Hatred
Atiq experiences serious emotions that he doesn't quite understand. Sometimes he finds himself indulging violent fantasies, and he is quite the misanthrope. As a chronically afflicted person, his mental health doesn't have a steady foundation of "normal, happy life." He doesn't know anything except the hatred that comes from his own private mental suffering. Without a way to understand why he suffers so extremely, he begins to treat the universe as his scapegoat, and he becomes openly hateful toward others, obviously full of hypocrisy, because he constantly positions himself as the moral authority and judge of his community—he even stones a woman to death.
Murder
Murder is the logical conclusion of hatred, as we learn from Atiq. He kills a prostitute in a public stoning, showing his zeal for religious extremism. One doesn't have to be Jesus Christ to see that this behavior is obviously evil. His willingness to commit murder had nothing to do with his religion—it was just his hatred finding a method to express itself. He manifests violence because he is full of anger and regret.
Terrorism
Because of the constant hatred and violence in Kabul, there is a lingering paranoia in the community, making everyone frantic and aware. Then, acts of terrorism are done and they instill horror into the community. Terrorism is therefore seen thematically as the use of hatred as a tool. Terrorism can be seen as the obvious conclusion of the willingness to murder, because that is the precise fear that they terrorize their communities with.
