Israel Shamir on "The Sheer Joy of Afghanistan"
Is it OK to celebrate the Taliban’s victory? It is if you live in Moscow!Israel Shamir just published the delightfully politically-incorrect article "The Sheer Joy of Afghanistan." He begins: “My congratulations, friends and readers! The Taliban’s victory is our victory, yours and mine. We, non-Muslim and non-Pashtun folk, in the US and Europe, may rejoice, for in Afghanistan, virile (not ‘toxic’) masculinity defeated gender-diversity, believers defeated those weak of faith, the morals of our fathers overcome the morals of our sons.”He adds: “These armed peasants reminded us that we still can…
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