Video of girl's flogging as Taliban hand out justice

[Peikko 1,575]

The reality of flogging - or is the flogging ok, just the crime that is wrong?

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[Danno 1,228]

I would call that harsh but not inhumane.

It's my opinion, these people are wacked but I respect different cultures to form their own style of "justice".

As our rate of crime is unreal, I hardly see where we are in any position to export our methods.

[Peikko 1,575]

The flogging is ok but the crime didn't deserve that particular punishment? Or, you think it's ok for women to be treated like that so long as they live in a different country?

[Ban Hammer 13,400]

i'd call that a spanking, not a flogging.

[Peikko 1,575]

You don't think it hurt? Or you think it was a sexual experience for either the men, or the woman or both?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Middle ages punishments are best left in the middle ages.

As to the "crime" itself, I doubt the girl was afforded opportunity of a trial and a legal defence.

Everything about it is wrong.

[DeadPoolX 9]

I wonder if any of girls are named "Molly?"

[NickD 203]

You don't think it hurt? Or you think it was a sexual experience for either the men, or the woman or both?

"She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her."

With no other reason given, who that man was, nothing. Those people are crazy and who gives those fighters the right to judge and punish? Article further states they beat women if they don't like the way they dress. Wouldn't mind spending five minutes with that guy with the belt in an alley. If that was my daughter, I wouldn't be standing by silently and he would be in no position to ever strike another woman again, ever.

[Peikko 1,575]

One of the guys who pinned her down was a brother. It gave him religious kudos if I read that correctly.

[almaty 19]

a stupid brand of punishment by a backward group of chopf##ks

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You don't think it hurt? Or you think it was a sexual experience for either the men, or the woman or both?

"She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her."

With no other reason given, who that man was, nothing. Those people are crazy and who gives those fighters the right to judge and punish? Article further states they beat women if they don't like the way they dress. Wouldn't mind spending five minutes with that guy with the belt in an alley. If that was my daughter, I wouldn't be standing by silently and he would be in no position to ever strike another woman again, ever.

You would if they had guys pointing guns at you and the rest of your family.

One of the guys who pinned her down was a brother. It gave him religious kudos if I read that correctly.

Obviously it says a lot about the place of women in that society.

[Peikko 1,575]

I didn't really post this to flame the religion. I was more interested in people's perspective of the reality of the actual punishment.

[almaty 19]

sister purple, it is not based on religion but more on cultural interpretation...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well its hard to justify such a thing, as its so beyond the experience of what people receive via our judicial system.

By the same token though, its hard to separate the reality of the punishment from the context in which it takes place. I think people have come to expect this sort of thing from that part of the world.

[Peikko 1,575]

In the light of the fact that some people would like to change how we punish people in the West, I wondered how actually seeing a real flogging would affect that view.