Social Culture of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The Taliban tried to establish a real Islamic country and adopted a series of Islamization measures to restore the traditional Islamic way of life. The government stipulates that citizens must wear traditional Islamic clothes, men must wear beards, women must wear veils when they go out, and they are not allowed to go out without male relatives. The Taliban exploited women's basic rights. Women can't go out to work and receive education, close girls' schools and Kabul University, and prohibit women from participating in sports competitions. The Taliban also set up religious police to supervise the implementation of Islamic law. In order to maintain the purity of Islam, cinemas and TV stations have been closed, and Internet use and western music have been banned. Laws are based on the Koran, such as stoning adulterers to death. Because about 70% of the teachers in Afghanistan are women, women's prohibition of work deprives many children of the opportunity to receive education, and Afghanistan has become one of the countries with the highest illiteracy rate. The contact between men and women is almost completely cut off in public places, and many female patients lose treatment opportunities because they are forbidden to contact male doctors. The Taliban brutally oppressed the Hazaras, a Shiite minority, demanding that they convert to Sunnis and not allow heresy to exist. After the Taliban captured Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998, they slaughtered about 6,000 Hazaras, causing many Hazaras to flee Afghanistan and go to Pakistan and Iran.

The Taliban's most extreme basic doctrinal measure is to eliminate Buddhism. On February 26th, 20001year, Omar ordered the destruction of the national non-Islamic statues. Located in Bamiyan province, the two Bamiyan giant buddhas, which are 37 meters and 55 meters high, are also doomed. Finally, 12 On March 26th, the giant Buddha was blown up by explosives.