Re: Taliban are Kharijites?
^ crescent with all due respect ,
taliban are more than just a resisitence movement , even though i dont agree that all of them are hardened criminals yet their ideology of ruthless extermination of their opposition is different from hamas and hezbollah.Also taliban formed in their present form AFTER the soviets were driven and some of their grts hits have been against fellow afghans
granted that their are tribal factors [pastun vs hazara/tajik] as well as sectarian ones in this feud.And the northern[or tajik/shia] alliance dosent exactly have a spotless record either but in this respect they are very similar to khawarij .....
like I said the their stance seems more justified than early kahawarij since taliban's opponents are secular nominal muslims while taliban atleast in some way seem to bring back islamic identity to afgahnaistan.
But you are right most criticism of taliban from shias seems hardly objective since they are perfectly willing to justify any atrocities that are done by shia extremist religious groups