Eloping couple murdered
p2pnet news view Off Topic | Crime:- We live in two worlds. In one, women are ordinary citizens like everyone else. But in the other horrifying and evil place, men rule under religious law, and women are treated like animals.
A 19-year-old girl and her fiance, 21, were murdered in southern Afghanistan for trying to elope in the extremist-controlled southwestern province of Nimroz.
They were shot down in cold blood by Taliban extremists in front of a crowd in the remote district of Khash Rod, says ANI.
“The incident once again brings to light the brutalities Afghan women are being subjected to in the country,”" it says.
“It is not only the extremists who treat women in the country as mere objects, but the government too seems to be backing the notion, as was evident from President Hamid Karzai’s controversial ‘rape law’.
“The law, brought by President Karzai allowed Shiite men to demand sex from their wives every four days and keep them indoors indefinitely.”
An “unmarried young boy and an unmarried girl who loved each other” eloped because their families wouldn’t approve the marriage, Agence France-Presse has local governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad saying, calling the murders an “insult to Islam”.
The pair were discovered by Taliban militants and returned to their village in Khash Rod district where the extremists are active, says the story, adding:
“Three Taliban mullahs brought them to the local mosque and they passed a fatwa (religious decree) that they must be killed.
“They were shot and killed in front of the mosque in public,” the governor said.
ANI – Taliban publicly executes eloping young couple in Afghanistan’ Nimroz province, April 14, 2009
Agence France-Presse – Taliban execute eloping Afghan couple: Governor, April 14, 2009
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April 14th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I am sorry to read this but P2Pnet is not the palce for it. Just my opinion.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:24 am
People-2-People = P2Pnet.net
There is a place here to show atrocities.
One day you may find People from there telling their story here.
…and you think we have it bad…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Sad, would have rather read Dan Glickman and his cronies were handed a fatwa and were shot outside of (insert-place-here).
Oh well, its a religion of peace
…… right?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am
So is any religion…. Right?
The only one that would not harm people is Scientology…. right?
April 14th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Other religions dont have the slogan “religion of peace”.
Personally, I think only Buddhism truly can have the slogan “religion of peace”, true Buddhism – not the one dictated by the Chinese govt.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Can’t the rest of the world just build a wall around the entire middle east region? Before sealing it up, anyone who wants to leave can do so and anyone who wants to enter can do so. After that, nobody is allowed in or out. The middle east wants the rest of the world to leave them alone, so being isolated would be exactly what they want.
Then, a decade from now we could tear down the wall and build new cities on the lifeless ruins, because that’s all that would left.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
We should have killed all the Taliban in 2001 instead of letting them flee to Pakistan. Now, back to P2P…