Taliban In Afghanistan These Associated Press articles are posted here to show the dangers of blind fundamentalism.
Religious fanatics are all fundamentally the same, differing only in details of mythology.
A shattered satellite dish hangs from the steel door of a Kabul police station. Strung like streamers on either side are coils of tape ripped from videocassettes, banned as offensive to Islam by the Taliban. The religious army has stepped up its campaign to rid Afghanistan of influences it considers contrary to Islam, last week adding television sets, videocassette recorders and satellite dishes to the cassettes already outlawed. Afghans have 15 days to get rid of some of the last bits of entertainment left to them since the Taliban army took over Kabul in 1996 and consolidated its authority over the majority of the country. The Taliban says its latest ban will give people more time to pray.