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Albino girl, 11, killed and beheaded in Swaziland ’for witchcraft’
Telegraph ^ | 8/20/10 | Aislinn Laing

Posted on 08/22/2010 11:52:06 AM PDT by LibWhacker

An 11-year-old albino girl from Swaziland was shot dead in front of her friends and then beheaded in what police believe was a ritual murder.

The child had been washing clothes and bathing at a river with friends and was returning home when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.

As her friends looked on, the man shot her in the back before dragging her away. Her headless body was found upriver a short time later.

The murder is the latest in a series of albino killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sufferers of the rare skin pigmentation condition are concentrated.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; albino; balaclava; beheaded; child; girl; murder; ritualmurder; subsaharanafrica; swaziland; witchcraft
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To: Krankor

Mmmmm Bacalava...


21 posted on 08/22/2010 12:17:35 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: LibWhacker

It’s called evolution. Africa may catch up with the civilized world—in 100,000 years.


22 posted on 08/22/2010 12:20:26 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Joe 6-pack

The west would still be like that had it not been for the rise of Christianity. The west will become increasingly more like that as Christianity is rejected

you are very right!! this country is falling like a rock toward this type of bahevior. We have always had extremeists but they were never accepted as mainstream. With the new “tolerance” kick, we seem to accept anything in the name of diversity....well, killing an albino because he/she is a witch is indeed diverse. But of course there are those who would avoid condemning the action based on the perps upbringing,country, race, etc. Let’s welcome more illegal aliens into our country, let’s get a bunch more from the middle east (where they can’t even get along with each other) let’s open our doors to every piece of human debris who wants to make this home. These people do not want to integrate with our society, they want to take it over. Control them, regulate them, supervise their immigration or lose the country


23 posted on 08/22/2010 12:21:06 PM PDT by terycarl (sstrations)
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To: Krankor

wouldnt he have to be wearing bacalava, which means a helluva messy eater?


24 posted on 08/22/2010 12:25:26 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: terycarl
"...well, killing an albino because he/she is a witch is indeed diverse."

Women in this country are already empowered with killing their unborn child if they decide they don't like the results of pre-natal genetic tests. Or...if they merely feel like it.

We may have more clinically neat and sophisticated means of effecting the same ends, but there are large and vocal segments of this society that are no better, or any different, and the rest of society gives sanction to their activities by turning a blind eye.

25 posted on 08/22/2010 12:26:18 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: LibWhacker

My neighbor’s 17 year old kid just got back from a Christian mission trip to Swaziland.....I guess their work didn’t do to much good.....


26 posted on 08/22/2010 12:36:47 PM PDT by northwinds
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To: Joe 6-pack

Anyone who can equate the killing and beheading of an eleven-year old girl with abortion is as morally repugnant as any African witch doctor, only less forgivable.

So long as this superstitious ignorance prevails in this country it will continue to become more and more like Africa.

Hank


27 posted on 08/22/2010 12:37:18 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
"Anyone who can equate the killing and beheading of an eleven-year old girl with abortion is as morally repugnant as any African witch doctor, only less forgivable."

Let us see...this albino girl was killed because a genetic irregularity made her undesireable in her society. A sophisticated, western mom is told her child will be born with Down's syndrome and decides to have it torn apart in the womb.

Nope. I don't see any moral equivalence there...< /sarc>

Actually, the abortion is probably more egregious since it's the child's own mother that sees the child as an inconvenience.

28 posted on 08/22/2010 12:41:41 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: LibWhacker

Remember, the only differences we have is the color of our skin. (sarc!)


29 posted on 08/22/2010 12:43:58 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Aria

A huge continent of untold riches that has never done anything but cause trouble for all who have touched it. It’s a jinxed continent.


30 posted on 08/22/2010 12:45:36 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Hank Kerchief

“superstitious ignorance” Most leftists and atheists (mostly the same folks) use that to mean Christianity.


31 posted on 08/22/2010 12:48:46 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: LibWhacker

Yes a Henry Ford or Wright brothers will never appear there.


32 posted on 08/22/2010 12:50:35 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s their culture, we must respect it. “Liberals” will respect any culture as long it’s not Western...


33 posted on 08/22/2010 12:54:41 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: LibWhacker; All

It’s witchcraft. The witch doctors use body parts and blood to make potions for rich powerful people to BUY.
Check out this slide show.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/935012


34 posted on 08/22/2010 1:02:48 PM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: LibWhacker

I am appalled at the generalization and defamation of these sub-Saharan cultures. In post racial America where the President has declared that he is a mongrel and that our culture is not superior to any other, we have to go and demean these poor folks for killing innocent children. On the other hand, in Kenya they would have simply sold her for a higher price.


35 posted on 08/22/2010 1:12:55 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Krankor

baklava is a Greek dessert. Balaclava is a head covering
that exposes only the eyes, nose and mouth. It’s
real popular with SWAT teams and terrorists.


36 posted on 08/22/2010 1:14:26 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin; cardinal4

While in Zimbabwe in the 80s, I read an article in the local paper. A passenger got on a bus in Harare. The driver made a comment about the passenger’s being an albino and an altercation between the two occurred. Evidently, that’s quite the insult.


37 posted on 08/22/2010 1:33:12 PM PDT by Ax (Crusades V.9 anyone?)
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To: LibWhacker

Evil. RIP.


38 posted on 08/22/2010 1:34:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: LibWhacker
Michael Jackson was lucky to dodge at least that bullet.
39 posted on 08/22/2010 1:55:04 PM PDT by Moltke (panem et circenses)
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To: Ax

Welcome to the new Zimbabwe! We are on our way.


40 posted on 08/22/2010 2:01:53 PM PDT by barb-tex (Nov. 2!(Election Day) Dia de los Muertas. ( Day of the Dead), Them or Us. Nov 5, Guy Falkes Day)
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