Exactly three years ago, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Since then, people’s freedoms have been systematically restricted. Sharia and the Islamic system are “growing stronger every day,” the terrorists’ supreme leader said.
On the third anniversary of the Taliban’s return to Afghanistan, their supreme leader described implementing Islamic law as a lifelong responsibility. “Serving religion and governing according to Sharia is our lifelong responsibility,” Hibatullah Akhundzada said Wednesday at an air base in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar to mark the Aug. 15, 2021, takeover.
“We will implement the religion of Allah and Sharia for ourselves and others as long as we are alive,” Akhundzada, who rarely appears in public, said in his speech published on the online service X on Wednesday evening by government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Sharia and the Islamic system are “growing stronger every day,” the Taliban leader added.
Military parades for “holiday”
Following the collapse of the US-backed government in Kabul, the Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital on August 15, 2021. The anniversary is marked a day earlier in the Afghan calendar and was marked with military parades and rallies across the country.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has since condemned the Taliban’s crimes against women in Afghanistan as the “worst systematic human rights violations in the world.”
“Three years ago today, the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, were torn from their lives,” Baerbock said, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.
Impressions of the Taliban parade:
Baerbock said: “Half of the country is no longer allowed to do what belongs to normal life: work, go to the hospital or restaurant alone, sing, show your face on the street, go to school as a teenager, be a woman. That the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan resemble life in a ‘domestic prison’. Under the current circumstances, a return of Afghanistan to the international community is not possible.
Taliban are not recognized
After years of Western military presence, the radical Islamist Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and declared a so-called Islamic emirate.
Since then, they have enforced their strict interpretation of Islam with draconian laws and, in particular, limited women’s rights. The Taliban remain internationally isolated; so far, no state has recognized the Islamist rulers as the formal government of Afghanistan.
Source: Krone
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