husband kills afgan wife

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Originally Posted by Danzig

stories like this always make me glad i'm where i am. i cannot imagine having to be covered head to toe, not to be able to drive, to go out...to have acid thrown on me if i dared go to school...or to be thrown on a funeral pyre with my dead husbands other 'possessions'. the actions the world over are just unbelievable. makes me wonder if we really are out of the dark ages.
so much of it has to do with trying to keep power; after all, you keep the women down, that's half the population right off the bat that people don't have to be concerned with.

That is the key right there. Most of the things done in the name of religion (by terrorist groups) have nothing to do with religious beliefs but with gaining and maintaining power. Perhaps this specific incident has nothing to do with religion or anything but an idiotic husband spurred on by a insane mother. But there are lots of places in that region where this kind of treatment of women is tolerated, often in the name of a religious law.