As a woman, I'd have to take exception to the statement above that the Taliban are "not quite Nazis, but quite nasty enough"; this may in some ways be rather like comparing a Macintosh to a Granny Smith, but at the end of the day, they're both apples. I'd argue that the systematic subjugation and effective erasure of a cultire's entire female population, relegating them to the status of walking corpses with no rights, no future, no voice & no hope of deliverance qualifies as a system worthy of Hitler's fertile imagination. The fact that the Taliban have conducted their holocaust against their own female population (their own mothers, wives, sisters & daughters) in now way makes their crimes less heinous.