what extent is it true that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West? It is true to the large extent that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West due to US backing for Shah‚ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the support for the Mujahedeen. However‚ Western influence may not be the only factor as globalisation and the failure of modernization and secularization also play a part in the rise of religious fundamentalism. At that
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always been like. Before the conflict in the 1970s began‚ the future looked bright for Afghan women. They were given the right to vote in 1919‚ gender separation was abolished in the 1950s‚ and a new constitution promised more equality for women in the 1960s. Contrary to photographs the Western world sees of Afghan women dressed in burqas from head-to-toe‚ Horia Mosadiq‚ who was just a young girl when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979‚ recalls a very different life for women‚ "As a girl
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Khaled Hosseni‚ an Afghan author of The Kite Runner once wrote‚ “When I go to Afghanistan‚ I realize I’ve been spared‚ due to a random genetic lottery‚ by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.” The continuous wars for control over the government has caused sever damage in Afghanistan. Villages and homes have been destroyed as a result of the bombs and warfare‚ leaving the citizens powerless towards the Taliban invasion and rise to power
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Soviet Union policies towards the USA were aimed at relaxing the tensions between them (45) I disagree with this statement as I feel that most soviet policies were not to relax the tension between the USA and the USSR but it was to increase tension in order to achieve their goal to become and equal superpower with the USA or to become even stronger than the USA.I feel that Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex ideological‚ political‚ and economic factors
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could invite al Qaeda in to again hurt the United States. If America leaves Afghanistan without leaving a stable government a vicious cycle may start anew. In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Since the U.S. was going through the cold war we went to Afghanistan to help force the Soviets back. We eventually did and the Soviets left‚ but so did America. We left Afghanistan in shambles. They had no government and half the country was destroyed. This was why in 1991‚ the Taliban was able to swoop
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of ethnic Pashtuns from rural areas‚ while Parcham supported consisted mainly of citizens from the urban areas. The Parchams supported social-economic reforms in the country. According to Coll (Chapter 2) and the video showed in class‚ the 1979 Soviet Union military intervention in Afghanistan was a result of misperceptions
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today is China. They are going away from this type of government‚ but they are still rooted in this type of government. The USSR was a command economy as well‚ but going away from its roots is what might have lead to the fall. The government of the Soviets made all of the decisions when it
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those improvements were done‚ the percentage of the Muslims volunteer called the “Afghan-Arabs”‚ they still chose to travel and be part of the opposition. Even though they had the weapons that were more updated than the other country the other Muslims thought that it wouldn’t be enough to fight the Soviet. On the year of 1988‚ the Pakistan and Afghanistan were settled to leave its troops‚ because this is where the Soviet Union figured out that fighting them wouldn’t give them any benefits so they let
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was a diplomat in Afghan government at that time and his mother taught History in Kabul. However‚ after the Soviet Invasion‚ Khaled and his family moved to the United States in the 1980s. In the US‚ he completed high school and went on to get his Medical Degree. He started writing while working published his fist book in 2004‚ which was The Kite Runner. Summary: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a story about two women and their lives in Afghanistan during the invasion of the Soviet of Afghanistan and
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1900’s was extremely and still was bad. Women are equivalent to slaves‚ they are denied education‚ and they are finically independent‚ were they can’t make money of their own. Amongst being raised during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan‚ and the living in the poor treatment of women Juliaia Afghan serves as a gentle yet mighty defender for peace. Living with the trauma of being shot in the head at the age of14 Jumila knew that it was definitely a time were change is in need. Growing up in Afghanistan
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