HEY TALIBAN, WHERE YOU GONNA RUN TO?*

 OK, I admit that the last two posts were fillers consisting really just of a cartoon with a tiny bit of narrative but I couldn't write anything too grand after my sulky comment on the third to last post:

I'm over that now and anyway the guilt trip I offered to the other bloggers failed to get any travellers so ... here's a new post that is topical and there is a connection to one of the other bloggers.

For some reason I thought that Robert had made some sort of comment in support of the Taliban. On checking again I realised that it was Richard who started the thread and Robert and I responded to that.

Never mind, I'm sure that Robert will support the Taliban when he realises that they are adopting the good old values and disciplines of his religion as practiced back in the Bible days and not the watered down namby-pamby Catholic Church values and disciplines of today.

"What are those values and disciplines?" you may ask.

Well, as luck would have it yesterday one of the Taliban leaders obliged by suggesting that it's about time that women got stoned to death in public again (one assumes that they have been getting stoned to death in private up to now).

See:

VOA (South and Central Asia) reports:

TALIBAN CHIEF DEFENDS STONING WOMEN FOR ADULTERY

Yes, you read that headline correctly and I suggest that you click on it and read the article.

If you don't here are the highlights:

The leader of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban government has said it is determined to enforce the Islamic criminal justice system, including the public stoning of women for adultery.

"Our mission is to enforce sharia and Allah's Hudud [law]," said Hibatullah Akhundzada in an audio clip Taliban officials said was from his latest speech. 

"You may call it a violation of women's rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles,” said the Taliban chief.

"Just as you claim to be striving for the freedom of entire humanity, so do I. I represent Allah, and you represent Satan," Akhundzada said.

He criticized Western human rights values and women's freedoms, saying Taliban religious scholars would persistently resist the West and its form of democracy in Afghanistan. "Thanks to these scholars, such a democracy was evicted from this land," the Taliban leader said.

Taliban authorities have since publicly flogged hundreds of Afghans, including women, for theft, robbery, and committing "moral crimes" in sports stadiums in the presence of thousands of onlookers. At least four men have also been publicly executed after having been convicted of murder by Taliban courts.

 

"You may call it a violation of women's rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery" this turkey said. Well, yes, I do think that it is a tad disproportionate to the 'crime'. If Robert's God does exist maybe he can drop a boulder or the roof of a temple or something on to this silly cunt's head.

* HEY TALIBAN, WHERE YOU GONNA RUN TO?

You can accept that reference to apply to either the song 'Day-O' as sung by Harry Belafonte or 'Sinner-man' as sung by Nina Simone. Both are excellent and among my favourites.