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Girl, 13, stoned to death in Somalia as 1,000 watch; charged

nydailynews.com — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.

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  • sanman, on 11/02/2008, -3/+201Why don't Muslims rally to protest things like this?
    Isn't this more damaging to the image of Islam than mere cartoons?

    People will riot over the tearing of pages from the Koran, but this they won't care too much about.
  • joshuawest, on 11/02/2008, -38/+224We humans have a long way to go...
  • steaprok, on 11/02/2008, -7/+173This is disgusting, so f;d up that this is happening !
  • veganpa, on 11/02/2008, -13/+172Hey, if someone's Holy Book says to do something, we have to respect it, right?

    ***** that noise. Stand up for reason and rationality!
  • Skooma714, on 11/02/2008, -18/+125lol religion.

    It doesn't make people good, it gives bad people an excuse.
  • blankman, on 11/02/2008, -10/+108No, those Islamic Militants have a long way to go. Most cultures in the world don't stone 13 year olds to death for any reason.
  • eigenweasel, on 11/02/2008, -21/+115We?
    My culture finds this act barbaric and despicable. It isn't we who need to change.
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  • Kangalanatolian, on 11/02/2008, -23/+104Yes it is horrible. It should be on the front page of every European immigrant slum on the continent.

    I would rather NOT send more US troops to Somalia though, thank you.




  • maz2331, on 11/02/2008, -3/+83Uh, these were muslims.
  • n2tech, on 11/02/2008, -3/+65I can't understand how upbringing (national and societal values) could overrule human decency to this degree.
  • callinthelaw69, on 11/02/2008, -8/+65Religious fanaticism ftl
  • whatthefu, on 11/02/2008, -15/+72I think it has less to do with Islam and more to do with the uneducated and poverty-stricken culture that surrounds the people of that area. There are over a billion Muslims in the world, and there are plenty rallying against this kind of behavior.
  • poidh, on 11/02/2008, -7/+56@whatthefu

    In Islam, if a woman reports that she has been raped then she must produce four male witnesses to testify to the act. If she cannot, then the court assumes that she is lying and did in fact have sex outside of marriage which is punishable by stoning to death.
    So, it is Islamic. Try and be brave enough to say that.
  • benologist, on 11/02/2008, -0/+49Human decency has been missing for a long, long, long time in parts of Africa. By comparison to what they do to each other being stoned to death is almost merciful.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20038999/
    The statement continued: “Frequently women are shot or stabbed in their genital organs, after they are raped. Women, who survived months of enslavement, told me that their tormentors had forced them to eat excrement or the human flesh of murdered relatives.”

    http://www.sokwanele.com/articles/supporting/night ...
    Neshango line. February 3 1983. Mass beating of villagers and shooting of two young pregnant girls, followed by their being bayoneted open to reveal the still moving foetuses.
  • inactive, on 11/02/2008, -0/+45Shouldnt they have stoned the guy who raped her?
  • vladin, on 11/02/2008, -24/+62religion is the bane of humanity.
  • slayernine, on 11/02/2008, -2/+39You see this happened on the other side of the world where they do everything backwards.
  • bestsell, on 11/02/2008, -12/+48humanity is the bane of religion
  • timlopez, on 11/02/2008, -1/+35Must have been this part:

    "John 8

    1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

    But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

    9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

    11"No one, sir," she said.
    "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin.""



    I'm just saying - you should back your ***** up if you're gonna call it out.
  • Evolutuon, on 11/02/2008, -2/+33I feel sorry for you, its so sad you're that ***** ignorant.
  • rickyrodd, on 11/02/2008, -2/+32Animals.
  • indigit4l, on 11/02/2008, -15/+44"We" nothing, *****
  • hmalik, on 11/02/2008, -8/+36I am Muslim and I am ashamed at their barbaric act :(
  • eryximachus, on 11/02/2008, -8/+36No, certain inferior cultures have to go.

    Your response is so very typical of cultural relativists. This is not a problem with humanity, it is a problem with certain primitive cultures.
  • inactive, on 11/02/2008, -6/+32@whatthefu

    "I think it has less to do with Islam and more to do with the uneducated and poverty-stricken culture that surrounds the people of that area. There are over a billion Muslims in the world, and there are plenty rallying against this kind of behavior."

    Except that this NEVER happens in poor, non-Muslim countries. So, yes, the driving reason behind events such as this is Islam. Is that politically correct to say? Probably not. But denying the facts for the sake of being politically correct or feeling good just means we'll never actually address the real reason behind tragedies like this.

    @wolferz

    *****. If you read the article, someone tried to save her and he was shot dead.
  • SSUK, on 11/02/2008, -22/+46So your culture is perfect?

    Oh no, you just don't stone girls to death. How about all those homeless people in your community? How about all those violent crimes in your community? Do those just not exist in your perception of your culture? Because they still happen. And they're still a problem.
  • jaywalker, on 11/02/2008, -1/+25actually, that would be insulting to animals.
  • codyman, on 11/02/2008, -7/+31If Allah is supposedly the "peaceful" dude that he is, I believe these people are misinterpreting his words... see, he wants you to get stoned as in get lit, not throw rocks...

    silly islamist fundamentalists... rock throwing is for raider's fans... :-)
  • toxicityj, on 11/02/2008, -3/+23david- too bad muslim isn't a race.
  • paulmer2003, on 11/02/2008, -2/+22Fail troll fails.
  • Picer, on 11/02/2008, -4/+24Protesting does nothing, muslims (like myself) are just fed up, if i were to go and challenge these somali wahabbis to a debate or point out they are wrong they would probably call me a kufaar (infidel even though im a muslim), and try and kill me :(

    Another point the extremists foregt

    the witnesses required in the koran for adultery are like 3+ which makes it pretty much impossible to secure the conviction of death by stoning and they have to show they are unrepentant, if the militants choose to ignore this then they are disobeying the koran and commiting murder and will burn in hell.

    Saudi Arabia with its massive oil wealth spreads their ultra-strict and blind interpretation of islam all over the world, yet the USA blames iran, iraq, afghanisatan the US has never put any pressure on Saudi Arabia and other arab states, perhaps if they did their would be less funding and less extremist madressas.

  • Disregard, on 11/02/2008, -1/+21I'm an athiest and I'm totally sick of this moral relativism ***** when it comes to Islam.

    The most extreme fundie Christians don't stone girls to death. Fred Phelps might like to but his own followers wouldn't go through with it.

    Islam has it's own special unique problem here and it doesn't make you an evil judgemental racist to accept that.
  • IgorUnchained, on 11/02/2008, -15/+33I love all of the people who comment "Religion of Peace?" like Islam is the only
    hypocritical religion out there. ALL religions preach peace and then kill millions.

    Any of you Christians for the death penalty? I guess the difference is that we would wait a few years to kill that girl and we would use an electric chair.
    The Crusades
    The Inquisition
    The killing of doctors
    the Salem Witch Hunt

    "Religion of Peace??????"

    No such thing...quit using these stories as a vent for your racism and buy a mirror.
  • gw8t3st, on 11/02/2008, -0/+18Everyday is repost day.
  • Paulish, on 11/02/2008, -4/+22All things are not equal. I am sick of this dogmatic pursuit of equality; I am tired of tyrannical egalitarianism. Science > Mysticism.

    We do not need to accept or tolerate everyone's views. Tolerance of intolerance is as good as intolerance itself.
  • artout, on 11/02/2008, -2/+20Hahahahahahaha

    very funny

    now ***** off
  • inactive, on 11/02/2008, -10/+28No, it can't be. they are 'the religion of peace'. We really need to put these creeps down.
  • dngermouse, on 11/02/2008, -0/+17I'm a somali immigrant living in Atlanta
    and even I'm disgusted by this
  • nick111, on 11/02/2008, -1/+18Errm... I wasn't aware that slums had pages? I thought they were buildings?

    And as far as I can gather, immigrants to Europe don't actually live in slums.
  • Namaha, on 11/02/2008, -0/+17This exact same article was made popular 18 hours ago, it's even on my front page still.

    http://digg.com/world_news/Amnesty_Rape_girl_13_ki ...

    Dugg anyway because people should know.
  • TheDougem, on 11/02/2008, -2/+19If religion didn't exist people would just find other scapegoats or justifications.

    It's simple human nature.
  • mrsteveman1, on 11/02/2008, -3/+19That's ok, we can bomb the ***** out of something.
  • kleptomaniac, on 11/02/2008, -1/+17Troll be trollin'
  • TheSkunkMonkey, on 11/02/2008, -0/+15I don't need a book or boogeyman in the sky to tell me this is wrong. While I don't paint all Muslims with a wide brush, you really have to wonder why they make more stink over a picture of their prophet than the vile actions of the extremists that hide behind their Muslim "faith".

    If you truly are faithful to your beliefs, you would protest just as strongly those that blaspheme your beliefs as those that would use your beliefs as a reason to kill another human being.
  • Piontek, on 11/02/2008, -0/+14i'm sorry, what?
  • inactive, on 11/02/2008, -5/+19Their too busy suicide bombing each other to notice.
  • Nillerus, on 11/02/2008, -3/+17Poor girl. Ignorance and religion go hand in hand.
  • pcrazy, on 11/02/2008, -20/+34All religion is a farce. Islam is garbage along with it's followers. Move into the current century Islamic pigs.
  • inactive, on 11/02/2008, -1/+14I like how Digg wants to avenge the death of one innocent 13 year old girl by suggesting the murder of every innocent 13 year old girl in the country. You really need to think these homicidal fantasy solutions through a bit better.
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