The Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan

Due to past events, the Afghan government is now struggling to keep up with their citizens’ problems with living there. Bombing, wars, harassment, feminism, and abuse have been some of the main topics of bad events in the last few years in Afghanistan. Dystopia is a society that can be characterized with extreme hunger, poverty, misery, and the imbalance among the people; the Taliban taking over was the cause of how Afghanistan is still dystopian today. When one analyzes Ashraf Ghani’s choice to allow the Taliban to form, and the impacts the Taliban are still having on the people, one can realize how important genres of literature can be to educate the world about this dystopian

As soon at Taliban came in control in Kabul woman had no right to do anything.They weren't allowed to step out of their doors, they weren't allowed to work, woman/girls weren't allowed to go to school, ban on woman laughing.Those that didn't obey the laws were whipped in public, were beaten etc.The Taliban had stated that this was being done for their protection.An example of Taliban's violent treatment against the woman is; a woman wearing nail paint had her fingertips chopped by a Taliban officer. Taliban had just the say thing to say against this, “it was being done to safeguard

Today in the post –Taliban era, women still struggle with their rights. Resolutions were produced and rights for women have advanced since September 11th but in order to move forward, much work needs to be done. Hundreds of years of repression for Afghan women will take a lot longer than a few years to actually revolutionize. There is violence towards women that are not practicing traditions customs and fear retaliations from the Taliban. Customs are difficult to change as well as government policies. (Bora Laskin Law). In Afghanistan, religious and cultural values, politics, and an uncertain acting government have played a major part in the struggle for women’s rights.

For over 2 centuries, Afghanistan has known virtually no time without war. Beginning around 326 B.C. with the conquests of Alexander the Great, to the Persians, British, Russians and most recently, America and our NATO allies, Afghanistan has been cultivated into the country that it is today through a trial by fire. Regardless of this relentless onslaught of foreign military power, the Afghan people have tirelessly defended their homeland with no outside power ever being able to subdue them completely. Following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, the country fell into civil war, torn even further apart by fiercely dedicated tribal warlords. This power vacuum led to the rise of a group called the Taliban. Led by a one eyed man

The Constitution that was created in Afghanistan during the 1920’s, stated equal rights for women and men. In fact, during the year of 1959, new policies created educational and career opportunities and voluntary removal of having to wear the burka. Women’s roles become similarly equivalent to male roles; they had the opportunity to acquire knowledge from universities, and were provided jobs in industrial, business, and entertainment settings. The atrocities that came about during the Mujaheddin and Taliban control were unheard of years prior, when women lived in peace and prosperity

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.

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, millions of women wanted to flee from their oppressive regime. Even with so many wanting to leave however, several barriers including the Taliban’s extensive civil rights restrictions, and the U.S’s increased immigration restrictions prevented a proportional amount of Afghani women from immigrating. The sudden regime change in Afghanistan caused a catastrophic loss of civil liberties as well as civil disrupt throughout the entire country, causing a sudden surge in Afghani immigration. Political

Since the Taliban have been overthrown in 2001, life for women has vastly improved throughout

Before the rise of the Taliban in the early 1990s, women in Afghanistan were mostly treated as equals and with respect. Though women were still expected to be

The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement which came to power as Afghanistan’s government in 1996 but was overthrown by the U.S. after 9-11 in 2001. The official government put into power by the U.S. after the Taliban overthrow was headed by President Hamid Karzai, but he and his government mostly only had power in Kabul and Kandahar, urban cities. After the Taliban, the misogynistic Mujahedeen regained power in many rural parts of Afghanistan, where they forced women to stay indoors and constantly wear the burqa. Although the Mujahedeen oppose the Taliban, the two organizations are similar in many ways when it comes to women’s rights. The Taliban enforced Sharia law, which is strict Islamic law, according to the Taliban members’ interpretation of the Quran. According to this law, women have little to no rights. Women under the Taliban could never leave their houses unless they had a permit because of an emergency, and even then they had to be accompanied by a close male relative. Women were also forbidden from school and work. This was devastating for many women who didn’t have husbands supporting the family. Countless families were left completely impoverished with no income. On top of that, women were forced to wear the burqa, a garment that completely covers the body except a small screen for the eyes. Even though they had just lost their salary, and did not have enough money for food, numerous women had to buy these garments

To the western perspective, the Taliban is a name which generates an immediate image of militant Islamic politics, explicit support of terror-oriented tactics on a global scale and a localized social hierarchy in which women are treated with gross inequality. Indeed, while the first two characteristics noted here would draw the attention and military action of the United States in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks, it is this latter feature which may ultimately be the most persistent, troubling and lasting of characteristics. Today, more than a decade since al Qaeda masterminded the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and more than a decade since the U.S responded by invading Afghanistan in pursuit of both al Qaeda personnel and the Taliban regime which gave them safe harbor, Afghani women continue to be the subject of much international concern. As the discussion here will demonstrate, the human rights violations visited upon the women of Afghanistan during the Taliban's rule would be grotesque and widespread. Moreover, the discussion will illustrate that though the War in Afghanistan would improve the fortunes of women there in the years following 9/11, these fortunes like the fortunes of Afghanistan itself are impacted by uncertainty, instability and violence. While advances in the treatment of women have been forced by the attention and presence of the

Under Taliban rule, girls were not allowed to attend school or leave their home without a male relative or you could be beaten or even shot. Women also couldn’t wear nail polish and if they were caught, they risked having their fingertips cut off. The Taliban claimed that the treatment of women was safeguard women and their honor.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight rigorously for basic human rights. In the western stratosphere, those human rights were achieved in the early 20th century, but in a lot of eastern countries the battle for the women is just beginning, or worse hasn't even started. Women in Afghanistan have been subject to heinous circumstances, even though their religion, Islam "demanded that men and women be equal before God,"(Qazi). Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner offers a very insightful view of the governing politics of Afghanistan pre-Taliban regime and during the Taliban regime, and the differing situation of women in both those eras. Based on the book and outside research, it is evident that the situation of women in

Before the Taliban came into power in 1996, laws in Afghanistan were remarkably different. In 1964, “a new constitution [created] a modern democracy with free elections, equal rights, freedom of speech, universal suffrage, and [allowed] women to enter into politics” (“Timeline Women’s Rights in Afghanistan”). Women’s rights began to improve further during the late 1970’s. During 1978, the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan took over the government resulting in the separation of government and religion, banning burqas, requiring education for girls, abolishing walwar, which is a sum of money that the groom pays to the father of his bride, and lastly, raising the minimum age of marriage to 16. During PDPA rule, the government was highly

The reason I chose to study Islamic Feminism and Afghanistan, is that for many people, these words do not belong in the same sentence. Afghanistan has come to be recognized as a country that follows strict and fundamentalist Islam, hindering the lives of women and even damaging their lives. Since I entered high school, Afghanistan has been known to me and my generation as a country