An article about the three recently deceased Islamist militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The author describes the Taliban as a "religious, anti drug, anti-Communist movement," meant I suppose as praise.

The Taliban may well be opposed to Communism in principle, though it never actually fought Communism since it was founded after the Soviet Union had disintegrated. However, there is worse repression than post-Stalin Soviet Communism — look at Egypt, Saudi Arabia and PISSI today.

It may have started out anti-drug, but it got involved with opium production once it took power. Not that the War on Drugs is a good thing.

But it certainly is religious. That is the worst thing about it. Islamism means contempt for human rights, those of women especially, but also those of men.