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Hi Melantha, and everyone.
I've never been to Afghanistan, although I've heard of hippies travelling there in the 60s and 70s so there must have been some appeal to the alternative minded people. A question is, why did the Taliban come along and swing the country to the right? There were a lot of external threats such as the Soviet invasion, and external threats usually make people band together and unite for protection.
Other Muslim countries had changes in the period too. Iran had its revolution with the Ayatollah, Egypt went from socialist to conservative. Perhaps reactions to the Cold War, and the Israel-Palestine situation. After all, Islam was a big powerful empire up to WW1, and the loss of that power must have hit some people hard.
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