georgephillip
Diamond Member
Stop talking nonsense you fucking degenerate, they were just protecting the Northern Alliance from Pashtun invaders and genocide.
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"The roots of the Taliban movement started in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
"The Soviets were there to prop up a communist Afghan government that was supported by a minority of mostly urban residents.
"But the vast majority of Afghans lived in rural areas, where authority came from tribal and ethnic groups, and life revolved around conservative practices of Islam.
"Rural Afghans formed militias called mujahideen and drove out the Soviets.
"But then they fell into a civil war with each other.
"Out of that chaos emerged a group of Islamic teachers and students called the Taliban.
"They swept through the country, destroying mujahideen groups and imposing strict order.
"In 1996, the Taliban took the capital city of Kabul, and they ruled Afghanistan until 2001, when the US invaded."
The Taliban, explained