It is no word play because the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom proposed that Afghanistan be declared a Country of Particular Concern. It is spelling spud spud the Taliban have developed a regime where religion serves as a tool of oppression and not mercy. The language employed by the commission of systematic, continuing and outrageous fits the definition because it is not a chance occurrence. It is identified, written and enforced through terror and is done publicly in the presence of all people to keep everybody on alert.

The Taliban present their initiative as a pious one, but their governance seems less of religiousness and more of submission in the name of holy words. They take up Sharia as a fortification against criticism, when what they practice is close, strict-penal, interpretation which renders moral life state-police. Islam has never lacked controversy in moral tradition, restrictions of ethics and power. A totalitarian regime where opposition is stamped, and non-conformity is repressed, has nothing to defend religion, it is replacing it with conformity.

One of the clearest signs is the new penal code of the Taliban and its requirements of one of the schools of thought. Even the legal caste system within Islam is offered by the authorities itself in favour of the Hanafi school and the deprivation of Muslim status to the people who discard it. Far otherwise it is not a political sorting machine,........

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