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The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
kimmar
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A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
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The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
Last updated at 18:28pm on 3rd May 2007A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an "honour killing" by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy.
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The teenager was dragged outside by 8 or 9 men and stoned for half an hour until she died. Her boyfriend is now in hiding in fear for his life
They said she had shamed herself and her family when she failed to return home one night. Some reports suggested she had converted to Islam to be closer to her boyfriend.
Miss Aswad had taken shelter in the house of a Yezidi tribal leader in Bashika, a predominantly Kurdish town near the northern capital, Mosul.
A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Miss Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead.
The stoning happened last month, but only came to light yesterday with the release of the Internet video.
It is feared her death has already triggered a retaliatory attack. Last week 23 Yezidi workmen were forced off a bus travelling from Mosulto Bashika by a group of Sunni gunmen and summarily shot dead.
An Amnesty International spokesman in London said they receive frequent reports of honour crimes from Iraq – particularly in the predominantly Kurdish north.
Most victims are women and girls who are considered by male relatives to have shamed their families by immoral behaviour.
Kurdish authorities have introduced reforms outlawing honour killings, but have failed to investigate them or prosecute suspects, added the Amnesty spokesman.
Kate Allen, the organisation’s UK director, said: "This young girl’s murder is truly abhorrent and her killers must be brought to justice.
"Unless the authorities respond vigorously to this and any other reports of crimes in the name of 'honour', we must fear for the future of women in Iraq."
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It all seems so stupid
It makes me want to give up
But why should I give up
When it all seems so stupid
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THere are foolish people everywhere aren't they. they still hold on to their medieval punishments but we used to do the same thing in our medieval times and the islam time is if i recall correctly 1500 so to us they are in the medieval times.
And this is why you can't "liberate" this country, or it's peoples, with guns. You're not going to turn Iraq into a democracy by throwing soldiers at it.
Edit: But, of course, that's not why we're really there.
That must have been some dank ass shit.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
Disgusting.
The sort of people that could do that, are totally alien to me. Especially her own family members. No scriptur religius zeolot or voice in my head. could or would ever justifie that.
Pretty sickening really
Our troups in Iraq should stop peacekeeping and start bunkering themselves in instead; the conflicting religious groups killing each other is just a self-correcting problem.
This is a sequence of characters intended to produce some profound mental effect, but it has failed.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
I'm sorry my king.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
I know women, children and people get murdered everywhere under many circumstances but this was in daylight with people cheering and holding cell cams, its seems to horrific to be real and I am not a religious person but that looks like pure devils work! No the guilty people were not Muslin either as I initially thought but they are some pagan like sect of Kurdish religion but these so called "honor killings " happen all the time in places which have been twisted backwards by outdated religion. Now that I think of it lets let this Armageddon happen soon because I really want these religious fanatics to wipe each other out and I will sit on the sidelines with the rest of the godless blasphemers and live happy after the ignorance has been purged.
{(RIP)} SWG
It's sickening. I don't see how so many people can be so gruesome to each other. It's mind numbing....
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
To us it seems horrible but we used to do the same thing, didn't we?
It is not that these man are 'beasts' it is just that their society hasn't 'evolved' to our more liberal society yet. they didn't have the same revolutions as we had. We accept people more but even in our society there are people that cannot accept others with different believes.
not just our "retarded" ancestors but we as well WWII not only the nazis but the allies as well or those who were qonquered by the nazis for example. I believe there are still people alive who have been through WWII.
It wasn't so long ago that our ancestors did the same thing probably just 300-200 years ago.
God commanded stoning for violations of The Ten Commandments, any of them:
"And The Lord said to Moses ... He who blasphemes the Name of The Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death." (Leviticus 24:13,16 RSV)
"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods ... You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from The Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." (Deuteronomy 13:6,10 RSV)
"While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day ... And The Lord said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." (Numbers 15:32,35 RSV)
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"Kaneda! What...do you see?"
It is from these numbers that we estimated what is occurring nationwide. It is widely accepted that 9.6 million animals are euthanized annually in the United States. http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nr_fact_sheets_animal_euthanasia
I am more outraged about this, something that can easily be stopped by passing laws strictly limiting the breeding of dogs and cats in the US.
And it's there way? would it be beyond objection if a religion endorsed child sacrifice sprouted in south america because the aztects did it? You would be against any objection to this?
I am very perplexed by this reasoning. Since you brought the nazi's up. By your own logic we should have accepted them...well it's there way?
Nothing done by my ancestors or not done has any relevance to me now. I am me, not my ancestors.
I see a murder of a child by nine murderers. No religion historical act or policically correct arguement is going to paint for me another picture of this act..
wow just keep defending the iraqis becasue they were great people untill us evil americans tried to help them. /sarcasm off. kind of kills the argument that they are just doing what they have to to defend their country from us. Looks to me like they revel in their violance and ignorance.
Unless you're a Jew, I guess.
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