Is the Taliban/Islamic Leadership in general against modern day technology and scient

It is my understanding that the Islamic Leadership that follows the Qur'an encourage technology and science because 1) Recent scientific discoveries are sometimes found to have been mentioned in the Qur'an (so exciting!) and 2) We are supposed to educate ourselves and always strive to be better. Technology and science permit this.
The Taliban, on the other hand, which I do not associate with Islamic Leadership at all, have had a reputation of attempting to close down school, and keep women from attending. This is to keep the populations uneducated, so I don't think scientific or technological advancements are important to them.
 
Is anyone here a expert on Afghanistan and Technology I know Afghanistan has many Tribes and has been attacked many times by the British the Soviets and the Americans is this correct speaking for myself I don't know much about the Taliban but would like to know why they banned tv radios or computers I do think Technology can be bad but I think Technology can be good if not for Computers I would know nothing about Islam ?
Television.
Taliban regime ban TV, but might be that because TV is considered as stuffs that unnecessary. Different than Salafi, Taliban do/did not forbid photos of human, even they do/did not forbid videos.

Radio.
It's not true if Taliban regime ban radios. They had one or might be several radio stations, but all programs in their radio(s) were Qur'an recitation only.

Computer.
I don't know why Taliban regime ban computer and internet for people. But from some reliable sources, I heard Mulah Omar had computer and internet connection in his room as his 'link to outer world'


Basically Taliban do/did not forbid technologies. Their fighters use modern weapon but they never wear military uniform like soldiers in other places because military uniform like this is considered haram by Taliban.
 
The Taliban, on the other hand, which I do not associate with Islamic Leadership at all, have had a reputation of attempting to close down school, and keep women from attending. This is to keep the populations uneducated, so I don't think scientific or technological advancements are important to them.

Your statement is exactly how the mainstream western media want to portray the Taliban as being some blood thirsty backward animals, however the reality is very different indeed. There is no doubt that the Taliban use the latest technology.

Those in the media are very good at manipulating the wider population to believe whatever they want them to believe.

Therefore we should never believe everything that comes out of the media before doing proper research for ourselves in order to assertain the "facts" particularly when it comes to Islam and Muslims.

The truth is that the Taliban are pro education and are NOTHING like how the media portrays them to be.

Watch this short clip confirming the Taliban are nothing like how the media portray them to be and are actually pro education:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_F29PxYTck&feature=player_embedded#at=402


The media is full of dirty tricks and lies. Just look at the latest huge case in the UK where the media run by Rupert Murdoch were known to have hacked the phones of dead soldiers families as well as hacking into a dead 13 year old girls phone messages. Ruperts finally been caught out.

There is NO doubt who the real terrorists are. The media is their biggest weapon.

And Allah knows best in all matters
 
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It is my understanding that the Islamic Leadership that follows the Qur'an encourage technology and science because 1) Recent scientific discoveries are sometimes found to have been mentioned in the Qur'an (so exciting!) and 2) We are supposed to educate ourselves and always strive to be better. Technology and science permit this.
The Taliban, on the other hand, which I do not associate with Islamic Leadership at all, have had a reputation of attempting to close down school, and keep women from attending. This is to keep the populations uneducated, so I don't think scientific or technological advancements are important to them.


you believe what these BBC CNN and mainstream western media lunatics ???
 
Hm... interesting. Yes, the media can be quiet awful in their portrayals. But I do not believe that all in the Taliban are good. Read Three Cups of Tea. Several of the schools that have been built were destroyed by Taliban. Perhaps they are not the main Taliban? A rouge group?
But Osama Bin Laden who was one of the Taliban leaders was an evil man who believed in killing and some of his people forced women to cover up and stay indoors. When I say cover up, I mean at least a hijab. That should be a choice between a woman and God. Maybe some of the Taliban push for education, but there are also those who have pushed against it.
 
The Taliban, on the other hand, which I do not associate with Islamic Leadership at all, have had a reputation of attempting to close down school, and keep women from attending. This is to keep the populations uneducated, so I don't think scientific or technological advancements are important to them.

I would refrain from speaking without knowledge. Where did you get the information that the afghani taliban closed down schools to keep the population uneducated?
 
^ I cited above the book "Three Cups of Tea" written by a journalist who worked with a group trying to open schools, who had come into contact with the Taliban. Please do not imply that I do not have knowledge.

The other more respectful comments sparked my interest though. I will do some more research into the Taliban and see if there is separation between the violent group and the main group. I will also look into the different ideologies of the leaders and a variety of news sources. Thanks guys :) I think I found my next "misunderstood" group to do an article on.
 
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But Osama Bin Laden who was one of the Taliban leaders was an evil man who believed in killing and some of his people forced women to cover up and stay indoors.

He was an Al-Qaeda leader. As far as I know the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are allies but separate groups.
 
Hm... interesting. Yes, the media can be quiet awful in their portrayals. But I do not believe that all in the Taliban are good. Read Three Cups of Tea. Several of the schools that have been built were destroyed by Taliban. Perhaps they are not the main Taliban? A rouge group?
But Osama Bin Laden who was one of the Taliban leaders was an evil man who believed in killing and some of his people forced women to cover up and stay indoors. When I say cover up, I mean at least a hijab. That should be a choice between a woman and God. Maybe some of the Taliban push for education, but there are also those who have pushed against it.

Asalaamu Alaikum, sis theres good and bad everywhere. There will never be 100% of any group being "perfect" as there is no such thing. What one has to look at are a groups values, morals and what they stand for.

There is no doubt that the Taliban are just a group of normal Muslims who have been put into the situation of having to defend their land time and time again by various regimes wanting to capture Afghanistan for its "strategic location". Look into the history for yourself as history always reveals all.

History also confirms how the US actually equipped the Taliban themselves to destroy the Soviets and then turned against them when it suited them. The US also equipped Sadam to gas the Kurds as well as starting a war with Iran.

If you want to know who Osama really was then will you let secular journalists give you an accurate picture? There is NO doubt that Osama confirmed he had nothing to do with those attacks but those wanting to achieve their agenda needed to link him to it in order to attack Afghanistan because of its "strategic location":

Osama confirms he had nothing to do with the attacks of 911

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/

How many times was it proven that most of those videos of Osama were fake and done by computer as well as the one where he was "supposedly" watching TV in his room in Pakistan.

They did not hesitate in showing Saddams capture and execution but when asked to provide evidence of Osama's capture and execution they make lame excuses not to do so simply because this event never happened.

One thing we have to realise is that nothing is what it seems on the surface but to get to the truth you have to look beneath the surface. We all want to live in an ideal world but there is no such thing.

There are many out there with many hidden agendas and they will stop at nothing in order to achieve their agendas. The Muslims are on such group who are certainly in the way of those people achieving their agendas.

They may plot and plan but Allah is the best of all planners.
 
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^ I cited above the book "Three Cups of Tea" written by a journalist who worked with a group trying to open schools, who had come into contact with the Taliban. Please do not imply that I do not have knowledge.

I think the author was accused of lying about many of the incidences that took place in the book. There was a segment on it on 60 minutes. This is not to say that there are no bad people in the Taliban.
Salam
 
Hm... interesting. Yes, the media can be quiet awful in their portrayals. But I do not believe that all in the Taliban are good. Read Three Cups of Tea. Several of the schools that have been built were destroyed by Taliban. Perhaps they are not the main Taliban? A rouge group?
But Osama Bin Laden who was one of the Taliban leaders was an evil man who believed in killing and some of his people forced women to cover up and stay indoors. When I say cover up, I mean at least a hijab. That should be a choice between a woman and God. Maybe some of the Taliban push for education, but there are also those who have pushed against it.

:) I laughed so hard after reading this post, sorry couldn't help. If this is what the media is projecting about taliban and alqaeda, mixing the two up and making all these people sound like some cruel blood thirsty war mongers, I am truly astounded.

Does anyone know what taliban means? Ok I'll just give a small back ground. Taliban means "students" and there were some nice group of students who started a movement for the spread of knowledge of Islam in Afghanistan since it was ruled by the brutal un-islamic but afghan war lords( who had little to do with religion and were very corrupt people). As long as the War lords assumed control of Afghanistan, the west was pretty fine with them, even though they were the most In-human barbaric people of that region, but they had power. Power how? Power= drug fields= big world market for narcotics, US included, everyone was happy.

Taliban came and destroyed the drug fields, the Narcotics business was at stake ( its multi billionaire plus plus) and didn't want to settle for any deals with the Us for drugs. All hell broke loose, everyone knows what happened. Now, Drug fields born , flourishing again, taliban been side-lined and portrayed as the terror symbols which in fact they are not, but uncle sam needs them to be, to push their agenda back home and all over the world to maintain their hold on the region. Taliban openly announces that it wants to engage in peaceful deals with the US, The Us stages a drama of mis-trust, because they don't want a deal, they don't want to go, and they wont publicize a word of it in their media, but we know whats happening. Afghan innocent people and children are dying, for a war they didn't know who started and why.

The taliban supporters are growing everyday and about half of Afghanistan is still under their control, you cant force people to support a movement that they have seen ,and means well for them, and sincerely works for them.

And Americans think that taliban are the most brutal people on this planet and must need to get rid of.

AlQ? Are you talking about the puppet organization made by CIA themselves? taliban and Alq are not allies, taliban openly declare they have nothing to do with them, why? because Alq has suspicious motives which always seem to kill more muslims every other day than anyone else. Everybody knows US supports Alq in Iran, Middle East and Afghanistan, if all common people know that, then everybody knows that.

Do you know that 95% of the people who have died all over the world, supposedly because of ALQ, are all Muslims? Then what the hell are these Americans so scared of? There is one thing though they should be suspicious of and that is their govt. and its motives, which is completely controlled by Zionists, sorry but thats the truth. I wish I could prove it you, but I wont have to, you will see it for yourself one day, all truth comes out one day, you can only keep a secret for so long, just keep your eyes open. If you'd read the end of times hadiths, you'll understand.

peace.
 
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And for the record, Its not taliban who are against the schools, its the nothern Alliance called the Drug/war lords, they have made a fortune by selling drugs, and the whole world wants business with them, its them who blow up schools, because they don't want children to get education, because if people get education they will know the difference between right and wrong, and hence they wont be easily brain washed as they always were. Taliban have always condemned all such destructions, and the western media cleverly names taliban as the perpetrators.

You probably haven't heard Yvonne Ridley's videos , the ex-bbc correspondent ( who hated muslims, was a feminist), who specifically went to afghanistan to get a juicy story out for the western media Against the taliban, and Alhamdulilah embraced Islam on her way back, even though she was captured by them .(sadly she was dropped from bbc as she had embraced Islam, a huge disappointment for the bbc, just google her lectures and interviews)

Taliban is in full support of schools, hospitals, modern facilities, universities, everything, and on the principles of Islam. Don't believe what they write and propagate about them. They could have had a few mice in between them, but they've long been taken care of. And yes, taliban may not treat unjust cruel people very well, who have sat on people's properties, raped women for long without being questioned, and enjoyed being corrupt , barbaric and un-islamic for the longest time.
 
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Also sister, you probably have very little idea what life is like in this part of the world, Afghanistan is a very poor country, along with most of pakistan. Women couldn't stay indoors even if they wanted to, they have to work to make both ends meet, whether they are the farmer's wives or the milk man's or the business man's. And if they are at home, they choose to stay home. There could be cases where men wouldn't allow it, but that is because they know that the women don't want to work either or don't need to. There are some unfortunate mishaps regarding women, but they are in very far flung areas where there is no reach of education or any civic amenities. And why things are like that, because we have corrupt puppet regimes controlled by the Us, there is no implementation of islamic laws in these countries, 'cause the west wont let it be.( not really blaming the west, it is very much the wish of our corrupt regimes too)

They've recently started the shariah' scare in US so that people become so scared of Islam, nobody can even think of coming near it. Just think, why so much opposition and propaganda, about one of the poorest religion of the world? what possibly can a poor country like Afghanistan or Pakistan do to harm the G 8 or G 20 countries for instance? when their economy is entirely dependent on other countries.

And I don't understand how people in the west talk about freedom of women when our women have more freedom than any standard. Just because they choose to cover up doesn't diminish their freedom or self respect, an islamic society does not accept showing of skin/beauty as empowerment. Empowerment is when women have their rights and are not sexually objectified. I am not blaming the western women, but they just have no idea what the culture is like here in this part of the world.
 
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Salaam,

@ SFatima

You mentioned a lot in your last 3 posts. Can you present the evidence for it? I would find it useful, especially for the first response to sister Starrynight.
 
Asalaamu Alaikum, sis theres good and bad everywhere. There will never be 100% of any group being "perfect" as there is no such thing. What one has to look at are a groups values, morals and what they stand for.

There is no doubt that the Taliban are just a group of normal Muslims who have been put into the situation of having to defend their land time and time again by various regimes wanting to capture Afghanistan for its "strategic location". Look into the history for yourself as history always reveals all.

History also confirms how the US actually equipped the Taliban themselves to destroy the Soviets and then turned against them when it suited them. The US also equipped Sadam to gas the Kurds as well as starting a war with Iran.

If you want to know who Osama really was then will you let secular journalists give you an accurate picture? There is NO doubt that Osama confirmed he had nothing to do with those attacks but those wanting to achieve their agenda needed to link him to it in order to attack Afghanistan because of its "strategic location":

Osama confirms he had nothing to do with the attacks of 911

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/

How many times was it proven that most of those videos of Osama were fake and done by computer as well as the one where he was "supposedly" watching TV in his room in Pakistan.

They did not hesitate in showing Saddams capture and execution but when asked to provide evidence of Osama's capture and execution they make lame excuses not to do so simply because this event never happened.

One thing we have to realise is that nothing is what it seems on the surface but to get to the truth you have to look beneath the surface. We all want to live in an ideal world but there is no such thing.

There are many out there with many hidden agendas and they will stop at nothing in order to achieve their agendas. The Muslims are on such group who are certainly in the way of those people achieving their agendas.

They may plot and plan but Allah is the best of all planners.

I found your comment very helpful to my understanding the topic further and from a new perspective. Thank you!
 
Can technology that the Taliban banned if they did such as tvs vcrs computers radios and the internet also be used to track people during War or any other time I know Afghanistan has been attacked by the British the Soviets and the Americans ?
 
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Speaking for myself I think the Taliban banning technology can be a good thing since technology can be used to track people during war or not during war ?
 
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