NEWS ITEM: Kabul, Afghanistan – A year ago, amateur cellphone video captured by hundreds of mostly young men showed a frenzied crowd beating a young woman, her face covered in blood. For nearly two hours, she pleaded for her life and denied their accusations – that she had burned pages from the Koran.
They later dragged her body from the back of a pickup, then dumped the corpse in a dry patch of river and set it afire.
“These were educated city dwellers who rushed and beat a woman based on hearsay,” a TV journalist stated later. Turned out, the accusations were false.
EDITORIAL: Now a crowd of agnostics or atheists would never inflict such brutality upon a lone woman. The magic ingredient that makes such an event possible is religion, not belief in god, but religion. And in my verbal sparring with true believing Christians who simply “know beyond a shadow of a doubt” that what they believe is true, so did the aforementioned men “know” that what they were doing was just and proper. A travesty of the word “know.”
BILL
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