Disgusting. Afghans, leaving mosques after Friday Prayer, descended on the UN headquarters in Mazer-e-Sharif killing and beheading some of the UN staff. Fifteen people who would still be alive if it weren’t for religion http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/ten-more-people-who-would-be-alive-if-it-werent-for-religion/ Religion, contrary to the naivety expressed by some, cannot lay claim to morality. Religion is a source of enslavement, a [...]
Further to the original batch of photos from Afghanistan, I’ve now posted an additional set at: Afghanistan Part 2 http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Afghanistan%20Part%202/index.html And, of course, the original batch can be found here: Afghanistan http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Afghanistan/index.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
The stuff of despair: 15 years’ jail for fleeing from a cruel husband http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/71545,news-comment,news-politics,15-years-jail-for-fleeing-from-a-cruel-husband Messed up, real messed up. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
An Afghan driver who survived the ambush tells how Karen Woo and the other charity workers died at http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/67168,news-comment,news-politics,british-aid-worker-karen-woo-was-killed-by-a-grenade-as-she-hid-in-4×4-afghanistan-ambush#ixzz0wUgXF958 I can remember how a year ago we were waived down by masked gunmen in Afghanistan. That was a nervous time; nowhere to run or hide as we were led out of our vehicle at the [...]
Afghanistan? What? Where? You mad?! Most of our travels within the country were through central and northern Afghanistan. The trip was quite exhausting and security concerns increasingly played a part especially during the elections with the risk of rocket attacks, suicide bombs or IEDs. However, I did think that the security forces were over enthusiastic in [...]
Read the article at http://richarddawkins.net/article,3654,n,n which is a repost of http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/student-facing-20-years-in-hell-1643069.html. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh (originally sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan after allegedly distributing a report that was critical of the treatment of woman under Islamic law) has been told he will now spend the next 20 years in jail. It gets even worse. [...]
