Taliban treatment of women

Pakistan–the mistreatment of women. Credit to http://texasdiversitymagazine.org The mistreatment of women has been going on for centuries, even during the time of Muhammad–a religious leader who was believed to be a messenger of God. According to an article called, “Muslim Women”, Muhammad “improved the status of women in the 7th century Arabia”. Though he did this, he proclaimed the law as “immutable”– meaning that it was passed down as God’s commandments (“Muslim Women”). These rights are known

The Taliban is a group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslim militants, they were living in Afghanistan. The word Taliban means "students" a name use because many of the original members studied in Pakistani religious schools called madrassas and other members come from the ranks of the mujahedeen, the vast majority of Taliban is ethnic Pashtun. They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. The Taliban managed 90% of the country's territory, their policies, including their treatment of women, support

wasn’t aware of how horrific Women's treatment under the Taliban was until I dug into the reality of it in Under The Persimmon Tree (UTPT), by Suzanne Fisher. In arts of the world such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, women are treated as second class citizens. They are looked upon with no respect and live with restricted rights, all due to the fact that they happen to not be men. The main characters Najmah and Nusrat in the story UTPT experience this unfair treatment first hand. Credit to Square Fish

the Afghan civil war continued, things progressively got worse for Afghan women, as more of Afghanistan landed under Taliban control. In 1992 when the Marxism inspired government that had been left behind as a result of the Soviet Union fell, it was instead replaced with a more traditional Islamic inspired government, and as such the Islamic State of Afghanistan was created. This was when the rights and treatments towards women can clearly be seen to be backtracking as the constitution was abandoned

fundamentalist Taliban. This imposed reactionary religious restrictions and the suffocating social relations under the death penalty with a savagery that was recorded in the collective memory of the world through the stoning in stadiums against women accused of "crimes" like adultery. In addition, the Taliban imposed a feudal economic relations that kept shackled and impoverished peasants. While his schedule sometimes entered strong conflict with that of the United States, essentially the Taliban did not

and power. The women of Afghanistan have been segregated, underestimated, and disrespected by the Taliban, a dictatorship who ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001. Examples vastly different like a garbage can and an ocean can symbolize this segregation and disrespect. Afghan Women were mistreated severely when the Taliban took leadership over Afghanistan. To begin with, life for women before the Taliban ruled Afghanistan was fairly normal. Before 1996 when the Taliban ruled, women held seats in

The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement . It spread throughout Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001. It gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. While in power, it enforced a rigid interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. The Taliban arose out of the utter revulsion felt by particularly pious former mujahedeen (jihadists) living

during the early 1990s in Kandahar, that the Taliban emerged as a political

States for women include voting, wearing what you choose or working wherever you want. Many women take this for granted. In places all over the world, women are subordinate to men politically and socially. These women cannot enjoy the simple pleasures of life because of the society they are living in, especially women living in Afghanistan. Under the rule of the Taliban women had next to no rights because of the high honor held by men in their society. After the removal of the Taliban by the Northern

sought for by many. After living such a long life without wars, the Taliban created a strict set of laws that clearly weren 't consulted with any government officials.Therefore, it was difficult for many to adjust to, and it still is. In real life, and in the novel, the Taliban are depicted as people with the most devious souls--their goal in life is to incessantly punish innocents who don 't follow their rules. Staples used the Taliban and how they have completely degraded people 's lives in a solemn