The Council of Mullahs to Be Convened by the Taliban: The Group Does Not Believe in Social Contract
April 14, 2023The Taliban is about to hold a so-called council of mullahs who are scheduled to gather in Kabul to endorse the group’s leadership decisions, ostensibly to legitimize its actions. This is a kind of simulation of Hamid Karzai’s proposed Loya Jirga with the membership of mullahs where the people are absent and the decisions for their future ...Read More
Analytical Assessment of the Taliban: From Theory to Practice
April 14, 2023The Taliban Ideology One characteristic that distinguishes the Taliban from other Muslim extremist groups is the ambiguity of the group’s theoretical foundations. The Taliban was primarily designed for militant purposes, and as such, it has made no effort to clarify its theoretical base to distinguish its ideology from other extremist groups such as Al- Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS ...Read More
International Jihadism: Jihad Will Continue
April 14, 2023The term “Al-Jihad Al-Alami” refers to International Jihadism, a movement initiated by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam in Peshawar in the last century. They were influenced by Sayyid Qutb and the al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn (Muslim Brotherhood) and chose political Islam as their path. Zawahiri eventually left the Muslim Brotherhood, while bin Laden ...Read More
Critiques on Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi
April 14, 2023Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi was one of the most influential religious figures in the last half-century of Muslim countries, He has written more than a hundred volumes of books in various intellectual fields, participated in the establishment of various religious and research institutions, and had an active presence in the media and public arenas. What multiplied his fame was, on ...Read More
Pluralism Is the Lifeblood of a Society
April 14, 2023Pluralism is a situation where two or more states, groups, principles, and sources of authority coexist. All human societies are made up of diverse races, languages, religions, classes, political groups and cultures. This piece is not about proving pluralism in societies. This is an established and accepted fact, the purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of recognizing ...Read More
Taliban Ban Girls’ Education, U.S. Only Condemns
April 14, 2023In protraction of the Taliban’s misogynistic policies, they recently announced banning all girls from going to universities; which is an explicit example of disregard to the basic human rights of education and work, discriminating against half of the society. According to their narrow worldview people should be categorized and profiled based on Muslim and non-Muslim, men and women ...Read More