Taliban in Afghanistan

1)Afghanistan was once a place of relative peace. A place where one could do as they please and have the freedoms to be who they wanted to be. But a few years would change that all. Everything that the citizens of Afghanistan knew, their entire way of life would change. The cause? The Taliban. The Taliban are an extremist Muslim group from Afghanistan. The Taliban, who call themselves Jihad or “freedom fighters” are the most brutal extremist Muslims in the world. To understand the Taliban you must understand how they where able to gain control of Afghanistan ,there rule during the time period they controlled Afghanistan, and how they were overthrown by opposition groups.
2)During the 1980s Afghanistan was being over run by the Soviet Union. During this period the citizens of Afghanistan believed anyone would be better rulers then the foreign Soviet Union. This mind set is what allowed for the Taliban to take power. At the beginning of the Taliban take over ,and rule, the citizens of Afghanistan supported the Taliban. To the villagers ,who had not seen peace in over fourteen years, the Taliban where a group of organized Muslims who wanted to recreate Afghanistan to its former glory. Which is exactly what they had longed for. The citizens of the capital, Kabul, also had high hopes for the Taliban who they thought could rebuild the economy and create a centralized government (Stewart 30). The Taliban emerged as a united entity when they were asked by the Pakistan government to protect a trade route from Pakistan to Central Asia(“The Taliban”). The story of how they came about is rather vague, it is said that they heard about two mujahideen who had kidnapped two young girls and were repeatedly raping them. Once they heard about this, they found the mujahdeen and hung them and set the two young girls free (Stewart 28). This act would later be contradictory to their treatment of women. During 1994, the Taliban took control of 12 of 34 providences not under central