Women's rights downloads land Afghan student the death penalty

Interesting thought - if anyone deserves 27 virgins it should be someone dying for womens' rights, eh?

Oh, that would chafe the Imams!!!

Thank God we are spending endless amounts of blood and treasure freeing the Afghani's from the repressive Islamic Law of the Taliban. That's what we are doing there right?

Thank the West (US+UK) for helping to demolish the republic of 30 years ago. That awful PDPA republic which made enormous strides in religious freedom, education, and women's rights.
And here we are now. Continuing to export democracy to those backwards arabs.

And people try and say Islam is a peaceful religon, bla ha, LOL . I have good dry swampland for sale too.

When they get to the parts in the Qur'an that say you MUST be born of Arabic descent to rule and everyone else is only fit to be a slave. Incidently, the Bible claims the same things for Jews.

I'm guessing they didn't translate that part for the locals.

THIS is the REAL Islam people. Such a wonderful religion isn't it?

The REASON we are there is to get the people the leverage they need to be able to live without what amount-to ruling-gangs murdering their god-given worth.

Throwing in the towel because abuse still exists, simply hands abuse total ownership of the lives there.

You want that?

You'd want that on you if the situation was on your life?

No? Well maybe we should continue fighting against abuse there, for the sake of the someones caught in the authoritarian-abuse there.

Just as we'd want ANYONE to help us if it was being done to us.

Some of the comments are hilarious. Some idiot hardliners are going to execute a poor kid in the name of religion. Is the religion to be blamed?

What about all the atrocities that were committed in the name of other religions? Did Jesus (PBUH) ordered the inquisition in the dark ages? Or exterminating the native Americans? No, so that wasn’t Christianity.

The root of it is ignorance, the same with some of the comments here. 

“When they get to the parts in the Qur'an that say you MUST be born of Arabic descent to rule and everyone else is only fit to be a slave. Incidently, the Bible claims the same things for Jews.”

Mate, can you please point me to the verse in which says this. 

“THIS is the REAL Islam people. Such a wonderful religion isn't it?”

I suppose you have done an extensive research about it!

Ok, I can’t blame you. The actions of us Muslims are the worst examples. What a pity!

mmn, this isn't really about religion. It is about control and the desperate things people will do to keep hold of it.

Just look around, you won't have to strain your eyes.

I hope U.S. influence will bring this to a halt ASAP. Incidentally, the Bible (Old Testament) does not encourage the Jews to rule over other peoples. Mr. Ugly American is wrong about that.

Some of the comments are hilarious. Some idiot hardliners are going to execute a poor kid in the name of religion. Is the religion to be blamed?

What about all the atrocities that were committed in the name of other religions? Did Jesus (PBUH) ordered the inquisition in the dark ages? Or exterminating the native Americans? No, so that wasn’t Christianity.

The root of it is ignorance, the same with some of the comments here. 

“When they get to the parts in the Qur'an that say you MUST be born of Arabic descent to rule and everyone else is only fit to be a slave. Incidently, the Bible claims the same things for Jews.”

Mate, can you please point me to the verse in which says this. 

“THIS is the REAL Islam people. Such a wonderful religion isn't it?”

And what makes you such an expert? I suppose you have done some extensive research about the topic!

Ok, I can’t blame you. The actions of us Muslims are the worst examples. What a pity!

A small remark for tbiggz, Afghan’s are as Arabs as Swedish are British, a bit of Geography would take you a long way ;-)
As for democracy and lack of lunacy that is going on in Afghanistan; well, what do you expect in a country that had widespread minimal education of any kind for its people for at least30 years and no education at all for women! Their appalling interpretation of what you can and cannot do in religion has little to do with Islam and all to do with ignorance, pushing agenda and dogma.

Mr Ugly American (cool name!) I thought I should point out a little thing which should be obvious, but maybe not to you, that Islam and who gets to rule has nothing to do with your descent (where do you come up with this stuff anyway), in fact just a fast look at history will tell you that the Othman Empire was controlled by the Turks and Saladin (the dude that united a big chunk of the Islamic world at the time (1160AD) was Kurdish.
A bit of Google and Wikipedia would serve well if someone cares to know something before they decide to start gracing us with their ignorance!
Cheers…

Anyone who believes that they will somehow be treated fairly at the hands of Islamic radicals is just plain crazy. There is no such thing as "freedom of belief and/or expression" in these wacko Islamic societies. They just hang you or cut your head off if you don't tow their mindless line. How any country that is ruled in such a fashion can claim to be anything than a brutal dictatorship is laughable! You all deserve each other!

women have no rights as muslims , pretty much they are slaves 
islam means peace ? only peace ive seen from muslims is after they kill you you have peace from death

You will have to point out that particular part of the bible for me dude, cause I never saw or even heard about such bullshit.

And even if it was true, we don't do everything the bible says around here, and especially if it's downright stupid.

Just get rid of all religion. Islam is about as made up as Christianity or Hinduism. It's all gibberish and the sooner we rise above these superstitions, the better.

If I had to rank religions in order of the most dangerous, however, Islam would be Numero Uno. Buddhism would come last.

Seriously, we should be asking the following,

Who - gave them (the ones putting the noose around his neck shortly) the right to determine that saying a woman has no rights, and that you must be killed as a deterrent for other people not to take up the cause? He’s a human being! If they believe ‘God’ gave them the right, have him, or her, depending on your point of view come down from their throne and tell us.

What - is the cause? Its culture, and what ever that culture is influenced by? Unfortunately in this case it is religion.

Where - were they when common sense was being handed out? Because they definitely not at the bank.

Why - do the people who are oppressed by this literal stack of BS do not stand up and push for change? I know the arguments to this are going to be ‘oh it’s been like that forever, it takes time, or when they hold the guns!’, people need to stand up for themselves to institute change.

It is truly sad when today a woman is not free, and is considered a tool, because that’s what a slave is. When a man, the true offender of the crime of imprisoning and using woman, even if he did read, download and pass out woman’s rights materials and had wanted to create awareness has to be put to death by other men? Why?

These men are lowly creatures, and I hope, ashamed of what they are. I hope they have realized they are monsters, and to keep the truth from themselves and the world, they have to commit murder and continue to justify it as gods will.

I hope this young man makes it to freedom and peruses a life worthy to the cause of women’s rights in his home country, religion or his people’s opinion of women.

Most people don't see the real Islam. They have not studied it and make judgements based on snippets of weird things from around the world. 

If you want to know about islam then PLEASE talk to a muslim. We are more than happy to answer questions you have, dispell the roumers that are prevalent and explain what Islam really is about. Ask anything you want - What is the proof of God? Why are there so many different religions? What is Islam's view on terrorism? We are more than happy to answer.

Slaves had more rights than women in that society. Slaves if the owner wanted could be educated, didn't have to wear black tents, got out of the house once in a while on errands. But it still comes down to YOU pushing your morality on their beliefs though. I dont say that they are right, just its their country, their people, their religion. I sure wouldn't want the shoe on the other foot and them here telling us how to live, thats for sure.

Just remember not to ask about women's rights.. hah

Ignorance is indeed the problem, but it is a world wide problem, not a problem with islamic nations alone. 

It's really hilarious to see people so quick to comment on how terrible the middle east is, without ever having been there of course, and assuming that every muslim is an extremist. But even more humorous is knowing that they're making assumptions about us (or Americans, anyway) based on negative stereotypes as well.

You might argue that the media influences how we percieve other nations, and how they percieve us. But allowing the media to influence your thoughts about people you've never met is just another example of ignorance anyway.

Simply because Christianity had the atrocities of the Crusades 1000 YEARS ago, and other horrible things were performed in the name of religion hundreds of years ago, DOES NOT mean the we should tolerate such things in today's modern world.

You're childish, "they did it, why can't we just let the other religions do it to" argument is beyond the realm of stupidity.

Islam in general is NOT a peaceful religion. Any religion that separates people's status by gender or ethnicity is simply a CULT in reality. 

Live by morals and common sense, not religious mantras.

When you can't read.
I never said the Afghans were arabs. It was a clear reference to our american goal of liberating Iraq, not taking revenge on Afghanistan. Get with the current events.
Nice try though

Here's a link to a video that may be of interest. Somewhat alarmist but reveals some things about the Koran worth knowing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781

"Islam in general is NOT a peaceful religion. Any religion that separates people's status by gender or ethnicity is simply a CULT in reality. "

.... hah.

All religions are cults. Even based on that logic, in every religion your status is, or at least at some point was, based exactly on those two things. Ethnicity and gender. 

How long did you study Islam before you came to this conclusion that it isn't a "peaceful" religion, and what exactly makes a "peaceful" religion? What makes christianity more peaceful than islam, or any other religion more peaceful than another? I'm not sure what your argument was here, but you can't remain unbiased while calling for the downfall of islam without calling for the downfall of all other religions as well. I'm sure there are muslims who claim that christianity " is NOT a peaceful religion." What would your argument be against that? Something about time healing all wounds and lets just forget all times we killed the unbelievers? When your religion makes you that easy to control, ignorance must be bliss.

Note: Not affiliated with a religion, just hate to see people bad mouth entire groups of people simply because they don't understand them.