Talibanize

/ ˈtælɪbəˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to make (an organization) resemble the Taliban or portray (an organization) as being like the Taliban, in that it is seen to restrict personal freedom and punish opposition ruthlessly

Example Sentences

We supported Pakistan’s dictator General Zia—who helped Talibanize Pakistan and was the brainchild of Pakistan’s infamous blasphemy laws that suffocate free speech.

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“They are trying to Talibanize Indonesia,” Naseem Mahdi, the chief Ahmadi missionary in the U.S., told me in December.

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