Sunday, August 22, 2021

Taliban perfected the art of brutality through religion

Nelofer Pazira is an Irish based Afghan-Canadian journalist and film maker. In The Irish Times yesterday she wrote an opinion piece titled, ‘How long can the ‘rebranded' Taliban keep up appearances?'

In it she writes: 

“It was the Mujahideen who ‘spiritualised politics’ in the words of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tafgore.

“They used religion to achieve political victory.

“But it was the Taliban who perfected the art of brutality through religion.

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