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Taliban
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On their way there, they're stopped by the Taliban, who extort money from them by threatening to take Sonita away. The little girl realizes something for the first time. She is viewed as merchandise.
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― Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
― Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
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Talking to [him] that day, and [him] and the other Talibs, it seemed obvious enough that what lay at the foundation of the Taliban’s rule was fear, but not fear of the Taliban themselves, at least not in the beginning. No; it was fear of the past. Fear that the past would return, that it would come back in all its disaggregated fury. That the past would become the future. The beards, the burqas, the whips, the stones; anything, anything you want. Anything but the past
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― The Forever War
― The Forever War
