#AfghanLivesMatter

by JASmius



Well, not this one, so much.

Remember waaaaaay back in the fall of 2001 when Ann Coulter said this:

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

There were a few of problems with that formulation.  (1) The Afghans don't really have much in the way of "cities," so the targets would run out really quickly; (2) the Taliban and al Qaeda were unlikely to be in what bona fide "cities" Afghanistan does have; and (2) Christian proselytizing is a great deal less "kinetic" than its Islamic counterpart.

Then you see stories like this and you want to take a second look at the Coulter Doctrine:

A woman who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside a riverside shrine in the Afghan capital was surrounded by an angry crowd, set ablaze and dumped into the chilly waters Thursday evening in a startling act of mob violence.

I'm a little confused.  Did they dunk her right after torching her?  It's like they couldn't make up their minds which way they were going to murder her, so they picked two mutually exclusive methods and did both at the same time.  But then, nobody ever lost money underestimating the collective intelligence of a mob of subhuman savages.

The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack, told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental illness, said Farid Afzal, head of investigations for Kabul police.

Sorry, I'm baffled again.  I don't see the connection between mental illness and combusting the Qu'ran.  Are Farkhunda's folks saying that she had to have been mentally ill to do that, or that she had to be mentally ill to do that in front of an aspiring Muslim lynch mob?  Because burning Islamic literature is an awfully specific pyromanical compulsion.

On the bright side, at least there's one fewer "Devil's Bible" in the world.

Police were still investigating the incident and offered few details....

IOW, they're not investigating it very hard.

....but said they had arrested four suspects. Witnesses said that a huge throng of people had gathered at the scene to watch, some scaling the walls alongside the river, others climbing to the roofs of multi-colored stalls lining the streets of the crowded outdoor market where the Shah-Do Shamshira shrine sits.

“They broke the railing above the shrine itself, that’s how strong they were,” said Shah Jahan, a shopkeeper, who estimated the crowd was in the thousands. “You couldn’t see past the people.”

And you'll notice from the pic above that they were taking "selfies":of the "occasion".  Which Facebook will no doubt never ban once they're posted.

That's the nation we've spent fourteen years and billions of dollars and thousands of casualties trying to "build".  Kinda tempts you to conclude that they and the Taliban deserve each other.

Almost, that is.

Just hold a seance and ask Farkhunda.