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Taliban Chops Off Fingers of Afghan Voters

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 22, 2009 4:17 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The Taliban is following through on its threat to chop off the fingers of Afghan voters, the Los Angeles Times reports. In southern Afghanistan, considered the most hazardous place for Afghans to vote, militants attacked two voters and cut off their ink-dyed fingers, authorities said. A third case is under investigation in an eastern province.

An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote, during the presidential election day at a polling station in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug 20, 2009.
An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote, during the presidential election day at a polling station in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug 20, 2009.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan woman colors her finger with ink to vote at a polling station in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
An Afghan woman colors her finger with ink to vote at a polling station in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.   (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)
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prowlerzee
Aug 23, 2009 12:07 PM CDT
You men just have no INTEREST in pointing the finger at Islamic pigs, because it serves your interest to think of sexism as the "exception" instead of systematic. Systematic alllllll the way to here, because after all...who are the end users of all those women who are snatched in other countries for the sex trade?
prowlerzee
Aug 23, 2009 12:04 PM CDT
Oh, goooooood one. Pretty useless meme, knight. And you couldn't be more wrong. In Boston, they advertise for people to come learn allllllll about Islam. Islam 101, they call it. Men must come on one day...and women on another....plus the women have to meet in the lower level. We wouldn't want them to stink up and befoul the men's space, now would we? The filthy things might be bleeding, after all. The pigs need their asses kicked into this millennium.
prowlerzee
Aug 23, 2009 12:01 PM CDT
We were the ones who put the Taliban in power, Rocket. Before our involvement in the Cold War, those women wore western clothes, went to school, work, were physicians...all gone because we helped the Taliban in order to "get" at the Russians. And to this day, according to Zerobama, we're not there for the unattainable "ideal" of human rights...we're there to "perteckt Muricans."

 
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