Here’s one that should come as no surprise to anyone:
Afghanistan goes back to the Dark Ages
Just a point of order: when, precisely, did Afghanistan — or any of the -stans for that matter — ever leave the Dark Ages? To continue:
The Taliban have ordered dozens of people to be killed by stoning and four convicts to be executed by having walls collapsed onto them, exposing the scale of brutality under the regime.
Figures released by the Taliban’s own Supreme Court show the group also publicly flogged more than 1,000 people across Afghanistan in 2025, including at least 150 women.
The data points to a sharp rise in corporal punishment, with Kabul recording the highest number of cases.
Official Taliban statements reveal that 1,030 people were whipped in public this year for offences including theft, running away from home and acts deemed contrary to Islamic law.
Well, yes: when you govern according to Islamic law, the Dark Ages is pretty much a given.
Mind you, I’m not altogether opposed to a few public floggings. I can think of a number of people (like this one or this one) who could only benefit from same, and our society might well be the better for it.
But a flogging for drinking booze and/or wearing a miniskirt?
Forget that crap.
We as a culture have gotten way too soft on crime. Obviously we don’t want the taliban style, but yes we should have more executions. Public executions. And put an end to all the claims of racism. If blacks commit more violent crimes than any other group, then punish them accordingly.
Too many hippies recite that stupid line about seeing 10 guilty men go free rather than 1 innocent man go to prison, but that’s not the situation here. And then they talk about rehabilitation, or growing up poor, or racism, oppression, etc. They become obsessed with why the person committed the crime, not why we as a culture need to effectively punish criminals.
There are many many cases where it is obvious who committed the crime, the crime was severe enough, and yet no one can wrap their heads around the fact that the only right thing to do is to string up the guilty. The criminal will never again commit an act of violence, the victim (or their families) get some sort of closure, and future felons get to see what fate has in store for them.
In any event, what happens in Afghanistan is none of our business and we should have never step foot over there. If muslim terrorists attack us, we simply nuke mecca and kick the rest of the muzzies out of our country. No need for our soldiers to go die in the fucking desert.
public executions – yes! definitely!
by guillotine in the public square every Sunday after church; BBQ available, please bring a lunch basket.
wrong people (mostly), wrong reasons (mostly), but the French had the right idea:
the sight of a head dropping (mostly) into a basket,
blood spraying all over the place, and
a body flopping aimlessly about on the platform greatly reduces the the number of people who would even think about committing a crime
Those thighs should never be exposed – they’re bad enough now, just think what a career of drinking will do to them.
I love her underwear, top and bottom
Maybe with a suntan consistent with her underwear lines would be more . . . decorative.
A guy I know visited Kazakhstan years ago. He said, “1500 years ago they invented the stirrup, and they stopped inventing after that”
Go back and look at pictures of the place in the 50s and 60s when they were under their king. It was a normal place, people would vacation there to ski and trout fish and so on, women wearing western clothing, etc.
It started going to crap after the socialist deposed him in the early 70s, and they were in turn deposed by communists a couple years later, amd when they were about to be toppled by the people the Soviets invaded in 79.
It is broadly similar to what happened to Iran after th Shah was deposed.
we definitely need to be tough on crime. Some of the muzzy countries have it right with no tolerance for theft. However, there are many activities that they consider a crime which really isn’t a crime at all and in other instances their punishment is far too severe.
I remember Michael Faye getting caned in Singapore for graffiti and vandalizing cars back in the early 1990s. I doubt he ever did it again.
I remember that, and I remember thinking at the time that he fully deserved it. You don’t go to someone else’s country and act that way and then think you get a free ticket out of jail just cause you’re American. As someone who’s had my car vandalized on occasion, I’d have cut the bastard’s dick off, but thankfully cooler heads prevail and he was only caned.
Not a bit surprising. Once the Taliban took over Afghanistan again after the chaotic withdrawl the Biden White House engineered, it was inevitable that Dark Ages “justice” would come back to that shithole.
The only modern things islamists like are weapons – and we left plenty of those behind.
I don’t know how well public executions would go over. I think perhaps only protesters against the death penalty would show up. But if you streamed them online, there would be millions watching, at first, and getting the lesson. Look how popular the Purge movies were…
“But a flogging for drinking booze and/or wearing a miniskirt?”
Guess it all depends on what you’re planning on flogging her with….zzzziiiiiip. 😀
Rode hard and put away wet way too many times to want to go for another ride.