'Our poets are often our greatest prophets'
By Alice Pfeifer on February 6, 2010
The other night I watched with an older brother and sister the film The Kite Runner, based on the bestselling novel by Afghan immigrant Khaled Hosseini. As we watched the final credits roll, my sister said, "Boy, those Taliban sure are good at all the holy talk without living the holy life!" All of us had been disturbed by the images of children being used as sex slaves in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
