Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Afghanistan: school-girl acid attack morons arrested...

Police in southern Afghanistan have arrested 10 men in connection with an acid attack on schoolgirls earlier this month, officials say. 

The men are all Taleban insurgents and some have confessed to taking part in the attack, the authorities say. 

Several girls received severe burns when acid was thrown in their faces on 12 November in Kandahar city. 

The Taleban denied involvement in the attack, which brought condemnation from around the world. 

President Hamid Karzai has called for those involved to be arrested and publicly executed. More...

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  1. AdamDecember 1, 2008 at 7:22 AM

    These attacks have no moral legitimacy within Islam and should be divorced from the issues that piety already has gathered: http://commera.blogspot.com/2008/11/forbidding-wrong.html

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  2. UnknownDecember 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM

    No, I don't think this has anything to do with Islam but is the work of fanatics who use Islam as an excuse. And you find fanatics in every religion. The point here seems to be to keep women ignorant and uninformed so as to keep them under control.

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