Freedom to love, tested in Afghanistan. When Rafi Mohammed, a 17-year-old
Tajik Afghani, met and fell in love with his girlfriend Halima, he did not think about the rage that would erupt in her ethically conservative
Hazara neighborhood, or of the lengths to which the local police and religious leaders would go to protect the couple from an angry mob in a region of Afghanistan which
has seen fewer attacks recently and has been restored to local control. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- the violence that ensued, many of the locals have found themselves opposed to the fundamentalists, unwilling to see another pair of young lovers executed,
as happened under Taliban rule. (
video, NSFW)
""I feel so bad. I just pray that God gives this girl back to me. I'm ready to lose my life. I just want her safe release. . . It’s the heart. When you love somebody, you don’t ask who she is or what she is. You just go for it.”
posted by markkraft
on Jul 31, 2011 -
35 comments
Amina Lawal Must Not Face Death by Stoning says UK Amnesty International. Nigerian woman, divorced & single, with 3 kids, to be executed by a Sharia Court for giving birth outside of wedlock. Other pregnant unwed mothers, such as this
computer student, are seeking asylum outside of Nigeria to avoid being stoned to death by a Nigerian Sharia Court in accordance with
Islamic law principles. Amina's whole convoluted and horrible story is laid out nicely
here. Sharia Courts, and their ilk, punish sexual and "moral offenders" through stoning,
amputation,
crushing the victim with walls,
hanging, or even
rape.
Meanwhile, in another universe, the
Nigerian 419 scam has mutated into Amina Lawal's "barrister"
spamming the net with pleas for cash. Instead of that, sign the
open letter to the President of Nigeria asking that death by stoning be stopped.
posted by filchyboy
on Aug 31, 2002 -
14 comments
