How To Spot The ‘Moderate’ Taliban?

I noticed this a week ago but held back from commenting on it at the time.

EU should ‘make sure’ moderate Taliban prevail, envoy says

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  Head of the EU delegation to Afghanistan, Andreas Von Brandt
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  The EU’s envoy to Afghanistan has said the bloc has to make sure that the moderate forces within Taliban prevail, weeks after the extremist group took over the country at a lightning speed after 20 years of Western involvement.

https://euobserver.com/world/152831

So what next?

Do we divide serial killers into ‘moderates’ (maybe under six victims?) and ‘extremists’ who exceed that modest total?

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Do we divide Boko Haram kidnappers into ‘moderates’ who capture and rape under 50 schoolgirls, and ‘extremists’ who take more?

What kind of rot will EU spokes-twits come out with next?

The latest report from the sad country where the Taliban rule the roost….

….says that teenage girls are now prevented from attending high school.

Meaning ‘moderates’ are at the helm, since younger girls can presumably still go to elementary schools?

These ignorant sectarian savages CANNOT be divided into ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists.’

This past week we saw imbecilic partitions installed in a Kabul university, to keep women apart from men.

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Infantile sexism in Afghanistan

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If such apartheid is imposed by a curtain, is that ‘moderate?’

If it’s done by erecting a brick wall, is that ‘extremist?’

It remains to be seen if each lass will be forced to wear merely a headscarf or the revolting bag-head shroud.

Will the likes of Von Brandt say enforced head-scarfing is ‘moderate’ and head-shrouding ‘extremist?

Any state compulsion that makes women cover their hair OR their faces is tyrannical.

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Nobody should accept any form of primitive sexism in Afghanistan or anywhere.

Anywhere, as previously noted. Taliban Goose, Ayatollah Gander? 

 

Jogja Congress Muslims Spurn Sex Apartheid – But NOT Hoodlum Gangsters!

A great pity that the grand gathering of Muslims in Jogja, just winding up, encompassed all many ‘great and good’ Islamic organisations here, but snubbed the Ahmadis.  http://www.tempo.co/read/news/2015/02/09/173641139/Kongres-Umat-Islam-Undang-Syiah-Tolak-Ahmadiyah

Of course it’s up to them whom they invite to their Indonesian Muslims Congress. The report suggests the ban on dissenters is due to the intolerant self-styled ‘scholars’ of the state-sponsored MUI.

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President Jokowi could save a small fortune for tax-payers by cutting off state-funding to that lot. 

One would have hoped that bigot gangster groups like the self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam Front.’ aka the IslamoNazi FPI, would also have been excluded, for bringing the creed into disrepute by their lawless thuggery and vandalism.

But far from it! 

“MUI ingin menjadi tenda besar (bagi seluruh umat Islam). FPI, LDII, MMI (Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia), Hizbut Tahrir dan ormas lain dilibatkan,” said Din Syamssuddin.   http://jogja.tribunnews.com/2015/01/23/yogya-tuan-rumah-kongres-umat-islam-indonesia/

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• Din spent years leading the ‘moderate’ Muhammadiyah movement, and is now top man in the MUI.
• Yet he boasts of making the Congress a ‘big tent’ to include not only the infamous IslamoNazis but also the democracy-hating Hizbut Tahrir and the loutish MMI, which you can read about here  https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/islamonazi-thugs-attack-indonesian-artist-in-jogja/

But on the plus side, it’s pleasing to see they have spurned the ignorant and primitive sex apartheid that disfigures some Islamist outfits. We even saw such mediaeval nonsense sprout in the UK a year or two ago. 

Britannia Dolorosa – Sectarian Sex Segregation in Britain’s Class-Rooms! 

I quote one Muslim who actually IS a scholar, the academic Azyumardi Azra, who says that participants in this congress are dominated by mainstream Islamic groups in Indonesia. For example, the Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama…

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• …Moderate Islam is also friendly to the local culture. “As in this forum, men and women are not segregated,” he said. 

GOOD TO HEAR. Indonesian culture has traditionally been very civilised. Women in Java, for example, wear lovely kebayas, baring their smooth brown shoulders for all to admire.

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 Dangdut chanteuse Uut Permatasari in kebaya

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And despite fanatic howling, most Muslim women eschew the scarf of subjugation.

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But even the smart Azra seems to have overlooked a few facts when he says that ‘this Islam is an Islam that rejects violence.’ I guess he missed the inclusion of notorious vigilante mobsters noted above.

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 FPI hoodlums run amok

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And moreover…

The NU and Muhammadiyah have, in the past, a fairly good record in opposition to violence, true, but the MUI has neither disowned nor disciplined their notorious Muhammad Al Kaththath, who called for the death of an innocent atheist simply for posting opinions on Facebook. Who Was Our Third Voter? Al K’s Fanatic Party Goes Nowhere, Fast! 

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 Amidhan

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And while MUI may claim that Al K’s a minor figure, who’s forgotten their utterly irresponsible former Chairman Amidhan’s outburst, a few Ramadhans back. 

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•      –Speaking of IslamoNazi hoodlums who launch violent on mini-markets which don’t kow-tow to seasonal intolerance, our non-violent Amidhan told any store manager indifferent to MUI’s sectarian policies –

DON’T COMPLAIN IF YOU’RE ATTACKED!-Islamist ‘Scholars’ – “Don’t Complain if You’re Attacked!” .  

I hope ‘moderate’ Din enjoyed hob-nobbing with the white-shirt sectarian bullies during the congress. And I hope neither he nor the MUI is any longer described in ill-informed media as a ‘moderate.’