Fascism And YOU

The Taliban is a group of Sunni Islamic people who locally fight a guerrilla war against the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan. There have been many descriptions for the Taliban such as violent, sexist, a group of people who focus on restoring tradition to their people, and belligerent. Although they fit all of these meanings I wouldn’t go as far to say that they are a new form of fascist people. The Talibans main goal is to restore balance (tradition) in their society and by that they focus on the determination of Western Influence. Their way of doing that is a form of sexist, and intimidating acts. The one thing that keeps me from saying that the Taliban are fascist is their lack of government focus. Fascism focuses on control of people through the government while the Taliban focuses on controlling people through brute force. Their control of government can be called totalitarianism. Political authority has absolute control over individuals in their government or state. The reason the Taliban cannot be categorized as fascist is because their interest does not include a totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime.