He is posting seriously without resorting to any fun making.
janna do you work for a reputable news medium???
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Maulvi Hekmatullah Hekmat says he receives Taliban death threats on his cellphone every day.
"They warn: You preach against Islam, you preach for the government; stop or we will kill you," says the bearded, turbaned deputy chief of Kandahar's top Islamic religious authority, the Ulema Council.
The threats aren't idle. In recent years, 23 of the religious council's 50 members have been assassinated by the insurgents. Survivors such as Maulvi Hekmatthe title marks his status as a religious scholarhave fled their city residences, moving with families to makeshift barracks inside Kandahar's military cantonment. They rarely venture outside, and nowadays almost never lead prayers in the main mosques of Afghanistan's second-largest city.
The deadly conflict between the Taliban, who claim to be waging an Islamic holy war on infidel occupiers and their local collaborators, and Kandahar's religious authorities, who decry suicide bombing as an apostasy and back the central government, has largely passed unnoticed amid the carnage engulfing this country.
It is a clash in which the Taliban have scored an insidious victory. Silencing the moderate clerics has given the insurgents a stranglehold on public discourse and a near-monopoly on interpreting Islam. It is also allowing them to control from the shadows much of this city of one million peoplea city that the U.S.-led coalition will attempt to wrestle from the Taliban in coming months.
"For the Taliban, the clerics are a more important target for assassination than the president, the ministers, or the provincial governors," says prominent Kandahar poet Abdul Qadim Patyal, who became the provincial government's information and culture secretary after his predecessor, another poet, was gunned down by militants in February.
"Our society is religious," Mr. Patyal explains, "and most of the time when a cleric says something, people accept it without thinking."
A split between pro-government clerics and more radical mullahs is common in many Muslim countries, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Indonesia. The Taliban's effort to physically eliminate the religious competition is, however, uniquein part because it is a stealthy battle where the insurgents, aware of how unpopular it is to kill clerics, often deny their responsibility.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has never been behind any of these assassinations," insisted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, using the insurgent movement's name for its shadow government.
Kandahar clerics sympathetic to the Taliban, however, say they understand why the Islamic scholars, known as ulema, are being targeted. "The Kandahar Ulema Council is paying for their mistakes and naïveté. They say and do whatever they are told by the Afghan government and the Americans, in order to receive their monthly allowances," scoffs former Council member Mufti Mohammad Aarif, who served as provincial deputy education secretary in the pre-2001 Taliban government. "If you pick a side you must pay for the consequences."
The Taliban movement, born in religious academies and headed by a mullahthe one-eyed Mohammad Omarderives its own legitimacy from its clerical roots. Heavily influenced by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi strain of the faith, and by the puritan Deobandi school from north India, the Taliban abhor some of Afghanistan's traditional practices that are endorsed by the official ulema, such as the use of good-luck amulets or the worshipping of shrines.
Now read the above article and tell me how serious this guy is been when he continues to complain about Iran yet totally ignorant of the realities on the grounds .
i suggest next time please read everything care fully before commenting on it.
