Why Attack on Islamic University?

Sadly, it's just such a goal that probably made it a "legitimate" target for the Taliban, for whom a healthy public sphere populated by educated citizens willing and able to challenge, potentially democratize, and clean up their government would pose at least as big threat to its position in the country as the army they are now fighting in the country's northwest, read what Mark LeVine - a history professor at University of California, Irvine and currently a visiting professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden, writes here.

I partially agree with what Mark LeVine writes. The able author would have been more convincing only if he not that sarcastic. I wonder why intellectuals like him think with malice, allow me use the word.