Once Again, I ask...

[Minimalist]

Why are Western soldiers risking their lives for these primitive fuckheads?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/...TE&ei=5043

For Punishment of Elder’s Misdeeds, Afghan Girl Pays the Price
By ALISSA J. RUBIN

ASADABAD, Afghanistan — Shakila, 8 at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about how their family had been dishonored and about how they had not been paid.

It turns out that Shakila, who was abducted along with her cousin as part of a traditional Afghan form of justice known as “baad,” was the payment.

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. Shakila, because one of her uncles had run away with the wife of a district strongman, was taken and held for about a year. It was the district leader, furious at the dishonor that had been done to him, who sent his men to abduct her.

[reverendjeremiah]

sheesh... what a bunch of assholes

[paintpooper]

A guy like a mile from my house just shot himself in the head because he was about to be arrested for sexual assaulting 12 year old girls. Sick people are everywhere. I agree get our people out of all countries but our own.

[Cinjin]

may I just add ...

fuck Allah and his child molesting, rape endorsing, stone throwing prophet Muhammad.


god damn barbarians

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

A guy like a mile from my house just shot himself in the head because he was about to be arrested for sexual assaulting 12 year old girls

Good. Probably the most considerate thing he ever did.


Thought for today;

suicide is the sincerest form of self criticism (anon)

[thesummerqueen]

I'd like to think they're providing some sort of pathway for the people who want to get out, but what do I know?

[Minimalist]

I don't know, Summer. Remember this bit?

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.

These are the guys who don't think kidnapping a young girl is a good idea. Instead they have her betrothed at the age of 8. Fine muslims they are. The pedo-prophet would surely approve.

Fuck the whole bloody country.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

When you read stories like this you realise how many centuries behind some countries and cultures are behind the west, although no doubt, abhorrent people exist in every part of the world, as do abhorrent practices.

[LastPoet]

Good. Probably the most considerate thing he ever did.

I disagree Pad, the most considerate think he could've done was to cap himself before molesting the children

[thesummerqueen]

Difference between what he did and what he could have done.