Women In The Kite Runner

The world that we live in today is a horrible place. The whole western side of our little world is being overrun by the Taliban forces even Afghanistan. All we can do is sit back and watch as they take away women’s rights one by one. The Taliban have taken many of the Pashtun women’s rights, like their right to get an education or a job, and they have also become a easy target for the Taliban men to torture and abuse against their will. In the novel The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseni gives many examples on what it’s like to be a women living in Afghanistan during this time.
Starting from an early age around 8-10 years old females are not allowed to be in direct contact with males unless he is a blood relative, husband, or in-law. Any relative that a Muslim is not allowed to marry is mahram, if they are of the opposite sex and have reached puberty. A partial list of what is considered a mahram can be found in Surah 24, Ayah 31, of the Koran. In public, …show more content…
Civilians lived in fear of the horrible penalties that they would have to face if they broke a law because of the little mercy the Taliban’s had. In the Movie version of The Kite Runner the president of Kabul held a punishment at halftime of a sports game. He scheduled to have him and some of his Taliban soldiers stone this woman to death, which means they kept throwing stones and rocks at her till she died. It is against Taliban policy to punish a woman in the streets, so they tried to find an alternative for the females bad choices. The Taliban soldier’s either went after taximen or shopkeepers, if a taximan were to pick up a girl with her face uncovered or unaccompanied by a mahram then the taximan faced a jail sentence and the husband was to be punished for her actions. If a tailor was found taking measurements of a female then he too would face