I have just watched the Newsroom and it's denunciation of the Tea Party and it's values.
I have shamelessly lifted part of a transcript of the script off some website. Here are the marks of the true Taliban.
Ideological purity
Compromise as weakness
A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
Denying science
Unmoved by facts
Undeterred by new information
A hostile fear of progress
A demonization of education
A need to control women’s bodies
Severe xenophobia
Tribal mentality
Intolerance of dissent
A pathological hatred of the US government
Does any thing seem familiar? Do you think any religious organisation fits this description?
I hasten to declare that being a Britt I don't want to comment on US politics but simply the fact that the script writers for this show seem to have been studying WT literature.