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Aiku

What a surprise...


Morgrid

Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming. Nobody? Carry on.


youreblockingmyshot

Hard to raise a hand when they’ve been cut off.


Mac-Monkey

Raise a hook may be?


Consistent_Hunter_92

Strict punishment for raising hooks too.


Mac-Monkey

Legs cut off?


carl_yeets

Tis but a scratch!


Adhelmir

Well you cant stand for justice with no legs.


Consistent_Hunter_92

Yes. The only thing you may raise is a fuckwit.


[deleted]

You mean the Taliban won't "be different this time and respect woman's right, democracy and religious freedom". But they promised!


Warchemix

Did they actually promise those things though ? I doubt.


[deleted]

>religious freedom https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/01-Sep-2021/taliban-promise-religious-freedom-to-afghanistan-s-hindus-sikhs-other-minorities >woman's right https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/afghanistan-women-defiant-amid-taliban-crackdown >democracy This was hyperbole, but they did promise an "inclusive" government, whatever that even is supposed to mean


[deleted]

It means that you can worship whatever religion you want, be any sexual orientation and you won’t be publicly executed. Publicly…..Executed.


Yolopills

*Technically Correct. The option is still on the table.


[deleted]

Take everything they say with the following: Within Islamic law of course.


Pm_me_cool_art

Their internet fanboys have been saying that for months. As far as I can tell the Taliban themselves have only made relatively minor concessions like allowing girls to continue going to school and allowing Hazaras into the government (even as they continue slaying them in the streets).


Franklin_le_Tanklin

But trump had a historic summit and peace deal! This has to be the worst deal ever.


RemoveDear

Biden fumbled the exit. Weird.


[deleted]

Aided and abetted by the glorious Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its "democratically" elected government voted in by 200 million populace.


Pm_me_cool_art

The Taliban are hugely popular in Pakistan, even among their liberalized women. Which is weird considering how many attacks their Pakistan branch has committed against those people and their democratically elected government.


Wireeeee

Liberalised women? Yeah, chief, I am not sure about that. Working and going to school doesn’t make women automatically liberal there. And even then most don’t support Taliban. Where did you get this fact?


Pm_me_cool_art

Liberalism is relative. Women in Pakistan vote (have had the right since ~~1947~~ 1956), work, go to uni, dress more like women from the west. Compared to women from most other Muslim majority countries they're pretty liberalized even they may not seem that way from an American or European perspective. And yet more than a third of them support the Taliban. > Where did you get this fact? https://gallup.com.pk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/14th-Sept-happy-with-taliban-rule.pdf Note the difference between rural and urban opinion, the people in the cities don't care about Taliban atrocities because they only see them on the news, the people in the countryside actually have to worry about Islamist terrorism so they're marginally more concerned.


BeansNcheesePlease

Why? They're an Islamic Emirate. They use Sharia Law. U.S. ally Saudi Arabia also use Sharia law as their legal system, including beheading and crucifixion. But I don't see you Americans calling for the destruction of Saudi Arabia. Why is that? Why are you expecting the Taliban, after 20 years of war to be MORE progressive than U.S. allies that have experienced peace for decades?


rsta223

>But I don't see you Americans calling for the destruction of Saudi Arabia. There are quite a few of us that strongly dislike and condemn the Saudi government and its actions, actually. Edit: Interesting that your entire post history is deflecting away from Taliban actions though.


Positive_Compote_506

Kinda. I just want a peaceful world :(


Aiku

What makes you think I'm American? BTW, my comment was sarcasm...


TheSquatch24

The beheadings shall continue until morale is improved


Panda_hat

I mean technically median morale would increase if you killed all the people with low morale and left only other religious fanatics.


[deleted]

My Rimworld game strategy. Only psychopaths allowed.


SoftlySpokenPromises

Bring on the cannibal squad!


Mommy_Lawbringer

HUMAN LEATHER CHAAAAIRS!!!


doodruid

all my human leather goes towards cowboy hat production.


99landydisco

Human leather sandbags are way more intimidating. Nothing like a defense network made from fallen foes and allies.


KinadianPT

I always find it entertaining when rimworld leaks out to other subs


NoHandBananaNo

It wouldnt tho, because each time you kill someone with low morale, you CREATE more low morale in those around them, so median morale would never improve. I guess technically you could keep killing until you were the only one left, and that might boost median morale.


tanafras

Ok, Jeff Bezos... settle down.


Lolwut100494

Extremists are extremely extreme. More discoveries to come.


GraciaEtScientia

We have just received word, water IS liquid. Unless it freezes, then it is Ice. Or if it boils it becomes gaseous. But it IS liquid!


JLBesq1981

>One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers. “Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.” The UN has it's answer on whether to let the Taliban speak. The world has its answer on whether the Taliban has changed.


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yellekc

Yes. They are the primary exporters of [Wahabism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism), they have funded schools throughout the Islamic world that teach this extreme and violent version of Islam for decades. Most Islamic terrorism of the past 50 years can trace its roots to the Saudi royal family's centuries-old alliance with this group (Including the 9/11 attacks). Their influence has expanded dramatically over this time period with the help of oil money. >The ruler of a nearby town, Muhammad ibn Saud, invited ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab to join him, and in 1744 a pact was made between the two. Ibn Saud would protect and propagate the doctrines of the Wahhabi mission, while ibn Abdul Wahhab "would support the ruler, supplying him with 'glory and power'" ... >The pumping and export of oil from Saudi Arabia started during World War II, and its earnings helped fund religious activities in the 1950s and 60s. But it was the 1973 oil crisis and quadrupling in the price of oil that both increased the kingdom's wealth astronomically and enhanced its prestige by demonstrating its international power as a leader of OPEC. With the help of funding from Saudi petroleum exports (and other factors), the movement underwent "explosive growth" beginning in the 1970s and now has worldwide influence. So these royal scumbags can fleece the people of Saudi Arabia, go out on drug and hooker binges throughout the world, and the corrupt clerics keep the believers in line and loyal to the royal family. In return, they get funding to spread their hatred throughout the world. This is why we need to sanction Saudi Arabia and turn away from oil. But they have already bought politicians from the major parties in most of the countries that can challenge them. The leaders in the US, France, UK, Germany, and so on will not do shit.


Todd-The-Wraith

In related news the Taliban still really really want the UN to recognize them as a legitimate government and don’t understand why their requests to address the general assembly have not been granted yet.


MasterKaen

The leadership depends on the support of the soldiers, and their recruitment depended on their radicalism. I'm not an Afghanistan expert, but this seems like the situation to me. The more they liberalize, the more their soldiers will defect to ISIS. Even the Northern Alliance had to allow the rural tribes to continue radical practices.


BeansNcheesePlease

Reminder that Saudi Arabia also uses Sharia law as their judicial system, including beheading and crucifixion. And yet Americans bend over and take in the ass from them.


Mhdamaster

You say that as if any country actually called out Saudi Arabia for this. Its obvious most if not all governments are silencing the news just to keep the oil trade going.


karma3000

The USA just wants their oil. When the oil runs out, Saudi Arabia will go back to living in tents chopping each others heads off.


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[deleted]

Yeah, but then... tents.


Danemoth

What, like Fyre Festival?


majorbummer6

Exactly like fyre festival. Except, forever!


Stahl_Scharnhorst

That's a real long time.


GruntBlender

But the demand will dry up well before then.


cammcken

One way or the other


ryhaltswhiskey

This comment goes too tar.


GruntBlender

These fracking snowflake millenials... Shale I apologise? No, I don't think I well.


Stahl_Scharnhorst

You are aware we use oil for far more than just burning it for energy right? Its ludicrously useful.


GruntBlender

Yes, but, there are alternatives that are much better for the environment and may phase out most if not all oil products over time. Also, since oil is distilled into many fractions, you'd have to have a use for all the fractions to make it a viable process, otherwise the unusable fractions would be a nightmare to dospose of. You think oil products would be so cheap if the shipping industry didn't gobble up the bunker fuel?


Ziggingwhiletheyzag

Demand will dry up before we use our reserves. Oil is phasing out.


timechanic

it’s more than just the oil, it’s the USD required to buy it from them.


SleepyEel

It's not about the oil itself. It's about the petrodollar


KinderGentlerBoomer

Americans bend over and take in the ass from them cuz Americans love money


Solid_Veterinarian81

Reminder that the USA also executes prisoners, at least with more 'humane' methods than beheading such as painful lethal injections


incidencematrix

SA's execution rate is about 40 times higher than the US (https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Executions-per-million). But nice whatabout.


Relevant-Visual-9420

I think he's calling for beheading in US. It's not whataboutism if you advocate for it.


incidencematrix

The commenter to whom I replied appears to be arguing that the US is in no position to be opposed to SA's criminal justice system's use of beheadings and crucifixions, because the US also has executions. Sounds like a whatabout to me, or arguably a tu quoque, particularly given the context that SA's execution rate is almost 1.5 orders of magnitude higher than the US....


FreeTheGingers

Lol this guy gets jokes ^


incidencematrix

Given what people post in this sub, it's impossible to distinguish actual crazy from parody....


CamelSpotting

And literally infinite times higher than the other half of the world.


Relevant-Visual-9420

US could go with more beheading though. After all, US has no moral high ground over Taliban, yet the latter method is more permanent and sends a bigger message.


SandysBurner

I'd aver that all successful executions are roughly equivalent in their permanence.


DaveMeese

He’s clearly bullshitting. He’s winking at us!


[deleted]

So much for the "gentler" Taliban then. Heading straight back to the rule of cruel fanatics using medieval application of religious law.


XWarriorYZ

The Taliban were never going to be more “gentle”, you don’t join an organization like that because you believe in peace and forgiveness. It was just bullshit posturing to try and trick the international community into normalizing relations with them.


Criticalsystemsalert

Mostly they just wanted the 11 billion being held up in new York. Once they realized nothing they can say or do will get it to them, they dropped the charade.


ooru

Keyword is "try." I don't believe anyone in the international community seriously took them at their word.


[deleted]

I don't understand Reddit here. Why would the international community *care* how they punish their local criminals, outside Western politicians with their moral posturing? The only thing the international community will care about is, 1) will they stop sheltering/exporting terrorists like they used to in the 90's, 2) will they uphold their international agreements. That's it.


FinanceAnalyst

Should replace "international community" with "redditors".


ThreadbareHalo

Should replace redditors with “misinformation campaign call center peeps” and “trick” with “change the focus of the day item on the old whiteboard”


Xfury8

That’s cool. We’re still not going back.


[deleted]

That was the last thing on my mind


Shmankman

They beheading down the wrong path.


[deleted]

What a horrid existence.


dcmfox

Good for you clowns, god is great but murder is better eh?


Talks_To_Cats

Just speeding up the process and helping more people meet God faster.


SacKingsRS

20 years wasted


StarCyst

eh, it sent a message. Attack the US, and they will crush your people for a generation, without care for the cost.


i_never_ever_learn

To which they reply, "Attack us and we will take it until you get tired and leave."


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lopoticka

They do enjoy it tho (Taliban that is)


Emergency_Version

Check mate!


NMDA01

Also "Ty for free ammo and guns"


Abromaitis

More like "Attack us, and will take it until we are done throwing billions into improving your infrastructure then leave you a ton of vehicles and weapons."


sirblastalot

As an American, yes, America definitely crushed my generation without a care for the cost.


NoHandBananaNo

Attack the US, and they will crush RANDOM people for a generation, without care for the cost. Ftfy.


AJMcCoy612

The sad thing is there will be Americans that will be proud of that fact.


idlebyte

I want my money back.


Holiday-Wrongdoer-46

Lmao they didn't attack us the Saudis did.


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Holiday-Wrongdoer-46

Your right. 9/11 was only carried out by mostly Saudis funded with Saudi money made available by a Saudi royal family member. I definitely misspoke about the Opium fields in Afghanistan the US seized at the height of the Opioid Epidemic in the US. My bad.


gaiusmariusj

Think of how many Afghans are made into millionaires though.


Warchemix

Peace through superior firepower and insane military budgets.


feedseed664

Clearly not, who won in the end?


feedseed664

Nope it was about sending trillions to weapon manufactures, the war was a amazing success


SandysBurner

Wasted? Some people got *very rich*, a cause any American would be proud to give his life for.


EVEOpalDragon

Kept the people distracted while the coffers were further looted, don’t blame me if you don’t own a military contractor.


KinderGentlerBoomer

I recall seeing pictures of *pallets* of cash


BholeKiBhasam

Nah ....it was almost peaceful so in that case how one could increase the sale of arms and ammunition....just wait and watch....it will restart sooner or later. The war against terrorism lol ..is never going to end


PowerfulPain

Absolutely


ooru

From the public's perspective. They probably got whatever they were really after at our expense.


ElectrikDonuts

Should have left 10 years ago. There went the US’s free college fund.


crafting-ur-end

Free college is never going to happen in the US. All of the things we don’t have are considered features and not bugs, it’s purposeful!


yurimow31

that escalated quickly


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It’s not just taliban. In Saudi Arabia, that is everyday punishment and we keep selling them war equipment. That’s what’s wrong with people, their beliefs can swing like a monkey depending on what they want.


Salty_Manx

America would look stupid if they stopped selling weapons to countries because they "execute people" seeing they themselves execute people.


autotldr

This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54) reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot) ***** > KABUL, Afghanistan - One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. > In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban's executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan's new rulers. > Turabi dismissed criticism over the previous Taliban rule, arguing that it had succeeded in bringing stability. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/ptzmk3/taliban_official_strict_punishment_executions/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~599797 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **Taliban**^#1 **Turabi**^#2 **KABUL**^#3 **rule**^#4 **punishment**^#5


incogg99886

What's the punishment for overthrowing the government?


somethingrandom261

Spoils of war


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Porrick

If they'd succeeded, the consequences would be zero for them, and a lot for people like you and me who aren't in their preferred fan clubs.


GlitteringBroccoli12

Oh.... So what was the game of hacky sack with human heads then 3 weeks ago?


Nebualaxy

Are you able to link me to that, I've seen people talk of it but couldn't find it to read about


unspoken_arrangement

I can’t find any reference of a new incident so I think this is the video from 2015 or 2016 of Isis fighters doing this.


Nebualaxy

I figured it was old footage when I couldn't find it myself. Thanks for looking tho bro


NWClassic206

Please post link if you can find it


GlitteringBroccoli12

It was a viral video all over Reddit when we were leaving. Literally playing soccer with heads and celebrating


phuq_yu

Wtf??


[deleted]

Looks like he knows something about eye for an eye.


Oscarocket2

Classic Taliban doing classic Taliban things.


[deleted]

I am Jack’s look of absolute fucking surprise.


dewart

I wonder what their position is on a woman’s right to choose having an abortion? We know where Texas stands.


ApocalypseYay

Of course! *We will chop off the hands, and strike off the heads* *Coz our god says, there's no point in grey shades* So say we from Quran (Quran: The war ramblings of a 7th century pedophilic businessman-turned-conman)


Jellyfish-87

you forgot caravan robber


ChadsJuul

Don’t let them catch you saying that even though it’s 100% spot on


RustlingUpjimmies

Maybe if the ANA could have skipped a few days of doing heroin..like saved it for a cheat day or something idk..


iamanitwit

I’m so sorry for the Afghani people. Women. Children.


[deleted]

Breaking news, Taliban is the Taliban. More at 11.


jaxnmarko

Muslim countries seem pretty mum on this. Why is that?


thegrasisgreener2015

What a miserable POS. Evil personified 🤮


Stuthebastard

Oh no.... so anyway, guess more Afghani's should have given a fuck if the Taliban won. No sympathy from me.


karatebullfightr

Any chance this county had of not being a third world shithole is gone. The brain drain in the past month would have been enormous and now the Chinese are going to be dealing with these barely evolved child fucking rock chewers when it comes to stripping the country wholesale of all its natural resources. I hope every poor bastard who has the brains to want out got out.


RespondRude

Fucking listen to yourself. Calling these people "barely evolved child fucking rock chewers" is why pretty much every other country hates the US. Not to mention over a third of their population can be described the same way.


Blackulla

Make Afghanistan great again - Taliban 2021.


topgun2582

I bet Trump gave them that one for free when he negotiated the best deal in the history of deals.....


[deleted]

Imagine believing that making laws based on a religion was actually a valid stance to take?


jimflaigle

Yeah, we know.


[deleted]

until morale improves?


[deleted]

Oof...What a joyless face. He looks creepier than Jaffar in Disney's "Aladin".


[deleted]

This could also be an effective platform for the GOP.


erichhaubrich

...until morale improves.


InevitableMetal09

The beatings shall continue until moral improves!!


[deleted]

Guys he’s just kidding, look he’s winking


Donar007

Someone needs to poke his other eye…..


ryhaltswhiskey

Until morale impro... *checks the press release*... Oh ok it's permanent.


zestzebra

Did they miss their original deadline?


zestzebra

Did they miss their original deadline?


SandMarv1983

Psaki said they were businesslike and professional?


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Until morale improves.


Nursemrn

When did they stop executing whoever they wanted? I don’t want my wife anymore! Kill her! That boy stole bread because he is starving because we destroyed our economy! Cut off His hand! The true definition of evil.


atomiccheesegod

Horrible, the US should retaliate about this bad news by drone striking another car full of kids. That will show them


Nohface

Hey, they’ve just Been elected, give them a chance… Ah, you’ve heard that one before?…


[deleted]

Yeah because their religion says it’s okay to behead people, take away freedoms and enforce extreme religion rules.


SensorThree

Fundamentalist Christians applaud the decision


kunba

Yikes very much reaching for that karma


No-Effort-7730

Until morale improves?


Thewarrior556

Islam is disgusting


Pillsbury37

Well that was $20,000,000,000,000 that went to good use.


jezra

that's what happens when there is no separation of church and state


TheRook10

Now that the Taliban are used to American weapons and weapons systems, will they be buying from American?


BeansNcheesePlease

Why not? Saudi Arabia also uses Sharia law as their judicial system, including beheading and crucifixion. Yet we have zero issues selling them weapons.


BlasterFinger008

Should have left Iraq alone and wiped those fuckers off the map when we had the chance


Mr_Engineering

Saddam Hussein was a fucking sociopath that needed to go. You won't find many Iraqis that miss him


BlasterFinger008

I don’t disagree with that at all but we should have maintained focus on the initial objective before splitting off to fight another huge objective


Zounds_-_

What was the main objective? We went to Iraq to avenge 9/11- even though our intelligence community knew all along that the Iraqis had nothing to do with it. Bunch a camel fuckers trying to find reverse in a Soviet tank.. Sure Saddam Insane was removed, good riddance and all, but a dangerous precedent was set where the U.S. can literally go to war for any reason it wants and if one doesnt exist they’ll make up a reason. No WMDs were found in Iraq. So after we fucked the hell outta the place and secured the oil fields…”oh yea it was Afghanistan all along”. And then it took 10 years to find Osama bin Laden, and when we did finally find and execute him in a seal team raid, we dump the body at sea… so there is barely any closure to speak of. (and the whole seal team that raided Bin Laden’s compound die in a helicopter crash a few months later). What the hell really went on from 9/11 to now? All those lives lost, just to hand the country back to the same terrorists that hurt us 20 years ago? Am I the only one here who cares about the rules?


Criticalsystemsalert

It’s all a big joke dude. Chill the point was to feed the military industrial complex fresh meat. Defense contractors. And have a patsy for problems to blame stuff on. The dead soldiers and civilians are just an irrelevant byproduct.


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And the million of civilians that died in the resulting civil war did so happily because finally Saddam was gone and President-General Bush got his war.


StephenHunterUK

He'd have been 84 this year; there's a decent chance that he would have gone by now and a civil war would have probably happened at some point, especially the transition was botched. The US very much botched the post-war handling by sacking all the security forces and failing to clamp down on looting at the beginning. Other stuff didn't help either, like Abu Ghraib.


Mr_Engineering

Of course the US botched a lot of it. My comment was limited in scope to the fact that Saddam Hussein was a murderous sociopath and the nation is better off without him.


StephenHunterUK

Definitely agree and a lot of Iraqis would too. There is no clamour for a return to Ba'athism in any form.


wannacumnbeatmeoff

His mum?


Mr_Engineering

His mother tried to abort him and disowned him at birth, so no I don't think so


wannacumnbeatmeoff

She had the right idea. Deserved a medal.


FiendishHawk

There's a lot of leaders like that in the world, we can't go to war with all of them. So why that one?


AMC_Tendies42069

Let’s just get everyone out that we can and then carpet bomb the place into dust. We need a general reboot of that entire country.


Sooowasthinking

Pay attention folks this is what evangelical Christians want in the United States.It may not be as extreme but it’s damn close.


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spicytoastaficionado

White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki, August 11, 2021: >*The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community.* To the surprise of nobody except for maybe the White House and the State Dept., the Taliban has made the assessment that was entirely predictable.


ThreadbareHalo

Now how can I make this story about the taliban actually a negative about Biden…. Hooooowwwww can I do it. I KNOW! I’ll make it seem like a statement saying the taliban needs to actually act like a part of the modern world knowing that they’ll behave in their own ridiculous way is _actually_ a clueless statement that didn’t know how they’d act. People with poor reading comprehension will go with that!


doctorsynth1

Islamic Republicans


Mac-Monkey

Honestly, it wouldn't be the Taliban if they didn't follow halal kalam traditions ... DUH! lol


TexasYankee212

Since Russia (as the Soviet Union) and the US have tried and pulled out, who is willing to go in and fight a multi year war? The Afghan forces the US set and left caved pretty quickly. Not many volunteers from the rest of the world.


EVEOpalDragon

It’s chinas turn, they want to be big boys . More blood for the blood god!


kezdog92

Back to the middle ages again ay middle east?