Scoobes on 17 August 2014
| siddhartha87 said: Lets be clear here, the Taliban are a Islamist Fundamentalist student movement which was created in Pakistan and exported to Afghanistan, they took power during vacuum created by Islamist fighters after they deposed the socialist government (in the most brutal fashion). As despicable as the Taliban are, they were not NOT responsible for 9/11. Taliban and Al Qaida are not the same. They were responsible for harboring al qaida on their soil though. However I am convinced that the US intervention and deposition of the taliban was a positive thing. I am providing my perspective as an Indian and on the basis of views of Afghan students I met during university and by interacting with afghan refugees. 1. The taliban were brutal regime, they completely subjugated women, there were many cases of women being stoned to death in football stadium. Situation of men was only slightly better. 2. No TV, Radio, Music etc was allowed as it was deemed sinful. 3. Only religious education was permitted. 4. They attempted to ban western medicine especially vaccination. 5. No rights and no rule of law. 6. Destruction of cultural artifacts. (Including the shocking destruction of the "Bamiyan Buddhas") 7. Unprecedented repression of minorities It was hell on earth, absolute. The US was responsible was responsible for creating by arming Islamists (as they are doing in Syria and now we have ISIS) against the socialist government. People in the west can not imagine the poverty, desperation and squalor in third world countries and Taliban Afghanistan was the very worst. You guys have one attack in a decade, in countries in South Asia especially Pakistan there is an attack every week. Religion has been the bane of my region :( and trust me when i tell you that all these zealots must be done away with. |
Good and informative post, thanks.
I wonder how many people knew quite how brutal Afghanistan was (and how other countries in the region currently are).
