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Conley
07-31-2011, 10:49 AM
HERAT, Afghanistan — The two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and tossed discreetly onto the workroom floor.

It was the beginning of an Afghan love story that flouted dominant traditions of arranged marriages and close family scrutiny, a romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities that tested a village’s tolerance for more modern whims of the heart. The results were delivered with brutal speed.

This month, a group of men spotted the couple riding together in a car, yanked them into the road and began to interrogate the boy and girl. Why were they together? What right had they? An angry crowd of 300 surged around them, calling them adulterers and demanding that they be stoned to death or hanged.

When security forces swooped in and rescued the couple, the mob’s anger exploded. They overwhelmed the local police, set fire to cars and stormed a police station six miles from the center of Herat, raising questions about the strength of law in a corner of western Afghanistan and in one of the first cities that has made the formal transition to Afghan-led security.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31herat.html?_r=2&ref=global-home

It gets worse from there, with the father of one of the children saying the government should kill them both.

How exactly does the U.S. plan on leaving this hell hole better off? Let these savages govern themselves, we're not going to be able to change decades, centuries of their culture through any kind of military activity. It's a different world over there and one that seems intent on remaining in the stone age.

MMC
07-31-2011, 02:00 PM
Yeah except for all those Shieks and Kings that likes to have their slave girls takes care of them. Course with the Sunni its one of their hundreds of wives.....huh?

Still it goes to show just how far behind the times the Afghani people really are.

Conley
07-31-2011, 02:16 PM
Yes, there is a lot of the world that is just very different in terms of culture, and I don't think that can be changed over night or from outside. It needs to happen naturally by native born leaders, in my opinion.

hellraiser
08-02-2011, 12:25 PM
usual american judge other countries

we should not do this

Mister D
08-02-2011, 12:27 PM
usual american judge other countries

we should not do this


Actually, the neocons "judged" the Afghanis in a very favorable way. I agre. That was a mistake.