The Taliban ruled the majority of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Normal citizens welcomed the Islamic militants in hopes that peace could be restored, instead a strict Sharia law was imposed on their subjects.
The burqa was draped over every woman and education was banned for any females over the age of eight. The Koran was the only book allowed them. Male doctors could not treat unchaperoned women. Public floggings were endemic and stonings almost a sport.
Under their guidance Afghanistan entered a period as dark as that of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the 2003 movie OSAMA captured the grim situation with its portrayal of a young girl forced to become a male to support her ailing mother. The 12 year-old girl has no name. She calls herself ‘Osama’ to get a job for a baker. Her cross-dressing is challenged by a homeless urchin, who extorts her for small change. The threat from the Taliban is ever-present and ‘Osama’ bad luck worsens when she is press-ganged into the forces she fears.
The director is a native Afghan and delves into the subject with an unblinking eye. There is no happy ending. ‘Osama’s femininity is betrayed and she ends up in the harem of a senior Taliban leader.
Films like this make a strong case for the fight against fanaticism.
That of the Taliban and also GW Bush and the Thailiban of Pattaya.
Naked girls forever.
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The Taliban ruled the majority of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Normal citizens welcomed the Islamic militants in hopes that peace could be restored, instead a strict Sharia law was imposed on their subjects.
The burqa was draped over every woman and education was banned for any females over the age of eight. The Koran was the only book allowed them. Male doctors could not treat unchaperoned women. Public floggings were endemic and stonings almost a sport.
Under their guidance Afghanistan entered a period as dark as that of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the 2003 movie OSAMA captured the grim situation with its portrayal of a young girl forced to become a male to support her ailing mother. The 12 year-old girl has no name. She calls herself ‘Osama’ to get a job for a baker. Her cross-dressing is challenged by a homeless urchin, who extorts her for small change. The threat from the Taliban is ever-present and ‘Osama’ bad luck worsens when she is press-ganged into the forces she fears.
The director is a native Afghan and delves into the subject with an unblinking eye. There is no happy ending. ‘Osama’s femininity is betrayed and she ends up in the harem of a senior Taliban leader.
Films like this make a strong case for the fight against fanaticism.
That of the Taliban and also GW Bush and the Thailiban of Pattaya.
Naked girls forever.
For a related subject click on this URL
http://www.mangozeen.com/osama-bin-laden-arrested-in-maine.htm” target=”_blank”>Text Display
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