Monday, May 07, 2007 . 5/07/2007
The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boyA 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an "honour killing" by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy.
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Why do things like this have to happen? Here we have, in the year 2007, people commiting barbaric acts seen hundreds and hundreds of years ago. I really don't understand why people in Iraq haven't evolved to be more civil yet, more tolerant. Killing a young woman just because her boyfriend was of a different religion? This is something a chimpanzee would do, if they had religion! Why don't we just ban religion altogther? It does nothing helpful but create a deluted, brainwashed mind, intolerence, and false hope. This act of stoning to death, just like religion, is something that in this day and age should be obsolete. 0 Comments - Post/view comments
