Posted by 5Fitz (: on September 22, 2009 at 7:00pm
Taliban also known as Taleban means student.They are a group mainly of religous and political movements that has governed Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The Talibans are nearly 100% muslim, and their main allie is Al Queda. Taliban was in a Guerilla War with Afghanistan's and Pakistan's government who was allied with NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization). NATO was basically just a defensive system. Taliban also controlled Afghanistan's government for five years. It basically was the alternative government for Afghanistan. In Taliban there was a law made that was banning this such as:employment, education and sports for women, movies, television, videos, music, dancing, hanging pictures in homes, clapping during sports events, kite flying, and beard trimming. Which was ridiculous because this stuff is what makes people. What the government was trying to tell the people, is that they are going to control the country, and no one else will get in their way.
Woman in Taliban are forced to wear these, a mask looking thing called a burqa in public. Because the face of a Taliban woman is a source of corruption towards the men who are not related to them. The woman were also banned from working, and also going to school. They are forced to stop schooling at age 8 so basically it is just allowing them to learn how to talk and maybe learning the alphabet. Women, who disagree will go to maybe private underground classes. One school was called the Golden Needle Sewing School. The woman would bring all their supplies as if they were going to be sewing, but then really they were being tought about things like Shakespear, James Joyce, and learning their own language to a better extent. But if these people were cought doing this, the odds of them living would be slim to none, they would just shoot them in the head.
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