I feel the atmosphere of Islamophobia on several definition of the word Taliban on google search result. specially this one : The Taliban is a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Taliban
1. The Taliban (/ˈtælɪbæn, ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn/; Pashto: طالبان, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students' or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by the name of its state, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,[82][83][a] is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, and jihadist political movement in Afghanistan.[86][5][7] It ruled approximately three-quarters of the country from 1996–2001, before being overthrown following the United States invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
2. The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001. The movement’s founding nucleus—the word “Taliban” is Pashto for “students”—was composed of peasant farmers and men studying Islam in Afghan and Pakistani madrasas, or religious schools. The Taliban found a foothold and consolidated their strength in southern Afghanistan.
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/afghan_taliban.html
3. The Taliban is a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s.
The word Taliban comes from tālib, "student" in Arabic, as the group was started by Pakistani religious school students in the mid-1990s. The Taliban has been condemned around the world for the support it's given to terrorist groups and the brutality with which it's treated many people, particularly Muslim women. Over its brief existence, the Taliban has denied food aid to starving people, massacred Afghan citizens, and run human trafficking operations, among many other atrocities.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Taliban
4. Definition of Taliban: a fundamentalist Islamic militia in Afghanistan
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Taliban
5. The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, two decades after being removed from power by a US-led military coalition.
The hardline Islamist group advanced rapidly across the country, seizing province after province before taking the capital Kabul on 15 August last year, as the Afghan military collapsed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718
6. Taliban, Pashto Ṭālebān (“Students”), also spelled Taleban, ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order. It began as a small force of Afghan religious students and scholars seeking to confront crime and corruption; the faction owes its name, Taliban (Pashto: Ṭālebān, “Students”), to this initial membership.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Taliban
7. The Taliban in Afghanistan
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan
8. Are the Taliban ideologues?
Most of the Afghan people are illiterate. They don’t have political education as we understand it. So they are not, in the modern sense of the term, “ideologues,” but they do have values. Traditional Pashtun values include protecting the honor of women, dressing modestly, and other conservative Muslim customs.
Many westerners interpret the Taliban’s lack of sophisticated ideological discourse as a lack of commitment. The fighters are basically farmers. Most of them are very young. Their world view is not very complex, but they certainly have one. It is a narrative of morality, justice, religion, and freedom from foreign forces. These values resonate deeply. The Pashtuns may be inarticulate in explaining it, but their way of life is still very much there.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2009/10/22/who-are-taliban-pub-24029
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