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did not need a revolution to take over Afghanistan. Members of the table and began preaching in mosques of their strict type of Sunni law Sharia law. the Taliban quickly gained support from local Muslims comma and this gave them a lot of power. The Afghani…

Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner is centered around the male’s role in Afghan society. There is an absence of input from woman, which reinforces the lack of women's rights. There may be very limited representation of women in the novel, however woman play a vital role to Hosseini’s novel. The role of women in the novel are to show women are shifting from their culture's traditions and creating a new social norm for themselves, fighting for equality and creating a balance within the…

Al Qaeda is a terror group with a deep religious ideology, which it uses to justify their actions. Al Qaeda has a Salafi-Jihadi ideology, a dogma that has found its beginnings with Jamal al Din al Afghani. Four main terms that formulate this ideology are Salifism, Jihad, Hijra, and Jahiliyya. Al Qaeda engages in what is called a lesser jihad, meaning creating a better community, expanding it or defending it through terror attacks or war. Greater Jihad includes betterment of the community and the…

and the results show how negative that is. “Once we got over there and started in, it immediately became apparent that they didn’t have the education, experience, or structure to even understand our concepts,” said Bassett, who was assigned to an Afghani military hospital in Kandahar. The nurses in Afghanistan have shown to have little grasp of basic nursing sciences such as biochemistry or anatomy. They might have learned how to do it and care out the task but they exceeded far beyond the…

The Kite Runner is an extraordinary novel where the author, Khaled Hosseini emphasizes that the most dominant theme throughout the story is betrayal and redemption. This book focuses on the childhood of an Afghani-American named Amir and the issues he undergoes that soon become the main plot of the story. Amir struggles to seek redemption after his betrayal of his childhood best friend, Hassan. Amir had huge cowardness after Hassan's rape, betrayed Hassan soon after the rape, and created one of…

The book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini describes life in Afghanistan. Hosseini Talks about how he grew up in Kabul. This book gives a complete background of the Afghani culture and History. There are two different setting in this book, one in Kabul and the other in US, and narrates the Kite runner through his voice. The author expresses a lot of his emotions in the book like fear, jealousy, lies, betrayal and loyalty. His writing is very simple which makes it a valuable and easy to read book.…

parts of the book when Amir returns to Afghanistan, he is seen driving through the streets of Kabul and was given the opportunity to see the extreme poverty and health issues that both children and adults had to face. It was so horrific that the Afghani people would sell their limbs for money just so they could feed all their children for about a week or so. One half of the Afghan population lives below the poverty line and their average annual income was a mere $360 dollars! Also, an outrageous…

factions, the Khalq faction headed by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin and the Parcham faction led by Babrak Karmal. The resistance to Taraki and Amin’s rule slowly unfolded as the deteriorating situation between the Soviet backed PDPA and their Afghani people reached the point of no return during the winter of 1978. By late 1978, however, a rebellion against the Taraki government’s policies started an Islamic extremist movement in eastern Afghanistan and quickly spread throughout…

he first read it, “ I was pummeled so many times by Suns, the wind knocked out of me so unexpectedly that at one point I had to shut the book to unclench my stomach...it is compelling on every level. The book interjects readers into the lives of Afghani women who are caught in the crossfire of the various ruling forces, first the Soviets and then the various ethnic factions, then the Taliban; that have strip-mined the country of its soul and its humanity. Thirty years of war have succeeded in…

This lack of financial income provides an economic outlet for differing roles in the drug trade. For instance, many Afghanis take part in the farming of poppies, which provide the seed to make heroine and other related drugs (University of Phoenix 2015). These “employment opportunities” define a major cause for a growing drug trade as an extremely profitable option to…