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Taliban destroy statue of foe, stoking
fears after moderation claims

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Posted By: Ribicon, 8/18/2021 9:01:22 AM

The Taliban, who are desperately trying to present a moderate face after sweeping into power in Afghanistan, have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who had fought against them during the civil war in the 1990s. When the Islamic militants seized power from rival warlords in 1996, they killed the militia leader, Abdul Ali Mazari—a champion of the country’s ethnic Hazara minority, Shiites who were persecuted under the Sunni Taliban’s earlier rule. The statue stood in the central Bamyan province, where the Taliban infamously blew up two huge 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha carved into a mountain in 2001, claiming they violated Islam’s prohibition on idolatry.

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In other words, they're just like us. Tear down that statue. Hang banners hailing the Taliban, or BLM or Transgender Pride. Wear a burka, or be forced to take a so-called vaccine.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 8/18/2021 9:07:09 AM (No. 883604)
LOL I hope they replace it with statues of Pelosi (in a burka,of course) and Biden. Maybe the renowned artist Hunter Biden can design the replacements.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bamapreacher 8/18/2021 9:13:35 AM (No. 883615)
"Moderation" to Islamists is not killing more than 1,000 people a day or raping more than 100 women an hour.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 8/18/2021 9:17:09 AM (No. 883619)
May you live in interesting times.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: reefdiver 8/18/2021 9:22:00 AM (No. 883627)
Maybe the Taliban will join Antifa and BLM here to help enforce Democrat rule. We are in crazy times.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Quigley 8/18/2021 9:31:47 AM (No. 883641)
Tearing down a statue gives rise to fears about lack of moderation? Oh that’s rich. But poster, it’s not that they are like us; it’s that we have elements in our body politic that seeks power through violence and mob
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mifla 8/18/2021 9:53:36 AM (No. 883670)
Just a matter of time before some hothead kills a citizen or assults a woman. All in the name of Allah, of course.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jethro bo 8/18/2021 9:58:36 AM (No. 883678)
The Taliban has already immigrated (illegally of course through the wide open Southern border) to the US? Wow that was fast.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: john56 8/18/2021 9:59:13 AM (No. 883679)
Moderation? Does that mean they behead you slower? Or have the tortured wear a smiley face shirt?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chance_232 8/18/2021 10:05:24 AM (No. 883691)
They are only promising moderation for western consumption. Once the US is 100% gone. It will be back to business as usual. They can't afford a US about face.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MDConservative 8/18/2021 10:42:16 AM (No. 883729)
You break it; you bought it. That applies to the Afghan people. Twenty years of opportunity comes to this. Don't blame America.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 8/18/2021 11:53:55 AM (No. 883798)
The Taliban have always been the precise, exact opposite of moderate. They give extremism a whole new example of extreme extremism. The most evil of all the evil 7th century barbarian groups destroying civilization today around the world.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 8/18/2021 4:38:13 PM (No. 884075)
When you talk of warfare according to tribal affiliation and religion, you are not talking 21st century warfare. Our leadership missed the boat completely on Afghanistan as well as the rest of the middle east. They understand total destruction and domination, this nation rebuilding nonsense is just stupid.
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