How can the Taliban claim they are Islamic when they ignore the teachings?

Question

What do you say? How can they call themselves this when their actions go against Islam?

In the Prophet's time and indeed in moderate forward thinking Muslim countries today, women are respected and honored. To turn a sick woman out of her hospital bed is against all the teachings of Islam, which again and again requires believers to show compassion to those who are sick in any way. Mothers particularly are revered In Islam. The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w) said that paradise lies at the feet of mothers, and upon being asked by a new male Muslim to whom he should show respect, the Prophet replied: "First your mother, second your mother, third your mother, and fourth your father." Where is that respect now in Afghanistan and elsewhere?

In September 1996, the Taliban took control of Kabul and a large portion of Afghanistan.

They immediately sent women back to their homes, closed all educational establishments for women, banned them from working, ejected them (old, sick and infirm) from hospitals, and forced them to be covered from head to foot when outside the home. At any moment, if not already in place, women will also need the written consent of the nearest male relative to travel anywhere. This revolution has the stamp of those other repressive regimes all over it - Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria. It is what ... the Muslim Brotherhood, and all other organizations of a like nature want - the complete subjugation of women and the complete denial not only of their human rights, but their rights as women of Islam given to them by the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w) 1400 years ago.

Answer 1

Yes your opinion is right.Taliban can not claim themselves muslims if they ignore its islamic teaching.Islamic teaching should be studied and understanded by its followers and practise it in their everyday of lives.Holy Qur'an and hadith is our life guidance given by God.In the Qur'an women especially mothers should be respected and honoured more than men or fathers.The sick women can not be got out from the hospital before they are cured.It is against the human rights too.Without women ,all men will perish at last.Without women this world will be lonely..Withou women the men will have no children.God spoke that women for men and men for women and they should love and help each other.Men should protect women.,because physically men are stronger.

Answer 2

How I understand the Taliban to be is that they're completely against the American way. They see the when women become educated, it has led to the Feminist movement, then to women working, to then potentially earning more than men, women gaining a voice about when they chose to be married, etc...
The Taliban sees this lifestyle as promoting decadence in our American society.

I'm not Muslim, but this is how I'm observing their reasoning for being so terrorizing on their own female Muslim members.

I could be wrong, but I know they hate America and every social aspect that goes with it, including equal rights for women.

Answer 3

Who is to say which teaching they should follow? Who is to say you are right and they are wrong? Who is to say how a religious text that makes no consistent sense should be interpreted?

Thats the problem with religion - without an objective basis for reason it leads people to do all sorts of dreadful things. The Taliban are not the only ones who have fallen foul of it. There were centuries of Crusades. Christian holy wars. In fact, almost no religion is free of crimes against humanity committed as a direct result of its teaching.

The issue is that religion is the direct cause of this evil. Its in group/out group teaching and absolutist dogma is calculated to lead to bad behviour. And it always does.

Islam is like all relgions - at its heart it is what we would call evil. We should expect no different.

Answer 4

Taliban.....yeah...

I can't really answer this, I know far too less about Islam to claim actual knowledge.

However, I do know many Muslims. And I see far too many times that an entire group of Muslims feels the need to defend themselves and excuse themselves for being Muslim. Simply because a stupid little minority like Taliban, al Qaida, etc, gives it a bad name.

That makes me angry!

I wish you wouldn't have to. It's so sad.

Answer 5

They might be, and I belive so, to be one of the other 72 groups of Muslims that the Holy Messenger said will end up in hell (before heaven?) as they have digressed from the way of the Holy Messenger, ie Ahl Sunnah wal Jamaah.

Know your Ahl Sunnah wal Jamaah Aqidah from the link below.

Answer 6

terrorizing is the American way of living.

Look at what the American doing in Iraq and in Afghanistan and in Sudan and in Vietnam and in Japan and in Korean and Hiroshima bombing I think you remember it don’t you?
is that what Jesus told them to do? that is what they say any way war for Jesus.

They kill more then hull world compound mascaras.
And they still call other people who defend their country a terrier the terriers in my eye is just killing children and women and older people, that is what you call a terries and the Americans doing a good job doing it in the beast way it could be done. Killing is a holy thing for the Americans.

Answer 7

They are definitely Islamic, they were trying to cut the roots of westernisation and reshape the environment of respecting Muslim women in purely Islamic way,
If someone acting in wrong way ( against the teachings of Islam), and if his/her intention is not wrong, it's OK.

Answer 8

Same things happen in Christianity and other religions, too. Satan decieves and makes "believers" blind to the truths of their religions.

Answer 9

they arent , they just use god to cast fear on their people and then use these people who are now in their side to think the other people are evil and to appease god they have to kill.

it's sad when people always use God to their advantage.

and btw , i guess they supress woman becos they dun wan their ego to be bruised , heck they dun even wan to ask for directions when lost =P

Answer 10

They are violent zealots, if you don't believe in their religion....you die....they're maniacs.