[Former Fetus]

Sorry if it's too long, but it's worth the reading. I know that Islam is not mentioned, although being Afghanistan, and married at such young age, I don't think there's a question about it. If this is what our boys are fighting to put a stop to, God bless them.

[EveningStar]

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[EveningStar]

I really don't know that this has anything to do with Islam but it's still sick.

[Brytani]

God help this little girl. How anyone could do this to a child doesn't deserve to walk the earth.

[Cornpone]

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcom X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Muslem men – all colors – may exists there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, 1983

[nmh]

It sure ain't Christianity. The major religion is Afghanistan is Islam. This is too sick for me to comprehend.

[visualops]

I would say God has a mission for this child.

[river rat]

These people are lower than cockroaches....
These people will NOT be changed by "freedom" or "Democracy" -- because they have been bred to insanity through the Koran...

Destruction of ALL who still wish to continue their practice the barbarous Koran -- is the ONLY solution...

Semper Fi

[luvbach1]

Not too long at all. I hung on every word of her story. No need to mention Islam. Hideous!

[hosepipe]

This had been going on for 1426 years.. with much worse examples.. In Islam child abuse is legal.. needless to say its not recorded.. To this day; in ANY predominate Islamic country.. this is common.. RAPE?.. well thats more or less legal too..

I must say this is what they do to EACH OTHER..
What do you think they think about YOU???..
An infidel is LESS than animal..

[Alouette]

I wish I could take you to the village square and show all the people what happened to you

Real bad idea. They would stone her for running away.

[guestfox01]

It breaks my heart to read such things. I hope the girl's abusers roast in Hell for what they've done to her.

[mylife]

I Hope these freaks burn in hell for eternity

[gotribe]

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.

That brought to mind the story of Jesus challenging the mad crowd against stoning the prostitute. What a difference between Christian and islamic values.

[Marine Inspector]

If this is what our boys are fighting to put a stop to, God bless them.

Agreed.

[T'wit]

Gulsoma's story bears uncomfortable similarities to Haleigh Poutre's story in this country. Both girls were scalded and beaten with unthinkable savagery by foster parents. But when Gulsoma finally escaped, she found sympathy and safety. Haleigh found neither sympathy nor safety in the hands of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. Just a few days after Haleigh was brought in -- all but comatose from a beating -- the DSS asked a court for permission to kill her by dehydration. They would have done it, too, except that Haleigh started to get a little better and her execution was called off (at least for the moment).

Afghanistan is obviously far more civilized than Massachusetts.

[Savage Beast]

There is no limit to the human capacity for cruelty, depravity, and evil. Never forget that.

But also never forget that goodness, kindness, and heroism are as indelible a part of human nature as are cruelty, depravity, and the capacity for evil:

"the family had one boy her age...who refused to take part in her torture.

"He would sneak me food sometimes and when my mother-in-law told him to find a stick to beat me, he would come back say he couldn't find one. He would try to stop the others sometimes."

The supreme beauty of Todd Beamer is that he was an average man--like you and me. Until 9/11 he was unknown to most of us--lost in the crowd.

Never forget it.

[Brooklyn Kid]

What religion do you think the people are who helped her?

[elli1]

I'm presuming that some of the people who helped her were also Islamic.

[HangnJudge]

If this is what our boys are fighting to put a stop to, God bless them.

I would love to see NOW redirected into a strong, sustained, educational and civil rights campaign against these viciously anti female practices. They have been strangely quiet through all this, during a time where they should be most vociferously active. My great aunt was one of the first females to graduate from John's Hopkins Medical School (1922), was a Suffragette, and involved in family violence, even back in the 1920's.

She would be rolling over in her grave over NOW's reticence and apparent inaction.

If I were a paranoid sort, I'd believe that the NOW leadership was being paid off by the Islamists to distract attention away from Islam's vicious misogyny.

[yldstrk]

It's a sick civilization. I know a family firsthand. They didn't beat anyone that I was aware of, but I always wondered.