Officials told the BBC that religious leaders had been issuing fatwas - edicts - asking for reports on anyone who was 'involved in adultery'.Earlier this year horrific video footage emerged of Taliban insurgents stoning a couple to death for alleged adultery in northern Afghanistan.
It took place in the district of Dashte Archi, in Kunduz, and was met with outrage in the West.
However, a Taliban spokesman defended the practice, saying: ‘Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law.
'There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.'
Afghan mother and daughter stoned and shot dead after Taliban accused them of moral deviation and adultery | Mail Online

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The God in Abrahamic religions arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.– Richard Dawkins
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Religious ideology at its finest...at its worst...at its most idolitrous.
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We were stupid thinking that we could bring some form of progression there. All we managed to do was fool a few into thinking that it was now safe to act more freely. They didn't realise we would bail out and that they already had their names written on rocks for after the US ceded control. Look how many Iraqis died at the hands of Saddam after we fooled them into helping us and speaking out in the first war then left them high and dry when he came looking for revenge? The same for Iranian protesters that were emboldened because they thought the west was on their side. Hah! Now where are they? Hiding and praying.
I am afraid these Afghan religious lunatics are not thinking about US politics and what Ron Paul would do, when they are murdering women for adultery. There was a PEW pole suggesting 75% of Afghans have never even heard of 9/11 or it's many conspiracy theories. In other words, they (Afghani Muslim religious lunatic psychopaths) also have no idea what you are talking about.
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Afghani Muslim religious lunatic psychopaths
You may work at better seeding if you read History. Emotions and diatribes alone will not help the world to be released of the capture of naive religious myths
Those you call psychopaths are just poor isolated mountain people and they know nothing either about any religion. They were used by US as pawns in its Cold War game with Russia and they need education and help of international community ''not futile diatribes''. In war games nothing better than adopting false ideology 'religion' to move the poor masses in fake war. The big players in the game always reap what they sow of evil
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Those you call psychopaths are just poor isolated mountain people and they know nothing either about any religion
The term "Taliban" translates as religious students. The religion they studied is Islam.
nothing better than adopting false ideology 'religion' to move the poor masses in fake war.
It is impossible to explain that "Islam" is a false ideology,to a believing Muslim.
As we can see, stoning takes place in some nations that have sharia law. It is an undisputed fact.
it is with out question, that there is still debate within the ummah about this question.
Whether or not to stone people is not the question,what happened to the verse of Al-Rajm,in the view of Islamic scholars is the only topic.
THE CLAIM THAT THE QUR`AN ONCE CONTAINED A VERSE ABOUT AL-RAJMBUT THE VERSE WAS OMITTED FROM THE QUR`AN
Although this claim has the support of several ahadith, one of which uses the authority of ‘Umar and is found in most Hadith collections, it raises insurmountable difficulties. Why was the verse omitted from the Qur`an? If its omission was an accident, why would not Muslim leaders restore the verse to the Qur`anic text when its absence from the Qur`an was noticed? If, as some other narrations tell us, people thought that addition to the Book of God was not permissible in his eyes, surely he must have thought the same about omission. Hence he was duty bound to restore the missing verse. One cannot say that the verse was "suppressed" by the higher authority of the Prophet that ‘Umar could not overturn; for, why would the Prophet suppress the verse while allowing the practice laid down by it to continue? Some traditions tell us that ‘Umar feared that the absence of the verse from the Qur`an would make people ignore a divine injunction. Why did he not prevent this from happening by adding the verse to the Qur`an where it belonged? The verse could not have been forgotten by the whole Muslim ummah. In the time of ‘Umar there were still alive many hundreds of the Prophet's Companions who, we are told in some narrations, used to recite the verse and memorise it.
Supporters of al-rajmnever really deal with the above questions in any satisfactory way. For example, Ibn Kathir quotes many of the traditions about the stoning “verse” and seems to accept the idea of such a verse but does not raise any of the relevant and important questions mentioned above, much less give some sensible answers to them. Some scholars have come up with the concept of two types of abrogated verses mansukh al-tilawah (abrogated in respect to recitation) and mansukh al-‘amal (abrogated in respect to practice). It is said that the verse about stoning was mansukh al-tilawah and not mansukh al-‘amal. But coining such new technical terms does nothing to reduce the extreme weakness of the idea of a verse that was in pracitce but was omitted from the Qur`an.
It seems that some supporters of stoning are aware of the difficulties pointed out above and so they choose to ignore the “stoning verse”. Thus in his justification of the stoning penalty Shafi‘ idoes not at all refer to any tradition about the “stoning verse”. Mawdudi quotes some narrations of hadith attributed to ‘Umar but does not in any way use them to justify his support of al-rajm. For him they are simply an addition to the ahadith about al-rajmand serve to embelish the evidence for it. Moreover, many narrations of ‘Umar’s hadith state that pregnancy can by itself provide proof of zina` but a majority of the supporters of al-rajm, including Shafi‘iand Mawdudi, reject that view.
http://www.islamicperspectives.com/Stoning3.htm
The Book Pertaining to Punishments Prescribed by Islam (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Muslim :: Book 17 : Hadith 4194
'Abdullah b. 'Abbas reported that 'Umar b. Khattab sat on the pulpit of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Verily Allah sent Muhammad (may peace be upon him) with truth and He sent down the Book upon him, and the verse of stoning was included in what was sent down to him. We recited it, retained it in our memory and understood it. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) awarded the punishment of stoning to death (to the married adulterer and adulteress) and, after him, we also awarded the punishment of stoning, I am afraid that with the lapse of time, the people (may forget it) and may say: We do not find the punishment of stoning in the Book of Allah, and thus go astray by abandoning this duty prescribed by Allah. Stoning is a duty laid down in Allah's Book for married men and women who commit adultery when proof is established, or it there is pregnancy, or a confession.
http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/muslim/017.4194.html
does having this knowledge make me Islamophobic? (LOL)
Fada ; Those poor religious holy men? As we see constantly with the religious, outraged by the perceived insult to religion, and not a word of sorrow, regret, remorse, or sympathy for the murdered women and children. Where are your priorities?
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The term "Taliban" translates as religious students
Emergence of a group of students named Taliban in 1979 doesn't refute what I wrote that Afghani people were not interested in Islam before Soviet invasion.
There was nothing called ''Taliban'' or Jihad in Afghanistan before 1979 when Pakistani teacher 'Hamidul Haq' recruited 300 of Aghani refugee students in his religious Madrasa in Pakistan and teached them ''Jihad'' during Soviet invasion , those students named 'Taliban' , and al-Qaida turned against America in 1994
However, in modern context it is a chaotic group of Islamist student militia which emerged in the last decade of twentieth century as a Jihadi movement in South and Central Asia with the joint assistance of Mullah-Military alliance in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and tacit support of America
after their success in throwing out the Soviet army from Afghanistan, these jobless, faction-ridden and chaotic Jihadis who called themselves Taliban emerged as an indigenous movement in 1994 against the warlords
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For 'stoning' , no need for finding sources linking it to religion because this brutal tradition was practiced by humans since the cave age, it doesn't need any religion to re-invent the wheel. Sometimes traditonional practice in poor ignorant societies are worse than any practice imposed by religious extremism. In cloister poor societies people are still practicing what their ancestors were doing long time before religions.
Besides , I believe that whoever wrote the holy books he was smart enough to make it 'flawless' in the eyes of poor. For example Qura'an meant to side with the poor and it obligates the rich to give part of his money to the poor it also orders end of slavery. My point is when an ideology is written by man it intends to get support from the poor majority, it doesn't give expulsive orders like 'stoning'
King Dave in #3.4 , Where are your priorities?
It's not about my priorities , it is a fact that bruality and bigotary will not vanish away by emotional outrage as long the extreme poverty and ignorance exist on the planet with high birth rate in poor societies
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....it is a fact that bruality and bigotary will not vanish away by emotional outrage as long the extreme poverty and ignorance exist on the planet with high birth rate in poor societies
You are letting emotions cloud your judgement and stand in the way of the truth.
Look up the poorest countries on earth. You will notice they mostly Islamic or Christian theocracies. Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Darfur, Congo, Burundi. Religion is not a reaction to poverty, but the cause of it. Islam and Christianity strictly forbids the use birth control, even for the fight against AIDS. Thus assuring the poorest people on Earth, have the most children and live the shortest lives.
Stoning is first used in the Bible, and has continued ever since.
As of September 2010, stoning is a punishment that is included in the laws in seven countries including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, and some states in Nigeria
Somalia
In October, 2008, a girl, Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, was buried up to her neck at a Somalian football stadium, then stoned to death in front of more than 1,000 people. The stoning occurred after she had allegedly pleaded guilty to adultery in a sharia court in Kismayo, a city controlled by Islamist insurgents. According to the insurgents she had stated that she wanted sharia law to apply.[34] However, other sources state that the victim had been crying, that she begged for mercy and had to be forced into the hole before being buried up to her neck in the ground.[35] Amnesty Internationallater learned that the girl was in fact 13 years old and had been arrested by al-Shabab militia after she had reported being gang-raped by three men
Support for stoning
A survey carried out by the Indonesia Survey Institute found that 43% of Indonesians support Rajam or stoning for adulterers.[38]
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found relatively widespread popular support for stoning as a punishment for adultery in Egypt (82% of respondents in favor of the punishment), Jordan (70% in favor), Indonesia (42% in favor), Pakistan (82% favor) and Nigeria (56% in favor)
Shame may be the best weapon to combat religious absurdities.
Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed ~ Sam Harris
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Where's the influence of this cloud of emotions in saying that poverty and ignorance are good inviroment for wrong practice and old irrational traditions?
Religious bigotry is a superadding factor but not in all cases and not in all societies. The Indian families bury newborn girls since thousands of years because of poverty and ignorant tradition of favouring boy births and not because of religion . Many Chinese families leave born girls starving to death because government allow one child for a family and families want boy. Saudia is different , no poverty and alot of religious bigotry
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It now should be clear to you all these problems are not the result of poor religious hill people, as you tried to pawn on me. Paying them to not murder each other and export their religious practices is extortion. I hope you rethink your support for religious barbarism, and no longer take for granted the U.S. Constitution which keeps religious lunatics from doing the same here. For now. If you have anything else to say, please have the last word.
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you rethink your support for religious barbarism
This tells that not there is bigots of thoughts whor are not religipous by necessity
You'r blinded by your one way complusive thoughts to even notice that I am an athiest trying to figure a solution for a serious issue , not dropping by to defend violence or any religious bull@!$%#
Well that's it with such futile non-objective discussion , it turns to be personal and waste of time. I am not sure what eye glasses you use to see everyone having ordinary view on some issue a supporter of barbarism?
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It hurts me in heart to read about such barbarism. When I was in Vietnam, they broke every bone in his wife`s body, and used his daughter for bayonet practice. These are the morons that keep the people in line.
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They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.
No, just thinking in general.
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