religious seminary across the border in Chaman, … Continue reading »
Pakistan: The most dangerous country in the world
The subcontinent of South Asia has inexorably been developing into a cauldron of violence ever since the origins of Islam in Arabia and its steady expansion to the east. Here it clashed with Hinduism a religion that was an antithesis of Islam and over the centuries this unhappy mix has been smoldering and has … Continue reading »
