Well, Don, much of what the Taleban are enforcing isn't Islamic law, it's tribal Pashtun law. Sure, the Taleban call it Islamic, just like female circumcisers in Africa call their actions Islamic. But in both cases, it's just tribal customs playing Muslim. Don't believe everything you read in USA Today, man.

Ah, and what I said was: "the lives of women in Taleban-controlled Afghanistan are difficult and unfair, but they are mere inconveniences in comparison with the conditions experienced by non-Pashtun Afghans of both sexes."

That's not true? These restrictions are as bad as death? And almost as bad as being gassed in a Nazi death-camp? I'd bet that some Uzbek man, now rotting with a bullet in his skull in a shallow grave outside Mazar-e-Sharif, would GLADLY trade in his fate for the chance to live the difficult, inconvenient life of an Afghan woman. It cheapens the sacrifices of the dead to compare the two.

:)

---Lepus Rex