I use the term “Taliban” as a generic term myself.
Like I asked on another thread, Where was the Gaff? :) Just like before Cain was right and the media hyperbole was wrong.
I also use the term taliban generically for all the muslim crazies. It’s the political elite that want us to believe there’s any difference between one muslim crazy group and another.
The only reason you don’t see the Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt or the Libyan rebels acting as savage as the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan is because the Egyptian/Libyan types haven’t broken down the society to the point that Afghanistan or the lawless regions of Pakistan have been broken down.
In 20-30 years when the populace is effectively brainwashed to accept total sharia law and western education/artistry/culture has been stripped away, you’ll see them executing women in football stadiums and outlawing photography and mandating facial hair. Many of the dictators like Mubarak or Gadafi, although thugs in their own right, built up their countries to some level of international respectability. They can’t be removed overnight.
There’s already been stories of the Egyptian MoBros targetting the Library of Alexandria and its western-influenced education in the arts.