Taliban Sentence Teacher to Death in Paktika for Alleged Blasphemy
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has announced that a man detained in Paktika’s Jani Khel district on charges of “insulting Sharia and the Prophet of Islam” has been sentenced to death.
Reports indicate that he was detained about 20 days ago after telling his students, “Religious education is important, but modern education is more necessary.”
The Taliban enforce an extreme interpretation of Islam and often punish anyone who challenges their ideology under the pretext of blasphemy. The group continues to defend its policies, including the nationwide ban on girls’ and women’s education, as Islamic.
https://kabulnow.com/2025/07/taliban-sen...blasphemy/
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has announced that a man detained in Paktika’s Jani Khel district on charges of “insulting Sharia and the Prophet of Islam” has been sentenced to death.
Reports indicate that he was detained about 20 days ago after telling his students, “Religious education is important, but modern education is more necessary.”
The Taliban enforce an extreme interpretation of Islam and often punish anyone who challenges their ideology under the pretext of blasphemy. The group continues to defend its policies, including the nationwide ban on girls’ and women’s education, as Islamic.
https://kabulnow.com/2025/07/taliban-sen...blasphemy/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
