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Title: 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

6
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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Tomorrows Video
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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?
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