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Taliban Dissident Commander Criticizes Ethnic Bias and Systematic Repression.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hamid Khorasani, a dissenting commander within the Taliban, has strongly criticized the group for ethnic discrimination, systematic bias, and the marginalization of other ethnic communities, warning that such practices are \u201cnot only un-Islamic, but also dangerous for religion and society.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n His remarks were made in response to the arrest of his personal guards by the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Khorasani wrote that he had spent years fighting oppression, injustice, and discrimination in order to secure the fundamental rights of Muslims, but claimed that \u201corganized circles driven by ethnic and racial ideologies\u201d within the Taliban are deliberately working to suppress and eliminate others.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Khorasani, these factions even dehumanize their former comrades solely because of differences in ethnicity and language.<\/strong><\/p>\n He stated that he and his forces joined the Taliban at the invitation of its leadership to help establish an Islamic and justice-based system, not to seek power or personal gain.<\/strong><\/p>\n He warned that what is happening today amounts to the \u201cimposition of ignorance in the name of religion,\u201d undermining the credibility of Islam and potentially leading to widespread unrest and instability that alienates people from both religion and religious governance.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taliban Dissident Commander Criticizes Ethnic Bias and Systematic Repression. Hamid Khorasani, a dissenting commander within the Taliban, has strongly criticized the group for ethnic discrimination, systematic bias, and the marginalization of other ethnic communities, warning that such practices are \u201cnot only un-Islamic, but also dangerous for religion and society.\u201d His remarks were made in response […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}