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Stoning In Afghanistan: Don’t Call It A Comeback!

Men and women who commit adultery would be subjected to public lashings and stonings in Afghanistan under a new penal code being drafted by the nation’s ministry of justice. “Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning…

Men and women who commit adultery would be subjected to public lashings and stonings in Afghanistan under a new penal code being drafted by the nation’s ministry of justice.

“Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning (to death),” the code states.

Under current law, adultery is punishable by imprisonment. Under the new law, if you’re married and you cheat you would stoned. If you’re unmarried and you cheat, you would get 100 lashes.

A throwback to the days when the Taliban ran the country, the new law is still subject to approval by the Afghan parliament and president Hamid Karzai – who is in the process of negotiating an extended stay for American troops in the country.

The United States has been at war in Afghanistan since October 2001 – with a “surge” initiated by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009.

Obama famously declared Afghanistan the “right war,” referring to American involvement in Iraq as the “wrong war.”

Both are wrong in our opinion …

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7 comments

venomachine November 26, 2013 at 3:19 pm

Curiously enough, people are voluntarily getting stoned in Colorado.

4:20, homies!

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Philip Branton November 26, 2013 at 4:36 pm

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 26, 2013 at 7:58 pm

On this rainy day, TBG recollects that Bob Dylan said that “everybody must get stoned”, or something like that.

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Jackie Chiles November 26, 2013 at 5:28 pm

Just Muslims doing what Muslims do.

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Mguzman November 27, 2013 at 6:54 am

If you cheat on your spouse you’ll be stoned….wow! good thing we don’t have that in the USA, isn’t it?

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Muslim in da Hood November 27, 2013 at 10:14 am

Dis’ be a good way to keep your bitch in line.

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euwe max November 30, 2013 at 3:40 am

we don’t need a comeback we need a go away.

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