The topic I got chosen was the rise of Taliban. First off the Taliban was from 1996 till 2001 who was dominated by Pashtun Ethnic who controlled Afghanistan. It all started when the Afghan mujahideen who fought against the Soviet invasion around the 1980s. Mujahideen is a group of soldiers led to warlords to make the country a safer place to live. The organization was founded by Mullah Mohammed Omar. He went into hiding in 2001 after organization's fall from power. Members of the Taliban were religious students who had a very conservative interpretation of Islam. The term Taliban is Pashto for "students". The Rise of the Taliban started in the 1980's but didn't emerge as a force until 1994 during the civil war. The effects of the civil war is the capture of Kabul by the Afghan mujahideen. After the civil war the Taliban controlled more the 90 percent of the country.The promised to out a stop to infighting between various bands of the mujahideen. The group promised to restore Muslim values and put a stop to violence. The reason the Taliban came together was bring peace and enforce the Islamic Law. Five years after the civil the Taliban formed the Islamic Law. The Islamic Law has a lot of harsh laws for the men and women. It requires women to wear head-to-toe veils, they banned music and television, and they jailed men whose beards were too short.
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Good info but please break it up into shorter paragraphs. Add personal thoughts too!