Taliban Execution Of Adulterous Couple Caught On Camera (VIDEO)

Telegraph:

Their deaths were squalid, riddled with bullets in a field near their home by Taliban gunmen as the execution was captured on a mobile telephone.

In footage which is being watched with horror by Pakistanis, the couple try to flee when they realise what is about to happen. But a gunman casually shoots the man and then the woman in the back with a burst of gunfire, leaving them bleeding in the dirt.

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Comments

[joshrox]

And the Dems are worried about waterboarding, what's wrong with this picture!

[Jamie Kowalski]

Dems worry about this kind of stuff too.

[UnknownSoldier]

no the question is what is wrong with your brain

[Andrew Shapter]

Yes indeed. Dems do worry that we blew our military resources on Iraq instead of finishing what we needed to do in Afghanistan !

The Taliban wouldn't be in the powerful position if Bush kept his focus on the real terrorists.

So yea, Dems do worry about stuff like this.

[wkt20]

EVERYONE should be concerned with the US using torture. And FYI...its not just Dems who have raised voices of opposition to so called" enhanced interrogation methods".

In the US, torture is against the law. And no one, especially not those in the government are above the law!

[tipsymcstager]

"And the Dems are worried about waterboarding, what's wrong with this picture!"

i'll tell you what's wrong with this picture,wa­terboardin­g leads to this kind of behavior!
something you'll never understand,is it's a moral issue of character and behavior.
and the law's we as Americans,hold true.
not if the contrived brutality inflicted, has any results favorable or concrete to outcome or effect

[PCMinistry]

Here in the U.S. we are very protective of our adultery and other perversions that hurt people and destroy families. Which is why this is so shocking to us. We go to bars and meet strangers for one night stands. Our whole culture is built on act like filth and demanding to do so in the name of freedom.

[farru83]

I agree with this.

committing adultery, cheating on your spouse is somthing which is no bid deal here in the US. But in Islam, and any other religion, it's somthing despicble and is suppose to be punished.

[NihilisticDissent]

But you shouldn't kill someone over that. Most woman in that area do not even get a say in who they get to marry...it­s always a arranged marriage,who should be faithful to that?

[Solaris123]

Obviously you approve of Taliban behavior.

Else you wouldn't be trying so hard to deflect the thread from the Taliban crimes under discussion.

[farru83]

I definalty dont agree with the things the taliban do in their part of the world, but at the same time Islam is what it is, its a beautiful religion and people should not judge it according to the actions of the taliban!

It's like someone owning a beautiful car, just because that person doesnt take care of the car, or drives recklessly, you should not say the car is a piece of sh#t.

for one thing, the taliban dont let girls attend schools and receive an education.­...educati­on for girls is not somthing that is forbidden in Islam. they say they're practicing Islam, and yet make up their own rules.

but at the same time, the gov;t of Pakistan is extremely corrupt and dont give a flying crap about the people, they just want more money from the US and anyone else that's willing to give it to the them. talk to any Pakistani and they will tell you just how disgusting some of these politicians are who are sitting at the top!! and the US is "friends" with them.

[PCMinistry]

Well I didn't realize I was "trying so hard to deflect" with my single post. Looks like it continued despite my extreme efforts huh? lol. No i don't approve of the murder of those people. But I think that we cry out at these sorts of things simply because, as I said, we are so dedicated to our culture of corruption and sexual perversion

[darthmaul]

So which is worse adultery or the murder of these poor people by the Taliban?

[PCMinistry]

Obviously the murder. I'm not sure what your question was hoping to uncover. My intention wasn't to excuse them, but rather to make a point at why we are so aghast at these particular murders and why we are paying attention to them. Considering thousands are murdered each day.

[Strywever]

You'd prefer to have someone else telling you how to behave, I assume, because you believe yourself incapable of making constructive choices?

That's a pity.

[PCMinistry]

That comment is a shortcut to thinking. Meant more to insult than to make any sort of real point, and thats what I've come to expect when people are trying to protect the filth that is their lifestyle.

[ZenCrusader]

that's because we live in a heterosexual dictatorship where there is much tolerance for some and none for others.

[Supercruize]

The taliban are the poor man's only hope for getting justice in a society where the rich get richer at a faster rate and the leadership is corrupt beyond comparison. America has assisted the leadership turning a blind eye to their wrongs and this explains why the poor people would rather have sharia law and lose their freedom but at least get some justice and a system that cares for its people and not just there to please some western masters.

[Fudgefase]

Are you nuts?

[Solaris123]

Please fudgfase, don't malign the healthful snack. Aim a bit lower on the evolutionary tree.

[washlib]

actually supercruize has a point...so­mewhat. In countries throughout the world, you either tow the line with the US and EU, or you get demonized, socially outcast, economically ruined and/or miliitarily invaded. The common people have no power whatsoever, and could easily be turned to supporting religious law.

[Solaris123]

"The taliban are the poor man's only hope for getting justice."

You are wrong. The medieval Islamist philosophy you support is wrong.

Reality: In areas where Militant Islam is in control poor people are oppressed, denied basic human rights and arbitrarily and savagely punished for smallest infractions.

[Strywever]

Where did you get the idea it's an economic issue?

[hmsbeagle]

They were known as the Mujahadin,and they did the dirty work for the west defeating the Russians .Now they are the Taliban and we created a nasty monster we cannot control. Pak can do nothing as they are considered heros in Pak ...every wonder why the Pak milatry does not crush them??

They owe them a lot for stopping the the soviet invasion. They are our problem and nightmare .

[UnknownSoldier]

No wrong Mujahadin were Arabs, The Taliban are Central Asians, but to you One Muslim is just as good as any other????

Fact Check before posting

Your Ignorance is hurting my eyes, please Stop

[Princeton123]

Anyone who took part in Jihad against the Russians is called Mujahid (Singular of Mujahideen) regardless of their ethnicity (Arab & Non-Arab). Taliban (Students) are the Pushtoon from both sides of the Afgan/ Pakistan border who also took part in Jihad.

[zelator]

Well done - UnknownSoldier - that needed to be said.

[Eddy333]

Wow. Pot, meet kettle.

Fact Check:

The Mujahideen were a collection of groups of guerrilla fighters made up of ethnic Pashtoons, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras who fought against the pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan in the 70s and later against the Soviet military after the USSR invaded Afghanistan in the 80s.

There may have been a few Arabs among them who traveled to Afghanistan for Jihad, but the vast majority of the forces opposed to the Soviet invasion were ethnic Afghans.

Perhaps you are thinking of Al Queda, whose ranks are primarily filled by young Arabs, Chechens, and Yemenis, but you definitely have your facts wrong.

The Taliban are primarily ethnic Pashtoons who live on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. The OP was technically correct in that many Pashtoon fought in the Mujahideen against the Soviets and some now also fight for the Taliban.

[darthmaul]

I agree, what hmsbeagle doesn't say or is ignorant of is the fact that the Pakistani intelligence service funded and trained the taliban to act as a proxy in it's fight with India in Kashmir.

[GravitonX]

First the woman was laying on her side after she was supposedly shot then her back with her arms stretched to the sides. The authenticity of the video is in doubt.

[Bluedog12]

This is another example of right wing extremeism.

[Solaris123]

That's right ( pun intended).
Taliban is a ultra-right wing organization that would make Pinochet and Mussolini green with envy. But you keep supporting them. good for you.

[Obamalicious]

Their "right-wing" make our right wing in the US look liberal.

[Solaris123]

Obamalicious are you ins ane or just pretending to be?

[Mnemanth]

Yes, so savage. Whatever. If a certain group had come to power a couple of months back we could expect the same behavior in our country.
Then again, how much of it is going on anyway while the media get's everyone in a frenzy over the flu?

[Obamalicious]

That is just plain absurd.

[andycan]

JIHAD ON ALL SIDES

If at present the Taliban can have its way, it is in large part due to the American jihad in South West Asia.

Harper's magazine has documented this month the enormous influence of the Protestant fundamentalists in the US army. Robertson, Falwell, Weyrich and co. who shaped the forces of Protestant expansionism and proselytism were wildly supportive of the Bush-Cheney wars in Irak and Afghanistan.

The savage Taliban reaction is the direct result of Western meddling, manipulation and exploitation of the Middle East, for geopolitical influence and to seize energy resources.

This is how history works: aggression and reaction. Historian Arnold Toynbee has thoroughly demonstrated and documented how such mechanisms work in history. A Study of History, Toynbee's magnum opus, presents a plethora of examples that prove such cause and effect situations.

Irakis and Afghanis are not stupid: they don't like to be messed with any more than Americans do.
The Islamic religious reaction is extreme: it is an answer to Western values and the underlying hypocrisy in spreading these values, at whatever cost. Sadly, the victims of such irrational reactions are the very villagers of Afghanistan and pakistan.

For now, the poor Afghans are pawns: in the hands of the Nato coalition and in those of the Taliban.
It is to be hoped that Obama finds the circumstances and the inspiration to calm down - in time - this geopolitical whirlwind. Deescalation will also decrease human suffering on all sides. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

[gschear]

God-er's Don't turn your back on 'em. Any of them.

[kurtlockwood]

Savages.

[dalkowski]

I doubt the veracity of this video.

That said, the Taliban are alarmingly close to taking over Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal. If we had any army left, I'd say "send 'em in."

[meemu]

If you doubt this video, look on YouTube, there are some completely unedited video with all the blood and guts that some need to see in order to believe it's real......­..

[plzchuteme]

Whether the video was legitimate, or a hoax, it has the same effect on the populace that the Taliban are trying to control. There is enough evidence of real atrocities in Afganistan that the Taliban was/is behind, that all that was needed was the release of a video like this; either authentic or not, to refresh the people's fear of what could very well happen if they do not toe the Taliban line.

[greg32]

The Taliban are just peace loving individuals who have been oppressed by America, its obviously Bush's fault that the couple was executed.

[paganmist]

Oh, just shut up. Partisan reactions to something this horrific is immature.

[NihilisticDissent]

totally agree

[DubyaGump]

You are right, It is Bushes fault, if we would have concentrated our efforts in Afghanistan
(Al-Qaeda headquarters) and not Iraq, maybe some of this could have been prevented

[roshni]

Agree. If Bush had finished his job in Afghanisthan instead of contriving a war against Iraq based on lies, the Taliban would not have regrouped and spread.

[NihilisticDissent]

Not really, remember bushy shakes the hands of bin ladens all the time

[86masters]

Yeah...goo­d thing we attacked Iraq.

[MideastDove]

Taliban were created by....usa.
They used to be called the mujahadeen and we trained and armed them to fight....r­ussia.

[JumboBurrito]

Clearly just Bush understood the threat of the Taliban. That is why he invaded Iraq.

[farru83]

the taliban have their own interpretation of Islam

please dont confuse what Islam really is, and what the taliban practice. It's true that if you find out a man and a woman have comitted adultary, then they have to be punished, either killed or publicaly beaten. the punishment for an unmarried person found guilty of fornication in Islamic law is 100 lashes. As for the punishment for a married person in Islam, it is stoning to death.

there are other thigns which have to be considered, like 4 witnesses have to be produced, etc., just going up to these people and shooting them just because someone said they have committed adultery, does not warrent the taliban to shoot them in the back with an ak-47

[meemu]

I have seen a few films of women being stoned in different locations, in most of them, it was later proven the woman was still a virgin in one case of a 17 yr. old, and in other cases the woman was never proven guilty of what they were accused of. Yet they were killed anyway. I don't care what religion it is---that is absolutely wrong!! There is NO defense for it.

This 'religious' law is often used to justify killing a woman, because a male relative wants something she has such as property, or because he doesn't like her, or because he doesn't want to support her anymore after a husband dies. He doesn't have to 'prove' anything--just make an accusation and there are plenty of males around to back him up. It's truly a "man's world" in those countries and it's ugly.

[Truthosaurus]

So if the four witnesses etc are produced, then it is ok under Islam to kill the adulterers? Is that what you are saying?

[farru83]

in Islam, the punishment for 2 people who are guilty of the charge of adultry is either death by stoneing, or 100 lashes,

100 lashes is for the person who is not married, and death is for the person who is married.

what im saying is that a process is involved in which a person is found guilty of these acts...jus­t because you neighbor accused you of having sexual intercourse with another person, that doesnt mean you are to be put to death, just look up it up on google, With the taliban, they are making up their own rules on finding people guilty w/o going through the process.

you may think killing a person found guilty of adultry is barbaric in Islam, but that's the law in Islam. It's the word of Allah according to Muslims( I'm a Muslim btw) so it's somthing to be followed.

[jpaultel]

Even if all you said was right, you seem not to be too troubled by the killings. You sense of justice is appalling and the proportion of punishment you offer (only just 100 lashes or a mild public killing, etc) is alarming and outright barbaric. Here is a video of the lashing of a fifteen year-old girl. They meted out on her backside 34 lashed of a leather belt. How do you like it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/04/taliban-flogging-inquiry-pakistan

Evil exists in the world not because all the people in this world is evil but because good people (like you) stand around and make lame excuses.

[Princeton123]

Are you saying all capital punishments are barbaric? Murder is a capital punishment in US, so is that OK. Fornication in Islamic culture amounts to capital punishment. In a country where more than 50% of the children are born outside of marriage, it would be hard to comprehend.

[BigAl72]

This shows how uncivilized certain regions of the world continue to be. How can Pakistan, a country of over 100 million, allow the Taliban to gain so much power? Did they forget what the Taliban did to the United States in 2001?

[2bad]

Here's a disturbing truth about America. If the right wing-nut religious zealots ever got control of this country, in a very short time, they would be executing people for breaking "gods" laws too!

[meemu]

I agree, I'm sure it would be a bit more 'civilized' but just as bad for all of us---men and women.

[Gumby123]

That's a very big IF statement and I doubt it will ever happen.

[Truthosaurus]

Left to their own devices, people may do all kinds of things. The point is that in America we have a secular government and a culture that makes Taliban type activities very rare. So we primarily have to contend with things like attempts to teach Creationism in public schools, which get people arguing, and eventually get shot down by the courts (Dover Pennsylvania), with no real shooting Taliban style. Or arguments about gay marriage, but again no shooting of gays by religious established governmental authorities. The Taliban exists where the culture supports it, and so it doesn't exist in America. I realize your general point about human nature and it has some validity, but some people are running with it in an absurd attempt to equate American brand of religious fundamentalism with the Taliban.

[rbchilds]

Immediately take 2 aspirins, go to bed and sleep off your delusions.

[Agentprovokatur]

Yuppers.

As some of them have openly stated.