Posted on 11/22/2011 10:46:11 PM PST by Just4Him
Kabul (CNN) -- The ordeal of Gulnaz did not simply begin and end with the physical attack of her rape. The rape began a years-long nightmare of further pain, culminating in an awful choice she must now make.
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In Afghanistan, this brought her not sympathy, but prosecution. Aged just 19, she was found guilty by the courts of sex outside of marriage -- adultery -- and sentenced to twelve years in jail. Now inside Kabul's Badam Bagh jail, she and her child are serving her sentence together.
Sitting with the baby in her lap, her face carefully covered, she explains the only choice she has that would end her incarceration. The only way around the dishonor of rape, or adultery in the eyes of Afghans, is to marry her attacker. This will, in the eyes of some, give her child a family and restore her honor.
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Let her out or shoot Karzai and start over with Jeffersonian Democracy 101.
Oh, and enough of the Islam BS. Everybody convert or die.
I was once again wondering why this sort of behavior does not raise any objection among the left when I read this comment below the linked article suggesting the right is trying to install the same kind of theocracy in the US:
littleshovel
Will the right-wing of this country please read this story and realize your efforts to install theocracy and criminalize abortion will bring this type of horror to our country.
Just like obama isn't the problem. An electorate infested with enough morons to vote for someone like obama is the problem.
It is going to go crash/boom — this nation is dumbing itself to death...
Like a broken record I've been saying the same thing for years.
As great as conservatism is, if we don't get control of the educational system, all other efforts are futile in the long run.
Just take off and nuke it from orbit.
There is no redeeming value in any part of moslem culture.
It is a cancer on humanity.
Excise it wherever it is found.
Before it metastasizes.
Not totally unlike the law regarding this given to Moses by God in Dueteronomy.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Jeffersonian Democracy is not on offer in the Middle East, or in most of the world. Germany is two generations removed from tryanny, Russia, a half.
Except that the bible version occurred a few thousand years ago and was replaced when the new covenant came along and people became more civilized.
Better, just take it away from the government, entirely. Saudi Arabia has a government controlled education system, as did Nazi Germany. The free market would never produce anything like what we have today.
That's just silly. Don't be so melodramatic. The argument is not about abortion, but about tax-payer funded abortions. There are many people, in good conscience who cannot use their tax dollars to assist in the the destruction of the unborn. (There is a distinction between the destruction of the innocent unborn and the destruction of an enemy that wants you dead and will stop at nothing to accomplish that goal.)
The debate on what priority the tax payers money should have has now been totally eclipsed by hysterical rhetoric and vilification.
True enough. Though Jews don’t believe in the new covenant bit. But the even orthodox Jews don’t really enforce such laws any more.
The problem is therefore not so much with the Koran and sharia themselves as with failure of their followers to “reinterpret” them appropriately.
Applied literally, the laws of the OT are remarkably similar in many ways to sharia.
I’ll mention, because I am not sure based on your post, that I was quoting a bizarre comment I saw posted on the linked article. Therefore, you and I are in agreement.
“Applied literally, the laws of the OT are remarkably similar in many ways to sharia.”
really? Or is that just what you want to see.
Really.
Halal and kosher are quite similar, before adding the elaborations of the Talmud.
Laws regarding women and slavery are similar. Including those regarding rape and adultery.
Honor killing. Deuteronomy 21 and 22.
Death for apostasy. Deuteronomy 13 and 17.
Circumcision.
The OT laws of war are even harsher than those in the Koran, with the obvious exception that Jews were never commanded to eternally wage war on the rest of the world.
I realize there are also a great many very significant differences, the most obvious being that nobody is trying to use the literal Law of Moses today, much less impose it on others by force.
There is a lot of truth in what you say.
No matter how bad Obama is, those who put him in the position he is in, and those in the media trying to keep him there are worse.
This is what the women of Egypt and Libya are looking at when Obama’s little enterprise with the Muslim Brotherhood take charge there.
Anyone who believes Egypt and Libya will have a Democratic government are brainless.
Yeah, there are some similarities:
Deuteronomy 22: 28
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Really wishing we had gone with my plan on 9\12\2001, which was to nuke most of the 30th North parallel from about 10 West to 65 East. Barbarians.
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