Teenage girl, man killed by Taliban for eloping
I say this a lot, but this is something else that someone is going to have to explain to me. The idea that anyone can stand by and allow this to go on is something I simply can not grasp.
I usually don’t get into criticizing religions other than Christianity because we do have freedom of religion in this country and what other people choose as their religion is their own business. However, I have come to understand that there are some religions, or at least part of some religions, that need to be banned, both in the United States and in the rest of the world. When any religion infringes upon an individual’s right to life, then there is something inherently flawed in that religion.
In the latest harsh example of why the world needs less Islamic extremism, the Taliban in Afghanistan has killed a 19 year old girl and a 21 year old man for eloping. From The Associated Press:
Taliban gunmen executed a young couple in southern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with rifles in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials said Tuesday.
The woman, 19, and the man, 21, were accused by the militants of immoral acts, and a council of conservative clerics decided that the two should be killed, said Ghulam Dastagir Azad, the governor of the southwestern province of Nimroz.
Riflemen in the remote district of Khash Rod shot the man and woman with AK-47s Monday during a public execution, said Sadiq Chakhansori, the chief of Nimroz’ provincial council.
The two fled their homes and hoped to travel to Iran, but their parents sent villagers to bring them home, Chakhansori said. Once back home, the pair was either turned over to the Taliban by their parents or the militants came and took them by force, the officials said, providing slightly varying accounts.
Should they have eloped? Most likely not, but does that mean they deserve to be shot with AK-47s in a public execution? Most certainly not. If there is one good thing to come out of President Obama’s troop surge into Afghanistan, I hope it is that the Taliban is driven completely out of the country.
The most outrageous part about this entire situation is that the parents are the ones who send the villagers to bring them back home. Given the fact that they knew the Taliban and it’s ways, they had to know what the final outcome would be. They had to know they were bringing their children back to their deaths, but they apparently didn’t care about that. All they were concerned with was the law of the Taliban was being upheld. How any parent can love their religion enough to kill their own child is beyond me. These parents may not have pulled the trigger themselves, but they are as guilty as sin in these murders.
President Obama has bent himself over backwards to make sure the Islamic world knows we are not at war with Muslims and I would agree with that sentiment, up to a certain point. When it comes to the Taliban and their flawed logic that their people would be better off dead than allow the Taliban law to be corrupted, then I would disagree. We should be at war with that part of the Islamic religion because it is tyranny at it’s worst.
We need to name who we are fighting and be up front about it. It is Islam. I’ve been studying about Islam and reading their horrid quran since 9.11.01. The taliban are doing exactly what the quran tells them to do. Their whole history is filled with this exact same kind of violence…the only time they are more quiet is when they don’t have the funds to carry out the commands of the quran and the hadiths.
I certainly don’t support what the Talibanists and other extremists do, but I wouldn’t ban their religion. That becomes a slippery slope where we’ll eventually be banning different Christian denominations, etc.
The Islamic world really needs to police their own, but I don’t believe that there is much of a groundswell of support from that community. I’m a Christian, so I would encourage everyone to put their trust in Jesus Christ, who taught us that God’s mercy and forgiveness trumps everything.
As far as the Taliban goes, I cannot say much good about them — terrorists who will cut the throats of their own if they don’t toe the line. Where is the mercy in that?
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Matt,
Just to be clear, I didn’t mean to imply that Islam should be banned, but the sects such as the Taliban, who believe it’s okay to kill a couple for eloping should be outlawed the world over. Just my opinion.
It’s so odd you did a post on this today as I was just stumbling an article for my su blog on this very subject.
I have come to the conclusion that a spirit of deception has crept over the world. Nothing else makes sense. As far as the Taliban and radical versions of Islam, after reading the Koran, I have become convinced that this book was not written by God to his people. It is a book by man for man. There is no love for others in this book. Women are perceived as possessions not gifts.
When you lay the Koran next to the Bible, the difference in how “God” treats mankind is startling.
I sense, sadly, that we are slowly opening the door for this kind of extremism in America. Some of the recent cabinet choices by President Obama are alarming in that they believe in Sharia law and have no problem with these kind of punishments.
If we are not witnessing the end days, I sense we are very close. My only response is to pray for these people and to pray more fervently.
Great post and an important post, Larry.
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Dominique, the suggestion that certain Obama Cabinet members “believe in Sharia law and have no problem with these kind of punishments” is extremely alarming indeed. Can you please direct me to a reputable source to verify that information so I can pass on this startling news?