[Pokey78]

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[Jewels1091]

I think we should give them the same treatment...it would only be fair!

[another cricket]

What to say? They destroyed his body and his love of books. Just because they thought he was a Christian.
Sayed Abdullah may not be a Christian but this Christian will remember him in prayer along with all the others, Christians and Muslims and Hindu, that are coming out of this little hell on earth.
Cricket

[Jewels1091]

you know, if this is what they really think that their god wants....doesn't that just give you the shivers, that they really think a god could be that mean and nasty and cruel?????

[denydenydeny]

They beat him like meat on a slab, chanting: "God is blessing us. God will reward us." One remarked that he would enjoy ripping Sayed's muscles out with pliers.

Religion of peace bump, again.

[Republic]

What a heartbreaking article. The Taliban are animals. Worse than animals. I expect Allah has quite a surprise waiting for those subhuman jerks who so punished this man for nothing but sheer sadistic pleasure.

[JudyB1938]

Where are all the "humanitarians"!!! Why aren't they rushing to that country to help those people who were tortured like that? Why don't they put their money where their mouths are! That poor man! And they say there's more just like him! It just hurts too much to think about it! May God help them and damn their torturers!

[isthisnickcool]

Islam is just so sweet? Check out this site (no, it's not a joke):

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[Walkin Man]

Just saw this today. How many times have I read from some defender of Islam that muslims "respect people of the book", meaning Christians and Jews. I guess as they are beating, burning, and torturing you they really respect you! The god of any people who do such horrible acts to innocent people is Satan, no matter what other names he may go by. No one could do such terrible, vicious, cruel acts and not know that it is wrong. This is why there is a Hell, where else would human scum like these rabid dogs go?

[Walkin Man]

Peaceful, loving, Islam [/sarcasm] BUMP.

[miltonim]

Non-Muslims were a common target. About 50 Hindu families who live here were ordered by the Taliban to wear distinguishing yellow clothing. Most of the few remaining Jews in Kabul left the country. There may be a few Christian Afghans; if so, they hid from the Taliban for fear of execution.

[miltonim]

The soldiers pulled him out of his cell. They kicked him, punched him, pulled his hair. They spat on him. The soldiers begged the commander for the privilege of killing Sayed with their knives.

[miltonim]

The Taliban guards again tied him on the table. This time, they poured water on his feet, then wound electrical wires around both of his big toes. The wires were attached to an old Soviet military field telephone. The guards turned the telephone's crank, sending a searing electrical current into Sayed's feet. It went on for more than an hour. He felt as if some powerful force was lifting him high off the table, then slamming him down again, over and over.

[miltonim]

He couldn't walk. His feet were battered and swollen from the beatings and the shocks. All his toenails were blackened. The toilet was a bucket on the next cell's floor. When they let him out to use it, he had to crawl there.

[miltonim]

Then they took him upstairs to a room that struck Sayed as some sort of torture museum. Whips, sticks, electrical cords. A device in which a man with his feet shackled to the floor is kept standing by a rope from the ceiling tied to his hair. They would each become familiar to Sayed, as would even more hideous electric shocks that made him urinate blood.

[miltonim]

"So you are British, huh? You are a Christian?" They tied him facedown on the table. Slowly, they took off their turbans, then their coats, then rolled up their sleeves. They beat him like meat on a slab, chanting: "God is blessing us. God will reward us." One remarked that he would enjoy ripping Sayed's muscles out with pliers.

[miltonim]

Osman said that Sayed could barely move or talk when he first saw him in a Kabul hospital in early 2000. He said the blows to his head and spine had caused severe nerve damage, leaving him incontinent and making it hard for him to control his hands, feet and speech.

[miltonim]

"We will take you to the roof of the Ministry of Communications," he said, referring to the 18-story building that is Kabul's tallest. "First we will burn you. Then we will throw you over the edge so that everyone can see you and know the punishment for converting from Islam."