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Afghan woman killed by mob for blasphemy was teacher of Islamic studies

Mar 22, 2015 11:12 pm By Robert Spencer

woman-lynched-in-Kabul2So she must have known that this could happen, and that no mob would wait for evidentiary procedure. “Afghan woman killed by mob for blasphemy was ‘innocent,’” Oman Tribune, March 22, 2015:
KABUL

A woman killed by an angry mob in front of police in the Afghan capital last week for allegedly burning a copy of Islam’s holy book was wrongly accused, Afghanistan’s top criminal investigator said on Sunday.

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media shows police at the scene did not save the 27-year-old woman, Farkhunda, who was beaten with sticks and set on fire by a crowd of men in central Kabul in broad daylight on Thursday.

“Last night I went through all documents and evidence once again, but I couldn’t find any evidence to say Farkhunda burnt the Holy Quran,” General Mohammad Zahir told reporters at her funeral on Sunday. “Farkhunda was totally innocent.” The top criminal investigator promised to punish all those involved and said 13 people, including eight police officers, had already been arrested.

The killing was condemned by the President Ashraf Ghani and other officials, but also drew praise from some quarters, including from a prominent cleric, who asserted the men had a right to defend their Muslim beliefs at all costs.

Farkhunda was a teacher of Islamic studies, according to her brother, who denied media reports that she had been mentally ill. He said this was a made-up defence by their father, who wanted to protect the family after police told them to leave the city for their own safety.

“My father was frightened and made the false statement to calm people down,” said Najibullah, who is changing his second name to Farkhunda in memory of his sister.

Hundreds of people attended her funeral on Sunday chanting “we want justice” and her coffin was carried by women, a rare act of protest in a male-dominated society.

The crowd, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the killers to justice….

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Filed Under: Afghanistan, blasphemy, Qur'an, Sharia Tagged With: Farkhunda, Mohammad Zahir


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  1. ComicKafir says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    Well if she actually burned that stinking book she might have been accused of a “hate crime”.

    • The renegade says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 1:55 am

      Best way to get rid of some one you don’t like or even your wife or girl friend in the Islamic world is to accuse some one of blasphemy or some other frivolous thing that is sacrosanct in Islam, and you get the job done, no need for refunds….

      Islamic mafia will put contract killers and hit men out of business because these thugs will do it for free.

      Islamic mafia are cowards, they run away from fights e.g. When fighting with American or Indian army they rely on Burqas and army fatigues to disguise and perform Cold blooded murder rather than fighting face to face and also attack an x-soldier like Rigby (MHSRIP) that is walking in street with no means to defend himself.

      Islam is going to end as violently as it began, it’s unsustainable.

  2. gravenimage says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    Afghan woman killed by mob for blasphemy was teacher of Islamic studies
    ………………………………

    Well, this horrific story just keeps getting weirder.

    More;

    So she must have known that this could happen, and that no mob would wait for evidentiary procedure.
    ………………………………

    I kind of doubt it. Most Muslims appear to be in deep denial that *they* could wind up the victim of a pious mob—even though this is so common in Dar-al-Islam.

    More:

    “Afghan woman killed by mob for blasphemy was ‘innocent’”
    ………………………………

    It’s starting to seem more and ,ore likely that this woman was murdered on a *rumor*. But how many Muslims would be perfectly happy with her savage murder is she *had* burned a Qur’an?

    More:

    A woman killed by an angry mob in front of police in the Afghan capital last week for allegedly burning a copy of Islam’s holy book was wrongly accused, Afghanistan’s top criminal investigator said on Sunday.
    ………………………………

    Islam is the religion of lynch mobs…

    More:

    Mobile phone footage circulating on social media shows police at the scene did not save the 27-year-old woman, Farkhunda, who was beaten with sticks and set on fire by a crowd of men in central Kabul in broad daylight on Thursday.
    ………………………………

    I had wondered whether their was a police presence at this shrine. The police were either frightened of the mob themselves, or—even worse—in sympathy with the homicidal mob.

    More:

    The killing was condemned by the President Ashraf Ghani and other officials…
    ………………………………

    Sort of. The statement mostly chided the mob for not letting the Shari’ah state handle it. But the Afghan state *itself* has sentenced “blasphemers” to death, so it seems this was more a matter of “jurisdiction” than an unqualified condemnation.

    More:

    …but also drew praise from some quarters, including from a prominent cleric, who asserted the men had a right to defend their Muslim beliefs at all costs.
    ………………………………

    Yeah—a ravening mob had to “defend” against a single, unarmed woman…

    And this was not just a cleric—horrifying enough—but also a high-ranking police figure, which may go a long way to explaining the inaction of the police on site.

    More:

    Farkhunda was a teacher of Islamic studies, according to her brother, who denied media reports that she had been mentally ill. He said this was a made-up defence by their father, who wanted to protect the family after police told them to leave the city for their own safety.
    ………………………………

    So this was not just the violence of an out-of-control mob—they are likely going to go after this family as well as having murdered this woman.

    More:

    Hundreds of people attended her funeral on Sunday chanting “we want justice” and her coffin was carried by women, a rare act of protest in a male-dominated society.

    The crowd, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the killers to justice….
    ………………………………

    Does anyone in this crowd understand that “Allah o Akbar!” is *exactly* what Farkhunda’s pious murderers were screaming, as well?

    • Salah says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 2:18 am

      “Yeah—a ravening mob had to “defend” against a single, unarmed woman…”

      That’s the ONLY way for Islam to survive. Remember Um Kerfa?

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/04/um-kerfa-oum-kerfa.html

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 23, 2015 at 3:47 pm

        Yes, Salah—”defending” Islam against a frail old lady. And what form did this “defense” take? Tearing her limb-from-limb after tying her to two camels.

        God, I hate Islam.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 10:21 am

      Islam is the religion of lynch mobs…

      There is an important variant to the hairy lynch mob. They also operate what are called “religious riots” in India, this is where hundreds or thousands of angry Moslems form to threaten to burn down a Hindu temple, and frequently do just that. They’re not trying to lynch anybody, they just want that there be no God but Allah as commanded in the book.

      Then, after the religious riot and the burned temple, the Hindus are enraged and they respond in kind, just as the Western news entertainment crews fly in to capture it on film.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 23, 2015 at 4:03 pm

        True, APF—more witless false moral equivalence from the MSM.

  3. JamesonRocks says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 12:43 am

    “Farkhunda was a teacher of Islamic studies, according to her brother…”

    Really? A woman teaching Islamic Studies in Afghanistan?

    • Lioness says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 11:07 am

      Yes, in a girls’ school. Girls go to school there for a couple of years and study Islam along with some rudimentary reading and writing and cooking.

      • JamesonRocks says

        Mar 23, 2015 at 11:30 pm

        Thank you Lioness and Gravenimage for the clarification. Much appreciated!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 4:00 pm

      As Lioness notes, she only would have been able to lecture females.

      I imagine her students learned more about Islam from this woman’s lynching than they ever would from her classes—assuming, of course, that they are not in so much willful denial that they will never understand that this is normative Islam.

      Given the crowd “Allahu Akbaring” at here funeral, though, I realize that this would be a profoundly foolish assumption to make…

  4. Joseph says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 1:24 am

    The crowd, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the killers to justice….

    The crowd was demanding justice while by their own words, supporting the very thing that killed her. That would be like the Jews in Auschwitz screaming “heil Hitler, demanding equal rights.

    OK, if she didn’t burn a Kuntran, then what did she do? Are these people that nuts and unstable that they will go off at a moments notice for no reason at all?
    Scratch that last question, the answer is yes. I bet a person would be safer walking through Harlem at night with a bedsheet on and a pillow case over their head than living in a Muslim country.

    • profitsbeard says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 9:21 pm

      According to a report I read online this woman saw merchants selling “charms” outside the mosque and told local women not to buy such trinkets because they had nothing to do with Islam.

      The talisman sellers were enraged, started the rumor of “Koran burning” to get rid of this profit-disrupting nuisance, and the mob did the rest.

      In a way, she was like Jesus driving moneychangers from the Temple, with similar tragic results

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 25, 2015 at 12:00 am

        Sounds like a case of “more Islamic than thou”, with the expected homicidal consequences…

  5. Ernie says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 4:45 am

    Islam ? It makes me sick ! Really , I have to take a time out for myself , to refill my batteries . I will be back , in a few weeks . See you !

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 4:06 pm

      Have a good time, Ernie.

      • Ernie says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 2:24 am

        Thanks Gravenimage , keep it up !

  6. ManchesterLad says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 5:11 am

    I doubt it much matters to the cult followers whether she was guilty or not.

    A convenient brutal mob slaying, every so often, is a useful reminder to any Muslim who may be wavering in their beliefs, that perhaps they should keep quiet about it!

    The persistent threat of mindless violence is an important reason why Islam is not challenged or criticised, even in civilised countries. It’s only surprising she wasn’t gang raped by the religion of peace cultists.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 4:26 pm

      ManchesterLad wrote:

      I doubt it much matters to the cult followers whether she was guilty or not.
      …………………………

      I think you are quite right. What matters is the “intention” of the pious mob in “defending Islam”.

      Just as Muslims believe it is no big deal to kill devout Muslims in JIhad terror attacks—they just believe that Allah gives them a one-way ticket to paradise, I imagine the same is true with “mistaken” cases of lynching.

      And when you “love death”, how can this be a big deal?

      But I imagine in the end little thought is given to the victims in any case.

      Islam is a religion of lynching, rape, and murder, and such a supremacist creed seldom cares much for the ones on the receiving end at all.

  7. Baucent says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 8:49 am

    A young woman is murdered by a lynch mob,.. some comments are a little heartless.

    But this mob mentality is common in backward Islamic countries, Pakistan is another example. Usually a Christian is the victim, accused of blasphemy or the old favorite, of “burning the Koran”.

    Bring in large numbers of these folks as immigrants, and before long this will happen in Western countries.

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 10:15 am

    Farkhunda was totally innocent.

    Not to get in the weeds, but isn’t the central question here whether her summary execution was compliant with Sharia law? What happened here could have been legal, but just a tragic mistake. That’s why God created bureaucrats.

    Where were the local hairy imams and sheiks in this affair? NBC News should look into this. Or maybe CNN, the channel that prides itself on its internationalism (globalism).

  9. bullfrogger says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Watching events like this play out every day ,does anyone really believe that a solution relying on dialogue ,cooperation , and compromise will do anything but delay the inevitable ? We should know by now the only way to get their attention is to hit them in the head . They understand force and they believe anything else is weakness . If we treated their kind as we would a wild animal it would be far more correct than thinking we can fix this by assuming they are even remotely like us. We all laugh at the old woman who talks to her cats . Is talking to muslims any more ridiculous?

    • EYESOPEN says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      IMHO, bullfrogger, you are absolutely correct.

  10. gravenimage says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    I see several posters mention the vile shabeer hassan, but I don’t see his spam. Did this creepy Taqiyya artist finally get himself banned?

  11. Bezelel says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    What passes for justice in islam is pure mob rule. Even if she had stood trial she would have been guilty of something, anything just to satisfy the the blood lust.

  12. Fatiha says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    How many Afghan men does it take to kill an unarmed woman?
    What a glorious people!

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