I saw parts of a documentary on PBS last night about Afghani people during the oppression of the Taliban Regime. Being extremists, the Taliban believe that all human creations that represent living things (photographs, paintings, films, etc) are blasphemous and therefore must be destroyed. So there was a man in Afghanistan who clandestinely painted over oil paintings with water-color paints, hiding any living creatures in them, and blending them away to the background. What would have been contraband for destruction became simply paintings of buildings or rocks. After the Taliban was deposed, the water colors were simply washed off with a damp sponge, the oil based paint below completely unharmed. There was also a film archive that contained the last 50 years of Afghani history, that was to be destroyed. The men who worked in the building built a wall over the door to the room where the films were kept, sheetrock, putty and everything, then painted it and disconnected the lights right outside the door so there would be little light to reveal the tampering. Inspections by the Taliban never revealed the archive and the historical films were preserved. Both of these acts were done under the threat of a death penalty (probably via public torturing, or something alike, as those Taliban animals always did). Those men deserve many congratulations, they are some of the many anonymous heroes of the middle-eastern region, struggling to protect right and truth by preserving a little humanity amidst what is obviously a Satanic attempt at forcing all people to comply with laws that not everybody (not even a majority) agrees with.