![]() Islamic law implies harsh punishments for large number of crimes and all those groups will attempt to prosecute people that they believe to be criminals. ![]() They all are militant groups trying to achieve their goals by military force and they all are trying to impose a hardcore version of Sunni Islamic law on some territory. Let's start what those 3 groups have in common first. The signs are not necessarily good right now, but then again the people making claims of duress have every interest in drawing Western forces back in. Whether or not they will return to their notorious pre 9/11 behavior towards the Afghan population is something time will tell. ![]() It is quite possible the Taliban will avoid supporting international terrorists as it might trigger another set of actions against them. Neither Al Qaeda, nor ISIS, are groups Western countries can tolerate as their express goal is to attack Westerners abroad, outside their base area, they recognize no government control and are not interested in diplomacy. This is essentially what Trump, and then Biden, have gambled on in negotiations. In short, Taliban, minus their 2000-2001 tolerance for international terrorist groups like Al Qaeda on their territory (which culminated in 9/11), is something the West can probably live with, even if the Afghan population will suffer harshly if they revert to pre-2001 behavior. Things are never simple: the "Pakistani Taliban" (which is related to, but not exactly the same) has occasionally engaged in terrorist activities against the Pakistanis. Neither Al Qaeda nor ISIS have engaged with any countries at that level (which does not preclude them having received support by sympathetic countries). There are also theories of fairly chummy relations with Pakistani intelligence. The Taliban has at times courted international recognition and diplomacy. The Taliban mostly only attacked Westerners in Afghanistan (and maybe Pakistan? Daniel Pearl was an Al Qaeda, not Taliban, victim). ![]() Still, overall, the Taliban claimed to be driven by recognizable notions of Islamic justice as per Sharia law.Ĭompared to the Taliban, ISIS were far worse, engaging in practices as sex slavery, massacres, and fairly routine executions.Īl Qaeda never really went after territorial control, remaining mostly underground, so they didn't systematically persecute civilian populations in their base area.īoth Al Qaeda and ISIS carried out a number of attacks against Western civilians in Western countries. Prior to, while the Taliban controlled Afghanistan they were operating a quite harsh interpretation of Sharia law: many forms of entertainment were banned, women were strictly controlled and were limited in education, summary punishment, up to executions, was handed out. ISIS and the Taliban have both persecuted and executed civilians on their controlled territory. They also allowed Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to operate from their territory. From 1994 to 2001, the Taliban controlled Afghanistan and abused its population. Since 2001, the Taliban has used terrorist tactics ( attacks on civilians), as well as standard insurgency tactics (attacks on military/governments targets) to re-establish an Islamic Republic in Afghanistan. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are transnational terrorist networks aiming to either set up a caliphate (ISIS) or punish the crusaders (Al-Qaeda). ![]() ✔✔ (not very capable against hard opponents) ![]()
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