My latest in PJ Media:
Kyle Shideler, the Director/Senior Analyst for Homeland Security & Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, said it best: “They may have a 7th-century law code, but they grift with the best of the 21st century.” The Taliban does indeed appear to have caught on to one of the most lucrative gravy trains of the first part of the 21st century and are eager to get in on the loot; the jihad terror group has issued a call for aid from international organizations to help it fight the scourge of climate change.
Apparently, the Taliban would have us believe that in between executing allies of the United States, confiscating guns, setting women on fire and making sure they don’t work or go to school, and persecuting Shi’ite Hazaras, their jihadis just really want to spend some time working on clean energy programs and making Afghanistan green.
Showing a fine grasp of how the game is played, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen explained: “Afghanistan has a fragile climate. There is need for tremendous work.” Accordingly, “some climate change projects which have already been approved and were funded by Green Climate Fund, UNDP, Afghan Aid, should fully resume work.”
Would environmentalists be safe working in Afghanistan? Why, sure! The Taliban, said Shaheen, would make sure of that: “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is committed to providing security and a safe environment for the work of NGOs and charity organizations.”
Of course. This is the group, mind you, that abducted and murdered five aid workers from Save the Children in April 2015. In May 2019, Taliban jihadis murdered five aid workers from the American organization Counterpart International because, they said, Counterpart was promoting women being in the proximity of men in public. Then in June 2020, the UN accused the Taliban of “deliberate attacks” against health care workers.
But now, of course, we have the kinder, gentler Taliban, the one that told the international media that it would be more moderate than it was before and was actually believed. These new claims will likely be believed as well. After all, climate change is an existential crisis, no? Someone was telling Joe Biden that on Monday as he dozed off. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Sunday that “relief agencies have warned that a drought in Afghanistan, which UN scientists say has been worsened by climate change, could force 22 million into ‘acute food insecurity.’”
Western humanitarian aid groups, always so very eager to be fooled, will likely fall for this preposterous notion hook, line, and sinker, and the money will flow to the Taliban in even greater quantities than it is already. The Voice of America reported Thursday that American taxpayers will now be “providing nearly $144 million in new humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, where millions of people could face acute hunger this winter unless aid arrives soon.”
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libertyORdeath says
Isn’t providing aid and comfort to a terrorist group a crime in all Western countries? If our representatives in N. America, Europe, Australia and the rest had any balls they would charge the liberals with aiding a terrorist organization and lock them up.
My guess though is that they will send billions of OUR dollars and pounds and tell us to shut up or else we’re “islamophobic”
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban are asking for that specific type of “aid” because they want to take anything sent for themselves . Yet even more they are attempting to appear “With it and concerned this subject to look good in the eyes ofthe world .This is called “impression management .”
Likewise the Taliban are using the subject of climate change as a tactic to distract the attention of the world away from their terrible , cruel brutal awful ways they treat the people of Afghanistan who are trapped in their Sharia based oppressive Islamic tyranny.
The Taliban are very disingenuous when speak fake words of concern about climate change.
L says
They are groomed and propped-up to Depopulate.
bill says
‘The Taliban are very disingenuous’. I am shocked they are men of god how can they be dishonest. OK just being sarcastic. I doubt they ever heard or even thought about GW until the MSM told them about it.
Here is a small story about how Muslims care about the environment.
. I was living in a certain Muslim country and one day I was driving along the road into town. Ahead of me was another car. It stopped on a small bridge so I slowed down to see the reason.
The driver complete with Haji hat opened the boot of the car took out two or three plastic bags
and chucked them into the mangroves!. It would have been no trouble for him to carry them to town where there were bins for rubbish. He though the environment was a good place to dump his rubbish
Ade Fegan says
No .. it IS a joke
(and the Biden administration buying into their bull crap is an even bigger joke)
gravenimage says
Not A Joke: Taliban Asks for International Aid to Help It Fight…Climate Change
…………..
The Taliban just wants the ‘filthy Infidels’ to take this seriously…
Valhella says
And sadly, embarrassingly, our Governments are suckered in time after time – it’s kind of unbelievable that they bend over and take it, nay beg for it. Just who is pulling their strings?
gravenimage says
Too true.
Seth says
They know their marks. Well-versed in the lexicon of the elites.
Fitna says
If someone could raise their own army that is well trained and armed, they could go after the terrorist groups, take all their wealth and eradicate them at the same time.
Killing terrorist could be extremely lucrative for anyone who is in a position to go after them. Although they have $85b in US military hardware, they’re untrained to use most of it and they’ve tried to sell it off to other nations.
I’m surprised no countries has thought of doing this themselves. Every large terrorist organization has amassed billions in stolen wealth. So there’s profit in taking it from them and putting them out of business at the same time.
Eleanor says
Biden Aide: “Mr President, the Taliban called to ask if you wanted to buy some military hardware?”
Biden: “C’mon man, you have to be kidding, of course we want it – we might get it cheap – did they mention a price?”
Fitna says
@Eleanor
Lol, Biden would be stupid enough to buy back our own hardware….from terrorists.
Keith O says
Fitna, The problems of Islamic terrorism can be solved very easily.
All we have to do is convince the Chinese that, due to the way they breed, Muslim men must be an aphrodisiac.
They wold “harvest” the lot of them within 2 years and the problem would go away.
Shawn says
Thank goodness that there is Jihad Watch and the few others out there in the front lines keeping the sane informed.Just facts is what is presented here.So happy knowing more than me is concerned of our new reality,sadly,out doom.
Relic says
You could never shoot straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVhEL7hrGQI
Johnny B says
Of course, they’re not stupid, that’s where the money flows right now. The worst part about it is that our inept and so called politicians are probably going to give them the money. In Sweden they just found out they can’t account for much of their foreign aid, and yet they continue pay out billions year after year. They’re so busy giving our money away to everybody else up here they really don’t really care, it’s insane..
Todd McDermott says
Next they will request Infidel financial aid to implement transgender outreach.
Valhella says
Awww yes, bless ’em – you know how they love their frocks!
Dhimmi says
They will do because they would keep Afghanistan in the Middle Ages
roberta says
If we would just give them the aid they need, maybe they would stop killing us infidels.
Everyone knows that climate change, poverty, and colonialism are the real drivers behind terrorism.
Windmills and hydroelectric dams in the deserts of Afghanistan would go a long way toward peace, and a cleaner mother earth.
”Be the change”
Jim says
Climate change is a leftist strategy, just like supporting Islamists. So why wouldn’t the Taliban also support it. They just want their share of our tax dollars, just like the Marxist-globalists.
OLD GUY says
It appears the Taliban have heard about Dim Joe and probably can work a deal with Hunter to find them a few million of our tax dollars at a reasonable kick back cost. STOP wasting our TAX DOLLARS on these foreign leaders and their families.
Goofy says
Afghanistan is so poor that it hardly has any CO2 emissions. It is the political climate change which is the problem, but it appears that money will not solve the problem.
Jan Vodicka says
socialisms, bolshevism, marxism, fascisms, communism, islamism, they’re all the same. Brainwashing by idiotic and lying propaganda, hysteria, chaos, violence, ending up in complete tyranny and misery. They can’t build, they can only destroy everything. If we will not learn from history, then we will never fix this huge problem.