Reconstruction and Religious Freedom in the New Afghanistan
Neamat Nojumi Saturday, 1 March 2003
The collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in December, 2001 marked the end of one of the last despotic and dictatorial theocracies of our time. Women's rights activists, humanitarian organizations, and the U.S. government alike hailed the event as the beginning of a new era in Afghanistan. Religious freedom advocates were especially hopeful that, after five long, disastrous years of Islamist totalitarianism, a civil society of religious tolerance, equal treatment, and freedom of belief and conscience might be on the horizon for Afghanistan.
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