City of Kandahar 3, 12, 1421 (26th February 2001)

(Radio Shari’a, 27/2/2001) On the basis of consultations between the religious leaders of the IEA, religious judgments of the Ulama and rulings of the Supreme Court of the IEA, all statues and non-Islamic shrines located in different parts of the IEA must be destroyed (broken). These statues have been and remain shrines of infidels and these infidels continue to worship and respect these icons (statues). Allah (God) Almighty is the only real shrine and all false shrines (symbols) should be smashed (destroyed).

Therefore, the supreme leader of the IEA has ordered all the representatives of the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Suppression of Vice and to the Ministries of Information and Culture to smash (destroy) all the statues (shrines). As ordered by the Ulama and the Supreme Court of the IEA all the statues must be annihilated (destroyed) so that no one can worship or respect them in the future."