Afghanistan is one of the most disgusting cesspools to have ever disgraced the planet. The existence of such a culture in the 21st century is an insult to humanity.
It is incidents like these that make me question the ethical tenability of isolationism. No one in the civilized world should see such barbaric acts and just continue with their lives as if nothing had happened.
Because you share an ideology with AlQueda, the Saudi wahhabists, ISIS, and these murderers.
Islam.
That is the source of the ignorance. The belief that a 7th century warlord knew everything worth knowing and modern morals like taking care of the mentally ill is ungodly.
Tom
This tragic story also underlines how much work still needs to be done in educating people about mental illness. Not that the mob would have been justified in any instance; but, if they had an understanding of the reasons behind her actions, would they have opted for mercy?
It is incidents like these that make me question the ethical tenability of isolationism. No one in the civilized world should see such barbaric acts and just continue with their lives as if nothing had happened.
Because you share an ideology with AlQueda, the Saudi wahhabists, ISIS, and these murderers.
Islam.
That is the source of the ignorance. The belief that a 7th century warlord knew everything worth knowing and modern morals like taking care of the mentally ill is ungodly.
Tom
Afghanistan is one of the most disgusting cesspools to have ever disgraced the planet. The existence of such a culture in the 21st century is an insult to humanity.
It is incidents like these that make me question the ethical tenability of isolationism. No one in the civilized world should see such barbaric acts and just continue with their lives as if nothing had happened.
At least these idiots murdered one person, still better than deliberately shooting at schools by drones and murdering children on the pretext of fight against Taliban
At least these idiots murdered one person, still better than deliberately shooting at schools by drones and murdering children on the pretext of fight against Taliban
At least these idiots murdered one person, still better than deliberately shooting at schools by drones and murdering children on the pretext of fight against Taliban
Afghanistan is one of the most disgusting cesspools to have ever disgraced the planet. The existence of such a culture in the 21st century is an insult to humanity.
It is incidents like these that make me question the ethical tenability of isolationism. No one in the civilized world should see such barbaric acts and just continue with their lives as if nothing had happened.
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
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?!
The story is unbelievable, why she needs to burn the quran and not a school book.
There are many crimes happening every day, i wonder why a crime happening in one Islamic country becomes a big issue.
A father has been found guilty of killing his 15-week-old daughter while he was orally raping her.
The story is unbelievable, why she needs to burn the quran and not a school book.
There are many crimes happening every day, i wonder why a crime happening in one Islamic country becomes a big issue.
A father has been found guilty of killing his 15-week-old daughter while he was orally raping her.
The story is unbelievable, why she needs to burn the quran and not a school book.
There are many crimes happening every day, i wonder why a crime happening in one Islamic country becomes a big issue.
A father has been found guilty of killing his 15-week-old daughter while he was orally raping her.
The story is unbelievable, why she needs to burn the quran and not a school book.
There are many crimes happening every day, i wonder why a crime happening in one Islamic country becomes a big issue.
A father has been found guilty of killing his 15-week-old daughter while he was orally raping her.
