What makes this story truely sad is this is not an isolated incident. Honor killings and stonings of women and girls are still accepted in many parts of the muslim world, where sharia law is implemented.
A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an "honour killing" by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy.
Flopping Aces has the video. Notice lots of men standing around taking pictures with their cell phones. Here's a video of a stoning in Afghanistan. Islamic texts perscribing stoning are numerous.
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