Woman burned

[Toramana]

Just wanted to weep looking at these photos. An innocent woman has been so mercilessly killed by these self-appointed representatives of God. These beasts should be punished according to law and in future no one should be allowed to take law in their hands.

[Badlun]

What a news. Thanks Toramana. May be for the first time since women participate in fueneral . The death of Farkhunda will empower women.

[Toramana]

There are two sources of savage tendencies in human beings.

1) their needs, desires, and greed
2) ideology in the form of nationalism, patriotism, and religion.

The bottom line is needs of humans should be met and greedy tendencies should be strictly controlled. As for ideology, an ideology which is not subservient to humanism is plain savagery that all sensible human beings should try to pacify and transform.

[HalloIsBack]

Unspoken Facts About Woman Beaten To Death and Burnt in Kabul.
A latest report about 27-year-old woman, who was beaten to death and burnt over alleged burning of Holy Quran, contributes more to her innocence as her parents revealed the facts to TOLOnews. Farkhunda was brutally beaten to death, burnt and thrown into muddy Kabul River by a mob on Thursday in Kabul in the presence of a number of policemen after a Mullah accused her of burning Quran which led the people to attack her with stones and sticks. The incident followed huge criticisms from inside and outside the country after the video footages showing her being beaten harshly went viral on social media. And when the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs (MoHRA) officials further disclosed that there was no evidence found to prove that Farkhunda burnt the Holy Quran, the tragic incident got new shapes, involving a Mullah of Shah-e-Do Shamshera Mosque into the case. According to her parents, Farkhunda went to a Mullah to stop him from deceiving people by writing false Tawiz, a folded piece of paper containing the verses of Quran. The practice of writing Tawiz is common in Afghanistan as the people wear Tawiz with a belief that it will remove any evil or affliction put on them through black magic, keep them safe and also bring them good luck. The Mullah in order to save his job and life, reportedly began shouting and calling on people that the girl burnt the Quran. According to the eyewitnesses, hundreds of angry civilians flocked to the mosque, dragged out Farkhunda and started beating her. But her father engineer Nadir insisted on her daughter's innocence, saying she couldn’t commit such an act because she was graduated from a religious school and also taught Quran to the children. He called on the government to give ultimate punishment to the perpetrators. “I want all the judicial institutions to prosecute the perpetrators,” Nadir said breaking into tears. “I don’t want blood of my daughter go in vain.” Farkhunda’s mother also strongly denounced killing of her daughter and asked the government to ensure the safety of citizens, especially the safety of women who have already been the victim of various types of violence for decades. “I am proud of my daughter because she didn’t let my head go down,” her mother said. “She sacrificed her life for the right path.” Farkhunda’s relatives, who were very sad and angry, strongly criticized the government for failing to ensure the protection of citizens. “If there was a government, the perpetrators would be asked why did they commit this crime,” her neighbor said. An eyewitness of the scene, Najmuddin, told TOLOnews that Farkhunda was killed because of unreasonable sentiments of angry citizens. “We were asking the people to stop beating her and let us ask what religion she belongs to,” Najmuddin said. “But the people didn’t listen to us and kept beating her.” But the prayer leader of Wazir Akbar Khan Mosque Dr. Ayaz Niazi, Senator Zulmai Zabuli and deputy minister of information and culture Simin Hasanzada were among those who justified Farkhunda’s brutal killing and, to some extent, supported it. “At such a situation, there is no need to go and check the girl whether she is sick or okay,” Niazi warned. “Be careful O people! It will be a big mistake if they [perpetrators] were sent to the jail. The people will stand against this and then they cannot be controlled.” But unlike to Niazi’s sentimental remarks, the religious scholars strongly criticized murder of Farkhunda, calling it against Islam and other religions. “People come and execute a person arbitrarily, this is totally prohibited and unlawful,” a religious scholar Haji Noor Ahmad said. The brutal killing of Farkhunda followed huge criticism worldwide including a strong reaction by the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) against the negligence of police in the scene. Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) announced that nine men have been detained including those who posted their photos on the social media, admitting to have been involved in killing and setting Farkhunda on fire. Kazimi

https://www.facebook.com/AfOnline.af/posts/1411818035799249:0

[Zarim]

I remember that a few years ago, an Afghan man converted to Christianity. He wasn't lynched or anything like that. Had poor Farkhunda been a man, this wouldn't have happened. This crime is not only proof of religious fundamentalism within our society, but it also proves a deep rooted hatred of women. I've travelled quite a bit, and nowhere have I seen women being treated as shamelessly as in Afghanistan. Old men on the streets harass women that could be their granddaughters, young boys ordering around their older sisters, women being afraid to walk alone and many many other things. As long as we keep half of our population in the darkness and continue considering women as property rather than as our equals, our country will remain the ****hole that it is. You cannot book progress without utilizing half of your country's potential.

[Toramana]

Look at this. This happened in Lahore Pakistan. Mob psyche.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1169952

Lahore lynching victim identified as local glass cutter

[Khostai]

What a news. Thanks Toramana. May be for the first time since women participate in fueneral . The death of Farkhunda will empower women.

Thats not true women alwasy participate in funeral. When I visted Khost, I heard how the women of the neighbours went to burry their relative who passed away....

[Khostai]

Afghanistan need an Attaturk style cleansing of the mullahs, Afghanistan have to much of this useless animals. If half of them would be removed a good progress is possible.

[DSM0305]

Warning, not suitable for children under 18.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794331760650565&set=vb.181197868630627&type=2&theater

Again the paradise burns

[DaZahroJaam.]

something died inside me this week.. not because a woman was dragged savagely around the streets of kabul, killed and set on fire but because 4000 people stood by while this happened. two days later, there is yet another huge crowd, carrying her corpse to the grave with such amount of intensity as if these were not the very same people who stood by and allowed for this to happen or participate in dragging her around in these very streets, two days ago.
i feel the same amount of hopelessness when i look at the faces of those accused as i do when i see that lump of her half roasted body.
what a shame, what a pity..

the good news, however, is that it will not get any worse than this. it doesn't get any more uglier than this.

[Toramana]

Warning, not suitable for children under 18.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794331760650565&set=vb.181197868630627&type=2&theater

Again the paradise burns

Beast, savages, animals go to hell with your religious views.

[Khostai]

something died inside me this week.. not because a woman was dragged savagely around the streets of kabul, killed and set on fire but because 4000 people stood by while this happened. two days later, there is yet another huge crowd, carrying her corpse to the grave with such amount of intensity as if these were not the very same people who stood by and allowed for this to happen or participate in dragging her around in these very streets, two days ago.
i feel the same amount of hopelessness when i look at the faces of those accused as i do when i see that lump of her half roasted body.
what a shame, what a pity..

the good news, however, is that it will not get any worse than this. it doesn't get any more uglier than this.

It can get worser than this and it will. Don't underestimate the savegry that rules Afghans now.

[marwat]

i thought this only happen in lahore, never remember this kind of incident in KPK, after happening in kabul i wonder what is the cause ANSF is fighting for.

[Al-Afghani]

A sliver of hope for Afghanistan:

Thousands have marched through the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob a week ago after being falsely accused of burning a Quran.

Men and women of all ages carried banners and some painted their faces red as a symbol of the bloodied face of Farkhunda, the 27-year-old religious scholar killed last week by the mob.

And she was not mentally ill at all, like some said.

Dispute with vendors
The attack appeared to have grown out of a dispute between Farkhunda, a veiled woman who had just finished a degree in religious studies and was preparing to take a teaching post, and men who sold amulets at Kabul's famous Shah-Do Shamshera shrine.

Farkhuda urged women not to waste their money on the amulets, her friends and family have said. Her father, Mohammed Nadir, said the men responded by making false accusations that she had torched a Quran, which set off the brutal assault.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/0...134218403.html

[khushal]

https://news.yahoo.com/afghan-cleric...155011186.html

Afghan people have become wild animals, they are absolutely despicable. I wish the worst fate on them.

Well, this happened in your farsiwan neighborhood. Please educate your people.