Teenage Muslim girl, 19, stoned to death for participating in a beauty contest in Ukraine

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

If they tried to make adultery punishable by death in Ukraine, well, there'd be very little of the adult population left.

Alaska wouldn't be far behind Ukraine numbers wise in that respect.

We have a saying in Alaska...; "You don't lose your woman, you just lose your turn."

[Captain Oates 910]

Since when do teenage boys decide who dies and who lives? Isn't that up to a judge?

Nancy Grace

Alaska wouldn't be far behind Ukraine numbers wise in that respect.

We have a saying in Alaska...; "You don't lose your woman, you just lose your turn."

I heard there are enough women to go around in Alaska - as long as they go around fast enough

[Captain Oates 910]

In Muslim communities, people commit adultery and then get stoned

In California it is the other way round

Edited June 1, 2011 by Alan the Red

[slim 1,514]

Not if yer with a Muslim gang in the Crimea, apparently.

Any gang in the Crimea is pretty much doing whatever they want.

[Captain Oates 910]

Any gang in the Crimea is pretty much doing whatever they want.

It's a Crime 'ere and it's a Crime there

[Ironman140 45]

It's articles like this that make me wish my ex wife was a Muslim. That greedy two timing h0 would have been done in years ago if that were the case.

Did we marry the same women ??

;-)

[Captain Oates 910]

Did we marry the same women ??

;-)

The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the skin

[sandinista! 1,816]

another take on this particular story-

But the police said her killing had nothing to do with sectarian violence and that the girl had been killed by a psychologically troubled classmate who had given her a lift on his moped and then robbed and possibly raped her before battering her to death with a rock.

"A student did it, killing his classmate. There is no other underlying reason, neither religious nor linked with inter-ethnic conflicts," said Sergei Reznikov, a senior policeman involved in the case.

The area is home to more than 250,000 Muslim Crimean Tatars, and although there has been mob violence in the past sparked by perceived historical injustices, cases of Sharia punishment being meted out by stoning are unheard of.

Police said the main suspect, 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev, had a long history of mental health problems and was already in custody. He is understood to have confessed amid reports from his village suggesting he had developed an unhealthy and unrequited obsession with Miss Koren.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8548022/Muslim-teenage-beauty-queen-stoned-to-death.html

horrific, but it still sounds like the everyday, run of the mill, spurned advances/obsessive stalker guy kind of killing. i'm sure there are many here who are utterly disappointed to hear that the circumstances of this woman's death are most likely much more banal than the daily mail wants them to be though...

[Darnell 8,478]

One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest and told police that Katya had 'violated the laws of Sharia'. Gaziev has said he has no regrets about her death.

So basically he was insane, and decided to try to use Sharia law as a cover ? lame. But hey - he's insane, he could have easily said his pet squirrel Igor told him to kill her.

I feel for the girl's family, really.

Any gang in the Crimea is pretty much doing whatever they want.

I'm now leaning towards 'no gang involvement'.

[Captain Oates 910]

Some place the Crimea

3 times the death toll of the American civil war or 530 times more deaths than 9/11.

On 28 March 1854 Britain and France declared war on Russia, and for the next two years British, French, Sardinian, and Turkish troops fought against Russians in the Crimean War. The loss of life in the war was colossal; of 1 650 000 soldiers who began the war (of all nations), 900 000 died. The majority of those who perished did not die from wounds; rather they died from diseases brought about by the terrible living conditions which they suffered. In these notes we review the Crimean War, and the role Florence Nightingale had in highlighting the plight of the soldiers.

Edited June 2, 2011 by Alan the Red

[ready4ONE 5,400]

another take on this particular story-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8548022/Muslim-teenage-beauty-queen-stoned-to-death.html

horrific, but it still sounds like the everyday, run of the mill, spurned advances/obsessive stalker guy kind of killing. i'm sure there are many here who are utterly disappointed to hear that the circumstances of this woman's death are most likely much more banal than the daily mail wants them to be though...

Not disappointed at all, as the version you posted sounded like what I suspected based on the OP. It didn't sound like a traditional, Sharia law type of stoning in the OP.

Of course, that a young girl was killed is deeply disappointing regardless.

[Captain Oates 910]

Not disappointed at all, as the version you posted sounded like what I suspected based on the OP. It didn't sound like a traditional, Sharia law type of stoning in the OP.

Of course, that a young girl was killed is deeply disappointing regardless.

Keeping it in perspective...

Casualties in Afghanistan:

Afghan troops killed [1] 8,587

Afghan troops seriously injured [2] 25,761

Afghan civilians killed [3] 8,813

Afghan civilians seriously injured [4] 15,863

U.S. troops killed [5] 1,140

U.S. troops seriously injured [6] 3,420

Other coalition troops killed [7] 772

Other coalition troops seriously injured [8] 2,316

Contractors killed [9] 298

Contractors seriously injured [10] 2,428

Journalists killed [11] 19

Journalists seriously injured [12] unknown

Total killed in Afghanistan 19,629

Total injured in Afghanistan 48,644

Conclusion - we shouldn't be distracted in our quest to eliminate all killings