It’s hard to imagine that, in a civilized world, something as seemingly mundane and normal as taking a simple photograph would not only cause civil unrest, but become illegal. Well, that was exactly the case in Afghanistan, while under the rule of the Taliban.
From 1996 until 2001, Afghanistan was under the strict, disturbingly fundamentalist control of the Taliban, implementing Sharia law. Things ranging from the above mentioned criminalization of simple things like photographs to forcing women to not only wear a traditional burqa, but keeping them from being educated for much of their early youth, until allowing them to learn the Qur’an.Then came 2001. Out of a revolution came a fledgling free press, and not much else in the way of true progress. An area as dangerous as they come and still fraught with death, corruption and fundamentalism, Afghanistan was once one of the world’s vibrant locales, only...
From 1996 until 2001, Afghanistan was under the strict, disturbingly fundamentalist control of the Taliban, implementing Sharia law. Things ranging from the above mentioned criminalization of simple things like photographs to forcing women to not only wear a traditional burqa, but keeping them from being educated for much of their early youth, until allowing them to learn the Qur’an.Then came 2001. Out of a revolution came a fledgling free press, and not much else in the way of true progress. An area as dangerous as they come and still fraught with death, corruption and fundamentalism, Afghanistan was once one of the world’s vibrant locales, only...
- 11/6/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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