Rick Raw: Taliban Stone Couple for Adultery in Afghanistan–Primitive Punishment Underscores Taliban’s Sadistic Cruelty

By Rick Grant Commentary rickgrant01@comcast.net

When I became aware of this story, I was literally sick to my stomach. The Taliban again demonstrated they are crazed fanatics who want to return the world back to the dark ages. In northern Afghanistan, these ignorant Jihadists stoned a young couple to death for adultery after numerous human rights groups tried to stop it.

This is the same hardline Islamic regime that the U.S. ousted in 2001. However, they have regrouped in the mountainous border land between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now they are a serious threat to Afghanistan.

In this shadow land, the Taliban and al Qaeda are untouchable. The U.S. is not allowed to attack them on their turf. Worse yet, the Pakistani government is reluctant to mount an assault with their Army because of the collusion between factions of the Pakistani government and the Taliban.

International rights groups worry that the Afghan government will negotiate with the Taliban and give them a voice in their government. Just before the U.S. attacked the Taliban in 2001, they had ruled all of Afghanistan with an iron fist.

During this dark time, women were not allowed to leave their houses without a male guardian. Girls could not attend school and women could not work. Women were required to wear full burkas in public Men were required to wear beards and other restrictions were imposed on the citizens of Afghanistan based on the Taliban’s strict interpretation of the Quran.

The stoning was imposed on a couple having an affair. The man was married but the woman was single. The woman, Sadiqa was 20 years old and engaged to another man. Her lover was 28 year old Qayum, who left his wife to run away with her. The two had been hiding in a friend’s house for five days.

They were discovered by the Taliban’s secret police on Sunday. They were stoned to death in front of a crowd of about 150 men. First Sadiqa was stoned and took many minutes to die of her injuries. Then Qayum was stoned a half an hour later. He took even longer to die.

Clearly, stoning is a slow, painful way to die. Sometimes the victim is knocked unconscious but bleeds to death as rocks make gaping wounds on the body. Most any other way of execution is faster and more humane.

This primitive execution underscores the Taliban’s degenerate culture of sadistic men who have no regard for women. They hide behind the Quran, but in reality, they are no better than the Nazi SS.

It’s customary for the Taliban’s secret police to torture their victims to confess, even if they’re innocent. In this case their friend gave the couple up to the Taliban. There was no trial or judge.
Amnesty International said it was the first confirmed stoning in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban rule in 2001 when U.S. special forces and a major bombing campaign drove the Taliban out of the country.

Since the Taliban regrouped, they are stronger than ever and the U.S. forces efforts to drive them out of the country have killed many Taliban warriors, but they don’t mind dying and have plenty of young Jihadists pledging their death by suicide bombing to stop the American assault.

The U.S. and human rights groups are adamant about no reconciliation with the Taliban to make peace. This is a well organized army that have deadly weapons from Iran such as powerful IEDs made from artillery shells. They also have a cache of heat seeking hand held missiles that can take down helicopters with one shot.

The recent revelations from the WikiLeaks documents showing that American soldiers have no regard for the lives of Afghani civilians has helped the Taliban to recruit more holy warriors ready to die for the cause.

The Afghan government must not give the Taliban any voice in the government. The U.S. and Afghan Army must attack their hideout with shock and awe, killing all of them and their kin or they’ll continue to be a threat.