It was first used to describe areas or groups outside of Afghanistan which came under the influence of the Taliban, such as the areas of Waziristan in Pakistan,[5][6][7] or situations analogous to the Taliban-Al-Qaeda relationship, such as the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia and its harboring of Al Qaeda members,[citation needed] or similar harboring of Islamic extremists in Iran,[8] Nigeria (north),[9][10] Malaysia,[11] or Indian-administered Kashmir[12] and elsewhere around the world.
[13] The term was used in a Boston Globe editorial published on November 6, 1999, warning of the emerging threat of the Taliban regime almost two years before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
[21] While Ismael Haniyeh officially denied that Hamas intended to establish an Islamic state,[20] in the fourteen years since the 2007 coup, the Gaza Strip has exhibited the characteristics of Talibanization,[20] whereby the Islamist organization imposed strict rules on women, discouraged activities commonly associated with Western or Christian culture, oppressed non-Muslim minorities, imposed sharia law, and deployed religious police to enforce these laws.
[30] Sometimes, different analogous neologisms are used by the accusers, such as allegations of "saffronization" which are used to describe or critique right-wing policies which are related to Hindu nationalism[31] or as a slur used by far left[32][33] and anti-Hindu groups.
[36] In India, the term has also been used to denote Sikh Extremism (Khalistan supporters),[37] and the far-left Naxalite terrorists beheaded Police inspector Francis Induwar in the state of Jharkhand in 2009.
[39][40] Like any highly politicized term, it may also be used hyperbolically or in an alarmist manner, to make a slippery slope argument, such as in the invocation of the phrase "Talibanization of Bradford" to discuss a gamut of common racial problems and tensions which fall far short of the imposition of sharia law and terrorist attacks.