I spent a year embedded with the Taliban’s zealots before escaping by the skin of my teeth
If you want to see the warped, misogynist hypocrisy of the Taliban regime, and how harmful it is even to itself, there are two scenes in the documentary Hollywoodgate that capture this perfectly. They are about a female doctor, the wife of a powerful Taliban warlord, Mawlawi Mansour, and yet she appears in neither scene. In…