A Taliban judge has
given a terrifying glimpse into life under the Islamist group and the fate that
awaits Afghanis if the country falls back under their control. Gul Rahim,
38, spoke matter-of-factly about cutting hands and legs off thieves, issuing
permits for women to leave their homes and toppling walls on gay men as a form
of execution in his Taliban-controlled district in central Afghanistan. He
added that his aim is to introduce the Sharia law punishments across the whole
of the country if the Taliban can re-take control once America departs, saying:
'That was our goal and always will be.'
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Taliban judge Gul Rahim
in Afghanistan (Screenshot: Bild)
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Gay
men will be crushed to death by pushing a WALL onto them as part of nationwide
return to Sharia law in Afghanistan under the Taliban, one of the Islamist
group's judges reveals
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Gul Rahim, 38, Taliban judge, has given a
glimpse of life under the Islamist group
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Spoke matter-of-factly about chopping off the
hands and legs of thieves
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Said gays should be stoned to death or killed
by having a wall toppled on them
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Women can leave the house, he insisted, though
have to get a permit first
A
Taliban judge has given a terrifying glimpse into life under the Islamist group
and the fate that awaits Afghanis if the country falls back under their
control.
Gul Rahim, 38, spoke matter-of-factly about cutting hands and legs off thieves, issuing permits for women to leave their homes and toppling walls on gay men as a form of execution in his Taliban-controlled district in central Afghanistan.
He added that his aim is to introduce the Sharia law punishments across the whole of the country if the Taliban can re-take control once America departs, saying: 'That was our goal and always will be.'
The Taliban claim they have already taken control of 80 per cent of Afghanistan since NATO withdrew its forces from the country, leaving local troops to deal with the Islamists. The threat of Sharia law is already very real for many.
Rahim revealed his vision of justice in an interview with German newspaper Bild, speaking to a reporter close to the central Afghan province where he has been based for several years.
Speaking about a recent case he adjudicated, he said a man was found to have stolen a ring from a house - so he ordered that his hand be cut off.
'I asked the owner of the ring if he would also ask that the thief's leg be hacked off because he not only stole the ring but broke in, which means that he had committed two crimes,' he added.
'But the owner of the house agreed that only the hand would be chopped off.'
In another recent judgement, he ordered that a gang caught kidnapping and smuggling people should be hanged.
'Depending on the crime, we can start with fingertips or fingers. For worse offenses, we cut the wrist, elbow, or upper arm. Death by stoning or hanging is the only option for the greatest crimes', he said.
Asked what punishments the Taliban considers for gay men, he replied that there are only two options.
'Either stoning or he has to stand behind a wall that falls on him. The wall must be 8ft to 10ft high,' he said.
As the Taliban quickly retakes territory amid America's departure from the country, many women are trying to leave - afraid of living life under the Islamist group.
Rahim did little to assuage those fears when he insisted that women will be allowed to leave the house under Taliban rule, though will have to obtain a permit first.
Women will also be allowed to do to school, he said, though only if their teacher is female and they wear a compulsory hijab.
Abû Zayd pleads
before the Qadi of Ma'arra (1334).
Rahim's bleak descriptions of Taliban 'justice' recall the worst years under the previous Islamist government that emerged in the 1990s and ruled until it was driven from power during the American invasion.
In one famous image that recalls the horrors of those years, a man accused of murder is seen sitting in the middle of the national football stadium behind a pickup truck where another man is holding an AK47 rifle.
Moments after the picture was taken, the man was shot dead as part of a day of executions watched by some 35,000 people.
An unhappy wife is
complaining to the kadı about her husband's impotence. Ottoman
miniature.
Now, more than 20 years on from those images being taken and as America brings its 'forever war' to an end, there are fears the scenes could soon repeat themselves as the Taliban rapidly recaptures vast swathes of the country.
The group now boasts that it is in control of some 80 per cent of Afghanistan after a lightning-fast offensive on rural areas - though observers say the true figure is somewhere around 30 per cent.
In many areas the fighting has been fierce and bloody, with the government fighting and losing on multiple battlefields.
In some places commanders have simply abandoned their posts or else negotiated surrender with the militants to be allowed to go home.
But in others, the government insists it has performed a tactical retreat in order to concentrate its forces in major town and cities where it expects to make its defensive last stand later this year in the face of a near-inevitable Taliban assault.
While western leaders hope that fighting will end with some form of power-sharing deal between the government and Taliban, many fear the Islamists will emerge victorious and seize back control over the country.
If that happens, then Rahim's grim vision of life could become a daily reality.
Commanders have already warned that several of Afghanistan's provincial capitals are surrounded by the Taliban, will militia groups recruited by the government to hold them off already complaining of a lack of weapons and ammunition.
Fighting is currently taking place around Kandahar, Ghazni, Lashkah Gar, Pul-e-Khumri and Taluqan, officers said.
Meanwhile a battle has raged for days in the western city of Qala-i-Naw, which was overrun by the Taliban last week before a counterattack by government forces.
'We ask the government to implement a proper plan for suppressing the Taliban,' Hasan Hakimi, a civil society activist in central Ghor province, told Tolo News after more districts fell to the insurgents yesterday.
Despite the risks, the US is pushing ahead with its withdrawal and expects to have all of its forces out of the country before the end of August.
On Monday, the top US general in Afghanistan relinquished command at an official ceremony in Kabul - bringing America's departure from the country a step closer.
General Austin 'Scott' Miller - the highest-ranked officer on the ground in Afghanistan - handed command to General Kenneth McKenzie.
Miller has been in Afghanistan since 2018, but in May was charged by commander-in-chief President Joe Biden with organising the final withdrawal of US troops, to be completed by the end of August.
Since May, most of the 2,500 American troops have left, and the US has also handed over to Afghan forces Bagram Air Base, from where coalition forces carried out operations against the Taliban and jihadist groups for the past two decades.
About 650 US troops are expected to be stationed in Kabul to guard Washington's sprawling diplomatic compound, where Monday's ceremony took place.
Top Afghan officials and military officers attended the ceremony inside the heavily fortified green zone.
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MY COMMENTS:
Let me assure my readers here this: I DO NOT AND NEVER support sharia law and I AM NEVER in favor of putting LGBT people to death. I only support the death penalty for murderers and other death-related crimes. If that Qadi (Sharia Judge) would only limit the death penalty to murderers and not to LGBT people, I will not mind.
Those Prisoner Rights Activists who fight for the rights of murderers
should only campaign to end the death penalty and any judicial punishments at
the right time but they always do it at the wrong time.
If you really want to end the death penalty (and any judicial punishments), you should not do it here in America where we execute people for First Degree Murder and not extrajudicial trials. If you go to the Taliban and campaign for them to end the death penalty, they will not listen to you but have you beheaded instead. However, they are the right people that should abolish the death penalty, because they are committing judicial murder. So please go there instead and ‘rescue’ more innocent people being executed.
If you see how naïve Pope Francis was in what he said about ISIS, he is no morally different from those Prisoner rights activists who give all kinds of excuses that murderers have bad childhood and they should not be executed (or given LWOP). Bear in mind, murderers do not respect you just like ISIS hates Pope Francis.
OTHER LINKS:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/14/taliban-afghanistan-gay/
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=147775950771736&id=101692122046786
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3350621811720081/posts/4116992851749636/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadi
http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/07/life-is-cheap-in-norway-christian.html
