One Kabul resident, Ghazal Sharifi, a dentist, told AFP how she had befriended a stray dog that had six puppies near her workplace and one day she discovered them all being poisoned. "The workers laughed at me as I held the dying bodies", Sharifi said. "This inhumane cruelty to animals is un-Islamic. "I saw dogs being thrown into a truck even when they were still just alive, piled one on top of another. I keep having nightmares about the scene. I just want this to stop." I talked to friends who served in Afghanistan.
They were horrified by three things: homosexual rape of boys, cruelty to dogs, and cruelty to women.