The Taliban is a sect stemming from Islam, a very oppressive brutal sect to be sure.
Since it has its ideological roots in religion the people who are around it are weak to oppose or rethink its rules and laws of social conduct, particularity when the consequences can be brutal even to the punishment of death .
A little more information about this sect ......
The Taliban (/ˈtælɪbæn, ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn/; Pashto: طالبان, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students' or 'seekers')[51][52] or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA),[53] is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within the country.[54][55][56] Since 2016, the Taliban's leader has been Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.[57][58][59] In 2021, the Taliban was estimated to have 75,000 fighters.[60]
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three-quarters of Afghanistan, and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.[61] The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War[62] and largely consisted of students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who had been educated in traditional Islamic schools, and fought during the Soviet–Afghan War.[63][8][9][64] Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, sequestering power from the Mujahideen warlords. The totalitarian[65][66] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established in 1996 and the Afghan capital was transferred to Kandahar. It held control of most of the country until being overthrown after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 following the September 11 attacks. At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban's government was acknowledged by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group later regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the War in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have been condemned internationally for the harsh enforcement of their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, which has resulted in the brutal treatment of many Afghans.[67][68] During their rule from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160,000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth, burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes.[69][70][71][72][73][74] While the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, they banned activities and media including paintings,[75] photography,[76] and movies if they showed people or other living things,[77] and prohibited music using instruments.[78] The Taliban prevented women from attending school,[79] banned women from working jobs outside of healthcare (male doctors were prohibited from seeing women),[80] and required that women were accompanied by a male relative and wear a burqa at all times when in public.[81] If women broke certain rules, they were publicly whipped or executed.[82] Religious and ethnic minorities were heavily discriminated against during Taliban rule. According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 76% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, and 80% in 2011 and 2012.[83][84][85][86][87][88] The Taliban also engaged in cultural genocide, destroying numerous monuments including the famous 1500-year old Buddhas of Bamiyan.[89][90][91][92]