The Taliban are anything but conservatives.
To equate the two in any way is inexcusable.
Conservatives want to live according to the American Constitution NOT the koran. The two are not too closely related and our Forefathers meant for them not to be.
America has never been as you described and never will be. The “The American Ayatolla” is a figment of Heinlein’s fertile imagination.
I hope not, I’m for adhering to the Constitution, as best as we are able to so that’s why I lean libertarian on many things. Put it this way, I don’t want to be ruled by either an Obama nor a Jerry Falwell.