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
Posted on 05/04/2007 8:29:06 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Moment a Teenage Girl was Stoned to Death for Loving the Wrong Boy
Last updated at 18:28pm on 3rd May 2007
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.
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.
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.
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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
this, LITERALLY, makes me sick to my stomach..:(
Obviously this is leftist propaganda, as we know that Islam is a religion of peace and just as soon as they are given democracy and economic prosperity they will be just like us.
These were Yezidis that did this, not Muslims.
Would someone please explain to me how or why an American woman would convert to this evil, ‘religion’?
There is something wrong with those people over there...It has to be genetic. I honestly do not see any reason for them to exist. What do they contribute to mankind?
“What a bunch of barbaric pigs.”
They are truly disgusting. The poor girl absolutely did NOT deserve such a horrendous death, but her MURDERERS do.
The growth of republican influences in Iraq will help to affect actual civilization.
Actually you are only partly correct. It is actually Right Wing propaganda. We on the Left agree that Islam is a religion of peace. However, Democracy is not the answer. Each society must find it's own cultural justice. The reason that Muslims kill each other like this is because of American imperialism and Zionism.
Which brings up the question, what comes first - the chicken or egg? Is it the just society that sees the value of democracy and makes it so, or the democracy that causes a just society? I think almost anyone would say it’s the first situation. Look at what is going on in Turkey today, and I think you’ll see that Ataturk realized this about his own people.
Think about it: it took a half hour for her to pass; they watched her try to get up only to be kicked back down and stoned again. Add to all this the indignity of being stripped and laughed at; this is honorable death??
Good talking points, but it makes no sense. Please explain how American and “Zionist” influence has created this form of babarism. It has certainly been around longer than “American Imperialism.”
I was responding to a blatantly sarcastic post with even greater sarcasm.
Well....THE ROP at its best, huh?
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