Horrifying: Taliban Behead 17 People for ‘Dance and Music Party’
- Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:19am by
Erica Ritz
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KABUL, Afghanistan (The Blaze/AP) — The Taliban have beheaded 17 civilians in southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party in defiance of the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday.
The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, are a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south – particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.
The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province’s Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their “disapproval” of the event, leaving the bodies of 15 men and two women in a house near the Musa Qala district.
“The victims threw a late-night dance and music party when the Taliban attacked,” district governor Nimatullah told Reuters.
All of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they were shot first, provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said.
Afghan villagers look on at the scene where a civilian minibus was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in Paghman district of Kabul. (Photo: Getty Images)
Many Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the Taliban’s brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort.
Helmand is one of the areas seeing the largest reduction in U.S. troops, as the force increase ordered up by President Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started drawing down forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have decreased to 68,000 troops in country by October.
Back in June, according to Reuters, Taliban insurgents stormed a hotel near Kabul that hosted “wild parties,“ demanding to know where the ”prostitutes and pimps” were. 20 people were killed in the attack.
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Also accompanying the drawdown in international forces has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces against their international allies.
Two American soldiers were shot and killed Monday morning by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of international troops – all Americans – to die at the hands of their local allies this month. Today’s killing, however, is being reported as an accident.
Insider attacks have been a problem for the U.S.-led military coalition for years, but it has exploded recently into a crisis. There have been at least 33 such attacks so far this year, killing 42 coalition members, mostly Americans. Last year there were 21 attacks, killing 35; and in 2010 there were 11 attacks with 20 deaths.
The chief spokesman for NATO forces in the country said coalition forces were not pulling back from collaborating with the Afghans because of the attacks.
“We are not going to reduce the close relationship with our Afghan partners,” Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz told reporters in the capital.
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tothepoint
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:10pmThese are like the Islamists Obama and his gang are inviting to the Dem Convention. They are opening with Islamic prayer followed by an Islamic banquet.
Report Post »floridareader
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:45pmAnd they keep on saying that BHO is a Christian.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:14pmToo much noise they just wanted a little peace and quiet. After all they are the religion of peace, are they not.
Report Post »Petoria
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:57pmReally? And we are drawing down our troops? We withdraw and the middle east goes up in flames! The alliance between Syria, Iran and the Taliban WILL create the US of Islam!
Not surprising the Afghan troops are turning against us, if they don’t they are next.
Hmmm…..looks like Afghan troops behind the Taliban in the first picture? Doesn’t it?
Report Post »GlennaBeckski
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:52pmWhat a drag to serve a god who forbids you to enjoy any aspect of life and instead demands you spend your life being consumed with killing anyone who happens to disagree with your sorry *zz “religion”
Come to the other side…… tal ee ban .. pssst Sorry to tell you BUT .. no virgins waiting for u …
Report Post »Big Sham …. you’ve been had.
jackact
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:38pmIn NYC the 3rd offense for carrying a 16oz soda while crossing a dedicated bike lane (on foot) may result in the same punishment.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:18pmYea we should really pay attention to our own freedom here in America….but noooo, the media wants to keep the sheeple paying all their attention to the bad bad people overseas and how much better we are then them!! We‘ll don’t look now…but while our boys are being slaughtered in the middle east (for what?), the globalists and politicians are finding more and more ways to control you, take away your freedoms, and soon you’ll be charged just to breath the air!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:04pmTaliban is sure going 2 be busy in the USA
Report Post »MikaelScot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:50pmWe showed them the path to freedom, and paid for it in American blood. Time to bring all the troops home and let the Afghan people decide if their freedom is worth fighting for. (Although, I don’t think a little reminder, on the way out, to the Taliban of what shock & awe feels like would be misplaced.)
Report Post »BostonHarold
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:21pmExplaining freedom to these sand people is like trying to explain a toaster to a baboon.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:13pm“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”.
Report Post »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
KeithOlberdink
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:36pmObama: From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:52pmSavages !
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:35pmEnough of their murdering way. They are just going to be mercenaries for hire and continue to extort money from the west, as they have beein doing since the dark ages.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:57amYes, these people are evil. I blame Islam.
No, we do not have a right to go over there and stop them. Either we change the constitution to read, “We consider our constitution to apply to the whole world”, or we realize that our govt has no right to enter another country, except to apprehend or kill criminals who attack us directly, when that govt refuses to turn them over.
If you want to play global police or global bully go over there with your own money and your own life and fight them.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:56am“We are not going to reduce the close relationship with our Afghan partners,” Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz told reporters in the capital.
Dear Brig. Gen Katz,
See, here’s the problem. They are Muslims. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You can’t make “partners” out of them. For gosh sakes dude, wake the heck up! Don’t be a MUSHROOM!
NotAMushroom <—————- I don't live in the dark and I don't eat manure. Got it?
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:21pmNotAMushroom. Agreed. In order to be partners, both parties have to see the other equals. Muslims can NEVER seen a non muslim as an equal. Therefore any partner ship is doomed.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:47amWell maybe the Brig General should put his happy but out there with the men getting shot so he can experienced first hand their close working relationship, hmmmm?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:46amEither get out……or kill them all……..
Report Post »momrules
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:43amTaliban, Al Qaida, Muslim Brotherhood and the myriad other Muslim terrorists organization all have one thing in common………Islam, a vile,evil, godless cult of hatred of anything good.
Report Post »Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:42amThis is what happens when you mix religion with politics. If the GOP gets the Presidency, Senate and Houses….they will rule from the bible and if your not a Christian….perhaps this will happen to you…
This is why a bunch of old White guys knew that there had to be a separation for Church and State…..GOP is going back to the Dark Ages…..when women had no power or voice and colors were put in their so called place…….Beware of the Neo-Cons!!!!!!!!
girlnurse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:10pmYeah because Muslims and Christians are sooo much alike, right? Gimme a break!
Report Post »Your biggest fear is that society is going to take away your right to kill your unwanted babies.
Keep your legs shut and run back over to HuffPo.
SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:17pmAny group is capable of killing over ideaological thought… Even if that ideaology is non-belief…
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
“But communists could not be wrong. After all, their knowledge was scientific, based on historical materialism, an understanding of the dialectical process in nature and human society, and a materialist (and thus realistic) view of nature. Marx has shown empirically where society has been and why, and he and his interpreters proved that it was destined for a communist end. No one could prevent this, but only stand in the way and delay it at the cost of more human misery. Those who disagreed with this world view and even with some of the proper interpretations of Marx and Lenin were, without a scintilla of doubt, wrong. After all, did not Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao say that. . . . In other words, communism was like a fanatical religion. It had its revealed text and chief interpreters. It had its priests and their ritualistic prose with all the answers. It had a heaven, and the proper behavior to reach it. It had its appeal to faith. And it had its crusade against nonbelievers.
What made this secular religion so utterly lethal was its seizure of all the state’s instrument of force and coercion and their immediate use to destroy or control all independent sources of power, such as the church, the professions, private businesses, schools, and, of course, the family. The result is what we see in Table 1.”
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:19pmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
“Of course, in periods when the political state as such is born violently out of civil society, when political liberation is the form in which men strive to achieve their liberation, the state can and must go as far as the abolition of religion, the destruction of religion. But it can do so only in the same way that it proceeds to the abolition of private property, to the maximum, to confiscation, to progressive taxation, just as it goes as far as the abolition of life, the guillotine.”-Karl Marx
Report Post »walnutportconservative
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:23pmYou are blind and uneducated in American History and the Holy Scripture to write those words. As a daily student of the Bible, having studied daily for 14 years, I assure you that those who follow Christ today, follow no different message than those who followed when this nation was formed. On biblical truth, the greatest nation was formed, and they never suggested removing God. Our nation has made mistakes, but we are still a shining light on a hill. The bible, through God, informs us that, “the nation who’s God is he Lord (Jesus)” will be blessed. General Washington knew that well. The Truth will set you free
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:28pmRight!
“A new estimate published by the National Right to Life Committee indicates there have been an estimated 54,559,615 abortions since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision allowing virtually unlimited abortions”.
Wow! All these lil ones were killed in the name of “Rights, freedom, and inconvienence“ and they think of this kind of killing as a progress and a ”good thing”.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:29pmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm
“A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could.”-Vladimir Lenin
Report Post »kansas hawks 3
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:33pmI just want to say you have to be the most stupid person on this earth for you comments
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:41pmMANON A MISSION; And I love the way you blind followers always say “a bunch of old white guys” as if being a white guy is bad and you are trying to pander to minorities and causing hate and division between the races.
Report Post »Let me tell you something: “a bunch of YOUNG (and some old) white guys” founded this once great nation whose soil you stand on. And many died for the freedoms your President would destroy. YES and he is NOT an old white guy—But he has done more damage to this country in one term than all the others combined! If you want something else go live in Mexico or North Korea! Or maybe China….yeah, you would LOVE China…they force abortions on their women!
BostonHarold
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:26pmYou actually believe this drivel? Wow! It sucks to be you.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:39amWelcome to America in a few years, and especially if Obama gets re-elected.
Pull the troops out of Afganistan, and let them kill each other. WHat the hell is the difference, we kill our babies and they kill their young.
Report Post »sy212
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:38amRe-elect Obama and this behavior is coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:37amWe just need to get out of Afganistan altogether. I’m sick of the losses for nothing and the problems our troops experience once they get back home (i.e., PTSD). These people don’t care to fend for themselves. Why should we be there?
Report Post »Steve28
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:35amSuch a loving and tolerant religion of peace. These folks should be toast!
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:35amWhy would anyone want to be Muslim? ALL enjoyment in life is strictly forbidden. What boring, depressing people! No wonder all they want to do is kill, kill, kill. That’s where they derive enjoyment and pleasure! Killing is all that’s left!
Report Post »walnutportconservative
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:32amMy son took an RPG for these people.
Report Post »I am sick of my own country trying to stabilize the world with our most precious resource.
AU Patriot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:40amThank you for your family’s service. Your son is a true hero. God Bless!
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:42amI am so sorry to hear that. I too am sick of it.
Report Post »GlennaBeckski
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:43pmThank God for your son .. You don’t mention what the outcome was. I pray he’s home .. alive and recovering. I agree with you.. My heart breaks for the families of our military who didnt survive this “war”. Get them all home ASAP!
Report Post »floridareader
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:49pmWe need to bring back all our men and women in uniform “defending” those people’s behinds. America for the Americans. That’s it. UN out of the USA and USA out of the UN.
Report Post »And all those Muslim that come here to force us into their religion of hate can go back to where they came from.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:31amThese are Obamas brothers…………..Obama is a Muslim …….
Report Post »Beachbaby
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:27amThat means Hillary and huma are probably furiously cleaning carpet they are so titillated.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:26amTHEY ARE OUR ENEMY~~~ whether foreign or domestic, no matter their color, or homeland.
Beheading people for music and dancing???????????????
Beheading people at all?????
Report Post »face.chewer
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:25amThese are NOT human beings.
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:32ammore like demons
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:24amHollywood needs to re-make Footloose and set it in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lVRcI0zsvw
“a time to dance”
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