Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-publicly-execute-woman-near-kabul-officials-172336299.html

By Hamid Shalizi and Amie Ferris-Rotman | Reuters – 4 hrs ago

KABUL (Reuters) - A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.

"Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed".

Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video, obtained on Saturday, was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, about an hour's drive from Kabul.

Such rare public punishment was a painful reminder to Afghan authorities of the Taliban's 1996-2001 period in power, and it raised concern about the treatment of Afghan women 11 years into the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.

"When I saw this video, I closed my eyes ... The woman was not guilty; the Taliban are guilty," Salangi told Reuters.

When the unnamed woman, most of her body tightly wrapped in a shawl, fell sideways after being shot several times in the head, the spectators chanted: "Long live the Afghan mujahideen! (Islamist fighters)", a name the Taliban use for themselves.

The Taliban could not be reached for comment.

Despite the presence of over 130,000 foreign troops and 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, the Taliban have managed to resurge beyond their traditional bastions of the south and east, extending their reach into once more peaceful areas like Parwan.

HARD-WON WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN JEOPARDY?

Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and work since the Taliban, who deemed them un-Islamic for women, were toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001.

But fears are rising among Afghan women, some lawmakers and rights activists that such freedoms could be traded away as the Afghan government and the United States pursue talks with the Taliban to secure a peaceful end to the war.

Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according to Afghanistan's independent human rights commission. Activists say there is waning interest in women's rights on the part of President Hamid Karzai's government.

"After 10 years (of foreign intervention), and only a few kilometres from Kabul... how could this happen in front of all these people?" female lawmaker Fawzia Koofi said of the public execution in Parwan.

"This is happening under a government that claims to have made so much progress in women's rights, claims to have changed women's lives, and this is unacceptable. It is a huge step backwards," said Koofi, a campaigner for girls' education who wants to run in the 2014 presidential election.

Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.

"They are outlaws, murderers, and like savages they killed the woman," he said, adding that the Taliban exerted considerable sway in his province.

Earlier this week a 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded in eastern Afghanistan by a man police said was her divorced husband, the latest of a string of so-called "honour killings".

Some Afghans still refer to Taliban courts for settling disputes, viewing government bodies as corrupt or unreliable. The courts use sharia (Islamic law), which prescribes punishments such as stonings and executions.

[X Factor 1,112]

Isn't this one sided? What about the male that was involved with her? Very repulsive

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Isn't this one sided? What about the male that was involved with her? Very repulsive

Sharia Law

[X Factor 1,112]

The men in Afganistan hide under Sharia law and can be rapist, molestors etc. The women are treated worse than 2nd class citizens over there.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

But Islam is a religion of love and peace..

See even our President thinks so--That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear-BHO

[X Factor 1,112]

Whose money was used for the bullets used in the execution?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

And you did not link us up to the Video.. Shame on you :dance:

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Sharia Law

This has nothing to do with Sharia.

[X Factor 1,112]

This has nothing to do with Sharia.

Most Muslims I know aren't like that. But the Taliban have used Islam for their deviant ways.

[james&olya 1,121]

For the ignorant out there, go read in the old testament of your christian bible! There you will find admonitions that are every bit as reprehensible as this. It is a credit to the majority of modern christians that these passages are ignored, just as it should be a credit to the majority of muslims that they reject this kind of practice. Those who do practice such barbarity reflect more the primitiveness of their culture rather than the particular religion they adhere to. If they were christians they could find all the justification they want for the very same barbaric practices in the 'holy' christian bible!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

For the ignorant out there, go read in the old testament of your christian bible! There you will find admonitions that are every bit as reprehensible as this. It is a credit to the majority of modern christians that these passages are ignored, just as it should be a credit to the majority of muslims that they reject this kind of practice. Those who do practice such barbarity reflect more the primitiveness of their culture rather than the particular religion they adhere to. If they were christians they could find all the justification they want for the very same barbaric practices in the 'holy' christian bible!

And the difference is that we do not have a Government in this country that supports Biblical law, and cuts women's heads off for cheating etc etc.. Many Muslim Nations do. We have separation of Church and State to keep our religious idiots in check.

[Nina~ 431]

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[Captain Oates 911]

Atheist teaching has never advocated violence to women unlike the Quoran and the Bible etc

Why don't they pack it all in and polish their motorbike on a Sunday morning - like a civilized person would ?

They say that the devil makes work for idle hands - but its even truer to say the devil makes religion for bored people who haven't got a life outside their superstitions

It's also ironic that people who want to be free and not have a government tell them what to do, are the ones who willingly submit to their religion telling them what to do (South Carolinians)

Seems we yearn to be told what to do by either by a government or a church or a dominating spouse

I chose none of these

[JohnR! 5,495]

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And the difference is that we do not have a Government in this country that supports Biblical law, and cuts women's heads off for cheating etc etc.. Many Muslim Nations do. We have separation of Church and State to keep our religious idiots in check.

Many states still have the death penalty and continue to kill people all the same.

What changes is the name and nature of the crime. The punishment is final and the same.

Edited July 9, 2012 by Gegel

[Captain Oates 911]

And the difference is that we do not have a Government in this country that supports Biblical law, and cuts women's heads off for cheating etc etc.. Many Muslim Nations do. We have separation of Church and State to keep our religious idiots in check.

In theory we have separation of church and state

In practice, anyone entering public life would be well advised to keep quiet if they are an unbeliever - or else their career will be stopped in its tracks

There are gay politicians, even gay married politicians, but how many atheists in congress ? Answer - One... (CA)

In the next 100 years we will have another black president, a female president, a Jewish President, perhaps even a Hispanic President or a disabled president or a Mormon President - but an atheist President ?

Not in this US of A !

Edited July 9, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa