Post by GringoBob on Jan 31, 2011 6:04:37 GMT -5
Here is a very disturbing story and video from August 2010 in which a young man and young woman are stoned to death because they were in love and eloped rather than go forward into their respective arranged marriages
This was the case where Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, condemned the execution without trial, but did not say a word about the method of execution. Our moderate "Friend and Ally" would not condemn stoning as he tried to win the favor of clerics who want the worst of Sharia's punishments enforced.
After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud said those responsible could be recognised and will be brought to justice - "Special police investigators will be sent there, we will find them and they will be brought to justice," he told the BBC - Six months later, there have been no arrests in the stoning deaths of this young Afghan couple who were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province
Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged. The area is still under Taliban control.
A mobile phone recording of the killings has only just been seen by Afghan and Nato officials. Most of the video is too graphic to be shown.
The video begins with Siddqa, a 25-year-old woman, standing waist-deep in a hole in the ground entirely hidden in a blue burka.
Hundreds of men from the village are gathered as two mullahs pass sentence. As Taliban fighters look on, the sentence is passed and she is found guilty of adultery.
The stoning lasts two minutes. Hundreds of rocks - some larger than a man's fist - are thrown at her head and body. She tries to crawl out of the hole, but is beaten back by the stones. A boulder is then thrown at her head, her burka is soaked in blood, and she collapses inside the hole.
Incredibly Siddqa was still alive. The mullahs are heard saying she should be left alone. But a Taliban fighter steps forward with a rifle and she is shot three times.
Then her lover, Khayyam, is brought to the crowd, hands tied behind his back. Before he is blindfolded he looks into the mobile phone camera. He appears defiant.
The attack on him is even more ferocious. His body, lying face down, jerks as the rocks meet their target. He is heard to be crying, but is soon silent.
The couple had earlier eloped to Pakistan, but were lured back with the false promise that they would not be harmed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid defended the sentencing in a telephone interview saying: "Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. "There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country."...
Group912.org/stoning.html
This was the case where Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, condemned the execution without trial, but did not say a word about the method of execution. Our moderate "Friend and Ally" would not condemn stoning as he tried to win the favor of clerics who want the worst of Sharia's punishments enforced.
After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud said those responsible could be recognised and will be brought to justice - "Special police investigators will be sent there, we will find them and they will be brought to justice," he told the BBC - Six months later, there have been no arrests in the stoning deaths of this young Afghan couple who were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province
Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged. The area is still under Taliban control.
A mobile phone recording of the killings has only just been seen by Afghan and Nato officials. Most of the video is too graphic to be shown.
The video begins with Siddqa, a 25-year-old woman, standing waist-deep in a hole in the ground entirely hidden in a blue burka.
Hundreds of men from the village are gathered as two mullahs pass sentence. As Taliban fighters look on, the sentence is passed and she is found guilty of adultery.
The stoning lasts two minutes. Hundreds of rocks - some larger than a man's fist - are thrown at her head and body. She tries to crawl out of the hole, but is beaten back by the stones. A boulder is then thrown at her head, her burka is soaked in blood, and she collapses inside the hole.
Incredibly Siddqa was still alive. The mullahs are heard saying she should be left alone. But a Taliban fighter steps forward with a rifle and she is shot three times.
Then her lover, Khayyam, is brought to the crowd, hands tied behind his back. Before he is blindfolded he looks into the mobile phone camera. He appears defiant.
The attack on him is even more ferocious. His body, lying face down, jerks as the rocks meet their target. He is heard to be crying, but is soon silent.
The couple had earlier eloped to Pakistan, but were lured back with the false promise that they would not be harmed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid defended the sentencing in a telephone interview saying: "Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. "There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country."...
Group912.org/stoning.html