Thank Allah for the Taliban?

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Think you’ve got a strong stomach? Bet me $100, then watch this Allahforsaken video of a 17-year-old girl, from The Guardian. Here’s the description:

The two-minute video, shot using a mobile phone, shows a burka-clad woman face down on the ground. Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly. “Please stop it,” she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. “Either kill me or stop it now.”…A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions. “Hold her legs tightly,” he says as she squirms and yelps. After 34 lashes the punishment stops and the wailing woman is led into a stone building, trailed by a Kalashnikov-carrying militant.”

I made it 30 seconds in before I wanted to close out, but I made myself watch.

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