A Taliban firing squad killed a young couple in southwestern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with AK-47s in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials said Tuesday.
The woman, 19-year-old Gul Pecha, and the man, 21-year-old Abdul Aziz, were accused by the militants of immoral acts, and a council of conservative clerics decided that the two should be killed, officials said.
The two had hoped to travel to Iran, which borders their home province of Nimroz, but their parents sent villagers to bring them home, said Sadiq Chakhansori, the chief of the provincial council. Once back home, the pair was either turned over to the Taliban by their parents or the militants took them by force, the officials said, providing slightly varying accounts….
In remote and dangerous regions of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters operate what are sometimes referred to as shadow governments, where militant leaders serve as government officials and run their own police units and pseudo court systems.
What can you say? There’s no end to such stories.
Thanks, K B
Steve,
What do you mean, “where is the liberal outcry”
I’m a liberal and this story horrifies me. I’m sure it horrifies most liberals and non-Muslim conservatives.
But, c’mon, this is CONSERVATIVE religion at work. Not liberal.
Liberal Muslims don’t do anything like this. It’s the CONSERVATIVE wings of that religion that are causing the strife.
Once can logically argue that is is CONSERVATISM, not religion, that is driving modern radicalism.
Conservative atheists like Christopher Hitchens are just as militant as Jerry Falwell and his ilk.