Why did the Taliban Ban?

[Friend]

Pretty much everyone on this forum knows my stance on things.... so don't play the "You are siding with the Americans" and "American propaganda" card...

they haven't achieved much in short term.... let alone thinking long term.. 250 years is a long time...

Well, i think they were the best administrators and sincere people no doubt.
If you are talking about education, economy, making the infrastructure of the country, medical, laws etc etc, for that you have to have time especially for a new govt, new people, new system as system and people who has no friend around. Where no country wants to have business with, where there is pressure from everywhere and withing five years how can we expect from them wonders in a country where there is a civil war and the whole country was destroyed by the super powers of the world.

[JAMALUDEEN]

They banned electricity? say wha?

Yes...because electricity is used by satellites...computers...musical instruments...

[tor_khan]

Well, why do you want to dismantle them just because of this reason even if they were wrong. How much time did you give them to learn, rectify themselves.
Don't look at Afghan with the eyes of Americans of eruopeans sitting in america.
America took 250 years to come to this level. How much time have you or the world has given to taliban ?
Grow up

No society is perfect and if we are going to be honest, we need to remove any rose tinted spectacles.

America's social evolution has not been easy, and the country is by no means perfect, but at least Americans living there are allowed to say so. I take issue with the kind of authoritarianism that stems from ideologies like the Taliban if it means we choose to be blind to their faults and are silenced if we choose to speak up. Some of the items on that list of bans was bizarre. Imagine not being able to ask why.

If the Taliban (or other militant Salafis) were completely without fault they would have taken over many societies by now purely on the basis of argument and not violence. Where they are supported, they may well meet a local demand, but largely where they are resisted it is because of the freedom to think and to reason. This brings into question much of what might transpire should they come into power.

[Breshna]

Sahih Muslim Hadith 5612 Narrated by Buraydah ibn al-Hasib


Allah's Messenger (saws) said: 'He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand



with the flesh and blood of swine.'

[khushal]

No society is perfect and if we are going to be honest, we need to remove any rose tinted spectacles.

America's social evolution has not been easy, and the country is by no means perfect, but at least Americans living there are allowed to say so. I take issue with the kind of authoritarianism that stems from ideologies like the Taliban if it means we choose to be blind to their faults and are silenced if we choose to speak up. Some of the items on that list of bans was bizarre. Imagine not being able to ask why.

If the Taliban (or other militant Salafis) were completely without fault they would have taken over many societies by now purely on the basis of argument and not violence. Where they are supported, they may well meet a local demand, but largely where they are resisted it is because of the freedom to think and to reason. This brings into question much of what might transpire should they come into power.

but that is the thing, they did not encounter hardly any violence except in mazar and panjshir. On the flip side, one can say that of the current afghan government who is encountering much violence.

[khushal]

Satellite Dishes
cinematography,
musical equipment,
pool tables,
chess,
masks,
tapes,
computers,
VCRs,
television,
music,
nail polish,
firecrackers,
statues,
sewing catalogs,
pictures,
Christmas cards,
employment,
education,
sports for all women,
dancing,
clapping during sports events,
kite flying,
drawings,
paintings,
photographs,
dolls,
Electricity,
Gardens,
Grass,

Wow, some of this is extremely bizzare. Where is your source of your claims.
Most of the list had to do with regulation. They lacked infrastructure to regulate anything so they would completely ban it.

Kite flying was also banned in paksitan and india.
The internet is regulated in most of the world but I dont think there was any internet infrastructure in the whole country back in the 90's so how could something be banned if it did not exist.
Electricity, Gardens, Grass, come on that is made up.

[Pisho]

I think if you give a country the freedom it deserves then many great things will be the outcome of that.. Opression is not the answer to anything.. Now people have become such savages due to not being able to enjoy the things others take for granted.. I think i speak for many when i say that in afghanistan there has not been a political group or power that has succeded yet.. Everyone failed so far and i think we need change.. And im not saying that america is good or the taliban were good, they both failed in some way also.. I think we need our afghans to take matter in ther own hand and rebuit our country that we so dearly love..

[Karachi]

in my opinion only the bolded ones make sense banning (Islamically)

Satellite Dishes
cinematography,
musical equipment,
pool tables,
chess,
masks,
tapes,
computers,
VCRs,
television,
music,
nail polish,
firecrackers,
statues,
sewing catalogs,
pictures
Christmas cards,
employment,
education,
sports for all women,
dancing,
clapping during sports events,
kite flying,
drawings,
paintings,
photographs,
dolls,
Electricity,
Gardens,
Grass,

[Karachi]

^ did they want people to live in caves?

[randolph85]

they didn't ban all of those things but they did ban a good amount which i find funny to see die hard talib supporters defend here despite indulging in these same vices.

[JAMALUDEEN]

I'm surprised they didn't ban oxygen...

[Afghanistan2010]

Propaganda.

The banned Superman to fly...i guess.

[JAMALUDEEN]

oh please!..

[Afghanistan2010]

I know many things were banned but not all of these weird claims.

[JAMALUDEEN]

I know many things were banned but not all of these weird claims.

you can elaborate..