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Afghan Woman Who Was Beaten To Death By Mob For Allegedly Desecrating The Koran Was Innocent
Townhall.com ^ | March 26, 2015 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 03/26/2015 6:04:09 PM PDT by Kaslin

Last week, Caleb Howe at Truth Revolt posted a brutal video of an Afghan woman being beaten to death by an angry mob for allegedly desecrating the Koran.

“The crowd can be seen beating and kicking her, hitting her with sticks, and even dropping large bricks and blocks of stone on her. Her body was then burned, and thrown into a river,” he wrote.

The woman, Farkhunda,is known by only one name, and she was in her late 20s to early 30s. Some sites, like the AP, have her being 27 years old, while CBS News reported she was 32. Her family said she was suffering from mental illness.

After an investigation, it’s been confirmed that she was completely innocent for desecrating the Koran:

Hundreds of people gathered in the north of the capital for the funeral of 27-year-old Farkhunda, who like many Afghans is known by only one name.

She was killed late on Thursday by a mob of mostly men who beat her, set her body on fire and then threw it into the Kabul river, according to police accounts.

President Ashraf Ghani condemned Farkhunda’s killing as a “heinous attack”. The authorities are still investigating what prompted the mob assault.

Following allegations that police stood by and did nothing to stop the attack, Ghani said it revealed “a fundamental issue” – the country’s police were too focused on the fight against the Taliban insurgency to concentrate on community policing.

His comments followed widespread condemnation of the killing. In Afghanistan, despite constitutional guarantees of equality, women are generally treated as inferior and violence against them often goes unpunished.

Some Afghan officials and religious leaders sought to justify Farkhunda’s killing, alleging that she had burned a copy of the Qur’an.

But at her graveside, the head of the interior ministry’s criminal investigation directorate, Gen Mohammad Zahir, said no evidence had been found to support those allegations.

“We have reviewed all the evidence and have been unable to find any single iota of evidence to support claims that she had burned a Qur’an,” Zahir said. “She is completely innocent.”

The crowd was reportedly shouting anti-American and anti-democracy slogans as they stomped on her.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; islam; koran; koranburning
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1 posted on 03/26/2015 6:04:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oopsy....


2 posted on 03/26/2015 6:05:49 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll bet that 95% can’t even read the Koran.


3 posted on 03/26/2015 6:09:01 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

feel the hate...


4 posted on 03/26/2015 6:09:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Obama’s kind of people.


5 posted on 03/26/2015 6:09:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“the @#$%!! future must not belong to the @#$%^&!! who blaspheme the Prophet”


6 posted on 03/26/2015 6:11:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Yeah,,
my bad.
/s

are these people so freaking crazy as a pack of wild dogs?

I’d,,
well,
I just Would!


7 posted on 03/26/2015 6:12:54 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Looks like some muzzies just had to kill somebody. Probably didn’t matter much who. Bloodthirsty bunch, they are.


8 posted on 03/26/2015 6:13:36 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kaslin

I watched video. Those animals cannot get enough of that shite. They are crowding around and taking pictures. They have to take pictures so they can pleasure themselves with that sadistic crap when they get home.


9 posted on 03/26/2015 6:14:55 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Fiddlstix

This is what you get when all God is to you is an excuse to be like the devil.


10 posted on 03/26/2015 6:15:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: forgotten man

Satan’s selfies


11 posted on 03/26/2015 6:15:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kaslin

An armpit of the uncivilized world.


12 posted on 03/26/2015 6:16:02 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

You can say that again


13 posted on 03/26/2015 6:18:11 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: luvbach1

What have armpits of uncivilized worlds ever done to deserve being compared to this place?


14 posted on 03/26/2015 6:18:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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15 posted on 03/26/2015 6:20:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: forgotten man

These are evil people


17 posted on 03/26/2015 6:25:08 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

That’s sarcasm, son.


18 posted on 03/26/2015 6:28:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Slow afternoon,locals are restless.What to do,what to do....


19 posted on 03/26/2015 6:30:04 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Farmer Dean

So what happened, in a candid moment the lady said she hated that screed, and soon the howling monkeys (apologies to real howling monkeys) were screaming she had burned one?


20 posted on 03/26/2015 6:32:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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