The
Taliban - Persian
Tālebān - Students. Also spelled Taleban. An ultra
conservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid 1990s
following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan's communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order. The faction took its name from its membership, which consisted largely of students trained in
Madrasah's Islamic religious schools, that were established for Afghan refugees in the1980s in northern Pakistan.
The Taliban emerged as a force for social order in 1994 in the southern Afghan province of Kandahār and quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. By late 1996
popular support for the Taliban among Afghanistan's southern Pashtun ethnic group, as well as assistance from conservative Islamic elements abroad, enabled the faction to seize the capital, Kabul, and gain effective control of the country. Resistance to the Taliban continued, however, particularly among non-Pashtun ethnic groups—namely the Tajik, Uzbek, and
Hazāra. In the north, west, and central parts of the country, who saw the power of the
predominantly Pashtun Taliban as a continuation of the traditional Pashtun hegemony of the country. By 2001 the Taliban controlled all but a small section of northern Afghanistan. World opinion, however, largely disapproved of the Taliban's social
policies - including the near-total exclusion of women from public life,
including employment and education, the systematic destruction of non-Islamic
artistic relics, and the implementation of harsh criminal punishments.
Only a few countries recognized the regime. More significant was the fact that the Taliban
allowed Afghanistan to be a haven for Islamic militants from throughout the world, including an exiled Saudi Arabian, Osama bin Laden, who, as leader of al-Qaeda, stood accused of organizing numerous terrorist attacks against American interests. The Taliban's refusal to extradite bin Laden to the United States following the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, prompted a military confrontation with the United States
and allied powers. The Taliban was subsequently driven from power.
Women
all over Afghanistan are still being murdered, raped and imprisoned
with impunity, the human rights group Amnesty International has said.
Little
has changed since the days of the Taleban
It
says entrenched feudal customs mean Afghan men often treat women as
chattels and abuse them without any official retribution.
"Throughout
the country, few women are exempt from violence or safe from the
threat of it," the report says.
Amnesty
International based its report on interviews done across the country.
It
calls on the Afghan government to start a process of education to
change the treatment of women.
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Women waited Two Thousand Years
to get the Vote.
TheSahara.Net 2001
The Taliban
Rules
On the 11th September 2001, we saw an
atrocity that ranks along side most. But on saying that, we must then accept that
there are and have been many atrocities that have happened on our planet, in the name of
war, religion, environmental destruction, or indeed terror. Such violent incidents
do nothing for anything, aside from destroy and negate all those who try to live as
good people. It cancels out the good and we take some moral step back.
The
Taliban
Students
of Islamic Knowledge Movement, ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.
They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. Although they
managed to hold 90% of the country's territory, their
policies—including their treatment of women and support of
terrorists—ostracized them from the world community. The Taliban was
ousted from power in December 2001 by the U.S. military and Afghani
opposition forces in response to the 9/11terrorist attack on the U.S.
It will be never before the 11th
September 2001, is forgotten, but we must also remember other atrocities,
and try to get into the minds of who, and why terrorist acts are carried out at
all. Whether it is the Muslim, the Irish or the crazy, why do they feel
justified taking the lives of the innocent in order to just make a political
point. Surely on the 11th an equally memorable situation could have been
instigated at 21.00 hours instead of nine o'clock in the morning when up to
35,000 innocent workers were at their desks. The buildings would have still
collapsed, the world would have still gasped but many thousands of lives would
not have been altered so tragically forever.
TALIBAN MEN
Like all terrorist organizations, the Taliban is a Fundamentalist group to
say the least and their fundamentalism is simply a strict adherence to traditional religious beliefs or doctrines.
They have read the Good Book and in order to reach some spiritual elevation or
awareness they must follow these teachings to the letter and thus it becomes the
letter of the Law.
TALIBAN WOMEN
Afghanistan has never been, from a Western
standpoint, a rich country on any
level, it has never had the benefit of fossil fuels to cover up its Third World
state of mind. In recent eras the area has been invaded not only by Great Britain
but of course by the old Soviet Union. It is not hard to imagine what war can do
to a country's philosophy and way of thinking. Almost for a thousand years, this
locale has represented, a parched earth, starvation, a waterless barren
land that could only offer poverty, suffering and the endeavor for survival.
Prior to around 1996 though, Afghanistan
was trying to live within what most of its people thought the teachings of Islam
offered them, and as most contemporary fledgling states tend to do, they leaned
towards the dream of the West. Emulating the freedom that free Western civilizations
not only reflect but of course are; free. To some, who clearly hated the decadence
and self-indulgence of the land of the free, this was not the way that any
citizen should go, and it therefore had to change.
Not willing to use politics, or the power
of the ballot-box the Taliban Regime took control of Afghanistan at the point of
a gun. Killing the family of the Afghan President and hanging their burning
bodies at the border for all to see. Democracy was not on their agenda, and we
must consider, had they however argued their line of reasoning, would they still
have gained a
mandate to operate how they have.
Churchill said that Democracy was a damned
awful system but it was the best we had. The Taliban chose otherwise and within
weeks the rights of the Afghanistan citizen fell to nearly zero. For about half
of the population it fell to less than zero. It has been said that the rights of
women here, have been taken back a thousand years. In Afghanistan and other
Islamic countries women are not people, they are property. They belong to their
father, or husband and to their nation, to a point where they are less than
slaves.
Strict Taliban rules have removed all
basic human rights and dignity previously offered to women by the post-Soviet Muslim
administration. The systematic suppression
of the female is not only hard for Westerners to imagine but it could be
contrived as a weapon of suppression for all. On taking control in 1996, the
Taliban now prohibits any female from having any kind of education, and or any kind
of employment. No woman can be treated by a male doctor, but all female doctors
have been sacked; women are not allowed to visit or attend hospitals for
treatment. No female can be educated and as by far the majority of teachers were
females, all the schools have closed and the young males encouraged to join the
Taliban to uphold the world of Allah. Furthermore, women must take no part in this doctrine,
as their opinion is literally less than a dog's bark.
What is more, Afghan women are excluded from
wearing any makeup and when in public or when
there is any danger that they might be seen by anyone other than their direct
family, any female over the age of around 12 must be totally
covered in a Chadri or Burqa, and this is literally a head to foot garment. No skin or hair must be seen and when they leave the house it is a law
that they must have a close male relative to guard them, or chaperone them, from
what, it is not clear. A Chadri or Burqa has been described as a mobile cage, it is thick and
inside it is dark and hot. Women who cannot afford this garment and this is probably most of the population, must stay indoors; any who would dare to
venture out naked as it were, are often shot as prostitutes. A Burqa is sometimes made of thicker
and better material.
Afghanistan
Girl Students before the Taliban invaded Afghanistan and changed all the
rules.
Typical Afghanistan Girls
during the Taliban occupation, uneducated and
afraid.
Prior to 1996, women had a choice as to
what they wore, a woman could wear jeans, a shirt and trainers, now they have no
choice. Any woman wearing makeup can be cable-whipped in the streets by Taliban militia,
some only 14 years old. The Taliban stop cars and examine women to see if they
are following the law. Any woman wearing nail varnish can have their hands or feet
cut off in an instant. For those who have dared to wear lipstick, the Taliban have
cut away women's lips on the street and then thrown the criminal into the gutter
under the sound of cheers and gunfire.
But this is the law and who can say
anything about the laws of another nation, it is none of our business. We, as
Westerners, would be the first to fight for the right to uphold the laws of our country.
Who would not fight for freedom and the pursuit of happiness? Is the law of
Allah any less than this?
But why are women picked on, why are women
so different from men, why is the camel worth more than the woman? Why can a
woman not bare flesh. Is it because
the Muslim man is so easily sexually exited, so much so that it is a law that women
must even tread lightly as the clicks of the steps of a female would corrupt a man,
and give him evil thoughts of sex. Or is it that the man wants the woman to have
only fair skin and be kept for his eyes only.
In this vein, women cannot be photographed or filmed,
pictures are not allowed in books or in any form, or print. Women are not allowed
on TV or even to talk on Radio should they excite
their listeners. Women are not allowed to look out of the window of their own
homes in case it looks like they are encouraging men to have sex, and indeed all
houses must have their windows painted black, in case a man is enticed to look
in.
It seems to be a nightmare scenario, and
one that only Stephen King could conger up; 1984 at its worst, but it is
real; it is real-life for millions of people. But if this is the way the Muslim
wishes to live, it is hard not to allow them this choice, even though it in turn
takes away the choice of a group of their society who would be totally equal members
in the civilized world.
But then, if there are some who do not
wish to live this way, how do they change things? Do they just emigrate to the
West or just to other countries across the border, even though this might not
change things too greatly for them. Or do they fight for what they believe; does
the West indeed fight for the right to allow a free vote on how another country
is run.
Whatever happens to alter the Taliban
Rules, it must be a systematic regime carried out in all reasonableness,
whatever that is. For reasonableness, the basis of all civilized laws, is
subjective, and may mean a different thing to one society than it does to
another. But more importantly, any forced change must be done with utmost reasonableness
because the West and its leaders can never win because its greatest judges are
those who live within the borders of the West itself, and they will defend the
views of the minority right up to the point where the dagger passes into their
hearts.
For a site that believes in the probability
that humanity will not last much further than the year 2100, due to a myriad
reasons of human self-destruction, we feel that the 11th may pale into insignificance
as the century ticks along, to ever increasing atrocities that befall us.
Now that the Taliban have
hopefully been
defeated and rousted from their occupation of Afghanistan, maybe the country
will be, with the help of the civilized world, rebuilt and able to take
its place within Global society.
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