This is noteworthy, as the Taliban has said that China is friend of Afghanistan, and promised not to allow Uyghur jihadis to enter the country.
An update on this story. “Islamic State group claims Afghanistan mosque bombing, says suicide bomber targeted Shiites,” by Joydeep Bose, Hindustan Times, October 9, 2021:
The Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing attack on a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz on Friday that left at least 55 people dead and dozens of others severely injured. In a statement released on its Telegram channels, the jihadist group – an associate of the Islamic State (ISIS) – said that its suicide bomber specifically targeted a crowd of Shiite worshippers who gathered inside a mosque and it was there that the attacker “detonated an explosive vest”.
The Islamic State group, moments after taking out the first statement, released another in which it elaborated on the suicide bombing attack in northern Afghanistan. The terror outfit said in its second statement, seen by AFP, that the “perpetrator of the attack was an Uyghur Muslim”, a minority that the Taliban – the new rulers of Afghanistan – “vowed to expel”. The statement was later carried by the IS-linked Aamaq news agency.
The development hints at aggravating sectarian violence in the war-ravaged nation as the extremist Islamic State group, bitter rivals of the Taliban, has time and again targeted the Shiite population to stir up unrest in the Sunni-majority Afghanistan. The outfit bombed a Shiite mosque in the west of Kabul in a similar suicide attack in October 2017, killing at least 56 people and wounding 55 others, including women and children who gathered for the evening prayers. Islamic State terrorists have also targeted Taliban positions and attempted to recruit members from their ranks….
somehistory says
Point the finger of “blame” while at the same time, boasting in the “responsibility..’
Psychopaths all…all of them. If there were on earth two humans and both were mozlum…attend the same barracks, follow the same script rigorously, born of the same parents, they would end up fighting to the death so they could enter the fictional drunken sex-orgy for murdering a fellow human in combat.
mozlums refuse to get along even with other devout mozlums. “There is no honor among thieves,” or mozlums. There was no honor in their fake ‘profit’ or false ‘god,’ who are all in for mass murder, raping children, thieving, sex-slaving, lying, and following in the evil, rotten, putrid, feculent, example of their demon-snake “father,” satan the devil, whose “desire” they wish to carry to completion.
PMK says
I’m confused. The Uyghurs are primarily Sunni Muslims, same as the Taliban? So why does the Taliban want to expel them? Is it that they are not of Arab origin but are Turkic in ethnicity? I can only assume the Taliban has no problem with what China does to their fellow Muslims? These rivalries in and among all the ‘stans’ are hard to keep up with. A pox on all of them.
somehistory says
Perhaps it has to do with the “china syndrome” …evidently, china has already taken over the Bagram air base, have nuclear weapons and are just as vicious as mozlums are.
Perhaps it’s easier to court them than to worry about a few mozlums of differing ethnicity.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Islamic State claims responsibility for mosque bombing that targeted Shi’ites, says perp was Uyghur
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Not impossible, but not likely, either. There are only about 2000 Uyghurs in the whole of Afghanistan (although some of them are in the Kunduz area). But the Taliban doesn’t want this blamed on their buds:
“Taliban top dog says they won’t work with the U.S. to fight the Islamic State”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/taliban-top-dog-says-they-wont-work-with-the-u-s-to-fight-the-islamic-state