Let's add another couple of items to that series of 'simplistic morality tales'. You can find one of them here:
For the Taliban, Angira stands for almost everything a woman should not be. Not only is she standing for election, the 30-year-old is also a businesswoman, running a successful logistics firm out of her family flat in Kabul. To make matters worse, her election literature attacks the Taliban, branding their rule "dark days".
"The Taliban time is finished," she said. "We are making the new Afghanistan and they will never come back."
Najila Angira is one of a record number of women standing, in face of obstruction and threats, in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections next month.
Then there's this:
"There is no way to say how many stonings took place, but it was widespread" when the Taliban ruled, said Nader Nadery, a senior commissioner on the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. "Often the man escaped, and the woman only was punished, especially if he had connections or was a member of the Taliban." Other sexual crimes were accorded similarly grotesque penalties: homosexuals, for instance, had a brick wall collapsed onto them.
