The Taliban 's War Against Women

She started to talk to assemblies, than to journalists, giving interviews on TV, then a journalist followed her in her everyday life and made a documentary of it. She gave as many interviews that she could and even wrote under the name of Gul Makai in the journal about the life of a young girl under Taliban regime. More and more people started to notice her, her diary and listen to what she had to say, which draw attention on her. Talibans shot her in the head and she was remove to England. Where she met many powerful people to listen to her, like the president of the United States, she spoke at the United Nations and got the Nobel prize for peace. she wrote a book and started a foundation to help people around the world, have better access

The Taliban are an Islamic political movement. They ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. When they took over, several new laws, rules, and restrictions were made.

The Taliban founded in the year of 1994 by a man named Mullah Mohammad Omar. It originated in Afghanistan and was created with the purpose of destroying the foreign military in Afghanistan and to reestablish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under strict Sharia Law ("Taliban Narrative"). The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would then be brought back into play in the year of 1996. However, the event that led to the creation of the Taliban happened almost a decade earlier in the year of 1979. In 1979 the Soviets began invading Afghanistan, they were there for about ten years and then withdrew late in the year of 1988 and early 1989. Mujahedeen forces then removed the soviet government in the year of 1992 and led to rivalry between groups. A year

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

The Taliban started in the 1990’s as a resistance to the soviets rule of Afghanistan. The movement promised to stabilize Afghanistan and introduce a new era of law that would end conflict. This attracted many people to the movement, causing it to expand exponentially. In September, 1996, the Taliban took control of Kabul and started the official rule of Afghanistan. “The Taliban regime controlled some 90 percent of the country before its 2001 overthrow, analysts say” from Council on Foreign Relations. The Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Their rule included ideas such as restoring peace, disarming the population, and defending the Islamic character. They wanted to create the world's most pure Islamic regime possible. This

The Taliban isolated Afghanistan from the outside world, where there only allies were Pakistan and al-Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden. Since Omar had isolated Afghanistan because his violence against Muslims, bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. These two men became the only people who Omar depended on for troops, funds, and support. Ayman al-Zawahiri is second-in-command of al-Qaeda. The Taliban with the support of bin Laden and ISI, Omar had the statues of Buddha in Bamian destroyed because they believed them to be of pagan Gods.

The Taliban group is a group of men who formed in 1994 in the country of

The leader of the Taliban thought of himself as a Islamic reformist, along with a interpreter of the Quran. At first he was just getting people in pakistan to stop bad habits like smoking or doing drugs, and keep certain things he viewed as good like not cutting mens beards. He got people to adopt good habits like personal hygiene, but told them that listening to music and watching movies or dancing was making God angry. He wanted to bring back Islamic laws to replace a system that wasn’t working. Soon his message changed to one that was frightening, the Taliban were bombing and killing many who were going against their views, girls in school were under threats because the Taliban believed that women should stay home and not have a education.

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

The Taliban—a Muslim fundamentalist group--first took control on the Afghanistan government in 1996, and even after the US-led invasion in 2001, they have maintained a strong influence in rural regions. When they first became present, many Afghans believed they would bring light to the years of corruption introduced by the Russians, and for a while that was true. The Taliban brought stability to Afghanistan, reduced infighting between warlords, and cracked down on the corruption that had been present in the government for many years. However, as years past the presence of the fundamentalist group changed Afghanistan and its people for the worse, displacing many people, and many Hazara, women, and children were murdered. Before Taliban arrive

The Taliban begin in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion when the Soviet Union said they were sending soldiers to Afghanistan to rebuild to failing economy. Soon a leader Mullah Omar would take on control over everyone in 1994 after fighting during the anti-Soviet Union as a Pashtun who had served as a junior mujahadeen commander in the 1980s which he lost one eye. While leader Omar expressed the Taliban would bring peace and would enforce Islamic Law. Which he later showed that would not be what he stood for in the end. Despite the fact what he said he would do Mullah became a leader of an extremely cruel government and the leader of the strictest version of Sharia law

The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. The Taliban was ejected out of power by the U.S. military and other forces in December 2001 because of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

In just six years al Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, and also the network of Osama bin Ladin, had devolved from a regional threat to U.S. troops to a global threat. Al Qaeda was the group accused by President George Bush who performed the terrorist attacks in 2001. Bin Ladin had expanded this network by assembling a coalition of radical Islamic groups of varying nationalities to work toward common goals. . (“War on Terrorism”) In order to assist its growth, al Qaeda now includes members of factions of several major militant organizations such as Egypt’s Islamic Al-Jihad. Bin Ladin had been indicted by a U.S. court several times as his network is connected to many acts of terrorism. The Taliban, another radical group who ran much of Afghanistan is often compared to the al Qaeda. Since 1998 the Taliban group has been trying to disconnect themselves from al Qaeda. Contradictory, Taliban officials have denied persistent requests from the United States to take down bin Ladin by claiming that there is an inadequate amount of evidence to prove that he has been involved in anti-American terror acts (“War on Terrorism”). As

In June 2002, a multiparty republic took over as the new government. The new government replaced the interim government, the Islamic Taliban, which lost recognition from outside countries around the globe except for Pakistan after the September 1 terrorist attack on the United States.

The Taliban became responsible for punishing those who committed crimes by killing the criminals. These acts started a small fear in the Afghanistan people. Soon, the Taliban group became a well armed and well funded militia with the support of a province in Pakistan. As soon as fear stirred among the Afghani people, the president of Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani, tried to create an alliance against the Taliban in Kabul, the capitol. This alliance fell through, and the president eventually fled Afghanistan. In December of 1995, the Taliban took hold of Afghanistan as a result.