{"id":734340,"date":"2021-09-09T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734340"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:06:22","slug":"taliban-to-paint-over-george-floyd-mural-in-kabul-replace-with-islamic-slogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-to-paint-over-george-floyd-mural-in-kabul-replace-with-islamic-slogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban To Paint Over George Floyd Mural In Kabul, Replace With Islamic Slogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-to-paint-over-george-floyd-mural-in-kabul-replace-with-islamic-slogan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734340&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235043819.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Taliban painted over a wall of the former United States embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, decorating the building a giant Taliban flag, and now they are painting over a series of murals lining the streets of downtown Kabul, including a mural designed to commemorate the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement in 2020, and a mural of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is being slowly replaced with Taliban victory messages and Islamic slogans, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/08\/taliban-replaces-kabul-murals-with-pro-islamic-slogans\/\">the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban are whitewashing murals in Kabul, Afghanistan, depicting historic US social and political moments \u2014 including one commemorating their peace agreement with the US,\u201d the Post noted Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe streets of Kabul, which were once home to brightly colored murals honoring a murdered Japanese aid worker, the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran, the peace agreement, the death of George Floyd, and others honoring social or political issues, are being replaced by paintings of Taliban flags and Islamic slogans,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<p>The murals are the work of an Afghan group called the \u201cArtlords\u201d \u201cpainted the murals on walls and blast barriers, spending eight years transforming swathes of Kabul until the Taliban marched in,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/the-soul-of-kabul-taliban-paint-over-murals-with-victory-slogans\">per the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Floyd mural, which depicts the racial justice icon holding a placard that says, \u201cI Can\u2019t Breathe,\u201d is meant to draw a connection between Floyd\u2019s death, which sparked a global movement, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/asia-pacific\/afghanistan-iran-at-odds-over-drowning-of-migrants\/1845580\">drowning deaths of Afghan migrants<\/a> attempting to enter Iran. Afghanistan, before the Taliban, claimed that the migrants were \u201cpushed into the river after being tortured, a charge denied by Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Floyd\u2019s portrait is slated for replacement, the Guardian added, but it is not clear whether the Taliban has painted over that mural yet.<\/p>\n<p>One of the members of \u201cArtlords,\u201d Omar Sharifi, blamed the Taliban for not \u201cunderstanding\u201d the artwork and trying to sanitize the city in order to comply with the austere and strict Taliban rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim was to promote critical thinking and put pressure on the government to accept people\u2019s demands,\u201d Sharifi said. \u201cTaliban was and is an armed movement that only understands guns, violence, beating, beheading, suicide vests and bombs. There is no vocabulary about art in the Taliban\u2019s dictionary. They even cannot imagine art. I think they don\u2019t understand it, that\u2019s why they are destroying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese murals not only belong to me or the Artlords, they belong to the people of Afghanistan because for each of them we invited 50 to 200 people to paint them,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThese are about the wishes, demands and the asks of Afghan people. It was their voice on these walls. These murals were against corruption and were pushing for transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharifi is recording \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d photos of the murals on his Twitter account. He noted that the first mural painted over was the one commemorating the Taliban\u2019s peace deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.558375634518\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And it begun. The Taliban have started painting over our murals. They started with the historic one that marked the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DohaDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DohaDeal<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BaradarKhalilzadMural?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BaradarKhalilzadMural<\/a> is no more. Instead, the black and white message says don\u2019t trust the enemy\u2019s propaganda, quoting Mullah Haibatullah. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pls4McUQkj\">pic.twitter.com\/Pls4McUQkj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Omaid H. Sharifi-\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u062f \u062d\u0641\u06cc\u0638\u0647 \u0634\u0631\u06cc\u0641\u06cc (@OmaidSharifi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OmaidSharifi\/status\/1433703582113615904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the murals now depict slogans honoring the Taliban\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">&nbsp;<em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Taliban painted over a wall of the former United States embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, decorating the building a giant Taliban flag, and now they are painting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}