Afghanistan – Page 3 – Blazingcatfur

Ottawa stops funding temporary accommodations for Afghan migrant applicants waiting in Pakistan

43 Million spent on dubious “refugees”

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has stopped subsidizing temporary accommodations in Pakistan for people applying through a special immigration program for Afghans who worked for the Canadian government or armed forces.

Special measures for Afghans trying to move to Canada were introduced by the federal government in summer 2021, after the Taliban swept to power and sent many former employees of western governments into hiding.

How many thousands “worked” for Canada in Afghanistan?

It’s a number that seems infinite.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2024August 23, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Taliban bans Afghan women from looking at men they don’t know

Afghanistan’s Taliban has banned women from looking at men and speaking loudly in public and inside their homes.

In a 114-page document of new orders seen by The Telegraph, the regime announced strict measures governing everyday life for Afghan citizens.

“It is forbidden for adult women to look at strange men,” according to one of the new rules.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2024August 22, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Thousands of Afghan ‘Refugees’ Taking Vacations in Afghanistan

Thousands of Afghan citizens who have claimed asylum in Germany have flown back to their home country for a holiday before returning to Germany according to an explosive report by the German television channel RTL. The revelations shore up the argument made by anti-immigration parties that many of those seeking ‘refuge’ in Germany are actually abusing the asylum system and have only headed to Western Europe to gain social benefits.

by Blazingcatfur•August 18, 2024August 17, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Harjit Sajjan failed Canada, and Canadians

It was my strategy that held back Xerxes at Thermopylae!

Harjit Sajjan, Canada’s minister of defence during the fall of Kabul in August, 2021, had a lot on his hands as the deadline for airlifting people out of Afghanistan at the end of that month rapidly approached.

His primary “duty and obligation,” as he said in a statement on Thursday, was to Canadians “and those with strong ties to Canada” – in other words, Afghans who had worked for the Canadian embassy, the armed forces or for journalists, often as translators and fixers.

The wages of identity politics and society’s balkanization.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2024July 2, 2024•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Afghanistan, WTF?

After U.S. withdrawal, terror groups ‘gaining strength’ in Afghanistan, report warns

The power vacuum that America left behind in Afghanistan is fueling a resurgence of Islamist terrorists who have the will, and perhaps the capability, to target the U.S. and its interests abroad, according to a major report by the United States Institute of Peace, which argues that the Biden administration should consider unleashing more military strikes against terrorist targets in the country.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2024May 14, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan

The Biden Admin Covered Up a Major Assault at Kabul Airport

The Biden administration recently released a report clearing itself of any negligence in the Kabul airport terrorist attack that killed 13 servicemembers during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

The report claimed that all personnel who contradicted the official story were confused and didn’t know what they were talking about.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2024April 25, 2024•0•Afghanistan, USA, WTF?

Taliban leader says women will be stoned to death in public

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue.

“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state TV over the weekend, addressing Western officials.

“But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,” he declared in his harshest comments since taking over Kabul in August 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•March 26, 2024March 25, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Inside the Taliban’s sportswashing plan for cricket ‘world power’

A little over a year before Afghanistan’s triumphs at the Cricket World Cup in India, the team was summoned to the interior ministry in Kabul for a photo call with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a terrorist network responsible for some of the worst suicide attacks during two decades of conflict.

Now the all-powerful interior minister, Haqqani, who led the most radical Taliban faction with ties to al-Qaeda dating back to the 1980s, smiled benevolently as he was joined by a team on the cusp of a remarkable rise towards the top tier of cricket.

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2024March 22, 2024•0•Afghanistan, WTF?

The Taliban once smashed TVs. Now it fosters YouTubers to promote its image.

KABUL — The Taliban-run government is fostering a thriving community of YouTube influencers and video bloggers in Afghanistan, seeking to shape a positive narrative about the country by rewarding those who have welcome viewpoints with access to stories that can draw millions of views online.

The Taliban, which smashed televisions and burned films in the 1990s during its first stint in power, is now using modern video technology in its radical campaign to remake Afghanistan. The regime grants influencers coveted broadcasting licenses that put them on an equal footing with TV networks and radio stations, and threatens to withdraw the licenses of those who break official rules. Influencers whose work is seen as benefiting the regime have been allowed to embed with government ministries and showcase their achievement.

by Blazingcatfur•March 12, 2024March 12, 2024•0•Afghanistan, WTF?

The Taliban Have a New Drug of Choice

After cornering the market on heroin, they’ve pivoted to a quicker and more profitable alternative.

As if Coca-Cola gave up making soft drinks, the Taliban announced to great fanfare last year that they were getting out of the drug business. The group that rode big opium profits to a takeover of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 suddenly, seemingly, swore off the stuff. Poppy planting was banned and drugs were off the menu. Or that, at least, is what they want the world to believe.

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2023September 14, 2023•0•Afghanistan

Afghanistan meth trade surges as Taliban clamps down on heroin, UN report says

Sept 10 (Reuters) – Methamphetamine trafficking in and around Afghanistan has surged in recent years, even as the Taliban has curbed heroin trafficking since taking power, a United Nations report said on Sunday.

“The surge in methamphetamine trafficking in Afghanistan and the region suggests a significant shift in the illicit drug market and demands our immediate attention,” said Ghada Waly, executive director of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2023September 11, 2023•0•Afghanistan

Two Years Later, the Consequences of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Are Still Unfolding

How the Left’s woke religion kills.

Two years later, people are still paying the price for the catastrophe of Old Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And people will be paying the price for decades to come.

The Associated Press reported on August 22 that “more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report.” These were people the Taliban had promised not to kill, but as Muhammad said, “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268). Nine days before that, the Daily Mail reported that “militants who left fingerprints on IEDs meant to kill Americans in Afghanistan and a prisoner freed by the Taliban were among more than 65 terrorists allowed into the United States after the catastrophic withdrawal.” What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2023September 5, 2023•0•Afghanistan

2nd Afghan Canadian sues feds, claiming fleeing Ukrainians treated better

The federal government is asking a judge to combine two separate lawsuits, after another Afghan Canadian alleged Canada discriminated against Afghan refugees by treating them differently than they did Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.

A former Canadian language and culture adviser who served NATO in Afghanistan filed a lawsuit at the end of July alleging the government has not allowed his family in Afghanistan to seek refuge in Canada.

How many thousands of interpreters or other local staff did the CAF and other Canadian organizations really employ or actually need in Afghanistan?

It seems every single soldier must have had at least a half dozen of them and we left in 2014.

This is beginning to look like post WW II France when suddenly even the collaboraters were all secret resistance fighters.

Did someone have a “School for Interpreters” scam going?

It must still be in operation.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2023September 2, 2023•0•"Bad Optics", "CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan Still Haunts the West

It is not just the beleaguered people of Afghanistan who are suffering as a result of US President Joe Biden’s catastrophic decision to arbitrarily end America’s military involvement in the country two years ago.

It is now abundantly clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch his brutal invasion of Ukraine was taken as a direct consequence of the weak leadership Biden displayed over his handling of the Afghan issue.

by Blazingcatfur•August 27, 2023August 27, 2023•0•Afghanistan

Two years after Kabul’s fall, Ottawa considering expansion of Afghan carpenter immigration program

Following months of pressure from refugee advocacy groups and opposition parties, the federal government says it is thinking about increasing the number of Afghans it can bring to Canada.

“It’s safe to say publicly that we will show some flexibility,” said Immigration Minister Marc Miller, referring to the goal the Liberal Party set during the last federal election campaign of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.

“There is some uncertainty in the number of people obviously that assisted Canada and clearly what their family members, who their family members are, and the level of risk that those people face in that country. And it’s not like Canada will hit a number and walk away from the table.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2023August 16, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Afghanistan, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?