Burqas In The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini’s life was not the easiest, but it was not as hard as those who grew up in Afghanistan during the wars. Luckily for him, he left the country at eleven, two years before Afghanistan’s president was assassinated by communists. This moment in history is not the main focus of 1000 Splendid Suns, but it does shape the way the characters are presented. Once the communists were overthrown, extremists took over the government and shoved the religion down everyone’s throats. Women now had to wear burqas in public while men had to have their beard a certain length. People obviously tried to revolt against this religious state. Afghanistan is a perfect example about why church and state should remain separated. Although religion has the …show more content…
There are plenty of people who do so, yet this is quite hypocritical of them to do so. Within the LGBTQ+ argument, those who oppose it often eat shrimp and have mixed fabrics (polyester and cotton). Both are said to be a sin in the Bible, yet people still by clothing that are impure and eat plenty of shrimp. Some women choose not to wear the hijab while others wish to wear a burqa. It all depends on the person. Choosing not to wear a burqa does not make a woman any less of a believer than one who does. This is completely normal and okay. People cannot nitpick others because they do not completely follow a religion yet still consider themselves to be religious. This causes rifts in religion and eventually people go their own way to form a new section of the religion, like the Roman Catholics and the …show more content…
People are unwilling to admit that religion greatly oppresses women and those who are different. Africans were enslaved because white people from Europe and the United States of America believed that they held the Mark of Cain, whose ancestors were to be enslaved for eternity. Governments still try to control women’s bodies through abortion and the rights to reproduce. This is all because women’s bodies are still believed to belong to men. Religion gives people this thought process. The fact that women are fighting for their personal rights shows that religion is ingrained in the government. In the novel, Hosseini states, “The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hard-liner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari'a, strict Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning” (253). The fact that these women are oppressed by the government due to a book that people follow is astounding. A similar thing would happen in the United States if the citizens quit trying to separate church and state. If anything, the amount of science and research would go back as well because scientists do not go by what is right according to a book about a big, mystical figure in the