“Aid money” to Taliban? German Left Party wants to enter into discussions with terrorists

The Taliban Islamist terrorist group captured the 15th of 39 provincial capitals in Afghanistan. Millions of people are currently making the long journey from there to Europe, with asylum applications reaching their highest level since 2017. The spokesperson for the Left Party in German, Gregor Gysi, is now calling for more diplomacy towards the Islamists, as well as for aid to be given to the Taliban with “conditions attached”.

He also wants to ” enter into discussions” with the Islamist terrorist organisation, which wants to establish a Sharia state in Afghanistan, strictly following Islamic law from the 7th century. Under Taliban rule, young children are married off, women are not allowed to leave the house without the husband’s permission, hands or feet are chopped off for theft. Homosexuality is punishable by death by stoning, as is adultery – which, according to the law, is usually the woman’s fault.

“Why can’t we also offer aid to the Taliban, on which they depend, and make these offers conditional?” Gysi told the NGO Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. After Great Britain, the Soviet Union and now also Nato had failed with war missions in Afghanistan, “it should finally be understood that there is no military solution,” Gysi said. He also disagreed with Social Democratic Party (SPD) Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who said he would not send “another cent to Afghanistan” if the Taliban seized power. He sees it differently, “that would affect the population first and foremost.” In his opinion, it would be better to send aid money to the Taliban and ” attach certain conditions to it.”The fact that the Taliban have taken over large areas of the country so quickly is not only due to a lack of fighting spirit or the intimidation of the Afghan police and military, whose apparatus has been rendered almost incapable of action by corruption and bad decisions by the government. Also, large parts of the rural population do not necessarily see the Taliban as enemies; in some provinces they are even cheeringly welcomed. The video shows Afghan security forces surrendering to the Taliban without a fight and handing over their weapons. They greet each other in a friendly manner with “Salam Alaikum.

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