What is the Taliban?

Answer 1

The Taliban ("Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement") ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. Although they managed to hold 90% of the country's territory, their policies—including their treatment of women and support of terrorists—ostracized them from the world community. The Taliban was ousted from power in December 2001 by the U.S. military and Afghani opposition forces in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the U.S.
In the context of Afghan history, the rise of the Taliban—though not their extremism—is unsurprising. Afghanistan is a devoutly Muslim nation—90% of its population are Sunni Muslims (other Afghan Muslims are Sufis or Shiites). Religious schools were established in Afghanistan after Islam arrived in the seventh century and taliban became an important part of the social fabric: running schools, mosques, shrines, and various religious and social services, and serving as mujahideen when necessary.
The Deobandi tradition originated as a reform movement in British India with the aim of rejuvenating Islamic society in a colonial state, and remained prevalent in Pakistan after the partition from India. The Deobandi schools in Afghan refugee camps, however, are often run by inexperienced and semi-literate mullahs. In addition, funds and scholarships provided by Saudi Arabia during the occupation brought the schools' curricula closer to the conservative Wahhabi tradition. Ties between the Taliban and these schools remain strong: when the Taliban were defeated in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif one of Pakistan's largest religious schools shut down for a month and sent thousands of students to Afghanistan as reinforcements.

While the Taliban present themselves as a reform movement, they have been criticized by Islamic scholars as being poorly educated in Islamic law and history—even in Islamic radicalism, which has a long history of scholarly writing and debate. Their implementation of Islamic law seems to be a combination of Wahhabi orthodoxy (i.e., banning of musical instruments) and tribal custom (i.e., the all-covering birka made mandatory for all Afghan women).

Answer 2

Taliban is a group, which hold certain specific extremist values, taken out of context from Islam, they operate in Afganisthan, where they have many admirers, their ways are utterly non-practical which causes more harm to the society, than good.

Answer 3

My Mom, and her strict ways.

Nah... They are really a group of people in Afghanistan that own weapons and claim to do things in the name of Islam, but they are lying because their funding comes mostly from opium fields, which is illegal under Islam. So, they are really just a band of weapon-carrying men with nothing to do but hurt people and use religion as an excuse.

Answer 4

Taliban is a group of people indoctrinated in Madrassas in Pakistan at the behest of USA to counter the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Answer 5

Another bunch of Muslim terrorists

Answer 6

a U.S funded terorist group, funded during the soviet war