In Afghanistan, Rage at Young Lovers
1st August 2011
It was the beginning of an Afghan love story that flouted dominant traditions of arranged marriages and close family scrutiny, a romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities that tested a village’s tolerance for more modern whims of the heart. The results were delivered with brutal speed.
This month, a group of men spotted the couple riding together in a car, yanked them into the road and began to interrogate the boy and girl. Why were they together? What right had they? An angry crowd of 300 surged around them, calling them adulterers and demanding that they be stoned to death or hanged.
That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.
August 1st, 2011 at 09:49
I’d like to dedicate this song to the two young lovers in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXbf4rLdho
Ride camel ride…
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:54
Ignorance, bigotry, and religious fanaticism: A fatal combination.