Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He told her that if she didn't find a missing watch by the next morning he would kill her. He almost had already.

Enraged about the missing watch, Gulsoma's father-in-law had beaten her repeatedly with a stick. She was bleeding from wounds all over her body and her right arm and right foot had been broken.

She knew at that moment that if she didn't get away, he would make good on his promise to kill her

http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/20060320/hz_afghanistan_0306/blogs2986

what a horror story. It sickens me!
Long live the backward, barbarian tribals societies! :-@

More from Afghanistan:

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Save A Good Man's Life: Abdul Rahman of Afghanistan
ABC News:

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20, 2006 — Despite the overthrow of the fundamentalist Taliban government and the presence of 22,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a man who converted to Christianity is being prosecuted in Kabul, and a judge said Sunday that if convicted, he faces the death penalty.
Abdul Rahman, who is in his 40s, says he converted to Christianity 16 years ago while working as an aid worker helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
Relatives denounced him as a convert during a custody battle over his children, and he was arrested last month. The prosecutor says Rahman was found with a Bible.
Human rights workers have described the case as an unsettling reminder that the country's post-Taliban judiciary remains deeply conservative, and they have called on President Hamid Karzai to intervene. During Taliban times, men were forced to kneel in prayer five times a day, and couples faced the death penalty for sex outside marriage, for example. Reform efforts have been slow, say experts, since there are so few judges and lawyers with experience.
The U.S. State Department is watching the case closely and considers it a barometer of how well democracy is developing in Afghanistan.
"Our view … is that tolerance, freedom of worship is an important element of any democracy," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "And these are issues as Afghan democracy matures that they are going to have to deal with increasingly."
A number of Christian nonprofit groups do humanitarian work in Afghanistan. Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid calls the Rahman case a step backward for the country, especially if Rahman is executed.

That explains why most people in the Middle East are Muslims. Submit or die.

And they accuse Denmark of being racist to Muslims.

It seems to me that it is the Muslims that are racist.

Four die in Afghan cartoon riot
Cartoon protesters in Kabul
There have been angry scenes in the Afghan capital, Kabul
At least four people have been killed and up to 20 injured in a violent protest in Afghanistan over cartoons satirising the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41307000/jpg/_41307710_ap203bodyshout.jpg

Gawd, Muslims jest MAY be brutal 'n intolerant 'cuz they come from a brutal 'n intolerant part of the world...



Perty much the shame as Christians...




May we RESPECT the last witches of those who died in Salem 'n keep politics away from our own guvermint...



...so that we may not git BURNED AGAIN...




www. want peace 'n TOLERANCE? Take the Muslims and Christians 'n Buddha their ass OUTTA here... .edu



www. or be a gawdless heathen, like Odder... .edu



;)

More from Afghanistan:

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Save A Good Man's Life: Abdul Rahman of Afghanistan
ABC News:

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20, 2006 — Despite the overthrow of the fundamentalist Taliban government and the presence of 22,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a man who converted to Christianity is being prosecuted in Kabul, and a judge said Sunday that if convicted, he faces the death penalty.

This is suppossed to be Americas example of what they are bringing to Iraq....

Odder

When you talk about Muslims coming from intolerant parts of the world are you including The Netherlands and France among these intolerant places? How about Indonesia, India, Germany and a host of other countries in which Muslims have shown intolerance even while being tolerated by the native population.

Good point, Frogger.