AFGHANISTAN Understanding the Worldview of the Taliban
Sep 24, 2021
4 minutes
—by John Stonestreet
After seeing the images out of Kabul in recent weeks, Maajid Nawaz, a former radical Muslim, said, “Barefoot Taliban conquered a palace. They believed in something and fought for nothing. I have lived with men like this in prison. It is difficult to describe just how seriously they take their cause. There is a lesson here for us in the West, if we are humble enough to see it.”
What are they really afraid of?
We hear the terror from Afghan women who now wonder what the lives of their daughters will be like, worried that 20 years of progress in women’s rights have disappeared overnight. We see the desperation of men so afraid
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