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Taliban Win Points to Feeble International Commitment to Rights
August 17, 2021
According to inews.com, the Taliban’s expansion towards the full capture of Afghanistan signals the group’s calculus that Western threats of aid embargoes are empty rhetoric when it comes to human rights priorities, and that states like China, Pakistan, and Russia also will prioritize pragmatism over principles with the impending sharia regime in their neighborhood, emboldening al-Qaeda in its unwavering commitment to all-fronts war against the United States.
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Taliban Resilience Is Defeat of West by Islamist Extremism
August 17, 2021
BBC reports the Taliban are poised to capture full control of Afghanistan after two decades of US-led Western coalition presence in the South Asian country, with reimposition of a fundamentalist sharia regime, with connections to militants Islamist forces in both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, constitutes a real and symbolic defeat of the West by resilient, expansionist, militant Islamism.
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Taliban Victory Highlights Geo-economic Consequences of Expanding Islamism
August 17, 2021
James M Dorsey writes on wionews.com that the Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan will have significant repercussions for economic and trade competition across South and Central Asia, as the reality of a sharia-state regime in Afghanistan forces the US and India to reassess plans for investment in Iran’s port of Chabahar and pushes China to reconsider its investments in Pakistan for the Belt Road Initiative.
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Islamist Regimes Win from Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
August 17, 2021
According to the Jerusalem Post, the Islamist regimes of Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, and Iran are clear winners at the outset from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, since the four regimes endorse a diversity of ideological versions of radical Islamism and also have supported the Taliban, while anti-US regimes like China and Russia may seek to limit Taliban contagion by engaging with the Islamist terror group.
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OIC & GCC Chiefs Discuss Expanding Modes of Cooperation
August 13, 2021
The Secretary Generals of the 57 member-state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met to discuss expanding the modes of cooperation between the two entities, both of which are dominated by Islamist regimes and Islamic law polities.
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