Don't worry, once President Romney gets elected he'll join Israel in bombing Pakistan.

Lol and the attacker is her cousin's husband, so she's joining his harem. Nice.

Two Jewish directors approve:

Quasar: "At first my sentence was two years," she said. "When I appealed it became 12 years. I didn't do anything. Why should I be sentenced for so long?"

Here in America you get pulled over for DWB (driving while black). Over there you get 12 years for BFME (being female in the middle east).

It's amazing how advanced those regions were hundreds of years ago, at least until you realize they're still in that time period.

So you're saying...we need to deport black people to Afghanistan?

Has there ever been a time when anyone's foreign policy had the ultimate goal of improving someone else's country? Ever?

If you don't like their country, don't buy any of their exports. Refuse to do business with anyone who does. Much easier said than done, however.

/Your wallet is your only real vote.

kingoomieiii: It's gonna take a little longer than ten years for their rich tradition of ludicrous barbarity to fall away, Subby.

If we hold random parts of the hindu kush for just another X decades we'll finally turn that place around.

But at least it'll be a Christian wedding, right? With a reading from 1 Corinthians 13?

Have any of you even considered that perhaps she likes rape?

I know I'm just speaking out of frustration and that international politics are incredibly complicated and convoluted dealings, but it really sucks that we support nations that not only allow but fully embrace things like this as cultural norms.

Next she gets arrested for bigamy.

It has changed hasn't it?

I thought they were still into little boys.

I saw a doc where that Pakistan/Afghan region was hot for boys dressed as dancing girls.

That'll teach her to show her ankles.

Afghani rape victim, imprisoned for adultery, pardoned by Hamid Karzai after agreeing to marry her attacker. Yeah we really improved that country

To be fair, that is an improvement over the Taliban, which would have just stoned her to death.

rkane1: But at least it'll be a Christian wedding, right? With a reading from 1 Corinthians 13?

I was always a bigger fan of Colossians 3:12

It wasn't about improvement, subby. It was about revenge.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I thought we were there to get rid of al Qaeda, not to "improve" their country.

"Blah blah..prevent terror from ever taking root there again...blah blah...make sure Afghanistan is never again a haven for those who want to do us harm...blaaaaahhh..."

We all heard them all say it ad nauseum. You can't accomplish any of that without improving the place. Problem is, it was probably always a fool's errand. Afghanistan doesn't even want to be a country - it wants to be an area in which there are separate tribes and clans and factions.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I thought we were there to get rid of al Qaeda, not to "improve" their country.

Yeah, I understand your confusion. This could have been easily avoided if they had gone with the more descriptive name "Operation Turd Polish". The Bush PR team shot that down early in the planning stages.

Congratulations, Fartbama. Soon to be followed by Iraqi cannibals and Libyan soft metal bands, no doubt.

ME complaints about being treated like children who can't manage their own country's affairs just lost a little weight.

Now, if subby's Mom would just lose some weight as well, I'd consider making an honest woman out of her as well.

"My punishment is my crime"
--Adrienne Rich

Farking disgusting. Get out of the 9th century, you farking douchewads. That Karzai went along with it means he's just as bad as the rest. That's our guy in Afghanistan? Fark him. He's human garbage.

The European Union recently blocked the release of a documentary on Afghan women jailed for so-called "moral crimes".

The EU said it decided to withdraw the film - which it commissioned and paid for - because of "very real concerns for the safety of the women portrayed".

wtf? Then take steps in the film to protect their identities, but get the farking information out. It needs to be seen.

Half of Afghanistan's women prisoners are inmates for "zina" or moral crimes.

What a revolting society.

Jake Havechek: Arabs raping a female? I thought they were mostly boy lovers in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is populated by Arabs? News to me.

Jake Havechek: Arabs raping a female? I thought they were mostly boy lovers in Afghanistan.

'm pretty sure you were thinking of Penn State

I said "well" twice

GungFu: It has changed hasn't it?

I thought they were still into little boys.

I saw a doc where that Pakistan/Afghan region was hot for boys dressed as dancing girls.

I knew a guy who used to work in Saudi Arabia. He told me some crazy stories about the length saudis go to not get caught doing that crap.

You guys are just bigots. Don't you understand that you a repressing these poor people by disrespecting their Islamic beliefs and traditions?

Cagey B: Has there ever been a time when anyone's foreign policy had the ultimate goal of improving someone else's country? Ever?

All the time countries try to improve others by moving in and teaching them how to speak a better language, better religion, etc.

Ahhh...Afghanistan! The cemetery of empires!

video man
This isn't new.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29:

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

The civilized world has advanced a bit in the several thousand years since that was written.

Quasar: "It's amazing how advanced those regions were hundreds of years ago, at least until you realize they're still in that time period."

Well, it's not like they're the same culture anymore.
Centuries of blood feuds have a way of stopping and reverting progress.
Because what works in a cooperative society is not a strategy for success in a land of constant conflict.

If anything, they're a warning that just because Earth is (overall) a much better place than it used to be, that is by no means guaranteed and under constant pressure from those who'd leverage "us vs them" tribal conflicts to increase their own power and treasure.

cbackous: How could she have gotten raped? Bad things never happen in the kitchen.

Exactly! Well, except for fires, burns, and meatloaf.

Packs bags for Afghanistan.
/Gotta go find me a woman

ultraholland: Have any of you even considered that perhaps she likes rape?

It has been a while since I've handed out a ticket for a first class window seat on the bus to hell.

Isn't religion great? It clearly makes the world a much better, and moral place.

I'm grateful to the hard-working Christians in our society who seek to bring similar morals to our own country.

Great Odins Raven
You guys are just bigots. Don't you understand that you a repressing these poor people by disrespecting their Islamic beliefs and traditions?

That's not Islamic. It's cultural. There are numerous Muslims who don't follow this bullshiat.

I'm pretty sure it's just the violence inherent in the system.

patrick767: video man
This isn't new.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29:

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

The civilized world has advanced a bit in the several thousand years since that was written.

Leviticus 20:13

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.

Really? Please show your work.

I'll chalk that one up to "none of our farking business" and say let's keep on pulling out of there as fast as possible.