“The Islamic Emirate doesn’t want women to be victims” Samangani said, using the militants’ term for Afghanistan. “They should be in government structure according to Shariah law.”
He added: “The structure of government is not fully clear, but based on experience, there should be a fully Islamic leadership and all sides should join.”
Pretty sure they also did not expect to win so quickly
I'm not about to hand them any credit just yet, but I imagine uniting the various factions of the country needed to carry out such a decicive campaign against the US-installed government required some degree of moderation. Enforcing pedantic fundamentalism is not a recipe for building this sort of coalition. We'll have to see what happens now that their common enemy has been driven out of the picture.