That is not correct, party statute demands atheism from their members. I suppose they might allow muslims to join as long as they would at least pretend, but i doubt they would allow things like open participation. Or they might look the other way at such violations, CPC was pretty full of corruption at times and i wouldn’t be surprised it still happens.

About Afghanistan, maybe, but it did not helped them in a long run.

And again, you make the same assumption as deprogram crowd, to confuse principles with tactics. It’s not outlandish, it’s “just” a mistake and a revision.