In a direct message to Western democracies, the Taliban’s supreme leader over the weekend said his government would officially re-implement the practice of stoning women to death for adultery. 'You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,' Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada said in a voice message aired on Taliban-controlled state media, according to a translation by The Telegraph. 'But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery,' he said.
Akhundzada vowed to continue opposing democratic values and women’s rights. 'I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you,' he said. 'It did not finish . It does not mean we would now just sit and drink tea. We will bring sharia to this land.'