The Role and Place of the Taliban on the Global Map of Islam: Challenges and Threats

The bigger threat facing the Central Asian countries is not the possibility of an ... ... for an all-out Sharia system to be established in Afghanistan. As a case in point here, many experts ... ... purportedly acting on behalf of Islam is that of “Salafi jihadism,” which was introduced in 2002 by the scholar ... ... during the first Afghan War (1979–1992) [ 1 ]. Salafism came to be the spiritual, doctrinal and methodological ... ... attesting to the growth of Islamist sentiments in the Middle East. Andrey Kazantsev: Afghanistan Crisis: ...