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Eugene

(61,899 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:30 AM Mar 26

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

Source: CNN-News 18

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

Reported By: Manoj Gupta
Last Updated: MARCH 26, 2024, 17:56 IST

Afghan women will be publicly flogged and stoned to death for “crimes like adultery”, Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has purportedly declared in a new audio message in which he also challenges Western democracies. The audio, released online by the national broadcaster, also announces the strict implementation of the Islamic code of Shariah.

“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them (women) to death… But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,” Akhundzada declared.

“These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.”

According to Akhundzada, women’s rights as advocated by the international community are against the Taliban’s rigid interpretation of Islamic Sharia.

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Read more: https://www.news18.com/world/afghan-women-will-be-stoned-to-death-for-adultery-declares-taliban-leader-akhundzada-in-new-audio-8827994.html

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This makes my soul sick. Alliepoo Mar 26 #1
Somehow I doubt the men who participate in the adultery will be stoned either... JT45242 Mar 26 #2
Bet they don't stone the men to death. Or at all. n/t ms liberty Mar 26 #3
They flog and stone women to death "as God's representatives." Irish_Dem Mar 26 #4
Never underestimate how much our world hates women. Scrivener7 Mar 26 #5
The men who stone women and say they're god's representatives--their only god is their penis Timeflyer Mar 26 #6
Why aren't the men equally guilty? Rocknation Mar 26 #7
EXACTLY!!! niyad Mar 26 #9
Don't give our Christo-Fascists any ideas. Basic LA Mar 26 #8
Exactly!!! niyad Mar 26 #10
The hatred for women is never-ending. niyad Mar 26 #11

Alliepoo

(2,221 posts)
1. This makes my soul sick.
Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:59 AM
Mar 26

And I’m sure the women won’t get a fair hearing in determining if they are “guilty”… This is disgusting and sickening.

JT45242

(2,278 posts)
2. Somehow I doubt the men who participate in the adultery will be stoned either...
Tue Mar 26, 2024, 09:02 AM
Mar 26

It sickens me. And then I realize how much many in christofascist wing of the republican party would be OK with this for the woman.

Irish_Dem

(47,114 posts)
4. They flog and stone women to death "as God's representatives."
Tue Mar 26, 2024, 09:25 AM
Mar 26

Everyone else is the devil.

We have our own version here in the US.
Women are left to die, tortured, sent to jail over reproductive "crimes."


Timeflyer

(1,993 posts)
6. The men who stone women and say they're god's representatives--their only god is their penis
Tue Mar 26, 2024, 09:33 AM
Mar 26

and the power they accumulate to keep people without penis' subjugated. Because it makes their god happy.

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