Wow. These people are hardcore:
It’s less than a week since the tiny Afghan village community witnessed the execution of 25-year-old Bibi Amena for adultery, but by Tuesday life appeared to have returned to normal. Bibi was sentenced to death by local religious leaders in the Spingul valley in the isolated northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Her crime was to be found in the company of a man she was not married to.
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The killing was even endorsed by Amena’a mother.
“When the verdict was announced they came to consult me and I said, ‘kill her’ she said, without emotion. “I am proud and happy that she [Amena] was killed, because she undermined the honour of the village.”
Quite a contrast from our so-called “culture of life” in America. Here we have people getting all bent out of shape and passing emergency acts of congress when someone stops artificially feeding a woman whose been brain dead for more than a decade. There, they don’t appear to be so concerned about such matters.
At any rate, these type of incidents illustrate that despite globalization, we are literally still a world from some people on the other side of the globe.