This happened on Thursday.
"KABUL, Afghanistan — The mentally ill woman, her face covered in blood, rose to her feet and looked out across the mob. She pleaded. But these men meant to kill her.
A kick sent her tumbling backward. In the courtyard of one of Kabul’s most famous shrines, men hurled stones at her and struck her with wooden planks.
When she was dead, they tied her body to a car and drove to the Kabul River. On the garbage-strewn bank, they burned her corpse.
Her name was Farkhunda, and, for most of her 27 years, her parents had searched for help in treating the mental illness that had plagued her since girlhood.
None of that mattered to the mob. To them, she stood accused of a vile and sacrilegious act: burning pages from the Quran.
Kabul has been riveted since her death Thursday afternoon. Cellphone videos of the killing have been circulating widely, appalling some but drawing approval from others.
“If I had been there, I would have burned her, too,” said a man who on Friday had come to see the place along the riverbank where Farkhunda’s body was burned the day before.
But a hatmaker who had watched the mob from his shop condemned the attack as inhuman.
“What they did is brutal and completely against Islam,” said the hatmaker, Sayed Habib Saadat. What left him feeling especially worried, he added, was how many of the attackers were teenagers or young men in their 20s.
The divergent responses trace Afghanistan’s struggle between its commitment to conservative Islam and the Western notions of individual rights and due process that have been slow to take hold over the past decade.
On Friday, as the police arrested nine men believed to have been part of the mob, an official in the Ministry of Religious Affairs said the attack on Farkhunda might have been justified if she actually did what she was accused of."
Rest of article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/w...hing-in-afghanistan-but-some-support-too.html
Human Rights Watch is demanding an investigation: Afghanistan: Probe Police Response to Woman’s Killing | Human Rights Watch
As a show of protest and solidarity with the young lady who had her life so horrifically ended, an Afghani ex-Muslim burned a Qur'an:
If you feel that a book is worth more than a human life, then you are not worshiping God. You're just evil. As a Christian, you could destroy all the Bibles you want or say whatever nasty things about Jesus you want and make offensive images, but I'll never want to hurt you because of it. God doesn't need us to defend Him. How devilish does your idea of religion have to be in order to think that the Creator and Ruler of the universe wants you to act in such ways?!
"KABUL, Afghanistan — The mentally ill woman, her face covered in blood, rose to her feet and looked out across the mob. She pleaded. But these men meant to kill her.
A kick sent her tumbling backward. In the courtyard of one of Kabul’s most famous shrines, men hurled stones at her and struck her with wooden planks.
When she was dead, they tied her body to a car and drove to the Kabul River. On the garbage-strewn bank, they burned her corpse.
Her name was Farkhunda, and, for most of her 27 years, her parents had searched for help in treating the mental illness that had plagued her since girlhood.
None of that mattered to the mob. To them, she stood accused of a vile and sacrilegious act: burning pages from the Quran.
Kabul has been riveted since her death Thursday afternoon. Cellphone videos of the killing have been circulating widely, appalling some but drawing approval from others.
“If I had been there, I would have burned her, too,” said a man who on Friday had come to see the place along the riverbank where Farkhunda’s body was burned the day before.
But a hatmaker who had watched the mob from his shop condemned the attack as inhuman.
“What they did is brutal and completely against Islam,” said the hatmaker, Sayed Habib Saadat. What left him feeling especially worried, he added, was how many of the attackers were teenagers or young men in their 20s.
The divergent responses trace Afghanistan’s struggle between its commitment to conservative Islam and the Western notions of individual rights and due process that have been slow to take hold over the past decade.
On Friday, as the police arrested nine men believed to have been part of the mob, an official in the Ministry of Religious Affairs said the attack on Farkhunda might have been justified if she actually did what she was accused of."
Rest of article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/w...hing-in-afghanistan-but-some-support-too.html
Human Rights Watch is demanding an investigation: Afghanistan: Probe Police Response to Woman’s Killing | Human Rights Watch
As a show of protest and solidarity with the young lady who had her life so horrifically ended, an Afghani ex-Muslim burned a Qur'an:
If you feel that a book is worth more than a human life, then you are not worshiping God. You're just evil. As a Christian, you could destroy all the Bibles you want or say whatever nasty things about Jesus you want and make offensive images, but I'll never want to hurt you because of it. God doesn't need us to defend Him. How devilish does your idea of religion have to be in order to think that the Creator and Ruler of the universe wants you to act in such ways?!
