Taleban hang 7-year-old boy to punish family (Boy accused of "spying")

Times Online ^ | June 10, 2010 | Jerome Starkey, Kandahar

[Popman]

It’s worse than hanging a seven year old.

Not that I condone this, but being sodomized by an dirty old man is worse than being hanged?

Maybe I missed something in the video

[The4thHorseman]

“The killing of children to punish their parents has chilling echoes of western mafia-style violence.”

I don’t remember hearing about any mafia killings of children in order to punish the parents. Sounds like something Sadam Hussein might have done, though.

I love the use of the words “chilling echoes” as if to imply this type of thing was done in the west FIRST. Oh, yeah, Muslims never killed children before the mafia came up with the idea!

[Thom Pain]

I guess the media and our Mexican friends will be expressing their outrage about this just as they went ballistic when the 14 year old smuggler was killed.

< crickets >

[EggsAckley]

Actually, I couldn’t really see what was going on in that video. That’s probably a good thing.

[bboop]

The Nazis killed children if their parents took a stand against them, too. But this must be multi-culturalism at its best — the thing THEY choose to do that we don’t do. “How can we judge?” // sarc.