A Real Religion Religion in Afghanistan has a tremendous amount of history behind it, and some of that history has only happened recently. Islam is the number one religion in Afghanistan; in fact, 99% of people in the Afghanistan region are religious and not just any Islamic religion, and the remaining 1% belong to less practiced religions. Islam has two main types of subdivisions, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. Both practice Islam, but have totally different opinions on how to worship the Islamic god. Opinions so different that one of the religious subdivisions is considered a radical practice. Afghanistan is a real religion because people either follow the rules through and through, or they don't follow them at all. Religion in Afghanistan is not just a choice, but it is a way of life. For a certain period in Afghan history, it became an obligatory way of life. In Afghanistan, there are not many types of religious practices unlike countries like the United States. In Afghanistan there is one predominant religion and that is Islam. So, the dominant fact is that 99% of the country is Islamic; the remaining 1% are mainly Hindus or Sikhs (Samarin, 2013). The definition of Islam is “surrender”; People who practice the Islamic religion claim to “surrender” to the Will of God (Armstrong, 2000). The word is also extracted from the root “salaam”, which means peace. In Islam, they follow only one God and his name in Arabic is Allah. Another word to call someone who follows the Islamic faith is Muslim. The Arabic word “Muslim” means “one who submits to God”. Muslims and the Islamic religion have had a great impact on the economic, military and political history of most countries in the Middle East. It is said that "No... middle of paper... Mohammed left his legacy to continue through his son-in-law. The Taliban struck the country by imposing the Islamic religion on everyone, even those who did not follow it. If anyone did not followed, the Taliban would go to extremes and kill non-Islamic followers. Works Cited Armstrong, Karen. A Brief History, 2000. PrintBanuazizi, Ali, and Myron Weiner : Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1986. Print"Islam" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 13 April 2014Marsden, Peter. The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan UP, 1998. Print.Sering, Senge. "Human sacrifice and the Taliban | Sharnoff's Global Views." Sharnoff's Global Views. SHARNOFF'S GLOBAL VIEWS, n.d. Web. April 29. 2014.