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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I'm sick of the car color metaphor, but here's an article that is very disturbing and shows some pretty crazy behavior when it comes to what some* Muslims--at least in Afghanistan--think is okay to do in the name of their religion.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/21...?_r=2&referrer
TM
*I hesitate to say, "many," but the fact that the Minister of Religion said it would have been a justified street killing had the destroyed pages been from the Koran, speaks volumes. |
The death of Farkhunda is definitely a "Ferguson" moment in Afghanistan, a moment capable of igniting change because of the strong reaction of so many, but also one where there are some pretty significant forces aligned against that change. I was up last night in the middle of the night, and my twitter feed was full of articles on Farkhunda, like this one:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...081503908.html or this one:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32009004, and particularly full of images from her funeral.
