Archive for February, 2007

The City of God

February 5, 2007

…The aim of the Taliban assault on Kabul was to turn it into a city of God. All signs of Westernization, such as “British and American hairstyle” had to be erased. Women were banned from work and hidden from public view. The religious police decreed that “women going outside with fashionable, ornamental, tight and charming [...]