Mohammed Halim was killed by the Taliban. He was taken out of his house in front of his wife and children. He was part-disembowelled. He was then “torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes.”
What was his crime?
He was a teacher and he was educating girls. Here is the link: Link
Comments (154)
Let the punishment fit the crime!
That makes me sick.
This breaks my heart.
Just kidding Dan…relax. I hate to talk too much shit about that though. Different cultures have different beliefs. I think that it’s a bit extreme…but then they are a very violent people.
omg….. i dont even know what to say.
THese are the Taliban we’re talking about. We’re at war with them for a reason.
This doesn’t even compare to the thousands they killed on 9/11
well we all know how dangerous educated women are…what was he thinking?
sigh. our world is corrupt.
it makes me sick to think that some people in that part of the world agree with that person’s fate.
thats sad to think about. thats terrible that his children had to watch it (and his wife too)
That’s cold…wicked cold….this world is fucked up.
Candy
What can you expect out of a corrupt, fallen, Godless world.
“They’re” not “a very violent people”. There is just an extremist (cultish) group who takes things to the violent extreme of punishment.
Oh, Thats HORRIBLE. his poor family… (fight mental illness stigma)
“What can you expect out of a corrupt, fallen, Godless world.”
I think the problem here is a misinterpretation of God along with an extreme enough faith to act on it.
my grandfather died the same way, by the khmer rouge. chopped and buried. that’s war for yah.
its intresting to think about how diffrent our societies are. i cant even imagine not being able to learn and be taught. i love learning new things. im thankful that i “have” to be taught algebra, even if it is my least favorite class that i have ever taken!
sickening
Fanatics ruin everything.
P.S., Doesn’t matter which side the fanatics are on. Keep that in mind.
Oh my god…I can’t believe that.
That is so jacked up! Just because he was teaching girls, he was murdered? What a world we live in…
Wow … unbelievable…
dear god!
That article, although I don’t doubt it’s truth, does seem a bit…propaganda-ish. When you see appeals to emotion in journalism, you know to watch out for non-journalistic motives.
What can you expect out of a corrupt, fallen, Godless world.
Posted 11/30/2006 at 10:45 PM by Eternalimplosion
I highly doubt the Taliban consider themselves to be “godless”.
Do remember that they think they are doing god’s will by killing this man.
And with all the political correctness, it could be coming soon to a city near you. Sick
That is absolutely awful.
This kind of hatred is very upsetting to me. I wish I hadn’t read this before going to sleep.
awwww… that’s so sad… I can’t think of where I would be if I wasn’t educated
Makes a good case as to why there is more to this war than WMDs…
at least to me.
this is trully sad. i know teenage boys who make fun of women and getting education that they do in the US think that being sexist is funny. that makes me even more sad.
Gosh, that is really sick. This might be their their notion of what is “religious”, but I reserve my opinion that if so, their perceptions of God’s will are seriously, seriously twisted.
sadly, i’m not surprised.
I’m sorry to say this doesn’t surprise me. This is the corrupt world we live in, where real crimes go unhindered and the ones with no fault get brutally punished. Life has to be taken one day at a time these days.
Religion of Peace soon to be coming to your city and neighborhood. Great Britain is already allowing Sharia law to be used to judge crimes committed by Muslims in Britain instead of British law. Just wait until it is here in the good ole USA, then we will see if anyone cares.
His crime? Defying one of the evils of his culture.
meh, the talibans are fuckheads. im not too worried about them b/c once their dead god will have his way with them in the most severest ways. our revenge on them cannot be compared to gods wrath
all we need to do is shoot em and then god has it from there
That’s pretty sad. I hope his family and the rest of the teachers and civilians there make it through alright. Of course, some of them won’t, worse luck.
Maybe if we weren’t misled into invading Iraq , we could’ve focused on Afghanistan and the Taliban wouldn’t be regaining power and becoming more active now. Not too mention the loss of life in Iraq.
Allah Christ!
Uh huh. That man got the same trial that I think Saddam should have gotten. Oh well. Guess that lets us show how much more pomp and circumstance we enjoy.
Makes a good case as to why there is more to this war than WMDs…
at least to me.
Posted 11/30/2006 at 10:56 PM by Silent_Mercenary
Do the world a favor and never vote. The alleged, nonexistent WMDs were never supposed to be in Afghanistan, they were supposed to be in Iraq. The Taliban is in Afghanistan and not in Iraq.
American’s who don’t even know that we’re in two different wars and some basic facts about those wars ought to be rounded up for reeducation.
ah and yes, under islamic law that teacher was a martyr because he died for the betterment of society. not the talibans or sucide bombers but real people who die doing something good.
Oh my goodness…that’s so terrible.
I know that no where in the Quran does it say “Kill he who teaches women” In fact women are suppose to be able to read so they can read the Koran, like the puritans taught everyone to read so everyone could read the bible.
“Doesn’t matter which side the fanatics are on”
Maybe, but let me know when you see people from any other faith, other than Islam doing things like this, day in and day out over the last century.
I agree with super piggie.
The fanatics give everyone a bad name.
No Crime, that’s just how the Taliban is, this is what they do…
I wonder, how off a person mustbe to believe that ANYONE’s God actually wants his foloowers to kill people like that. Or just kill people in general.
how cruel.
Keep in mind that it occured in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Another reason why I hate religion and it’s stupid leaders.
What. The. Fuck.
“I hate religion and it’s stupid leaders”
As opposed to none religious leaders such as Stalin and Pol Pot
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
-Ernest Hemingway
Afghanistan’s main export: death.
Iraq’s main import: death
America’s main export: confusion
” ” import: Chinese goods.
Hm…. this is a bit random but one thing i notice is that AMerica tends to fair better when the enemy comes to us first. Just, historically speaking. In general. Eh. Fuck Afghanistan…. i have never seen a video of it where there were any trees…… just rocks and dirt…
That’s horrible.
sick, sick, sick… and you would think that as much as Islam preaches about brotherhood and having love for your fellow man this kind of crap wouldn’t happen…
Uuugh… This makes me weak.
(Perhaps the world needs more atheists and good natured people…)
xoxoxox
Sadly, I’m not surprised. I read an article about a girl going to an illegal school before 9/11.
GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the hell can people THINK this way??? How can they believe that teaching girls and women is worthy of killing someone in front of their wife and kids? How is it possible for these sorts of people to exist? And this is what’s so scary… b/c if there is a God, at least the kind, just one that modern christianity tells us (ok, certain kinds of modern christianity), would S/He just smite people like this right then and there? Isn’t that what they deserve?
First reaction: disgust
Second reaction: conviction
It’s really amazing how ignorant and self-absorbed nearly all of your commenters are. Everyone talks like the people that do these things are completely out of their minds and should be held accountable for their crimes.
Are we Americans so sure that we are not out of our own minds?
What if, bare with me for a second, the Taliban is right? What if they and they alone know the will of God, and they are truly enacting justice on one who has defied God? What if the stupid Americans who are saying, “What that teacher did was good” are just as wrong as anyone else?
You see, people are far too presumptuous. I don’t think we ever truly stop and consider our presuppositions on a daily basis. We just accept what we’ve been brainwashed to believe, and that is that the Taliban is evil incarnate.
Now, I do believe that the Taliban is a very evil organization; however, I think that there are those here who would condemn the Taliban who are just as far from the will of God than the terrorists.
C. S. Lewis said that a man in terrible circumstances who makes the right choice is better than a man in a good environment who makes a right choice. A Taliban member enacted what he sees as justice is quite possibly no worse than an American who takes revenge on a co-worker for stealing his stapler.
Think about it.
Welcome to happy benevolent peace loving islam.
he was not a angry man, or he would have left
Wow…that’s awful.
well, if america keeps going the way it is, it won’t be too awful long until the same thing is happening here.
XristosAnesti, the taliban killed a man in a gruesome way. That’s all to it. No one has the right to kill a person in such a manner.
God rest his soul. They will do anything to get their way and to do what, in their twisted, corrupt, and tainted view of the world, is right. The most fightening thing about it is that they will stop at NOTHING. To think they say this is the will of God! It is disgusting!!
XristosAnesti
You have the reasoning skills of a turnip. CS Lewis is not the Bible and even at that you should leave him to those that can reason little better than you do.
That’s disgusting. Are these people cold blooded?
“God is dead.” Friedrich Nietzsche
This depresses me that people would consider doing that to others that have a dissenting opinion. Though, even in America, we seem to turn a blind eye to violence for a “good cause.”
Horrific.
“Are these people cold blooded?”
Duh.. they’re terrorists!
I think some people here have no idea what it’s like in Afghanistan, or anything about the Taliban, people are too absorbed in Iraq to open their eyes and see what’s going on in our OTHER WAR.
what can one say?
Holy Cow!
I don’t even want to read that link…I can’t bear it.
Remember though, this was done by Taliban. Many Muslims would be as outraged and sickened by this as we are.
Shalom!
His crime, in the eyes of the Taliban, is that in educating girls one day one of them would grow up and devise a plan to make them obsolete.
I spent time in Afghanistan… they pretty much hate the Taliban there…
Of course it is a crime. This is what our war is all about, stopping the spread of Islamo Fascism
wow..that’s really horrible
I couldn’t even read the whole article. These people are more then evil
and now Pakistan is telling NATO to make a deal with the Taliban…
That is indescribably sick, disgusting, awful, and far beyond contemptible. Despicable.
I can’t even – that just makes me want to – oooh.
Sad. Sick. Twisted.
That’s awful!
Shaking my head…
As tragic as that is, it serves as a reminder of what type of mindset we’re figthing against.
oh, mannnn.
I read that and the first thing that came to mind was a Y2K Holocaust, Genocide, in any event our generation’s version of pure evil.
http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/reggae_afgano_-_01_-_taliban.mp3
http://www.suckapants.com/Music/TobyKeith-TheTalibanSong.mp3
Un believeably sand. Want to send condolences to the family. Thanks for post. didn’t see elsewhere. OMG. How long before they can be healed? Prayers forALL OF THEM.
shocked
That is absolutely sickening. Ya know, I never totally agreed with the was in Iraq. But I think it’s mostly because of all the lies and politics. However, I did think it was a good idea to get rid of OBL and the Taliban…. I wish we had done that like we were told we were going in there to do.
makes me MAD!!!
but it is kind of funny
wow. thats kinda messed up
What are we trying to do in phased redeployment while teachers are being killed just for doing their jobs? Oh, right, the society in general has rules reguarding the treatment of women and we’re worried that we’ve spent too much time there already. If we can’t do right by them, if the tables were turned, we’d be in much more trouble and worse off than before. If we leave, what’s to stop the extreme traditionalists from killing the women government officials and restoring the time honored traditions of honor killings and forcing the schools to shut down or not allow girls to attend at all?
i refuse to answer serius questions today:)
And they call themselves peaceful people?
Read the Kite Runner for a look at The Taliban. Hard, beautiful, enlightening book.
It was probably suggested and ordered by some politically-minded Americans (?) who wanted to put a punch in the idea of our men being in Iraq to bring justice to the area. …Just a reminder, that even before 9-11, that our men were in Iran, conveniently, wearing gas masks, to document the gassing of the innocent people, and that it looked to me at the time, like it may have been done by US, to make that look like it had been done by Saddam Hussein…a possible war-tacktic, to get the American people sympathetic to the viewpoint that we should look towards the idea of War to correct that and remove him.
Now that we are in there, we will be there, and this will go on, unless it is exposed, who has done it. We now should “take charge,” and prosecute a few usual suspects…See who does that.
People suck
To comment on the comment above, it’s probably one of the first times, I myself, have heard of the other side doing bad. Usually the media portrays us as evil and despicable.
So, for those of you who believe it, is Islam still a “peaceful” religion? :-/
Yes lidlin, people suck and, evidently, a lot of Americans are stupid. Taliban/Islam/Afghanistan/Iraq, all the same thing right? Oh please, stop being retarded.
That’s disgusting! And a real thinker post, something I hadn’t heard in the news yet. RYC: I’d probably hate moving if I wasn’t so used to it. I try to see the bright side of things. In this case, I’m thankful that the opportunity forces me to clean up and throw some things out, preventing me from the packratting habit that runs in the family. On the other hand, I don’t want to push a file cabinet up the stairs again any time soon. Peace, Dan!
Evil. . .
I think everybody actually read your link this time!
Almnost 40 years ago, just after Bobby Kennedy’s death, a young man from Lebanon stood up in my accounting class and said, “You don’t understand, laws of society are different there, have always been different. If someone wrongs you, it is not wrong to kill them. If nobody from his family sees you do it, you are OK. If they do, they have a duty to return the favor.”
That’s appauling! All in the name of their god? if so then their god isn’t a good god.
Anyway .. I just called by to vote for my mate DaisyMae and thought I best be saying hello on my way through! So .. G’day!
Have a lovely day .. Linda
It horrifies us to think of this because we are a society that destroys using words and propaganda rather than sheer violence. It sickens me but I am not familiar with the culture…therefore I cannot pass judgment.
All in all…I think it’s horrible but I also can’t reprimand an entire culture just because my morals are completely different.
Someone said about ‘just wait for gods wrath’ when those torturers died.
Even though I find this news story so disturbing, and against everything anyone should stand for, I don’t understand how it would then be right to torture torturers. It is hypocritical.
And isn’t God to be loving to all of it’s people? Why would God create people with the potential to do such horrible acts unless it had a purpose?
I am not supporting the actions of these people by any means. I don’t find any use for violence.
Hence, I do not think it would be fit for violence to be re-inflicted on someone else. It just continues the process.
I don’t have any particular religion, just the things that make sense to me, and I don’t see why a God would punish something that God itself created and gave the ability to do such horrible acts.
There has to be a purpose behind it all, no?
How can they do that without even thinking twice?
Idiots.
This is why we’re at war with them.They need to be stopped.
God…
That is so sad.
They put the remains on display?! That’s even more sick than the act itself.
That makes me so sick. So what if he’s teaching girls! You don’t KILL him! Fucking bastardly sickos. How dare they. I say they have someone do that to them! See how it feels. How terrble, so much sexism still exists in countries today. And Mohammed just trying to do a good thing. That poor guy.
What a world. What a world.
It sounds natural for people with their worldview; sadly.
Gosh!!
oh look at that!!! There’s a heart between the coffee bunnies and their holding a baby bunny!!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway, ttyl Dan, I’ll leave you a voice comment hopefully soon! hehe
-Emilino
Eww.
That makes me sick to my stomach.
Not to say christianity has a sterling record in this area, but yes this is disgusting. But, if we all dispensed with the fairytales none of this would be happening and the Iraq situation would be better. Too bad people loove their fairytales.
Huh. I thought the Taliban had gone underground
Wicked cruel, but then different governments have different punishing practices.
ryc: Yes, it will help immensely to have more money coming in, of course my rent will go up. Are you ok? Haven’t seen a morning post yet for Friday!!
Dan…you haven’t updated yet?
That is just wrong
That is sick and awful.
And people wonder I hate war??
Man – but you know where are moderate Muslims? Why don’t they speak up about this? I’m sorry but religion is scary.
That is horrendous.
I admire and respect that man for his courage. Poor family, though…I hope they’ll be okay.
Damn Talibans. I hope the girls who were taught are also going to be all right.
just another sick act by so called “religious extremists” who believe that they are doing what is right in God’s sight, but only because they are led by people who don’t really believe that, they just want power
xray
Hmm, and we aren’t beheading these people on international tv because…?
“What can you expect out of a corrupt, fallen, Godless world.”
saying something like that means you are just as ignorant as they are.
for w/e demented reason it is against their laws to educate girls
Vegemitee, I fail to see how that statement is ignorant.
That quote is a practical generality about the world. The world is corrupt, maybe not because of it’s lack of religion, but it’s still corrupt.
The Taliban are ignorant because they believe they are right and refuse to listen to anything that opposes their views. Like everyone here in America.
Those nice peaceful friendly Muslims? No way…..
Yeah, I agree that that torture was a “bit” excessive… *rolls eyes at PC people*
NASTY!
Beyond sad! Beyond sickening!
Fanatics ruin everything.
P.S., Doesn’t matter which side the fanatics are on. Keep that in mind.
Posted 11/30/2006 at 10:51 PM by Super_Piggie
I agree with Super_Piggie…
His crime? empowering the next generation…
Oooooh. I want to join their church!
that is soo sad. gosh, some people are so screwed up…
Woah……I don’t know what to say, lol.
-KrIsTiN-
that just proves that those misoginistic shits are afraid of women becoming better than them.
I don’t know what to say:( . I know they are very violent over there, but how can people that do those kind of things be considered “human.”
You just got me all emotional. Like, anger emotional.
Anger emotional enough to go do something about it.
ABSOLUTELY HORRID!!!! THESE PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS!!!
Very uncivilized, backward people!
So much ignorance.
1. The Taliban were NOT responsible for 9/11
2. Sharia law is NOT used in UK courts
3. Let’s just replace “Islamic facism” with “Christian facism” and it’ll all be okay
4. Oh God, not another Conspiracy theory….the USA did it to justify the war? Gimme a f***in break
5. “They” worship the same God Christians do (and also believe Jesus was a prophet)
=(
> The Taliban, at large, should be: (1) partially disembowelled thrown to the dogs; or (2) thrown into vat of acid and be emasculated before being thrown in as they would no longer a use for that item anyway….. At the very minimum…. May Allah dump upon them all for what they have done….
Peace, but NONE for the Taliban
That’s awful = (