Sociological Infrastructure of Religious Fundamentalism in Afghanistan
AFGANİSTAN’DA DİNİ KÖKTENCİLİĞİN SOSYOLOJİK ALT YAPISI

Author : -Abdullah MOHAMMADİ
Number of pages : 44-69

Abstract

Afghanistan's current politcal, economic and social situaton is full of crisis, that has been the capital of Turkish-Islamic civilizaton. Lack of politcal stability in the country for forty years has seriously impaired both sub and upper structures of the country. Internatonal terrorist organizatons that have exploited the absence of politcal authority have transformed the country into a base. Currently, there is hardly a day in which no suicide atacks and explosions occur in Afghanistan. In the face of such a situaton, it is inevitable that the Afghans think about the future of their country in a pessimistc way. Every day dozens of families in the hope of a beter future are obliged to emigrate from Afghanistan to Europe or neighboring countries. Most of the poor and unemployed youngs living in the country are used by radical organizatons. Afghanistan has become the center of various religious fundamentalist groups. Afer the events of September 11, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have contnued their actvites withdrawing to the mountainous regions in the AfghanistanPakistan border line. Today, however, felds of actvity of these organizatons have spread to a wide range from the mountain to educatonal insttutons, to government agencies and to the army. It is known that these actvites are carried out under the name of non-governmental organizatons. The armament of Islamist movements in Afghanistan began with the occupaton of this country by the Soviets in 1979. The Islamist groups supported against the Russians were equipped with the fnance and arms of the West. Thousands of people went to Afghanistan for the purpose of jihad against the Russians from different regions of the Islamic world. Afer the Soviets’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, the jihadists, in queston, began to organize in organizatons such as al-Qaida and Taliban, in line of Salafyyah-Wahhabi, and around the issue of “Khilafat-e-Islami”. The aim of this study is to investgate the sociological background of the organisatons such as Taliban who are fundamentalists grouping around the Caliph and using the term “Islamic State” for the frst tme in Afghanistan, and the intellectual and theoretcal basics of fundamentalism movement, and the background of growth factors of such organizatons in Afghanistan.

Keywords

Afghanistan, Fundamentalism, the Taliban, Wahhabism, Salafiyya.

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