Since Afghanistan is a majority muslim country, Sharia law would be impleme ted whether the Taliban was in government or a regime approved by the West. The question is, not "the country's move to sharia law", but the interpretation thereof.

Although restrictions on women have been reported, such as not being able to drive alone, the coverage lacks nuance. For example, the Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman universiry, based in Riyadh, is a university wholly dedicated to womens education and has around 34 thousand students with 3,500 teaching staff and 2100 administrative staff. It's worth recalling that quite a number of the colleges in Oxford and Cambridge are womens only (Newnham college in Cambridge still is).

Saudia Arabia is much less in the news given that until recently there was a war going on in Afghanistan as part of the US sanctioned war on terrorism since 9-11. Of course, quite a number of the 9-11 terrorists were from Saudia Arabia, in fact 15 out of the 19 hijackers were from there. That little fact seems to have got lost in media brohouha as well as the fact that Saddam Hussein's regime was well known to be secular and chary of Islam and moreover, it was well-known that he had no weapons of mass destruction. In fact, the USA in the immediate aftermath had drawn up serious plans to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan according to the testimony of a senior foreign policy advisor of the German chancellor at the time until persuaded that this would be a disastrous route to take, even more disastrous than the route they did take.

Since Afghanistan is a majority muslim country, Sharia law would be implemented whether the Taliban was in government or a regime approved by the West. The question is, not "the country's move to sharia law", but the interpretation thereof.

Although restrictions on women have been reported, such as not being able to drive alone, the coverage lacks nuance. For example, the Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman university, based in Riyadh, is a university wholly dedicated to womens education and has around 34 thousand students with 3,500 teaching staff and 2100 administrative staff. It's worth recalling that quite a number of the colleges in Oxford and Cambridge are womens only (Newnham college in Cambridge still is). That Saudua Arabia is advancing womens rights under its interpretation of Sharia is much less commented upon - the attitude being that these countries are already 'backward'. It's this lack of understanding that hinders progress in the relationship between the West and Islamic countries. The West already see's itself as 'advanced' - not only in technology, but also morals.

Further, Saudia Arabia is much less in the news given that until recently there was a war going on in Afghanistan as part of the US sanctioned war on terrorism since 9-11. Of course, quite a number of the 9-11 terrorists were from Saudia Arabia, in fact 15 out of the 19 hijackers were from there. That little fact seems to have got lost in media brohouha as well as the fact that Saddam Hussein's regime was well known to be secular and chary of Islam and moreover, it was well-known that he had no weapons of mass destruction. In fact, the USA in the immediate aftermath had drawn up serious plans to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan according to the testimony of a senior foreign policy advisor of the German chancellor at the time until persuaded that this would be a disastrous route to take, even more disastrous than the route they did take.