THE TALIBAN

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THE TALIBAN
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Origins

• Thousands of orphans as result of war with USSR
• Grow up in Pakistan
• Never knew parents
• Raised in Madras's (Paid for by Saudis)
• Raised to hate and fight Jihad
• Sunni Muslims

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Rise of the Taliban

• Taliban means One who seeks knowledge
• Goal to restore peace, enforce Sharia law
• Years of civil war
• 1.5 million deaths
• Citizens desperate for stability
• Taliban seem like good choice

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Mullah Omar

• Leader of the Taliban
• Fought against USSR

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Taliban view of Women

• Fully covered
• Not allowed to work
• Do not leave house w/o male relative

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Women Continued

• Banished women from the work force
• Closed schools to girls and women and expelled
  women from universities
• Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless
  accompanied by a close male relative
• Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's
  houses painted black and forced women to wear the
  burqa (or chadari) - which completely shrouds the
  body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening
  through which to see
• Prohibited women and girls from being examined by
  male physicians while at the same time prohibited
  female doctors and nurses from working

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Women Continued

• Taliban Reality for Women and Girls
• A woman who defied Taliban orders by running a
  home school for girls was killed in front of her
  family and friends.
• A woman caught trying to flee Afghanistan with a
  man not related to her was stoned to death for
  adultery.
• An elderly woman was brutally beaten with a metal
  cable until her leg was broken because her ankle
  was accidentally showing from underneath her
  burqa.
• Women and girls died of curable ailments because
  male doctors were not allowed to treat them.
• Two women accused of prostitution were publicly
  hung.

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Downfall

• US invasion following 9/11
• Refusal to give up Osama Bin Laden
• Currently regrouping and regaining territory in
  parts of Afghanistan

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War in Afghanistan

• Begins on October 11th 2001
• Response to 9/11
• Capture and remove Al Qaeda and Taliban
• Currently 50,590 US troops
• 89,000 total UN troops from 42 countries

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Taliban Today

• Control large portions of country (rural)
• Same thing happens to USSR
• Soviets control cities
• Insurgents control rural areas
• Who won

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Opium Trade

• Taliban originally against opium production
• Now use it to finance war on terror

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Opium Production
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Current Trends in Afghanistan

• Foreign Business fades
• Lack of social services (schooling, health care,
  and security)

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Essay Questions

• 1. Why do they (meaning the Taliban) not want
  girls to go to school
• 2. Put yourself into this girls situation. Would
  you go to school under this threat? Why or why
  not?