Wednesday, September 8, 2021

The Surprising Origin Of Taliban Ideology. Hint: It's Not A Muslim-Majority Country

The main entrance to the campus of the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, where the Deobandi strain of Islam was founded in the 19th century. Among its more recent adherents are the Taliban.

The Taliban's strict version of Islam didn't start in Afghanistan — or even in a Muslim-majority country. Today the faith's clerics in India want to distance themselves from the Taliban.

(Image credit: Lauren Frayer/NPR)

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