Once Again, I ask...

[reverendjeremiah]

The reaction of the girl’s father to the abduction also illustrates the difficulty in trying to change such a deeply rooted cultural practice: he expressed fury that she was abducted because, he said, he had already promised her in marriage to someone else.

What her father did is also another form of abduction. Also, to be fair, the boy who is to marry her is just as much being forced into it as the girl...unless her father promised her to an adult.

[paintpooper]

Sounds like a lot of you are racist toward Muslims, and the whole country of Afghanistan. Ah yes good ole fashion hypocrisy.

What they did was illegal. It makes them criminals, not a representation of the whole country or religion. Come on we are past broad generalizations of people and religion, we know better.

We are their for OUR interests anyways, ever seen the map of US bases in Afghan. Opium, Pipelines, natural resources, strategic location. Not to "help" the people.

[Minimalist]

It is not "prejudice." We are not "pre-judging."

We are judging. Is every one of them an ignorant, 10th century, asshole? No. But far too many are.

Based on the entire society's repeated acts of barbarism.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that our puppet....excuse me, "ally" Karzai is just as big a crook as all the other drug lords in the fucking country.

Besides, do not lose sight of the fact that the story notes

Although baad (also known as baadi) is illegal under Afghan and, most religious scholars say, Islamic law, the taking of girls as payment for misdeeds committed by their elders still appears to be flourishing.

So "most" (but obviously not all" religious scholars say it is illegal but it flourishes anyway? Laws are pretty worthless if no one enforces them.

[paintpooper]

Yeah we have no sex trafficking or anything like that in our country. We don't bomb civilians all the time. We don't rape women in other countries. We don't shoot each other more then any other country. We don't have rampant pedophilia.

Based on the last 60 years of US foreign policy. we keep doing repeated acts of barbarism. 1 million dead in Vietnam. Thousands of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Yemen, Somalia, all over the middle east and central/south American.

Are all US citizens or "white" "Christians" like this. Of course not, but the government is the worst offender.

Lets not forget our master, excuse me "Israel" is just as big of murderer as we are, or any country.

A summary of pro-Israel campaign donations for the period of 1990–2008 collected by Center for Responsive Politics indicates current totals and a general increase in proportional donations to the US Republican party since 1996.[45] The Washington Post summarized the Center for Responsive Politics' 1990–2006 data and concluded that "Pro-Israel interests have contributed $56.8 million in individual, group and soft money donations to federal candidates and party committees since 1990."[46] In contrast, Arab-Americans and Muslim PACs contributed slightly less than $800,000 during the same (1990–2006) period.[47]

J.J. Goldberg wrote in his 1994 book Jewish Power that 45% of the Democratic Party’s fundraising and 25% of that for the Republican Party came from Jewish-funded Political Action Committees.[48] Richard Cohen, a columnist for the Washington Post, updated those figures in 2006 citing figures of 60% and 35% respectively for the Democratic and Republican Parties. According to the Washington Post, Democratic presidential candidates depend on Jewish sources for 60% of money from private sources.

Oh and 1.7% of the US is Jewish.

[Tobie]

Since when have US ( and as an extension NATO) wars ever been to protect the people? Most of them seem to be started because of oil and paranoia. Take Afghanistan: the country has been in one war or another for practically the last 100 years, probably more. First it was us British, then the Soviets fighting the US and British financed insurgents, and now its NATO fighting against those same insurgents. The whole area would be a lot less screwed up if it wasn't for some fucked up political agendas.