The Taleban shouldn't be singled out for criticism. When women were forbidden to work in offices in Afghanistan, when Mullah Omar's government closed schools for girls, what actually happened was the perpetration of misogyny—and in this we can be amazed: that hate towards women has such a long history. In Jewish texts and religious knowledge. In Christian experience. In Muslim life. In the Greek era, in Roman times, among Hindus, Buddhis