Re: Taliban cut off heads of 17 people for having music at party 
You forget their public executions, which weren’t pleasant in any way, and should be enough to classify them as barbaric on its own but we continue… Their baton wielding sharia enforcers known to beat people (women mostly) on the streets, their relegation of women to nothing more then captives, who exist solely to serve the men in their families, reproducing and taking care of children, refusing them education, or any voice inside or outside their homes. Currently the Talibans offshoots have been bombing schools, murdering artists, murdering any women they deem to be unIslamic, killing Shias or supporting their murder merely for existing, executing and then exhibiting their crimes through grotesque videos of their beheaded victims, their reliance on criminal activity to finance their “jihad,” there use of CHILDREN as suicide bombers to not only attack western targets but also other Muslims, their disdain for any form of culture that is not associated in their minds with Islam, hence the tragic destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and the Buddhist heritage in Swat.
No I wouldnt call them animals either, because animals arent this malevolent and demented.