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The latest issue of Khurasan Ghag, the Pashtu-language magazine of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), has several articles warning of attacks against companies, institutions, and people who help the Afghan Taliban government, and saying that Shi'ites are the first line of defense for Jews and are the allies of unbelievers in wars against Sunni Islamic states.
An article titled "Rawafidh [rejectionist, a pejorative term for Shi'ite] [Shi'ites] – The First Defensive Wall of the Jews," argues taht Shi'ites betray the Islamic Ummah by helping the "Crusaders" invade Islamic land to later seize control of the Islamic world, leading to the chaotic state seen today in Iraq, Syria, and other regions.
The 98-page Pashtu-language magazine is published by The Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS). The current edition, Issue 31, is dated Dhu Al-Qadah 9, 1445, in the Hijri calendar, which corresponds to May 18, 2024.
A page in the magazine warns: "Oh Aqsa: We are coming and, we will take severe revenge on the Jews, Allah willing!"
The magazine's political section has seven articles: "The Islamic Emirate Or The Government Of Unbeliever Institutions"; "Breakfast – The Participants Chewed Islam Instead Of Food"; "Rawafidh [Rejectionist, A Pejorative Term For Shi'ite] – The First Defensive Wall Of The Jews"; "The Minister Of Defense Or The Minister Of Harb [War, Attack]!"; "The War Against Terrorism Was Unbelief Yesterday, Today It Is Privilege!"; "Who Are The Deobandis – Part 7"; And "Hijrat [Emigration] And Jihad Still Seem Like A Joke To The Militias."
One of the key articles of the magazine is titled "Rawafidh [Shi'ites] – The First Defensive Wall of the Jews." It uses Rawafidh, the pejorative term for Shi'ites, adding that the Shi'ites betrayed the Islamic Ummah by aiding the Crusaders in the hope of capturing the Sunni world.
The article titled "Rawafidh – The First Defensive Wall Of The Jews," reads: "The Rawafidh once again stabbed the Islamic Ummah in the back. On the one hand, they helped the Crusader world and confirmed their invasion of the Islamic world. On the other hand, they only gave slogans of enmity so that after the invasion of the Islamic world by the Crusaders, they rule the Islamic world, and the result is what we and you see today in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and other regions," the article says.
It adds: "Until yesterday, Rawafidh shouted hostility toward the Crusaders, but they were the initial supporters of the American Crusade invasion in Iraq. Today, they shout about hostility toward the Jews, but this enmity is only aimed at the establishment of two major states in the region. One of these states will be the Jewish state, extending from the Nile of Egypt to the Euphrates of Iraq, and the other will be the Rafidhi Hilal [i.e., the Shi'ite flag], which will extend from Libya to the Arabian Peninsula." It cites the verses of Quran: "In the first step, the most stubborn enemies of Islam are the Jews and then the polytheists, and they can never be well-wishers of the Ummah."
The unidentified author of the article says of Iran's recent attack on Israel that "Iran's attack was never to defend Aqsa and the oppressed Muslims living there..." The article argues that one can understand from the bombings and attacks of the Iranians on Sunni cities in Syria, Iraq, and other regions, that the claim of hostility of the Rawafidh to Jews is just a drama.
"Therefore, the Ummah needs to save the Islamic Ummah from the Rafidha cancer just like the Jews, and just as there is animosity toward the Jews, the Rafidha who are on the front line of the Jews' defense should be killed. If in the region the Rafidha states, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon fall, the Jews will be trapped in the hands of the Ghazis [warriors] tomorrow," it adds.
In another article, titled "The Minister of Defense or the Minister of Harb [War, Attack]!" Islamic terms are discussed, especially whether the Islamic system should have a minister of defense or a minister of harb. The author criticizes the Taliban officials saying they use the term defense instead of harb because "their minister of defense has never warned the unbelievers and tyrants like the minister of harb of an Islamic system and cannot give war warnings. Instead, their defense minister assures the unbelievers of security..."
He further says: "In the current era, the unbeliever forces have started an all-out war against Islam, and one of the wars in this series is to promote the terms of tyranny and blasphemy instead of shari'a terms..." According to the article, this field is very important because the side that is weak in these fields loses its wars, and the side that is strong in these terms wins its wars. In order to promote these terms, efforts are being made to eliminate shari'a terms and to create terms that have the meaning of both right and wrong. The Taliban have not only changed the form of the Islamic system but also changed many terms of the Islamic system into tyrannical terms.
The Pashtu magazine's cover
In its cover article, titled "Warning to Economic and Intellectual Supporters of Taliban Militias," the magazine threatens all companies, institutions, administrations, and people who support the Afghan Taliban, whether economically or intellectually.
"The unbelievers not only caused ruin and destruction during the military war, but as a result of the intellectual war, they so thoroughly destroyed and confused the minds and thoughts of the people that even if it takes several years to rebuild the material and physical destruction, the thoughts destroyed by their intellectual invasion will not recover, even in tens of years," it states.
The author of the article says that non-Muslims used the idea of democracy as a tool in Afghanistan. He says: "In Afghanistan, these eastern and western unbelievers used the republic and democracy to achieve their goals in the name of Islam..."
It says that as a result of the intellectual war, the unbelievers prepared the Taliban to replace the Afghan Republic. The same American mission that was carried out by the Republic officials in the name of Islam is now undertaken by the Taliban militias and "all of this is the consequence of the unbelievers' intellectual warfare..."
The author laments that the Taliban are not following Islamic laws and accuses them of unbelief and emphasizes that they and their supporters must be killed. He states: "Yes! This Emirati militia and their system is an unbelief system..." He adds: "The Taliban militias and their supporters, all the unbelievers, or those companies and institutions in the name of Muslims, which through their economic efforts get one percent benefit to the Taliban militia system, are our target."
The article warns supporters of the Afghan Taliban to stop supporting it. It also warns YouTubers and journalists who support the Taliban and broadcast in their favor. "Those companies that consider themselves public and who help and cooperate with the Taliban in economic or other matters should be aware that if they help the Taliban militias in any field... we have enough information about them, so they are all the targets of our attacks."
Another article, titled "The Islamic Emirate or the Government of Unbeliever Institutions," discusses how the Taliban find reasons to befriend the invaders of Islamic lands and those who harm the Islamic Ummah. It mentions that the foreign aid coming to Afghanistan in the name of humanitarian assistance is used by institutions without Taliban intervention, implying the absence of an Islamic government in Afghanistan.
It says: "The newly designed form of democracy in Doha, implemented under the name of the Islamic Emirate, and the pillars of this blasphemous system, which depend on the West's dollars and receive support from various blasphemous countries, also justify the continued support for this blasphemous political, economic, and developmental system of the Taliban."
According to the article, the United States and other countries have been sending aid to the Taliban under various names for salaries, intelligence missions, and other purposes in order to prevent an Islamic caliphate. It states: "In addition to the obvious weekly package of 40 million dollars, many Eastern and Western military unbelievers send aid to the Taliban militias under different names. These bags of dollars, apparently covertly and openly aimed at preventing the Islamic Caliphate, reach them promptly for the salaries of their militias, for conducting intelligence missions, and for many other purposes..."
It adds: "Despite all this, Taliban militants give different reasons for these donations; sometimes they say that these donations come for the salaries of employees of institutions; sometimes they call them humanitarian aid...; sometimes they justify them in various other ways."
It observes that if these donations go directly to institutions and the Taliban do not interfere and allow them to carry out their work, then Afghanistan operates under institutional governance, and claims of independence are unfounded. Therefore, the Taliban cannot claim to have defeated the unbelievers, it says, and further states that all the institutions in the name of social, medical, educational, and children's services are working for the spread and propagation of Christianity. It says: "In the field of education, they [foreign aid institutions] can easily reach this goal. All their focus is on children and the next generation, how to train them in secular ideas and how to invite them to Christianity..."
The magazine's table of contents
A key article, titled "The War Against Terrorism was Unbelief Yesterday, Today It is Privilege!" asks the Taliban why it works with people and groups whom it had labeled as unbelievers against the Islamic State. This shift suggests a coordinated effort with neighboring countries and the global unbeliever community in the war against ISIS, indicating a unified strategy, the article says. It goes on: "In contemporary history, the Crusader-Jewish alliance justifies the war against Islam by calling it a 'war against terrorism' with the strong support of Rawafidh, but in reality, it is only a war against Islam, the Islamic Ummah, and the Islamic brotherhood. Otherwise, Westerners should define 'terrorism'!"
The author accuses the Afghan Taliban of neglecting Islamic values and says: "Yesterday, some movements [the Afghan Taliban] that were a threat to the Crusader interests were called terrorists and fought against the unbelievers, but today, when the same movements have crossed Islamic values, the unbelievers are their first friends." At the end of the magazine, based on a hadith, the Jews are warned: "Oh Aqsa: We are coming and, we will take a severe revenge on the Jews, Allah willing!"
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