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| | Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Taliban stated that women were obliged to wear the burqa due to Islamic teachings which state that women must cover up her body in front of non-mahram men, and that both men and women should dress modestly. | | | The Taliban believed women should stay home in order that their children did not have to grow up in the care of another, and also believed that work is the duty of the male in the house and to reject this duty was haraam. | | | A Taliban fighter smiles to the cameras after the completion of the destruction of the two Buddhas in Bamiyan |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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| | Taliban, Taleban - religious cults, sects and movements |
| | The Taliban, Persian for, ''the (Koran) students'' is a fundamentalist sect - in the sense of a dissenting religious group - of Islam. | | | The Taliban preach an extremist interpretation of Islam, known as Islamism. | | | It is also considered by many Muslims to be a cult of Islam, in that the Taliban - while claiming to represent ''true Islam'' - deviate sharply from many of that faith's key tenets. |
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| | Afghanistan |
| | The Taliban decreed that women are not allowed to attend the country's formerly coeducational universities, and one women's university, the Kabul branch of the Peshawar-based Afghan University, was closed by the Taliban in 1996 after it gained control of Kabul. | | | However, the Taliban reportedly still holds many Hazara Shi'a prisoners, who were detained as a result of the country's civil war and not solely on the basis of their religion. | | | Although a spokesperson for the Taliban claimed that the new constitution would ensure the rights of all Muslims and religious minorities, custom and law require affiliation with some religion, and atheism is punishable by death. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5533
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| | The Taliban |
| | All this, according to the Taliban, was to safeguard women and their honor. | | | While the Taliban present themselves as a reform movement, they have been criticized by Islamic scholars as being poorly educated in Islamic law and history—even in Islamic radicalism, which has a long history of scholarly writing and debate. | | | The Taliban recognized the need for international ties but wavered between cooperation—they claimed to have drastically cut opium production in July 2000—and defiance—they pointedly ignored international pleas not to destroy the 2000-year-old Buddhist statues of Bamian. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/taliban.html
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| | Special Report |
| | As far as Afghanistan is concerned, the history of madaris (religious schools) and taliban (religious students) is as old as the arrival of Islam in that country. | | | Both religious schools and taliban existed long before the modern system of schools and education was introduced there almost a century ago. | | | On the other hand, the Taliban are praised as a group of religious heroes who sprang from within Afghanistan's Pashtun ethnic majority. |
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0498/9804047.html
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| | The Taliban's War on Women: A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan. |
| | Taliban, which means "students of Muslim religious studies," are poorly educated rural Pashtun youths mostly recruited from refugee camps and religious schools (madrasas) in neighboring Pakistan. | | | This movement, led by Mullah Mohammed Omar, a 31-year-old religious leader, claims to be restoring peace and security through the imposition of a strict Islamic order. | | | Of these incidents, 72% followed non-adherence to the Taliban's dress code for women. |
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| | Amazon.com: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia: Books: Ahmed Rashid |
| | And the Taliban don't like Shias, whom they regard as incorrigible heretics, who must be given the choice of converting to the Sunni faith or death. | | | Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the aftermath of that black day. | | | Page 68 of this fantastic book explains precisely why the Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan province were such a monumental loss for all of humanity, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300089023?v=glance
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| | Crisis of Impunity - Afghanistan's Civil Wars |
| | The head of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar, assumed the title amir-ul momineen (commander of the faithful); he is assisted by shuras, or consultative bodies. | | | The Taliban has enforced a strict dress code for women and the religious police have beaten women on the streets for violation of this code. | | | Akbari is a non-Hazara Shi'a from the Qizilbash ethnic group, with religious training in Iran. |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/Afghan0701-01.htm
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| | Taliban publicly execute woman |
| | The Taliban say their version of Islam is a pure one that follows a literal interpretation of the Muslim holy book, The Koran. | | | The reason for the killing two years ago was a family dispute," according to a Taliban soldier, who didn't give his name. | | | KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of people watched as a woman, cowering beneath a pale blue all-enveloping burqa, was shot and killed today in the first public execution of a woman in Kabul since the Taliban religious army took control three years ago. |
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http://www.rawa.org/murder-w.htm
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| | World Trade Center Attack |
| | bin Laden declares the Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, the rightful spiritual leader of the Muslim world, and says Afghanistan has become the equivalent of the purified Islamic state established in Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest cities, by the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century. | | | He urges Muslims everywhere to migrate to Afghanistan to support the Taliban and Al- Qaeda, saying it is their duty to God. | | | Afghanistan is also the source of disturbing reports of persecution of religious minorities and women in particular, making this recent news all the more troubling. |
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| | Congressman: U.S. Set Up Anti-Taliban to be Slaughtered |
| | But the men of Afghanistan are not fanatics like the Taliban, either. | | | But we've been addressing all these issues since the first day the Taliban came into being, and particularly since they came to power in Kabul. | | | And the idea that we support the Taliban I also reject as well completely. |
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| | CIA worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the Taliban 7 Mar 01 |
| | Harrison, who spoke before the Taliban assault on the Buddha statues was launched, told the gathering of security experts that he had meetings with CIA leaders at the time when Islamic forces were being strengthened in Afghanistan. | | | Norway peace envoy set for talks with Tigers | | | “CIA worked in tandem with Pak to create Taliban” |
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http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/taliban.htm
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| | The Taliban File |
| | He praised the Taliban for their ability to restore order to Kandahar, where the Taliban are almost revered, but tells Raphel that the Taliban are viewed as occupiers in Herat and Kabul. | | | The Taliban have taken over Herat forcing Ismail Khan along with 300-600 of his followers into Iran. | | | Formed in 1994, the Taliban began with only a few followers, mostly religious students who fought with the Mujahideen in the war against the Soviets and who were schooled in Islamic seminaries (madrasahs) in Pakistan. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB97
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| | Taliban In Afghanistan |
| | Taliban edicts, which critics say are rooted more in tribal traditions than in the Koran, or Muslim holy book, also put severe restrictions on women. | | | Within days, everything except religious songs were banned. | | | The Taliban also suggested that people paint their first-floor windows black to stop prying eyes from seeing women inside. |
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http://www.borndigital.com/taliban.htm
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| | Salon Books "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid |
| | The Taliban are poorly tutored in Islamic and Afghan history, knowledge of the Sharia [Islamic law] and the Koran and the political and theoretical developments in the Muslim world during the twentieth century. | | | The world now knows the rest of the story. | | | The Taliban also seems unconcerned with the day-to-day issues of governing, Rashid points out. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/04/06/rashid
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| | The Taliban |
| | Some quotes: "The Taliban's view has no basis in the Qur'an, yet yet it has been promoted by the Taliban as Islamic." "This situation is very distressing considering that women were given rights in the Qur'an to contribute to the economy by owning and selling property 1400 years ago." | | | Two thirds of the country of Afghanistan, including the capital, Kabul, is ruled by a Pashtun-dominated ultra- conservative Islamic movement known as the Taliban. | | | On December 29, 1997 the Taliban rulers stoned a women to death who was with a man that was not one of her relatives. |
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http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/taliba.html
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| | Foreign Policy In Focus Special Report: Are the Taliban Really “Gone”? |
| | President Karzai is correct in claiming that the Taliban movement in its previous form no longer exists. | | | While his estimate regarding the number of operational insurgents may be accurate, he neglects to consider the growing number of Taliban sympathizers in the south, which may number in the tens of thousands. | | | Taliban supporters organize openly in Pakistani cities like Quetta and Peshawar; Pakistani madrassas, or religious schools, continue to churn out dedicated Taliban foot soldiers in large numbers; and a significant proportion of Taliban attacks over the past two years have been launched from Pakistani territory. |
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| | Feminist Majority Foundation |
| | The Taliban claim to follow a pure, fundamentalist Islamic ideology, yet the oppression they perpetrate against women has no basis in Islam. | | | Prior to the Civil War and Taliban control, especially in Kabul, the capital, women in Afghanistan were educated and employed: 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women, and 70% of school teachers, 50% of civilian government workers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women. | | | The 55-member Organization of Islamic Conference has refused to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's official government. |
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| | Derechos: Human Rights in Afghanistan |
| | The Taliban continue to push their extremist version of Islamic law on the population, leaving thousands of women virtual prisoners in their homes. | | | Thousands of people are arbitrarily arrested, most tortured or ill-treated. | | | Derechos does not necessarily endorse any of the views expressed in any of the pages to which we link. |
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http://www.derechos.org/saran/afg.html
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Taliban Fighters Infiltrating Back Into Afghanistan From Pakistan |
| | I have come here temporarily after this bullet wound I got in Ghazni," Jan says, while reciting verses from the Koran and fingering prayer beads. | | | Many Taliban supporters believe that American attention is focused on Baghdad, a belief that is emboldening them to mount attacks against President Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. | | | "The Taliban are our brothers and soldiers of Islam like us," said Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a senior leader of the extremist Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI). |
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http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav050503a.shtml
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| | Taliban regroups - on the road csmonitor.com |
| | Malang says he instructs between five and eight recruits at a time - larger numbers might attract US attention. | | | Malang, along with nine other men trained in Al-Qaeda camps, were appointed as commanders of the new Taliban guerrilla force. | | | Abdur Razzaq recently joined the resurgent Taliban after his father, Mullah Rehman, was killed by US and Afghan forces. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p06s01-wosc.html
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| | Asia Times |
| | At the same time, famed warlord Gulbbudin Hekmatyar has joined the resistance after returning from exile in Iran. | | | For centuries, these people were the most respected segment of Afghan society, and before 1979 they never participated in politics. | | | The key reason for this is that the previous Taliban government - which is dispersed almost intact in the country after capitulating to advancing Northern Alliance forces without a fight - is backed by the most powerful force in Afghanistan: clerics and religious students. |
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| | Did the US massacre Taliban? - [Sunday Herald] |
| | Conditions were overcrowded, and there were diseases like tuberculosis, but it was the Americans that the Taliban had to fear the most. | | | After the surrender of Konduz, the Taliban prisoners were then taken to a fort at Qaala Zeini, almost halfway between Mazar-i-Sharif and Sheberghan Prison. | | | Dostum went on to accept the surrender of some 8000 Taliban fighters in the nearby town of Konduz. |
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| | TIME.com: TIME.com Primer: The Taliban and Afghanistan -- Page 1 |
| | The Taliban imposed an extremely repressive, sectarian Islamic regime on the Afghan people, barring women from work and education and even killing Shiite Muslims of the Hazari minority. | | | Bin Laden had been a hero of the 'jihad' against the Soviet occupiers, and the Taliban welcomed him back to Afghanistan in 1996 after his expulsion from the Sudan. | | | Iran is implacably hostile to the Taliban over that movement's extremist theology and over its killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims. |
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| | taliban |
| | Taliban publicly slit the throat of the alleged murderer of her son | | | Announcing their policy to a crowd of 300 | | | Their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, cloaks himself in secrecy, refusing to grant interviews or allow his photo to be taken. |
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http://www.hazara.net/taliban/taliban.html
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| | CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Afghanistan under the Taliban |
| | Now the ruling council of clerics have asked him to leave the country. | | | While they created some stability after nearly two decades of conflict, their tough interpretation of Islamic law has attracted widespread criticism. | | | Their main opposition is the Northern Alliance, who are currently battling for control of strategically important districts in the north. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/taliban
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| | Technorati Tag: taliban |
| | Posts tagged Taliban per day for the last 30 days. | | | The caller noted that I have given money to the University before and asked if I would give again. | | | Our "allies" are providing the weapons that WE SOLD THEM to our enemies who are currently doing everything in their... |
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| | ENRON GAVE TALIBAN $MILLIONS |
| | Said an Enron company source, "After the Taliban came to power in 1996, Taliban leaders were invited to Sugar Land, Texas, by Unocal and Enron executives. | | | "The Taliban's mullahs were given the royal treatment for four days in 1997!" | | | Enron executives even met with Taliban officials in Texas, where they were given the red-carpet treatment and promised a fortune if the deal went through. |
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