Kite Runner Argumentative Essay

Lastly, the most predominant issue that emerged from the Taliban Regime controlling Afghanistan, would be the issue of religion. Before the Taliban, people stomached secular individuals and didn’t persecute them for not being as religious. An example of this from the book would be Baba. He was a very well-known Afghan because of his royal elite background, however, he was not religious. No harm came to Baba or Amir because they were not religious. The individuals who were religious, they were not extreme about it. They read from the Quran during weddings and funerals. It was not used to justify harming or killing an individual. However, after the Taliban took over, the militant group used the Quran to back up their extreme version of Sharia, or punishment. There was not a separation of church and state. Every awful act they performed, they proclaimed that it was because of the word of God and loved to punish people at every opportunity. In the Kite Runner, when Amir arrived to Afghanistan, as Farid …show more content…
An example of this would be Rahim Khan, Baba's best friend and business partner who guiding Amir in Afghanistan, explained that he was injured during a soccer game because a Taliban official mistaken him for a fan that was cheering too loudly and he got struck in the head with a butt of a gun. Also, during that soccer game, at halftime, the Taliban executed two individuals because they were adulterers. During the whole ordeal, the Taliban official performing the cruelty, was screaming how this is God's will and they deserved to be punished. Another example of a random act of violence would be the death of Hassan. A Taliban official did not believe that he lived in Baba's old house by himself because the house was too nice for a Hazara. Hassan got into an argument with the official, and he was forced to kneel in the street and ended up getting shot in the