HOW ISLAM AND THE UNITED STATES CHANGED AFGHANISTAN? THESE IMAGES FROM AFGHANISTAN ARE FROM THE 1960s AND 70s. AFGHANISTAN WAS PART OF A LARGE BRITISH COLONY KNOWN AS 'HINDUSTAN'. IT'S A WELL KNOW FACT THAT THE BRITISH IMPOSED WESTERN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN ALL THEIR COLONIES. AFTER INDEPENDENCE, HINDUSTAN DIVIDED INTO SEVERAL COUNTRIES LIKE INDIA, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND BANGLADESH ALONG RELIGIOUS, RACIAL AND CULTURAL LINES. IN THE 1970s, THE SOVIET UNION INTERVENED IN AFGHANISTAN, INSTALLING A SOVIET PUPPET COMMUNIST REGIME. THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTED THE ANTI SOVIET RESISTANCE BASED ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AGAINST THE INFIDEL ATHEIST COMMUNISM. THE C.I.A. CREATED AN ARMY OF ARAB VOLUNTEERS CALLED 'MULLAHADEENS' HEADED BY OSAMA BIN LADEN. EVENTUALLY, THE SOVIET UNION WAS DEFEATED AND LEFT AFGHANISTAN. THE ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS FORCES TOOK OVER POWER. THERE WERE SOME UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS: THE UNITED STATES IS A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN POWER, NOT MUSLIM, SO THE U.S.A. WAS ALSO THE 'INFIDEL', THE ENEMY... THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE BECAME THE TALIBAN AND THE MULLAHADEENS BECAME AL-QAEDA. THE REST IS HISTORY.