I noticed this on salon.com yesterday. Especially after having watched the very moving Anne Frank special the night before (not to mention working at a Jewish community center, where this sort of issue is a very hot topic), I was immensely troubled.

I really have to confess that, although I consider myself a relatively easygoing person who tries to maintain that everyone sees the world differently, I just don't understand these people (the Taliban). Their priorities, their rationale, everything about the way they conduct their government is profoundly alien to me. I fully own up to my ignorance, and even worse, I admit that I have very little wish to understand them.

Possibly the most disturbing thing about the article I read is that, apparently, the Taliban claims they are instituting these measures to "protect" the Hindus. How do you figure that, I wonder?

Sigh...

M