Joe Biden has announced that he plans to send 2,000 troops to the US embassy in Kabul. This surprised me. I wasn’t aware that there was a hostage shortage in Afghanistan. And just to prove they are appreciative of Biden’s move, The Taliban’s defense minister, Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said that as a tit for tat the Taliban would send 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen, which is another name for suicide bombers.
MEMRI explains that “fidayeen is another term used by jihadi groups for ‘Fateh Force,’ or ‘victorious force,’ is a ‘martyrdom force’ within the Badri 313 unit of the Islamic Emirate. Badri 313 was named after the battle at Ghazwa-e-Badr, which is the first battle led by Muhammad in which 313 Muslim fighters defeated thousands of non-Muslims.
This is probably a metaphor for the Taliban battling the United States. A few defeating the many. With Biden as Commander in Chief, the Taliban may even have the advantage. But after Biden’s bosses totally flubbed the withdrawal from Afghanistan, it would be hard to be hopeful. And why did we abandon Afghanistan just to send 2,000 troops back in? It’s one of those things that make you go huh?
But, this could just be another way to squeeze money out of Brandon. He plans on sending them another $308 million in “humanitarian aid.” That brings the 4 month total to $782 million. The way Biden is spending money on the Taliban, you’d think they were illegal aliens. The Taliban just hopes Biden doesn’t start treating them like they are Americans.
The justification for suicide bombing is likewise found in Islamic doctrine and is based on the Qur’an itself, which says: “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an.” (9:111)
There is actually no trace in the Torah or Gospel of the idea that paradise is guaranteed to someone who kills for God and is killed in the process, but the idea that this promise is binding upon Allah is critically important. There is no other unequivocal promise of paradise in the Qur’an and copious, luridly detailed descriptions of the tortures of the hellfire that is reserved for unbelievers, hypocrites, and those whose bad deeds outweigh their good deeds on Allah’s grand scales (cf. Qur’an 21:47). The suicide bomber, however, doesn’t have to worry about any of his bad deeds at all, for a place in paradise is guaranteed to him if he kills and is killed in the process.
