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This is what happens when local religious groups get to mete out justice. Thank God the Christian right does not have the same power in the US.

A Christian

What animals we are supporting over there. How can there be any order or peace--poor girl children and women in that horrible part of our world.

Hearing things like this... makes my blood boil. Some men live that deserve death, some men die that deserve life... can you give it to them? That is how I view life and death and how such things should be dealt with. I don't believe in the death penalty.

But I hear things like this... and it all flies out the window and I say carpet bomb! Kill the @#%#^@^@#% (But it will pass... )

connie47:

Amen.

An Atheist

There is no control over the animals.And we will continue to send our dollars.I dont think the Talliban men are very pure. they have abused, children daughters, women, they are flogging themselves.Animals, just anumals,I wish our money could help the women,those are animals and we have no buss.overthere.How dare they decide,or punish anyone.

Since they didn't kill her, would this make them moderate Taliban?

No question that flogging a 17 year old girl for an "inappropriate sexual relationship" is completely wrong. But the above commenters need to get off their high horse, if they believe america (or the rest of the world) does any better.
Taking someone's freedom, sticking them in a jail cell for years is just as bad --if not worse-- than physical violence.
Western methods of punishment, particularly incarceration, are just as inhumane.

Linkt00, are you really going to compare our prison system to this? Sure, we have messed up in regards to human rights in guantanamo, but the obama adminstration is dealing with that. Nevertheless, our normal prison system is not comparable to the atrocities going on in regions that are governed by strict extremist law. Our laws apply to everyone, their laws are often sexist. How are we just as inhumane?

Linkt00

There is only so much you can do to maintain civil order. (Yes we make mistakes, we are only human.) But that is a rip-roaring stretch.)

But someone put in jail, here,commited, a crime ,against somebody. At least they have an attorney to try to protect their rights,They have done something against another human,hurt, or killed or stole from someone,juries and lawmakers try to do the best to protect society,and help hold the guilty.. and also to punish,but with laws.All is not perfect, there are mistakes, but atleast ,there is a jury,l others, they try.THe floggers, are barbaric,living in other centuries, and they are the ones who choose which women,girls,they have sex with. many young ones, where are their laws.Animals.Then they cover them up so they are no tempted

There was a report, that 9 year old girls are afraid of them in many ways.They terrorize women,they have a sick dpraved desire the way they act.and the ultimate authority are them.Hello??This is not about men against women, or women against men, this is something sick. no animals,animales.

Yes it's horrible. And the U.S. is turning Afghanistan and Iraq into wastelands filled with radioactive dust from all the depleted uranium munitions being used. Leukemia rates in Iraq are ALREADY skyrocketing. Have any of you ever seen photos of babies born with congenital deformaties because of American depleted uranium munitions? Not a pretty sight. But of course what is constantly on the news? Taliban flogs a teenage girl. Taliban throws acid in a kid's face. Et cetera. Never a peep about depleted uranium. Never do we see headlines like "U.S. makes Iraq and Afghanistan poisonous wastelands for the next million years." What do you think "Gulf War Syndrome" is? A mysterious way of saying "depleted uranium poisoning". The U.S. has no business or justifiable reason for being in Iraq OR Afghanistan (before anybody says anything about Afghanistan being "righteous" because of 9/11 they might want to actually bother looking into the details of their beloved national myth including all the ridiculous impossibilities they are expected to swallow). Are the Taliban brutal thugs? Sure. Far worse however can be said about a country that would launch two wars of aggression killing hundreds of thousands of people and making two nations into carcinogenic wastelands for the rest of time in an effort to "secure" as much of the world's remaining oil and natural gas.

This is awful, so was lynching, that was horrible too, and it was legal not long ago,

[Dr. Arthur Raper was commissioned in 1930 to produce a report on lynching. He discovered that "3,724 people were lynched in the United States from 1889 through to 1930. Over four-fifths of these were Negroes, less than one-sixth of whom were accused of rape. Practically all of the lynchers were native whites. The fact that a number of the victims were tortured, mutilated, dragged, or burned suggests the presence of sadistic tendencies among the lynchers. Of the tens of thousands of lynchers and onlookers, only 49 were indicted and only 4 have been sentenced."

[After the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in 1867 the number of lynching of African American increased dramatically. The main objective of the KKK was to maintain white supremacy in the South, which they felt was under threat after their defeat in the Civil War. It has been estimated that between 1880 and 1920, an average of two African Americans a week were lynched in the United States...

...The NAACP hoped that the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 would bring an end to lynching. Two African American campaigners against lynching, Mary McLeod Bethune and Walter Francis White, had been actively involved in helping Roosevelt to obtain victory. The president's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, had also been a long-time opponent of lynching...

Between 1865 and 1965 over 2400 African Americans were lynched in the United States. Even after the passing of the Civil Rights Act (1964) lynchings continued in the Deep South. The most significant of these was the Michael Donald case. In 1981 the trial of Josephus Andersonan, an African American charged with the murder of a white policeman, took place in Mobile. At the end of the case the jury was unable to reach a verdict. This upset members of the Ku Klux Klan who believed that the reason for this was that some members of the jury were African Americans. At a meeting held after the trial, Bennie Hays, the second-highest ranking official in the Klan in Alabama said: "If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man."

On Saturday 21st March, 1981, Bennie Hays's son, Henry Hays, and James Knowles, decided they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the man for killing a policeman. They travelled around Mobile in their car until they found nineteen year old Michael Donald walking home. After forcing him into the car Donald was taken into the next county where he was lynched.

A brief investigation took place and eventually the local police claimed that Donald had been murdered as a result of a disagreement over a drugs deal. Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, who knew that her son was not involved with drugs, was determined to obtain justice. She contacted Jessie Jackson who came to Mobile and led a protest march about the failed police investigation. ]
Excerpted from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm

So who is going to throw the first stone?

I bet if utube had been around then, imagine what we would have seen what we haven't seen.

I mean imagine what it must have been like for those people. People incredibly cruel.