“To call for a boycott of a movie — that’s extreme.

And for a writer, who is by definition a champion of free expression, to call for a boycott of a film he has not seen — isn’t that right out of the Taliban playbook?

It is. And yet that’s exactly what I’ve come here to do: to urge you not to see “Zero Dark Thirty,” the new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

My reason is simple: The film glorifies torture.” (HeadButler).