Young Afghan couple stoned to death

UPI ^ | 8/22/2010

[markomalley]

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Two young people who eloped against their families' wishes were stoned to death in Afghanistan by hundreds of men, relatives said.

The hundreds of killers were carrying out a death sentence handed down by a mullah against the young man and young woman, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Mutasem Khan, an uncle of the young man, said: "It was an act of great cruelty."

The executions in a northern village in Kunduz province came just one week after another public execution in the same region -- a widow in her 40s was whipped then shot for conceiving a child out of wedlock with a man she intended to marry, the Times said.

Human rights groups verified the executions and told the Times such punishments are becoming more common as conservative local leaders get more assertive under the Taliban's growing influence and the weakening of the central government.

[markomalley]

ROP

[HiTech RedNeck]

everybody must get stoned!

[MODELSHIPS]

Coming to a neighborhood near you sooner than you think

Please God help us?

[albie]

This is Sharia Law. Supported by the Imam behind a “Ground Zero Mosque” near you.

[ScottinVA]

Afghanistan was better off under the Soviet jackboot. I hold out no hope for those people.

[Slyfox]

Romeo and Juliet, Islamo-style.

[livius]

This was the law that he told a Muslim audience yesterday “shares the principles of the US Constitution.” Yeah, right.

[ScottinVA]

Coming to a neighborhood near you sooner than you think

Does anyone really think it hasn't happened in Dearbornistan?

[umgud]

The only difference between these muslims and the so-called moderate muslims is that they are actually doing what they are commanded to do.

[OldNavyVet]

Islam: An anti-life religion of death ... seeking death.

[MizSterious]

Yes, by all means, let’s do show the Muslim community the same kind of tolerance they extend to everyone else. Absolutely. Not to mention peace and love, of course.

[andy58-in-nh]

The New York Times would decry all of this irrational prejudice against Islam.

[granite]

Words are inappropriate to describe this barbarism. Only brave action will save us.

[Man50D]

Build the Ground Zero mosque!

[NativeNewYorker]

Bush’s fault!

[vox_freedom]

From news report: carrying out a death sentence handed down by a mullah...

Not exactly a "jury of your peers," eh?

[Frank_2001]

Those “local leaders” are definitely NOT “conservative”!!! Mush-headed young nitwits read this bias and “think” that conservative Americans will do likewise here if voted into power. /s

[ClearBlueSky]

ISLAM killed them, as it wants to kill the world.
Death by Islam- or death TO Islam.
Choose.

[DHSMostWanted]

Yet the left will stay silent. If a group of Christians did this it would be headline news.

[Outlaw Woman]

...such punishments are becoming more common as conservative local leaders get more assertive...

The left strikes again...