Taliban Influence On Afghan Society

Under Taliban rule, women were treated worse than animals. They were forced to stay in their own homes and never leave. Afghan women were not important to the Taliban unless they were busy bearing children or working in the home. Women had to take care of the children, do laundry, cook for the family, and do various other chores.

The Taliban were a specific group of mujahideen who eventually took over Afghanistan. They were formed in the early 1990s with the backing of the CIA in the U.S. and the ISI in Pakistan. It’s mostly compromised of Pashtuns, who are the dominant ethnic group in most of southern and eastern Afghanistan. This was a major problem for Farah, her family, and some of their neighbors, because the Taliban soon started drafting young men for their army, and they were prejudiced towards their ethnic group, the Hazaras. Trying to avoid their sons being killed when drafted, they fled to Pakistan, leaving the rest of them to survive under the rule of the Taliban. But this only added to the problem they were in, because one of the Taliban’s laws they had to follow was that all women must be escorted by a man in public or else they would be beaten to death. Thankfully Farah and her mother managed to find that they could pay a man to be their escort so they could cross the Afghan border into Pakistan. Once they got to a city called Quetta, they found work and housing with a family there, and soon after there was news that certain Afghan refugees in Pakistan were being sent to the U.S. Farah and her mother applied and got in, but soon came 9/11 and the project

Khaled Hosseini’s sophomore novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, shares a setting with his previous novel, the turmoil of the recent decades of Afghanistan 's existence. However, despite similar themes, Hosseini once again manages to craft a story that is as engaging as it is poignant, as compassionate as it is critical, and as thoughtful as it is visceral.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a real life depiction of the oppressed women of Afghanistan’s controlled existence. Since the beginning of Afghanistan’s history, women have been degraded and abused. Afghanistan’s women have endured such injustices as being married off as young as 13, not allowed to go to school, unable to leave home without a male escort, to name a few. Most noticeable was the fact that the women were required to cover their entire body, from head to toe, with a burqa.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel where the characters face many trials and tribulations that ultimately change them. The novel focuses on the life of the citizens, and womens rights throughout Afghanistan. There is a shift in power during the novel that leaves many people feeling hopeless due to the fact almost all of their human rights were being taken away. This novel has three main characters, Mariam, Laila, and Rasheed. Each of them face a period of decay when things do not go as expected.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in war-torn Afghanistan in the early 1960s to the early 2000s. This setting plays a significant role in the lives of the characters in the book. Throughout the book, it is shown that the people in Afghanistan are caught in between the middle of war, and often begin to experience what they think will be a period of peace and freedom, only to be disappointed again with more war and lives lost. The mindsets and laws of this time are against Mariam and her new family. Mariam, Laila, and Aziza face an intense amount of abuse by the hands of Rasheed. When they try to escape, they only go so far before they get caught and are sent home. At this point in Afghanistan after the Mujahideen takeover in 1992, “the Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hardliner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women” (259-260). Mariam and Laila desperately try to explain their situation to the police officer that catches them, but he simply replies: “What a man does in his home is his business” (266). Hosseini demonstrates the

The Taliban follows a pure islamic ideology, but their violent actions towards others and the way they treat women is something that Muslims don’t believe in. Women in Pakistan have been treated really terribly and their human rights have been taken away from the Taliban. For the Taliban believes that a woman doesn’t need an education because they believe that a woman belongs at home. Which is why they don’t value education for girls that much. Not only does the Taliban don’t value education for girls, but they also not value education for ALL MUSLIMS. This is because they believe that education is the source that is brainwashing muslims from their Islamic religion.

The Taliban was able to gain so much control through taking advantage of angry young men and their want to advocate to make change against unemployment and need a sense of hope and moral outrage. One they were in there is no going back and leaving the group and you would most likely end up dead if you tried. (Nelson, 2015) This group earned and maintained power through manipulating their peoples insecurities and covering it under a cloak of Islam. Through this they were able to close down hospitals, and most other government buildings and establish control over most of the entire region. (Nelson, 2015) One big change they made was taking girls out of the schooling system and restricting women and girls to their homes. Through this women lot a lot of power in this society losing their husbands and sons either to joining the Taliban or being killed for speaking out against them. Due to this many households lost income and so even if they wanted their daughters to go out to school many times they needed them to be beggars or find work or food so that the family would not starve. (Nelson,

In an age when mankind has the ability to completely annihilate itself through nuclear combat, war can be a more terrifying and powerful thought than ever before. Unfortunately, because of the extent of the actions that the Taliban has committed against both America and its own followers, the United States’ war against terrorism seems to be a necessity. I do feel, however, as if there are many things that can be done by the American government in the near future to peacefully approach a more civil and politically involved Afghanistan. Although my feelings on a war against terrorism are mixed, I do feel that significant actions must be taken in order to restrict the spread of

The beginning of an Islāmic group started to take over Afghanistan in 1996, after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan. This group is known as the Taliban. The Taliban’s mission is to make an Islāmic government in Afghanistan. The Taliban started with Islāmic students from Pakistan. Then in “September 1996 the Taliban seized control of Kabul (Afghanistan’s capital) and carried out a strict interpretation or explanation of Islāmic Law”(Hayes NP). The Taliban killed the Afghan president, Mohammed Najibullah in Kabul. That is when the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The Taliban controlled 95% of Afghanistan. Then once the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, they started announcing their restrictions, that were harsh against women.

The novel “The other Side of the Sky” is an incredible story of a young Afghan refugee named Farah who faced a harrowing journey had been forced to flee her home with her mother because of the dangers they faced with the Taliban. The start of it all happened after the traumatic war in Afghanistan, when a group of individuals decided on creating a new society based off of their principles and cultural ways of the Islamic law. This is when a group became known as the Taliban, and was finally official between the mid-1990's (Taliban). New laws were then established for the men and women in Afghanistan, much harsher than they had been before. Women became looked down apon a great amount than what it had been before, and the

The Taliban practice and promote political Islam and their tremendously strict and anti-modern ideology. In areas controlled by the Taliban, efforts to impose a very constricted

Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns is a four part novel that takes place in Herat and Kabul, Afghanistan and Murree, Pakistan from 1964 to 2003. Major themes in the novel include subservient role and abuse of women in Afghan culture, on-going struggle for political power in Afghanistan form 1970s to the present, destructive impact on a country and its people, and perseverance of the human spirit in the face of extreme adversity. The New York Times articles “Afghanistan Said to Overturn Death Sentences in Woman’s Lynching,” “Mullah Muhammad Omar, Enigmatic Leader of Afghan Taliban, Is Dead,” and “Waves of Suicide Attacks Shake Kabul on Its Deadliest Day of 2015” can relate to the characters and events of the novel.

Islam strongly influences the Taliban regime. Their rules come from the Quran. In the novel, two approaches on religion are, one should either be really devout like Amir’s teacher who believes that drinking is a sin or one that finds religion as an excuse to get away with murder like Baba who enjoys drinking and quotes

When Obama was elected in 2008 one of his main goals was to end all war with Afghanistan. Currently Obama has decided to keep the troops in Afghanistan until 2017, extending after his removal from office. According to the New York Times, his decision against the removal is an effort to counter terrorism attacks. Since 2001, after the attack on the twin towers, the US has been trying to fight against terrorism. After the attack, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden both hid in Afghanistan, making it a hideout for terrorists. Before 9/11, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda had formed relations with the Taliban. Today Afghanistan is still unstable and is vulnerable to Isis. Afghani troops, are not able to stand alone, they don’t have the training they require to fight