Three Cups Of Tea By David Oliver Relin: An Analysis

The Taliban came into power in 2005 in Pakistan and began dictating the civilians how to live their lives the “right Islamic way”. The people of the Swat District were forced to obey every command of the Taliban unless they and their families wanted to be killed. Women especially became very oppressed and had to enter Purdah, wear hijabs whenever in public, and were encouraged to not go to school. All westernized media, clothes and games were banned, anyone who did not follow the law would be shot. The community lived in such a terrible state of fear that Malala and her family were afraid to go outside where they were known as famous social, political and educational activists. A BBC correspondent contacted Ziauddin to make a blog from a school girl’s point of view on living under Taliban rule. Malala soon took up the challenge and related her experiences over the phone about her oppressive life in Swat Valley and the threats against girls like her for going to school. Eventually, her school had to close after many local school bombings, and then the whole valley had to be evacuated for the Pakistani Army to come wipe out the Taliban.

The Taliban are a part of history and people should be aware of who they are and what they do. The Taliban has evolved over the years and unfortunately have grown stronger over the years. They started off as a group of students and it is sad to know that these students who could have started with a good future ended up being a part of a terrorist group. They think they are doing right because they may read the Quran but they only focus on the words and passages they want to hear and say to defend their terrorist group without reading the passage or verse fully and trying to understand the real words of Allah. The Taliban have been around for a long time and as a result the Taliban havetaken over territory such as Afghanistan and many others. One of the territories the Taliban has is Afghanistan and the government is seen as corrupted because they help the Taliban. Corruption may exist anywhere but would the Afghan government be supporting the Taliban with weapons because they want to or because of fear?

The Taliban has some of the most frightening rules for Afghan people: A kite seller will be imprisoned for three days, the owner of a house will be punished if women are heard singing during a wedding, no images or photographs are to be posted in public places, there is to be no equipment that produces the joy of music, and even Christmas cards are to be banned. The list goes on and on with the harsh rules and punishment that face the people of Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that they are following the strict codes of Islam, but now it seems that the group is just dictating the country to whatever they seem suitable. The Taliban customs personal would gouge out the images of women's eyes on shampoo bottles, and merchants would have to sell the product with black tape over the women image or face a beating and time in jail. The group of men that run the Taliban regime amaze me on how everything is played out in Afghanistan. The men want a bid into the U.N. but can't even have a country where people aren't afraid to walk down the streets in fear of being stoned or shot to death.

In 2011, 24-year-old Joe DeNenno traveled to Afghanistan with the intent to change the lives of the children in the Zhari District. He teamed up with the local security forces and government officials to build new schools throughout the district to improve the education for local children. One billion dollars went towards the funding of schools and rise of education in Afghanistan. But nearly four years later, one would not be able to see a difference between the schools and a town that's been hit by a category 3 hurricane. From leaky roofs to cut up doors, the schools were no longer a place for education but rather a place for warlords to inhabit. Over 50 American funded schools were now battlefield provinces. These runned down schools were

The book clearly states, “In July 2008, the Taliban launchiutred a series of attacks, bombing government bodies, including schools. ”(Rowell, 49) “In January 2009, Taliban Militants issued a declaration via reading, “From January 15, girls will not be allowed to attend school. ”(Rowell, 49) The Taliban did all this for one solitary preeminent reason, they simply thought women should not be outside in public. However, Malala took matters into her own hands, and did dissent. Malala for dissent she wrote an online blog under the name, Gul Makai.

The Taliban is a Sunni Islamic group of individuals in the Middle East (Source). They had taken over a lot of towns and places that used to once be free. Citizens got affected by the Taliban in one of two ways. If you were male, nothing really changed. But if you were a women, your rights got stripped away from you. Many girls were not allowed to go to school, and a lot of them did

The Taliban are an Islamic fundamentalist group, and they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. They are extremely ruthless, and we have many different glimpses of this in the book. “So [the Talibs] took him to the street...and ordered him to kneel...and shot him in the back of the head. Farzana came screaming and attacked them...shot her too. Self-defense, they claimed later” (Hosseini 219). In this quote, the Talib officials shot Hassan and his wife for absolutely no reason, and claimed it was self defense. The author, Hosseini, gives us the audience a completely raw, haunting portrait of the Taliban and of their effect on the people living in Afghanistan at the

The Taliban were bombing schools in an effort to stop education from spreading, and when they heard of Malala’s protest they shot her in the head in an attempt to silence her. When people are dumb, they do not fight. In a hauntingly similar way, “missionaries” came from Spain to convert “Pagans” to the “One true God”, tactics included burning hieroglyphics, destroying temples and idol and going so far as to torture and kill all of those who would secretly worship and make sacrifices to their non-Christian gods. Most history books have put a politically correct spin on such historical events, making it seem as if the Franciscans meant these people well. I do not doubt that a lot of them did, but it would seem that those in power became corrupt and malicious. The Taliban has taken away people’s rights to education, just as Christians did when Europeans came to

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.

In the book, I Am Malala, Malala asked, “Why was a school building such a threat to the Taliban (Yousafzai 63)?” School buildings were a threat because at that time most of Pakistan was illiterate therefore the Taliban was able to control it. If people stopped being ignorant then they would realize the Taliban’s preachings were not relevant to todays time period.

The taliban completely banned all education for girls in general. (Yousafzai 100) Under a pseudonym, I wrote to the BBC about my anger and wishes for equality. (Yousafzai 104) I was in outrage and not only spoken out for me, but also the girls who were too afraid to. I wrote of the hardships of my life, and I wrote of the proud feeling I got from wearing my school uniform. (Yousafzai 107) We had to leave our homes for awhile since the military was fighting against the taliban, so I had to leave all my school books behind. (Yousafzai 133) After months, the military finally drove out the taliban for away, so I could get to go to school! (Yousafzai 160) Even though I had the chance to go to school now, girls in other towns or with unwilling parents still didn’t get the chance to go. (Yousafzai 173) I continued to protest against these standards publicity, but I my efforts were soon but to a

The book Kite Runner gave me a different look into an otherwise appalling occurrence in Middle Eastern countries. The Taliban has always been known as the radical caliphate, one that committed what is arguably one of the most heinous acts of terrorism our country has faced to this day, however this book explained the effects that the Taliban and the wars have had on the citizens that reside in the unstable region.

The Rise of the Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan describes the journey and development of the Taliban from its beginning to its end. Many sociological perspectives are presented by many different sociologists. The perspectives are separated into different chapters and the entirety is edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi. The collective theme is the movement and process of the Taliban and the development and decline of Central Asia.

War and conflict have raged in Southeast and Central Asia for centuries due to civil unrest and political instability. The rise of the Taliban and other militant insurgencies have escalated the dangers and unpredictability of an already unstable government in Afghanistan. The agenda of these jihadist extremists is the takeover of the Afghan and Pakistan governments in favor of the more stringent Islamic ways of the Taliban, and the destruction of anyone who opposes them. These groups, professing to do the work of God, are perpetrating a coarse and distorted interpretation of Islam and the Quran. Violent acts that have been committed by insurgents, include crimes against humanity, acts of terrorism, murder, suicide bombings, and

After the Taliban took over, females were forced out of schools and as a result of Taliban’s rule, we have a large portion of the population uneducated. And more importantly, it has left the nation with a lack of qualified teachers. As of 2008, 80 percent of the teachers only had an