Taliban: an extremist group set to spread its ideology – Andrin Raj

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THE Taliban’s recent takeover has now made the making of a new democratic nation state of Afghanistan just a distant dream for the people of Afghanistan. The fall of Kabul to the Taliban marks a new era in extremism propaganda, not only in the Middle East, but globally for religious terror groups.

The Taliban, prior to the 9/11 attacks was a “state sponsored and support” for Islamist terror groups. Al-Qaeda was supported by the Taliban and were given full autonomy to operate within Afghanistan prior to the 9/11 attacks.

Is the Taliban now seen as a legitimate government to administer Afghanistan by the West? The Taliban supported al-Qaeda and allowed al-Qaeda to conduct a major terrorist attack that killed thousands in New York in 2001, which led to the “war on terror” by the US to attack the Taliban and al-Qaeda operations in Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda operated and trained the Taliban and foreign fighters that included the early Mujahids that fought the Russian invasion.

Al-Qaeda’s autonomy given by the Taliban to operate and plan international terrorist attacks from Afghanistan has now been reactivated. The Taliban is portraying something that it is not and will not be in the near future. It will not change its extremist ideologies and violent practices of shariah laws.

Taliban leaders are now engaging a new narrative that it wants to portray to Muslim authoritarian regimes, as well as to Muslim states that are seen to be in line with radical Islamic teachings and ideologies.

The Taliban has also initiated its first contact in Southeast Asia, which is Malaysia, as it has support given by a political religious party in Malaysia, which has welcomed the Taliban rule.

The Taliban’s newly appointed media communications head, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, is well educated and speaks fluent English, and is given the mandate to speak on behalf of the Taliban to the international media.

Now, the Taliban is definitely reaching out to every country for it to be recognised.


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