Ground Zero Mosque and Sharia Law: What Could Go Wrong?

Ground Zero Mosque and Sharia Law: What Could Go Wrong?
Published 17-Aug-2010 in News

Jerry Doyle discusses the implications of the recent Taliban sharia law stoning of a couple in Afghanistan. 

Taliban stone couple for adultery in Afghanistan

AP - KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery, which a rights group said was the first confirmed use of the punishment here since the hardline Islamist regime was ousted in 2001. The Taliban-ordered killing comes at a time when international rights groups have raised worries that attempts to negotiate with the Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan could mean a step backward for human rights in the country. When the Islamist extremists ruled Afghanistan, women were not allowed to leave their houses without a male guardian, and public killings for violations of their harsh interpretation of the Quran were common. Read rest of article here.

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  1. nkawtg
    August 18, 2010, 3:06 pm
    This may be harsh, but Afghanistan is a lost cause, let's get out now.
    How they run their country is their business.
  2. DaveInNH
    August 18, 2010, 11:48 pm
    So, if the Taliban stones young, unmarried, heterosexuals to death for adultery, do progressive liberals really think they'd treat the assorted freaks and weirdos on the far left any better?
  3. nkawtg
    August 19, 2010, 1:43 pm
    I really think progressive support for radical islam is nothing more than self loathing.
  4. mike1158
    August 20, 2010, 3:33 pm
    I do not know if the Kuran has an equivalent to casting the first stone, but they should. They seem far too keen to kill.
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