Dennis Coyle stepped off the plane in Texas this week after 421 days in Taliban captivity. The 64-year-old Christian linguist from Pueblo, Colorado, had worked legally in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years developing language resources for local communities. Seized from his Kabul apartment on January 27, 2025, he endured harsh conditions with little outside contact and no formal charges ever filed. His release on March 24, 2026, came as an Eid al-Fitr “humanitarian gesture” after sustained U.S. pressure and a family appeal to the Taliban supreme leader.

A Clear Biblical Warning

Proverbs 22:3 states plainly, “The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.” Coyle’s long ordeal puts flesh on that verse. He chose to remain in a land controlled by a regime that openly aligns with forces dedicated to Israel’s destruction. The Taliban, like Iran and its proxies, has never hidden its hostility toward the Jewish state and........

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