#Faith and Vengeance: the Islamic State's War in Afghanistan

source: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/faith-and-vengeance-the-islamic-states-war-in-afghanistan/

Had life worked out slightly differently, then, #Khorasani might have turned into exactly the kind of #Muslim that #America professed to want at the forefront of its quest to remake post-9/11 #Afghanistan in its own democratic, progressive image: intelligent and hardworking; devout but not extreme; a partner of the #West. No one is quite sure why, or when, he chose a different #future for himself, but in 2015, Khorasani gave an inflammatory speech against the Afghan government to students at his local mosque. Soon afterward he left home to join the #IslamicState of #Khorasan Province (ISKP).

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