US for support and they in fact are one of the Wests largest suppliers for oil. Osama bin Laden believed in the idea that an extreme for of Islam needed to be established and need to break off from the western world. His extreme views and actions got him kicked out of his native country where he then found a safe harbour with an Islamic fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan known as the Taliban. The Taliban movement was created in 1994 by a senior Islamic priest by the name of Mohammed Omar in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban movement emerged after years of civil war, as well as a war between the Afghans and Soviets. The war was fought mainly by mujahiden, or guerrilla fractions with assistance from other countries and governments the soviets finally withdrew, which left the Afghans to create a government of their own. The Taliban emerged out of one of these guerrilla fractions and promoted itself as a new force for peace and unity. Since the Afghan people had suffered through many years of war many supported the early efforts of the Taliban. After the Taliban seized control of the capital Kabul they created the Ministry for Ordering What is Right and Forbidding What is Wrong, to enforce its fundamentalist rules of behavior. Most of their rules have little to do with Islam itself, and are more influenced by ancient tribal beliefs. Their laws particularly affected women, who where ordered to cover themselves from head to toe in burkas (long, tentlike veils showing nothing but their eyes), they were forbidden to work outside the home, and publicly beaten if improperly dressed of escorted by males not of their own family. The Taliban also made murder, adultery and drug dealing punishable by death and theft punishable by cutting of the hand. Many of these laws have nothing to do with Islam and many Islamic countries do not recognise the Taliban as a form of government of religion. The Taliban have taken cleansing of the Islamic world to ...
