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Afghanistan: Muslim mob sets woman on fire for burning Qur’an

Mar 19, 2015 8:37 pm By Robert Spencer

Shah-Do Shamshira in Kabul“The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack, told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental illness.” That seems likely. After all, if she were in her right mind, would she set a Qur’an on fire in Kabul? Or maybe she was in her right mind, but simply had had enough of the hatred, violence, oppression and misogyny justified and incited by the book. In any case, the mob that killed her didn’t care if she was mentally ill or not: there is no mercy in such matters.

“Afghan woman set ablaze by mob for burning Koran,” by Ali M. Latifi and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2015 (thanks to Darcy):

A woman who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside a riverside shrine in the Afghan capital was surrounded by an angry crowd, set ablaze and dumped into the chilly waters Thursday evening in a startling act of mob violence.

The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack, told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental illness, said Farid Afzal, head of investigations for Kabul police.

Police were still investigating the incident and offered few details, but said they had arrested four suspects. Witnesses said that a huge throng of people had gathered at the scene to watch, some scaling the walls alongside the river, others climbing to the roofs of multi-colored stalls lining the streets of the crowded outdoor market where the Shah-Do Shamshira shrine sits.

“They broke the railing above the shrine itself, that’s how strong they were,” said Shah Jahan, a shopkeeper, who estimated the crowd was in the thousands. “You couldn’t see past the people.”

It was not immediately clear how many people carried out the attack, or whether a crowd egged on the woman’s assailants, but it was believed to be the first time that someone in Afghanistan had been killed for burning a copy of the Muslim holy book….

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  1. marc says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    graphic video of the allah uakbar baying savages here:
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=720_1426805277

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 12:53 am

      *Oh my God*. And worst of all perhaps is the avid screaming—including, as noted, the never-ending screams of “Allahu Akbar!”—as if burning a mentally ill woman to death proves the “greatness of god”.

      I have no words for how I hate Islam.

      • Cross Criss says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 6:32 am

        Apparently, they take pleasure in such acts.

      • Spot On says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 3:17 pm

        Probably something like when young street gang members here practice killing or torturing dogs and cats at a young age. When they grow up, they enjoy doing the same to people.

        Muslims are no different than street gangs but of course they have Allah on their side.

      • Barb. Gerhard says

        Mar 23, 2015 at 3:58 pm

        She was probably not a muslim herself, as in muslim countries if a person is a Christian, they can be falsely accused of blasphemy and even if they are proven innocent the muslims will still kill them,
        she was most likely a non muslim
        the same kind of thing happened to a mentally ill girl of about 12 or 13 her family lived in Pakistan and they were Christians and she was a downs- syndrom child, a neigbour of theirs didn’t like that she would make noises all the time when she was outside, as many downs children do’ and he accused her of tearing pages out of a quaran
        they didn’t even own a quaran and she wouldn’t have done it anyways, she was put in prison and even after a trial in wich she testified that she didn’t do anything she was still put into prison, with no proof and a judge found her innocent
        a year later the neigbour finally fessed up and said he had made it up to get rid of her. she is now back with her family,as far as I know. how could anyone do this to a mentally challenged child, but they did. I don’t hate muslims as many thousands of them are fed up with Islam and are converting to my faith (christian), as they see that the Christian believers are not being violent , and they are sick of the violence of their religion. there are many thousands of underground churches, in places like Egypt, where there is alot of hate towards christians

        We in the west need to understand that what is happening over in those places will happen here, those muslim countries were not always muslim, they were once as we are, many were multicultural and multi ethnic / religious and mostly tolerant societies, even when the mohamudans first started to make trouble they still were tolerant and patient with them, but that acceptance and tolerant attitude was their undoing all across the Arabian peninsula it was mostly Christian and pagan and well as multiple other groups all getting along not too badly, Mohmud wanted to clear out the arabian penninsula of all non muslims and he did just that.
        So when we are hearing muslim leaders saying they want to make the whole world an Islamic one how clear is that? , what they did in the middle east, they will do all over and have succeeded in greater part in places like England and Sweden and Belgium, as well as places in America like Dearborn MI where muslims stoned Christian preachers during an Arab cultural fest. the preachers were within their constatusional rights to preach on a public street, but not so in dearborn obviously..

    • AJ Liberphile says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 8:25 am

      The UN was created by the allies against Hitler’s axis of evil. What the fuck are Muslim nations doing in it?

    • Spot On says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 9:33 am

      I can’t even watch this sick inhuman Islamic behavior. The “mentally ill” woman that was killed by burning was probably the only sane person there.

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Typical. The passive “peaceful Muslims” looking on while the aggressive “perverted Muslims” do the dirty work commanded by the demonic god of murder which they all serve.

    • dlbrand says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 10:10 pm

      “a huge throng of people had gathered at the scene to watch,” and it should also say, “they, as well as the killers, all clearly ‘blessed’ with clear understanding of their din.”

    • JamesonRocks says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 11:35 pm

      It seems that is the difference between a radical moozie and a moderate moozie. The radical will set you on fire, the moderate will watch.

      • Elena says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 12:42 am

        Thank you. You expressed it perfectly.

      • dlbrand says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 3:00 am

        Indeed, and also provide for you the matches and gas you will need for the fire.

      • Betty says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 5:10 pm

        bunch of demons from hell looks like.

  3. Bezelel says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    Rabid feral beasts. Thanks for the link marc. I don’t think jobs are going to change them and I’m sure that immigrating to western civilized countries is going to help anything but the destruction of western civilized countries.

    • Ernie says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 7:46 am

      Right !

  4. Joseph says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    but it was believed to be the first time that someone in Afghanistan had been killed for burning a copy of the Muslim holy book

    They really means that this is the first time the news got out that a person was killed for burning a Muslim whore book.

  5. Nathan says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    This is truly shocking. This isn’t isis or some jihadi doing this, they are bakers, shop keepers, taxi drivers…. beating the life out of a woman for the burning of something they give out free in Birmingham! I watched the video and it’s just pure mob mentality and hatred.

    I think the hate comes from having to live under such hatred, and when it surfaces they just lose it. What a hell hole of a place to live….. Always just 30 seconds away from being beaten to death by a mob if you say/do the wrong thing.

    • dlbrand says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 10:24 pm

      Nathan says: “This isn’t isis or some jihadi doing this, they are bakers, shop keepers, taxi drivers…. beating the life out of a woman for the burning of something they give out free in Birmingham!”

      Indeed, these are just good Muslims—as are those sworn to IS–who know and understand the teachings of their so-called religion, thus acting in obedience to the teachings in that din—which is precisely what IS does.

      Nathan, stated: “I watched the video and it’s just pure mob mentality and hatred.”

      It is pure Islam in action–Sunnah of the so-called prophet of Islam.

      Nathan stated: “I think the hate comes from having to live under such hatred, and when it surfaces they just lose it….”

      The hatred comes from the spirit in their Books, which is the same dark murderous spirit in the heart, soul, and mind of the man (or men) who brought “The Book.”

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      Nathan wrote:

      I think the hate comes from having to live under such hatred, and when it surfaces they just lose it…
      …………………………

      Nathan, these good Muslims are not just “living under such hatred”, they are the ones promulgating it.

      • Jaladhi says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 9:41 am

        What “good Muslims”?? Another myth like “moderate” Muslims!

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 20, 2015 at 9:03 pm

          Jaladhi, I meant that “good Muslims”—that is, those being “good” in accordance with their creed—are the very thugs burning this poor woman to death.

          A “good deed” in Islam is almost always an atrocity.

  6. John Upvote says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    To think hundreds thousands of our cherished boys and girls died to make that country a better place.

    What a waste.

    RIP
    .

    • dlbrand says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 10:27 pm

      John Upvote says: “To think hundreds thousands of our cherished boys and girls died to make that country a better place.”

      What a waste.”

      And the same goes for Iraq–also guided by Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm

      This is so true, John.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    Why don’t Muslims admit they are in the closet atheists.
    Technically speaking, Islam are a subset of atheism.
    Muslims do not believe in a deity so why don’t they just admit this and dispense with hypocrisy.

    This event proves their hypocrisy.
    They claim that their Allah is all powerful and vengeful.
    But, they rush in a frenzied panic to kill anyone before their wimpy Allah is put on the spot to show his ‘stuff”
    Allah, after I step on your pointy tail you can kiss my butt.

    Toto, please hurry and pull back the curtain on the Muslim’s belly crawl serpent.

    • dsinc says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 2:03 am

      Jay Boo, you have got that all wrong. Atheists don’t have an Allah egging them on to commit atrocities, or a God to ask for help to protect them from those committing atrocities.

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 7:08 pm

        To all the peaceful Islam hating Atheists, I say peace
        I should have fine tuned my above comment so as to ensure no impression of a false equivalence to Islam.

        If Muslims truly believed in their all powerful angry Allah, they would have no need to scurry about propping him up with violence. It appears that impatient Muslims are the ones egging on Allah. When a Muslim repeats that Allah is the greatest every day that is an admission that they don’t really believe it or else they would not have to continually repeat it..

  8. No Fear says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Is “Allah” greater than his “creation” (the universe) or not?

    Name one thing that “Allah” has done that the universe cannot do.

    {sound of crickets chirping}

  9. Jay Boo says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 12:07 am

    She was probably falsely accused by a local imam who had raped her and then her family and friends claimed that she was crazy knowing that a mere denial would not placate that the bloodthirsty mob mentality of Muhammad’s followers.

  10. Jay Boo says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 12:09 am

    I wish I had a fireplace and a Qur’an right now.

    What a vile excuse for human beings are those who follow the example of Muhammad.

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 2:16 am

    Afghanistan: Muslim mob sets woman on fire for burning Qur’an

    “The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack, told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental illness.”
    ………………………..

    **Just horrifying**.

    I have a direct comparison to this incident, that happened not a week ago on BART in San Francisco. An obviously mentally ill man entered our subway car. He was muttering and then began to yell, “F*ck Jesus!” and “Jesus f*cked me!” Passengers tried to avoid eye contact with him.

    Finally, he moved on to another car.

    The very nice African-American lady who was my seat mate and had smiled at me and moved her bag when I first boarded so I could sit down turned to me and said, “I’m going to pray for that poor man”—and then added, rather sternly, “and you should pray for him, too”.

    I assured her that I would. She didn’t mention her faith, but I noticed she wore a small silver cross. She was not angry at this mentally ill man’s words, just saddened and concerned.

    I would have notified the driver if the man had appeared to be violent—or if it seemed that he would be in danger from others—but of course this was not the case.

    Compare and contrast.

    More:

    Witnesses said that a huge throng of people had gathered at the scene to watch, some scaling the walls alongside the river, others climbing to the roofs of multi-colored stalls lining the streets of the crowded outdoor market where the Shah-Do Shamshira shrine sits.

    “They broke the railing above the shrine itself, that’s how strong they were,” said Shah Jahan, a shopkeeper, who estimated the crowd was in the thousands. “You couldn’t see past the people.”
    ………………………..

    How grotesque. No one in this vast crowd, it appears, tried to save this poor woman—they were just jockeying for a good view of the carnage.

    We used to hear that mad people in Muslim countries were never molested as they were believed to be ‘protected by Allah’. Muslims, in fact, were often held to be more civilized than people in other countries, who would often tease the insane.

    I don’t know where this canard came from—I have heard scores of stories where the mentally ill in Dar-al-Islam have been attacked, exploited, abused, and—as here—savagely murdered.

  12. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 4:11 am

    “As dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog.”
    Churchill

  13. Lia Wissing says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 5:13 am

    From muslims’ own statements it would seem that an inordinate number of them suffer from mental illness. On the other hand, in a place with so little entertainment, one might easily go as mad as this mob.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 9:22 pm

      I don’t think being bored can explain this sufficiently, Lia. These thugs were not only excited by this barbarism; they also believed that their demon “god” would be pleased with this savage violence.

      I know that no amount of boredom would be enough to cause people with even the most vestigial sense of genuine morality to behave in this manner.

  14. Plamen says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 5:17 am

    Only the mad in the Islamic world feel free to express themselves?
    Looks like so.
    The “normal” feel restrained.

    John Upvote, indeed, thousands of cherished boys and girls died to make that country a better place in vain.
    Only hornet’s nest was stirred up.

    Afghanistan now leads the world is sharia support societies – 99% of population, according to Pew:
    http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/

  15. Lia Wissing says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 5:25 am

    On second thought: perhaps this woman was the only normal, ordinary human being in the entire place & that is why she burned the awful book?

    • Plamen says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 5:28 am

      Could be – the normal in that religion look as mad for its faithfuls.

  16. peter weber says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 7:37 am

    In Europa only a few newspapers wrote about the incident. Somehow it seems to be “normal” if Muslims do such things. Imagine: A man in Europa burns a bible. Radical Christians beat him to death and burn the body. International outcry, Christianity would soon be banned …

    I spoke to a man in a supermarket in Cork, he said “It is normal, it is an Islam country” …. I spoke to a left wing student ” This is different, you cannot attack the believe of Muslims” … “She had it coming”

  17. anonsos says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 7:56 am

    The religion of peace at it’s finest…

    Did they not hear Obama say that this kind of act has nothing to do with Islam? Maybe they havent got the Whitehouse memo yet!..

  18. Jaladhi says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 9:38 am

    And Bush43 thought we can bring democracy to Afghanistan, and enlighten them!! Islam and Muslims live in total darkness and want to spread that darkness all over the world. What a waste of our precious young men’s lives and trillions of dollars just burnt away. Would have been much better if the Taliban was totally decimated and we left Afghanistan in the stone age, because no matter how much you want to help them they just can’t crawl put of their Islamic hell holes! They want to live in hell so let them do so!!

    • The Doctor says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 10:31 am

      This is a classic case of religion: take un- or under-educated people, convince them that they can somehow trade temporal/temporary happiness for eternal happiness and throw in the fact that not making that trade will result not just in a mediocre eternity but in eternal suffering and punishment and you have a powerful means by which to control a population.

      The frightening thing is when the victims of the original con artist actually BELIEVE what they were told and perpetuate the lie out of a sense of duty or even a sense of compassion to help people avoid eternal suffering. Drag this out over 1400+ years and you have modern Islam, all the result of a single con artist.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 9:36 pm

        Oh, good grief, Doctor. There are lots of poorly educated Christians and those of other faiths—why aren’t they slaughtering crazy people who destroy a holy book or say something offensive?

        Just referring to “religion” tells you nothing—it has to be a religion whose tenets include murder for “blasphemy”. Islam fits this bill as does no other faith.

        Pretending otherwise is just false moral equivalence.

        One need not believe in religion or even like it to realize that all faiths are not equal in their treatment of people.

        Moreover, this is *not* just about the poorly educated. In many parts of Dar-al-Islam—those under Shari’ah law—the state *itself* persecutes “blasphemers”, even putting them to death.

        That’s because the only “education” salient here is whether the persecutors have been educated in Islam, not whether they are literate or well read.

  19. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    Just a word about the difference between Christians and Muslims. If a woman burns a Koran the Muslims people ,in their hate for her , burn her to death. In contrast, if a woman burns a Bible the Christians, in their love for her, pray for her. At the very worst the Christians may do is to frown at her. Nevertheless, Christians engage in no violence against her. The difference between Christians and Muslims are outstanding. Moreover, Jesus did teach “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20. [K.J.V.]

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