Genealogy of Religion

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Stone Age Sharia Execution

August 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Archaeology, Axial Age, Morality

Over at the NYT, Rob Nordlund chillingly reports on the execution by stoning of a young couple in Afghanistan who had fallen in love and eloped.  The details are disgusting:
Mr. Khan said that as a Taliban mullah prepared to read the judgment of a religious court, the lovers, a 25-year-old man named Khayyam and a [...]

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