Afghan woman is stoned to death for adultry in Taliban-controlled area

[davidn3600]

A young Afghan woman was stoned to death after being accused of adultery, officials said Tuesday, a medieval punishment apparently recorded in a video that harks back to the dark days of Taliban rule.

The 30-second clip run in Afghan media shows a woman in a hole in the ground as turbaned men gather around and hurl stones at her with chilling nonchalance.

The woman, named by officials as Rokhsahana and aged between 19 and 21, is heard repeating the shahada, or Muslim profession of faith, her voice growing increasingly high-pitched as stones strike her with sickening thuds.

The killing took place about a week ago in a Taliban-controlled area just outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province, officials said, confirming the video which was sourced and released by international broadcaster Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.

http://news.yahoo.com/graphic-video-shows-afghan-woman-stoned-death-eloping-071332458.html

[Lizzie Poppet]

1. The guy she slept with got off with "a lashing."

Says it all, really. Fucking misogynist animals...someone tell me why I should have an iota of respect for that execrable culture.

[snooper2]

6. The only time unmarried sex is allowed per the Quran is between a Muslim man and his slaves

good times right

[smirkymonkey]

9. Disgusting!

They make me absolute sick. Why does that culture despise women so much? I think I would rather kill myself than live as a woman in that culture.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Utterly.

I appreciate the majority of the world's cultures and enjoy my opportunities to experience them (definitely one of those people who say "travel" when asked what they'd do if they struck it rich). But some cultures deserve nothing but condemnation and contempt, and Taliban-controlled areas fall into that category for me.

[Sunlei]

2. how horrible our humanity. Can stand around-watch or even participate in killings of others

[snooper2]

14. maybe we need to air-drop the ignorant assholes puppets

So they have something to do with their down time-



WARNING- SOME MAY FIND THIS CREEPY

[Nye Bevan]

3. Sick, barbaric fucks.

None of us like the religious fundamentalists here who oppose health plans that cover contraception or want to allow bakers to refuse to make cakes for gay weddings. But this true, brutal, horrible, medieval religious fundamentalism really puts things in perspective.

[snooper2]

5. sick fucking assholes- this is what happens when people actually follow their ancient holy book

This is why religion is bad and fundies of all stripes should be marginalized in every society...



Oh, and for reference-

Muslim (17:4209) - A woman confesses adultery and is stoned to death on Muhammad's order.

Book 017, Number 4209:
Abu Huraira and Zaid b Khalid al-Juhani reported that one of the desert tribes came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah, I beg of you in the name of Allah that you pronounce judgment about me according to the Book of Allah. The second claimant who was wiser than him said: Well, decide amongst us according to the Book of Allah, but permit me (to say something). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon ham) said: Say. He said: My son was a servant in the house of this person and he committed adultery with his wife. I was informed that my son deserved stoning to death (as punishment for this offence). I gave one hundred goats and a slave girl as ransom for this. I asked the scholars (if this could serve as an expiation for this offence). They informed me that my son deserved one hundred lathes and exile for one year. and this woman deserved stoning (as she was married). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life. I will decide between you according to the Book of Allah. The slave-girl and the goats should be given back, and your son is to be punished with one hundred lashes and exile for one year. And, O Unais (b. Zuhaq al-Aslami), go to this woman in the morning, and if she makes a confession, then stone her. He (the narrator) said: He went to her in the morning and she made a confession. And Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) made pronouncement about her and she was stoned to death.



Muslim (17:4206) - A woman who became pregnant confesses to Muhammad that she is guilty of adultery. Muhammad allows her to have the child, then has her stoned. The description is graphic: "Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her."

Book 017, Number 4206:
'Abdullah b. Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Ma'iz b. Malik al-Aslami came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger, I have wronged myself; I have committed adultery and I earnestly desire that you should purify me. He turned him away. On the following day, he (Ma'iz) again came to him and said: Allah's Messenger, I have committed adultery. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) turned him away for the second time, and sent him to his people saying: Do you know if there is anything wrong with his mind. They denied of any such thing in him and said: We do not know him but as a wise good man among us, so far as we can judge. He (Ma'iz) came for the third time, and he (the Holy Prophet) sent him as he had done before. He asked about him and they informed him that there was nothing wrong with him or with his mind. When it was the fourth time, a ditch was dug for him and he (the Holy Prophet) pronounced judg- ment about him and he wis stoned. He (the narrator) said: There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: Allah's Messenger, I have committed adultery, so purify me. He (the Holy Prophet) turned her away. On the following day she said: Allah's Messenger, Why do you turn me away? Perhaps, you turn me away as you turned away Ma'iz. By Allah, I have become pregnant. He said: Well, if you insist upon it, then go away until you give birth to (the child). When she was delivered she came with the child (wrapped) in a rag and said: Here is the child whom I have given birth to. He said: Go away and suckle him until you wean him. When she had weaned him, she came to him (the Holy Prophet) with the child who was holding a piece of bread in his hand. She said: Allah's Apostle, here is he as I have weaned him and he eats food. He (the Holy Prophet) entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and then pronounced punishment. And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her. Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) heard his (Khalid's) curse that he had huried upon her. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Khalid, be gentle. By Him in Whose Hand is my life, she has made such a repentance that even if a wrongful tax-collector were to repent, he would have been forgiven. Then giving command regarding her, he prayed over her and she was buried.



http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/017-smt.php#017.4206

[polly7]

7. ...........

Rokhsahana was stoned by a gathering of "Taliban, local religious leaders and armed warlords", Joyenda said.

Joyenda, one of only two female governors in Afghanistan, said Rokhsahana's family had married her off against her will and that she was caught while eloping with another man her age -- seen as tantamount to adultery.

The man was let off with a lashing, Joyenda's spokesman said.

The brutal punishment meted out to Rokhsahana highlighted the endemic violence against women in Afghan society, despite reforms since the hardline Taliban regime fell in 2001.

Pure evil ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3301424/Graphic-video-shows-Afghan-woman-stoned-death-eloping.html

[davidn3600]

11. Except for the Syrian men who are choosing to flood into Europe instead

And the Russians backing up dictators like Assad.

[Victor_c3]

13. I'm buddies with a lot of Afghanistan vets

One of them recounted in a PTSD group I attend a story of this happening in US controlled areas.

A lot of times bases are joint based with shared perimeters. There is an American side and then an Afghan side. My buddy was on gate guard one day when a woman came to the American gate saying that she had been raped. Believing he was doing the right thing, he sent her to go to the Afghan side of the base. The Afghanis promptly beat her up and stoned her to death in full view of the Americans.