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You've gotten the impression that the Taliban are nationalists rather than Islamists? Where have you gotten that impression from?



No, the Taliban, as an organization, are Islamist. However, the ideology of the membership of any insurgent organization within an active conflict is always much more complicated than the professed beliefs of their parent organization.




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