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Angry mob in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed a woman and set her body alight for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.


"We were watching this incident. She burned the Koran,” one eyewitness told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.


“A lot of people gathered around the spot,” he added. “They burned her."


The head of Kabul's criminal police, General Farid Afzali, told the AFP news agency that the woman's body was then thrown into the Kabul River.


Heather Barr, a senior researcher for women's rights in Asia for Human Rights Watch (HRW), identified the victim as 27-year-old Farkhunda.


A security official quoted the family of the victim as telling investigators that she had been suffering from mental illness for many years,


Footage obtained by RFE/RL shows a large crowd comprised mainly of young men repeatedly kicking and beating the woman. Some throw stones and buckets at her as she struggles to get off the ground.


The assault on the woman then continues as she lies on the ground, clearly unconscious and bleeding profusely.
Some men in the crowd can be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great").


Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said a probe into the "very unfortunate" event was under way.
He also said that four suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack.


The Reuters news agency quoted HRW's Barr raising concerns as to whether enough had been done to stop the mob.


"I would certainly hope the government would be trying to arrest and prosecute everyone who was involved and doing an internal investigation into whether the police response was appropriate," Barr said.


In 2012, the revelation that copies of the Koran had been burnt at the U.S.-run Bagram prison near Kabul sparked five days of violent anti-U.S. riots and attacks across the country.


Thirty people were reported killed in the violence, including four Americans




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Woman Killed In Kabul After Allegedly Burning A Koran
 
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That's what I hate about Muzzies. They're so unoriginal. Now they're burning witches. Might as well rename the town Salem, Afghanistan.
 
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The mentally ill woman, her face covered in blood, rose to her feet and looked out across the mob. She pleaded. But these men meant to kill her.


A kick sent her tumbling backward. In the courtyard of one of Kabul’s most famous shrines, men hurled stones at her and struck her with wooden planks.


When she was dead, they tied her body to a car and drove to the Kabul River. On the garbage-strewn bank, they burned her corpse.


Her name was Farkhunda, and, for most of her 27 years, her parents had searched for help in treating the mental illness that had plagued her since girlhood.


None of that mattered to the mob. To them, she stood accused of a vile and sacrilegious act: burning pages from the Quran.


Kabul has been riveted since her death Thursday afternoon. Cellphone videos of the killing have been circulating widely, appalling some but drawing approval from others.


“If I had been there, I would have burned her, too,” said a man who on Friday had come to see the place along the riverbank where Farkhunda’s body was burned the day before.


But a hatmaker who had watched the mob from his shop condemned the attack as inhuman.


“What they did is brutal and completely against Islam,” said the hatmaker, Sayed Habib Saadat. What left him feeling especially worried, he added, was how many of the attackers were teenagers or young men in their 20s.


The divergent responses trace Afghanistan’s struggle between its commitment to conservative Islam and the Western notions of individual rights and due process that have been slow to take hold over the past decade.


On Friday, as the police arrested nine men believed to have been part of the mob, an official in the Ministry of Religious Affairs said the attack on Farkhunda might have been justified if she actually did what she was accused of.


A few weeks ago, Farkhunda had told a doctor treating her that she planned to commit suicide, a top police investigator in Kabul, Gen. Mohammad Farid Afzali, said in a phone interview. In recent days she had stopped sleeping, her mother told television reporters.


“Farkhunda had a mental malady, and we have been seeing many mullahs and doctors to seek a cure for her mental illness,” her mother said.


Although ill, Farkhunda had kept up with her studies at a madrasa.On Thursday morning, after leaving school, she turned up at the shrine of the King of Two Swords, which honors a Muslim conqueror in Afghanistan who died in the seventh century fighting Hindu warriors.


Apparently, she was intent on making sure that visitors’ prayers at the shrine were in strict Islamic accordance. The attendants at the shrine say they did not recognize her, but she quickly made her presence felt.


One of the attendants, Shad Mohammad, said that Farkhunda began berating visitors, men and women alike. It was acceptable to pay their respects at a shrine like this, she instructed visitors, but it was not an appropriate place to worship.


“Don’t come here to pray,” she shouted, according to Mr. Mohammad. “God won’t accept your prayers here.”


When he told her to leave people alone, she turned on Mr. Mohammad. “She called me a two-rupee beggar and told me sit here quietly,” he said.


Later Farkhunda began to pace the shrine’s courtyard. Along the wall is a small metal firepit, where visitors throw orange rinds, soda cans and other trash from picnics.


It was there that several women, who were busy preparing meals for beggars, saw Farkhunda standing over flames, Mr. Mohammad said. Soon the women began shouting that chapters from the Quran were on fire, Mr. Mohammad said.


Exactly what Farkhunda was burning is not certain. The independent television channel Tolo News, citing a government official in the Religious Affairs Ministry, said that the burned pages were not from the Quran — the words were in Dari, not Arabic.


But when another of the shrine’s attendants, Zain-Ul-Din, rushed back to the firepit and pulled out the charred pages, he wasted no time in whipping up a mob. He laid the pages on a wood plank, which he then carried out to the street. There, according to witnesses, he began shouting: “The woman has burned the holy Quran! An infidel woman had burned the holy Quran!”


A crowd gathered within minutes, and it kept growing until it was hundreds strong. The men quickly cornered Farkhunda and began pelting her with rocks, while others egged the rock throwers on. Some men stomped on her as she lay in the street.




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It's not just Muslims. It wasn't that long ago that the Lefty liberals were calling for some Yank to be burned or beheaded or whatever for burning Korans.

Had he burned Bibles, however.....
 
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Ludlow said:
Remarkable observation
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Of course it is. It's true. It's not just Muzzies who get angry at people for burning a mere storybook. It's the Lefty liberals of the Western world, hardly any of whom are Muslim (because Islam is a right-wing religion which detests the views that most Lefty liberals hold), who got up in arms when that gentleman burned the koran a few years ago. They didn't actually get offended themselves, per se, but they got offended on behalf of Muslims.

Had a Muslim stood outside a mosque and burned the Bible, however, these very same Lefty liberals who got "offended" on behalf of Muslims when that gentleman burned a few korans would be so silent that tumbleweed would come rolling past.
 
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Blackleaf said:
Of course it is. It's true. It's not just Muzzies who get angry at people for burning a mere storybook. It's the Lefty liberals of the Western world, hardly any of whom are Muslim (because Islam is a right-wing religion which detests the views that most Lefty liberals hold), who got up in arms when that gentleman burned the koran a few years ago. They didn't actually get offended themselves, per se, but they got offended on behalf of Muslims.

Had a Muslim stood outside a mosque and burned the Bible, however, these very same Lefty liberals who got "offended" on behalf of Muslims when that gentleman burned a few korans would be so silent that tumbleweed would come rolling past.
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Muslims don't burn the Bible as it is called "The Book" in the Koran and regarded as Holy.
 
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I say the revelers of the religion of peace out for some recreation on the weekend
These people are savages. We keep talking about the avenue to democracy which
they have no understanding of or respect for. Murder in the name of God.
Someone should point out this is the twenty first century.
We condemn ISIS yet the average citizen appears to be right there for the rock throwing.

 
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gopher said:
Muslims don't burn the Bible as it is called "The Book" in the Koran and regarded as Holy.
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Here are some Musulmans burning a Bible whilst attacking a cathedral in Egypt:

 
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By the way. . .


Afghan woman, killed by a mob for a crime she didn’t commit, becomes a rallying point for activists


By Sarah Kaplan March 23

Four days ago, an Afghan woman named Farkhunda lay on the ground beneath the flailing, kicking feet of dozens of men. Her face swollen and bright with blood, she attempted to stand and plead for mercy. But her attackers, who accused her of burning a Koran, kicked her back and exchanged their feet for stones and wooden planks. Before it was over, Farkhunda’s body would be thrown from a rooftop, run over by a car and then set ablaze on a bank of the muddy Kabul River.

On Sunday, Farkhunda’s body lay in a coffin carried on the shoulders of several black-clad Afghan women. Bucking tradition, these pallbearers took on a role usually designated to men, conveying Farkhunda’s coffin to an open-air prayer ground and then to her grave.

“Farkhunda is a daughter of Afghanistan. Today it is her, tomorrow it could be us,” they chanted, according to freelance journalist Courtney Body, who attended the funeral.

Captured in graphic detail on the cellphones of onlookers, videos of the killing circulated widely online, eliciting horror from some and approval from others. It has also become a rallying point for women’s rights activists, who said that Farkhunda’s beating is emblematic of women’s treatment in Afghan culture. They sent the hashtag #JusticeForFarkhunda trending on Twitter and called on Afghan officials to investigate the murder.

“We want justice for Farkhunda, we want justice for Afghan women. All these injustices happening to Afghan women are unacceptable,” a prominent activist who goes by the name “Dr. Alima” told the Associated Press on Sunday. “In which religion or faith is it acceptable to burn a person to death? Today is a day of national mourning and we will not keep quiet.”

Afghan woman, killed by a mob for a crime she didn’t commit, becomes a rallying point for activists - The Washington Post

Ordinarily I wouldn't have to point out that these women are every bit as Afghan and Muslim as the victim and her murderers, but knowing this place, best to spell it out.
 
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I watched several videos of the murder of that woman and the word that comes to mind is "insanity". Both adults and young boys were swinging boards and sticks and kicking, and stomping, to take part in this despicable bloody farce. The information I have, is that she didn't burn a Koran so she was innocent. The blood lust was apparently sated until the next time a feeding frenzy is stirred up.
 
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