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Taliban: Women
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Afghanistan under the Taliban had one of the worst human rights records in the world. The regime systematically repressed all sectors of the population and denied even the most basic individual rights. Yet the Taliban's war against women was particularly appalling.
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After taking over Kabul, the Taliban created a government agency, called the Ministry for Ordering What is Right and Forbidding What is Wrong, to enforce its fundamentalist rules of behaviour. Some of these rules had little to do with Islamic Shari’ah law... and were more influenced by ancient Pashtun tribal beliefs. Taliban leaders banned music, shut down cinemas and burned the films, and bulldozed bottles and cans of alcohol taken from foreign hotels. Men were ordered to grow full, untrimmed beards (in accordance with orthodox Islam), and were rounded up and beaten with sticks in an effort to force prayer in the mosques. Women were told to cover themselves from head to toe in burkas (long veils covering the whole body with woven, dark screens in front of the eyes); improperly dressed women were beaten. Girls’ schools were closed, and women were forbidden to work outside their homes.
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The Taliban religious police enforced the new rules and punished anyone found disobeying. They inflicted many of the punishments on the spot, usually ruthlessly, without offering the offender any sort of judicial hearing. The Taliban allowed public beatings and stonings, sometimes fatal, of women who violated the dress code or were escorted by men not related to them. Any person found not praying at the required times was imprisoned. The Taliban leaders ... mandated specific punishments for other types of crimes. They made murder, adultery, and drug dealing punishable by death, and theft punishable by amputation of the hand.
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The Taliban ended, for all practical purposes, education for girls. Since 1998, girls over the age of eight have been prohibited from attending school. Home schooling, while sometimes tolerated, was more often repressed. Last year, the Taliban jailed and then deported a female foreign aid worker who had promoted home-based work for women and home schools for girls. The Taliban prohibited women from studying at Kabul University.
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As they established their power the Taliban created a new form of Islamic radicalism that spread beyond the borders of Afghanistan, mostly to Pakistan. By 1998-1999 Taliban-style groups in the Pashtun belt, and to an extent in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, "were banning TV and videos .... and forcing people, particularly women to adapt to the Taliban dress code and way of life."[31]
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The Taliban continued to announce additional rules and laws, using Radio Kabul, and trucks equipped with loudspeakers. The Taliban made murder, adultery, and drug dealing punishable by death, and allowed stonings, some of which were fatal, of women escorted by men who were not related to them. Other rules enforced by the Taliban included the punishment of theft by amputation of the hand. Many of these laws alarmed human-rights groups and provoked worldwide condemnation. Even Iran censured the Taliban’s excesses in the name of Islam.
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