Tegan

This is a video and I can't find a worded story about it, but go to CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News and look at the fourth video down "Iraqi woman stoned to death". It's graphic and somewhat disturbing if you have a weak stomach, you've been warned.

And people wonder why these people will never know any peace. They kill teenage girls who have the audacity to fall in love with someone from a different religious sect. Not have sex with, no commit adultery, just fall in love with. Mind you, she didn't fall in love with a Christian, or a Jew, she fell in love with a Muslim who happens to have a slightly different view of Islam. This would be like Clare getting stoned to death because she dared to marry a Lutheran when she was raised a Baptist.

I doubt this will be a popular view, but these people are just barbaric. Maybe, just maybe, Iraq isn't worth saving. Maybe we should just leave them to their fate, let them kill each other off in the name of Islam for the next hundred years. The so called "police" in Iraq sat and watched this girl get stoned to death for what amounts to nothing. Maybe the Iraqi people simply aren't worth saving. Not all of them mind you, I am sure there are good people there, but the bad people who don't want peace, who don't want justice, are starting to outweigh them.

I know one thing, it's time to bring our troops home. It doesn't matter how long we stay there, as soon as we leave, the country is going to fall apart. As much as we want to bring the Iraqi people peace, a very key ingredient is missing: They have to want peace and have to be willing to fight for it first. It's quite obvious that's not the case. I am all for finishing the job and bringing a better way of life and standard of living to people, but our energy could be spent elsewhere. In places people actually need our help and want change, like Darfur in the Sudan. I just feel we should no longer risk our troops for a country and a society that wants to stay in the dark ages and wants to resist bringing themselves up to modern standards of decency and equality.

memento_mori

i love how there's an advertisement before the video

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All Else Failed

No no no you have to understand that religion is not the reason this happened, we have to take responsibility for our own actions!


*heavy sarcasm*

BreakfastSurreal

i couldnt see the video because i dont hav WMP...but it sounds like total bull malarky to me. How are we going to make a democratic nation out of one with such narrow minded and totalitarianistic views? Maybe totalitarian isn't the right word...but if government were religion it would be. hmmm.

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Tegan

We aren't, that's the problem. You are never going to convince those kind of people that a society based on justice, equality and certain unalienable rights is a good thing. The United States has it's own share of problems, and there are plenty of things we do that I am not proud of...but what we don't do is stone teenage girls in the street for having a teenage crush on someone with a different religious view.

drb

jebus, that turned my stomach. the thing that kills me is that they resorted to ancient practices to uphold out-dated principals and used their cell-phones to record it all. *shakes head*

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Boomer

Holy shit! They fucked that girl up man! *shakes head* That shits just horrible.

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memento_mori

supposedly it was her father and uncles that did it, too

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drb

also, since when were snuff flicks considered news? she was degraded and humilated enough without her death being broadcast across the world. i do think her story should be told, however, i truely feel that report was done without tact.

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memento_mori

i don't feel the report was done disrespectfully.

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Tegan

Yah, they are called "Honor Killings". She "disgraced" the Muslim honor of the family by dating a Suni boy, so they stoned her to death. Yep, definitely a country full of people worth saving...