The Death Rattle of the Taliban? Ask the Women...
Terror Quest is pretty harsh on the fundamentalist practitioners of Islam, and some of the worst characters in the book are members of a Taliban-like group. The group promises a “road to recovery” but instead takes the region into a backward and strict interpretation of holy words. In fairness, every religion includes hardliners who claim to live by the “original intent” of the Messiah or Prophet or Word of God. Christians can search forever for what Jesus said about hip-hop or rock and roll, but they aren’t going to find anything. But, if we like, we can cast modern practices such as dancing to popular music into the “sinful stuff that’s bad for you” category and condemn certain types of music on those grounds, as is done in Terror Quest . Today, Christianity, especially in the West, has been through a rigorous secularization process. Christians would see certain behaviors (such as robbing a bank) as crimes that should punished by civil authorities rather than as sins that requi