"that better be a joke because it's not funny."

Fuck you.

it's not a joke. this girl was accused of adultery, but, apparently, the real reason for the flogging was that she had refused the approaches of the local taliban leader. she was tortured because she didn't want to become a sex object. now, she has become a sex object for anyone in the world with broadband and a taste for human misery.

also, i'm helping to spread that misery around the interweb, and no one who clicked on this video did so in anticipation of seeing frolicking kittens. what does that say about us?

'HEY MOMMY LOOK SOMEONE ELSE HAS KITTENS NAMED FLOGGO AND TERRYLIN LET'S- WAAAAAAAA-'

also, you should thank my long and luxurious beard for taking the time to come down from the mountaintop and give this learned dissertation about how people are assholes. now, if you will excuse me, my beard and i are going to watch videos of people getting punched in the balls and eaten by crocodiles.

What does it say about us that everybody always asks what shit says about us?

Okay, Social Awareness Stars.

That is to say, normally, she would have been beheaded or stoned to death for walking outside with a man to whom she is not married.

This shit is why we shouldn't have funded Bin Laden in the first place in order to keep the evil commies out. Say what you will about the USSR but this place probably would have been much better off under Soviet rule than under Taliban rule.

If you need evidence just look at every single other former Soviet satellite state and you will notice they are doing better than Afghanistan.

What's not to understand ho future? These people are savages. Fortunately we're there trying to free them.

Religious fundamentalism is pretty easy to understand, I think.

Because the people trying to "free" the Muslims are going into it with Cena_Troll's mentaility, it will never, ever work.

Needs a "Why Americans hate Muslims tag"

You've still got it

Oh it's not that bad. She's just a big wuss. The humiliation is worse than the beating.

Or maybe you need to reevaluate your choice of internet communities.

Two stars for reminding me to re-evaluate my life and three for public flogging.

I'm fairly sure this violates poeTV rules.

It's sick and disturbing, sure, but they don't kill her and there's no nudity. It's well within the guidelines of the site.

When 'differently' means 'like dirt,' I agree 100%.

Seriously. Cultural relativism is all very well and good when you're talking about shaking hands vs. hugging and shit like that, but you've got to draw the line somewhere.

Aaauugh.