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Afghanistan
Influential Salafist Scholar Killed in the Afghan Capital
2022-07-15
[KhaamaPress] Sardar Wali Saqib, a prominent religious figure and leader of Salafi scholars, was assassinated in Kabul city, according to sources.

Sources report that unknown button men on Wednesday evening, July 13, killed the influential Salafist scholar at his place of residence.

In the Naranjebagh area of Jalalabad district, in the heart of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
 province, where many students are pursuing religious education, Sheikh Sardar Wali Saqib was the head of a religious seminary.

The incident was confirmed by the front man for the Kabul police, Khalid Zadran, and an investigation has reportedly been opened.

No organization has as of yet taken responsibility for the incident. Prior to this, however, the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 was accused of assaulting Salafi scholars in the country.
Boys will be boys — what’s one to do?
Salafism is one of the religious movements in Afghanistan and according to a report of the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
, Salafis are mysteriously murdered in the country’s eastern provinces.

According to the yearly report on international religious freedom by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the situation for religious freedom in Afghanistan has drastically worsened since the Taliban took over the country.
Related:
Nangarhar: 2022-07-08 Looks like Afghanistan Liberation Movement is owning Sher Agha
Nangarhar: 2022-07-08 HRW: Taliban forces have repeatedly carried out summary executions and other war crimes against people in their custody
Nangarhar: 2022-07-03 Grenade Explosion at an Islamic Seminary in East Afghanistan Wounds Eight People
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  Nangahar Peer Review comment added to my private Dron66046 collection for future reference.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-15 21:32  

#12  Dron's analysis is why you (and me) read Rantburg. Well done, mate!
Posted by: Raj   2022-07-15 20:21  

#11  Re: #6 by Dron66046 ---- *Bravo* [clapping sound]
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-15 14:33  

#10  
"My fiqh is better'n yours",
said Abdallah al Salem.
"It allows us to kill our wives,
while youz can only sell 'em"

"Silence, donkey faggot! The
last pope of Khost commanded
all unwanted wimmin be sent to
where emir Biden can smell 'em."
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-15 13:53  

#9  As a bonus, I have a new and better association for "NPR".
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2022-07-15 13:41  

#8  Thank you.

"I have detailed files." - Terminator 2 (1991)
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-15 13:38  

#7  That was quite the briefing, Mr D.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2022-07-15 13:30  

#6  This is actually what we call the Nangarhar Peer Review. 'Scholars' of splinter offshoots of the deoband school are called hanafi; the original Taliban were all deobandi hanafi. Salafi are what you get after the infusion of wahabi doctrine by mulla Omar and the likes. Decades ago, multiple factions splintered off, some toward traditional hanafi fiqh, and some toward wahhabism which we also call salafism. Because Omar, Bin Laden, all these bastards were using the global islamic eschaton as their motivational pep talk, which was created by Abd al Wahhab. The ghalba-e-islam [world conquest], taqiya, aligning with Marxists, etc to achieve dominance and ...whatever. This brought a salafist character to the Taliban. And they allowed it as long as Islamabad and AQ and all were happily united in throwing out the west.

It suits the interests of the Paki ISI to keep Afghans divided between the two moronic dogmas, because a United pashtun would become... troublesome. They're more or less the same, just some doctrinal differences. But in this realm, the influence over families, communities, able bodies is power. And power in the islamofascist world comes from doctrine and charisma. Now, the seat of doctrine, Afghanistan's version of Corinth or Alexandria if you will, is Gawd forsaken Nangarhar, where all these shitty scholars have their own sects and schools. And they have followers who are all armed and suicidal.

We believe, and we have good reason to, that the Taliban have been trying to resurrect the original puritan hanafi Islam and cull salafist influence because it brings with it the hand of the Jama'at e islami Pakistan. And they do this by first picking religious arguments with oval salafis, then gunning them down for being 'wrong'. This is called the Nangarhar Peer Review.

Other parties... ahem... have used it to good effect to hurt the 'Stain often. The Taliban have gladly shredded multiple congregations of salafis in Pak with nails and ball bearings because they believed the Jama'at was proselytising that side of the Durand line 😉. Trust me, that's a good thing. These people must remain stupid. So there.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-15 11:41  

#5  ^ Allan curses you to eternal non-moslemnity.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-15 11:00  

#4  (looks at my previous post)

I'm going to Hell for that, aren't I?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-07-15 09:03  

#3  (DOORBELL RINGS)

"Yes?"

"Hi! Are you Sardar Wali Saqib, the prominent religious figure and leader of Salafi scholars?"

"Yep!"

"BANGETY BANG!!!"

"Rose...bud..." (THUD)

The end.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-07-15 09:02  

#2  The Taliban are also Salafi but follow Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghāni. He was a 19th century religious figure.

He advocated for what might be called a "Pashto-Islamic" religious State with a weak (to prevent corruption) secular government.

I don't know what saqib's views were.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-07-15 08:47  

#1  So..."Natural causes"?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-15 08:29  

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