TALIBAN

The Taliban opposed all education except orthodox Muslim religious education.

This law is noteworthy for two reasons. First, women found it easier to wash clothes in the running streams rather than at home where most often there was no plumbing or running water. But the sight of women washing clothes was apparently so sexually stimulating to Afghan men, that the practice had to be stopped. While washing a bare arm or leg might be seen. However, in this case, the law had the husbands punished (usually beaten) so that they would exercise more control over their wives.

The Chinese were lovers of kite flying and this sport spread throughout Asia and became a favorite in Afghanistan. However, it was never mentioned in the Koran, and therefore to the Taliban was not desired by God. This ultra fundamentalism not only prohibits what the Prophet forbade, but also forbids that which he did not mention.

To examine the earlier theological history of the Muslim fundamentalist prohibition against music, see {620334}. What is fascinating is that fundamentalist Muslims differ profoundly on the propriety of music in Islamic society. For example, in Egypt, the largest Middle Eastern Islamic nation, music is not only allowed but has a thriving musical world that generates much music which is enjoyed by Egyptians but others of the Muslim and non-Muslim world. Even in fundamentalist Saudi Arabia and the Theocracy of Iran there is music and a culture of music. Even fundamentalist Islam is not monolithic.

The OId Testament prohibited Jews from shaving which is why Orthodox Jewish men today wear full beards. Mohammad ordered his followers to keep this commandment of God’s and to the Orthodox Muslim, shaving is wrong. However, the Orthodox Jews do not make a law that every male must not shave…though it is not clear what they might do if they controlled a Jewish theocracy. The Orthodox Jews are the minority in Israel and shaving is not illegal. It is not illegal in most Muslim nations today either.

To examine the earlier theological history of the Muslim fundamentalist prohibition against music, see {620334}. What is fascinating is that fundamentalist Muslims differ profoundly on the propriety of music in Islamic society. For example, in Egypt, the largest Middle Eastern Islamic nation, music is not only allowed but has a thriving musical world that generates much music which is enjoyed by Egyptians but others of the Muslim and non-Muslim world. Even in fundamentalist Saudi Arabia and the Theocracy of Iran there is music and a culture of music. Even fundamentalist Islam is not monolithic.

This law is noteworthy for two reasons. First, women found it easier to wash clothes in the running streams rather than at home where most often there was no plumbing or running water. But the sight of women washing clothes was apparently so sexually stimulating to Afghan men, that the practice had to be stopped. While washing a bare arm or leg might be seen. However, in this case, the law had the husbands punished (usually beaten) so that they would exercise more control over their wives.

The Chinese were lovers of kite flying and this sport spread throughout Asia and became a favorite in Afghanistan. However, it was never mentioned in the Koran, and therefore to the Taliban was not desired by God. This ultra fundamentalism not only prohibits what the Prophet forbade, but also forbids that which he did not mention.

The OId Testament prohibited Jews from shaving which is why Orthodox Jewish men today wear full beards. Mohammad ordered his followers to keep this commandment of God’s and to the Orthodox Muslim, shaving is wrong. However, the Orthodox Jews do not make a law that every male must not shave…though it is not clear what they might do if they controlled a Jewish theocracy. The Orthodox Jews are the minority in Israel and shaving is not illegal. It is not illegal in most Muslim nations today either.

The Taliban opposed all education except orthodox Muslim religious education.