Sex with goats oddly not among the questions asked of the Mujahideen.
KABUL – Worried about whether Islamic verses on Facebook are allowed? Or that suicide bombers kill innocent civilians? Afghanistan’s Taliban have set up a new question and answer section on their website to address such issues.
The facility on Voice of Jihad, the official website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the Taliban’s own name for their movement — allows readers to submit queries to spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
The Voice of Jihad site is packed with denunciations of the Kabul government as “slaves” or “puppets” of its Western allies and often exaggerated claims of successes in the bloody, decade-long insurgency.
The answers have a consistent linguistic style and appear to be written by one person, who reveals himself to be married, middle-aged, and likes all types of halal food.
Most of the inquiries appear to come from Taliban supporters and often praise the militants.
But a poster giving his name as Haseeb Ul Rahman asked, “Don’t you think that killing all these people in suicide and bomb attacks every day is a big sin?”
More than 3,000 civilians died in the Afghanistan conflict last year, more than three-quarters of them killed by the Taliban or other insurgent groups, according to the UN.
Mujahid blamed “technical problems” for such deaths.
“I can tell you with confidence that civilians are not deliberately killed by the mujahedeen [Taliban fighters], rather it happens because of technical problems or missing the targets.”
HT: ROP