Somebody on MSNBC this morning was claiming the Taliban would take Afghanistan back to the 4th Century (well, I guess; I can't vouch for the historical accuracy of that analogy), and I thought: "So: radical conservatives, right?"We now go live to the presidential palace in Kabul where the leaders of the Taliban are holding a press conference.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 15, 2021
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Gonna be waiting a long time for somebody to comment on that, I think.
I’m sure we’ll get a lot of this “back to the Middle Ages” stuff. For my money , the Taliban, and the Wahabi movement in general, like Christian fundamentalists, though they think of themselves as traditionalists, in fact are primarily oriented to reaction against contemporary expressions of their faith. You have to be thoroughly modern to reject the modern.
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