Pakistani Taliban militants caught on tape stoning woman to death

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Re: Pakistani Taliban militants caught on tape stoning woman to death

@ravage

I think the debate over watching the video aside, this is a bit of a religious quagmire for Muslims. I had the same reactionwith the flogging video. The revulsion we feel, or atleast that I believe most feel, doesnt have to do with concerns over whether procedures were followed or whether it is the jurisdiction of these animals to enforce law. It has to do with the very nature of the punishment, and seeing a single helpless woman being brutalized and overpowered by douchbags.

And I cannot take the convenient route of saying this is a misinterpretation. Theyre shared across mainstream sunni and shia sects. It would be highly presumptuous for someone to claim they think the clerics/mullahs have got it wrong on the punishments this far.

Having said that, I find these punishments abhorrent and oppose them wherever they are applied.

ravage, while I agree with you on the revulsion over these inhumane punishments, isn’t the part in bold a critical point too? even if they were enforcing “secular” punishments, etc, they have absolutely no right or jurisdiction to do that. the cruelty gets to me but the jurisdiction bit and the open badmaashi really ticks me off.