So why are the Afghan Taliban acceptable ? Their human rights record even before the American invasion of Afghanistan was hardly enviable. I went to Afghanistan during the Taliban's time in power and I saw no "Allah's Kingdom" all I saw were dust covered roads, burnt out soviet vehicles from the war days, flaking away with time. The Taliban were also not the image of your average "Good Citizens" they were smoking Hash on every checkpoint(and there were alot of check points), on one I saw a Talib flogging a young Hazara, I shouted at him to stop in Pushto and he rudely told me to mind my own business. They killed a lot of people without proper trial in the name of Islam, Dr.Najeeb's body hanging with a neck snapped to one side comes to mind.
