Look, I didn't post this so that anti-Muslim bigotry could get another hearing. In fact, I have known about it all day and hesitated to post it because I was afraid of that very thing. I don't claim to have any great understanding of the Muslim religion, but even I can see this happened because of the Taliban and not because the people were Muslims.
I read some of this shit written on here and can so clearly remember the adults around me, discarding the possibility than North Vietnamese, or blacks, of Puerto Ricans, or Italians, ad nauseum, were as human as you and me. I reacted then as I do now: my skin crawls as I hear yet another person assign a group to the human dump because they are "too different".
So, if it is at all possible could we please discuss why this happened? Can anything be done to change this culture? Should the US leave Afghanistan while women's rights are so endangered?