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# The New York Times Shills for Murderous Tyrants…AGAIN
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-new-york-times-shills-for-murderous-tyrants-again/
- Published: 2020-02-25T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-24T08:57:30.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

Well, if there’s one thing you can say about the *New York Times*, it’s that they’re consistent.

In the 1930s the *Times* became a megaphone for **Walter Duranty**’s revolting campaign of apologism and denial for Stalin. In 1959, it praised **Fidel Castro** and claimed that “Cuba is now a happy island”.

Now, the *Times* is continuing its long tradition of sycophancy and apologism for bloodthirsty tyrants by publishing a self-serving op-ed by a Taliban leader – **yes, that Taliban**. The murderous Islamic militia currently at war with the United States.

> In a column, titled “What We, the Taliban, Want” **Sirajuddin Haqqani** claimed, among other things, “We did not choose our war with the foreign coalition led by the United States. We were forced to defend ourselves.”  
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> Haqqani is a designated terrorist, according to the Department of State.  
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> The State Department’s Reward for Justice program has offered up to $10 million for information that leads directly to his arrest.  
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> His piece made no reference to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington or **Osama bin Laden’**s Afghanistan-based al-Qaeda group.

Instead, it’s all death-to-America and peace and rainbows. Even, incredibly, the Taliban trumpeting its pussy-hatted wokeness on women’s rights.

> “I am confident that, liberated from foreign domination and interference, we together will find a way to build an Islamic system in which all Afghans have equal rights, where the rights of women that are granted by Islam — from the right to education to the right to work — are protected, and where merit is the basis for equal opportunity,” he wrote.  
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> In 1996, the Taliban decreed all women should be banned from employment, citing sharia law.  
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> Under Taliban rule, women reportedly had their fingers cut off for wearing nail polish.

Naturally, the Afghan government is less than impressed.

> “It is sad that the (New York Times) has given their platform to an individual who is on a designated terrorist list. He and his network are behind ruthless attacks against Afghans and foreigners,” **Sediq Sediqqi**, a palace spokesman, told Reuters.  
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> Commenters on social media were similarly critical.  
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> **Kabir Taneja**, fellow at the Observer Researcher Foundation, wrote that he was “gobsmacked” and that the Times’ decision to publish the piece reflected “a major level of tone-deafness.”  
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> Journalist **Jeryl Bier** called it “just another Thursday” for The Times.

At least this time, the *Times*’ reporter on the ground in Afghanistan is no Duranty.

> Even the Times’ senior correspondent in Afghanistan, **Mujib Mashal**, appeared to express surprise, tweeting that Haqqani is “no peace-maker as he paints himself” and is “behind some of the most ruthless attacks” of the war “with many civilian lives lost.”  
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> The European Media Director of the group Human Rights Watch, **Andrew Stroehlein**, also questioned the decision to platform Haqqani, calling him a “notorious war crimes suspect.”  
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> [pluralist.com/new-york-times-taliban-op-ed](https://pluralist.com/new-york-times-taliban-op-ed/49999/?ref=goodoil.news)

Yeah, but at least he isn’t Trump. The legacy media know who their **real** enemy is.

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