If she's married, she's stoned to death. Thousands of men routinely herd themselves into stadiums to watch as errant women are ceremoniously flogged. Even boys have permission to use weapons on members of the captive sex if they think the women are breaking any of the Taliban's laws. The woman was covered head to toe, as required by law, but she was unescorted. She survived the attack, but was blamed for her fate.
Girls face a similarly grim future.
Unless, that is, the U.S. and its allies can wipe out the Taliban. It can't go unspoken that most Americans didn't much notice the plight of Afghan women and girls until bin Laden delivered his diabolical philosophy to our shores. Which suggests that the U.S. no longer can afford to ignore human-rights violations anywhere they exist. As bin Laden has proved, human rights are always of strategic interest wherever they occur or however their violators define themselves. Bin Laden and the Taliban have to be eliminated.