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Have you ever heard about the lynching of a woman in Kabul, Afghanistan which took place in 2015?

Watch the video, and then you will understand why I dislike conservatism and religious fanaticism.

NR92 6 June 18
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Same things are being done in India by Hindu fanatics.

It is true that cruelty and atrocities stem from fanaticism which is an off-shoot of conservatism.

Pol Pot was not a conservative. He was a leftist fanatic. Maybe fanaticism is an offshoot of liberalism.

@WilliamFleming A common pattern throughout the religious history, especially of the last 2,000 years has demonstrated to us that the atrocities are largely caused by religious fanaticism.

@St-Sinner It seems to me that fanatics have been driven by a variety of causes, mostly political and economic, but only occasionally by religious fanaticism and its partner, fanatical atheism.

Fanaticism is nothing but a blatant expression of ego. The causes taken up by fanatics are of no significance—they are all false. Trying to associate conservatism with various atrocities amounts to stereotyping in my opinion.

@WilliamFleming Yes, fanaticism is driven by all causes but religious fanaticism is the most dangerous and has caused the most damage to humanity. It has already been well discussed and established how much damage religion itself has done to humanity. Atheism is the 3rd last largest believer group in the world after Christianity, Islam. They have caught up with 2,000 years old religions just in 60 years. If the top two religions were not bad, this would not have happened.

I've heard about and seen documentaries of what happens to Indian women - acts of violence committed against them by their own families, the families they marry into (like in Afghanistan) and society looks on and label the victim. Not much is being done for and about such victims. I cannot believe the govt has not mentioned putting an end to this sort of horrific barbarism. Not enough centres or funding for these victims. They (women) remain "property" of their families who are free to do to them as they wish.

Yep, it is called "Cow Lynching" in India.

@Noor92
Cow lynching is one, Anti-Romeo squad is another, Anti-Muslim, Lynching people who do not chat Hail Ram are more examples.

@St-Sinner You are talking all around the issue. You made the bald faced statement above that fanaticism is an offshoot of conservatism. What in hell are you talking about? It is a blatantly untrue statement.

You seem to be interchanging the words “religion” and “conservatism” as though they were the same thing. They aren’t.

@WilliamFleming What I am talking about is that religion is a piece of shit and conservatism lead to being religious. Religious people are not intelligent. How is that?

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Horrendous act by religious fanatics and why government by religion is always a bad idea. The reason why we have separation of church and state . This is us if evangelical Christians get their way

bobwjr Level 10 June 18, 2019
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Blaming religion is not crazy. Those religious beliefs are the very core and crux of the matter, along with human fallibility and the capacity of people to be indoctrinated, brainwashed, or conditioned at an early age to ignore basic reason and common sense.

P.S.: I failed to distinguish between more and less irrational religions or forms of religion. that was my bad. But I guess I was trying to say that some religious beliefs are indeed bad, or irrational, or fanatical, and beliefs such as those are perhaps the real crux of the matter. I don't blame religion as an institution.

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I did not watch this - I have watched men and women being killed and the images are as fresh in my mind as those times long ago.
It is only a few hundred years ago this happened across europe and america. and, as here, with education it will change in Afghanistan and other lands .... education means people question fanaticism.
Any regime that regards women as disposable goods and chattels is unacceptable to me

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I despise religious fanatics anywhere in the world without the need of watching anything, religious fanatism is despicable and abhorrent in itself because of the abject ignorance, hipocrisy, sadism and historical evidence of how wrong it is.

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Maybe liberals should stop glamorizing Islamic conservatism and calling it “diversity.”

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Too painful to watch. I’d be careful about forming a hatred for conservatism based on this atrocity.
This is not about conservatism any more than Stalin’s purges were about liberalism.

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We don’t need to watch this to know how barbaric the practice of this religion can be....it’s just one of many such fanatical mob executions....all over the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It can be triggered by only one person accusing someone of either saying or doing something considered to be a blasphemy against either the prophet Mohammed or the Koran....no evidence is needed to trigger a violent and deadly attack, such as we have witnessed here. Quite often it’s used in disputes, it is a commonly used tactic to eliminate a rival or someone you want to get revenge on...it’s very effective and almost always works on the febrile minds of these fanatical religious zealots. The police, as demonstrated here are useless, or even worse are of the same mindset as the mob.

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No thanks. I’m not into snuff videos anymore.

I didn't watch the whole thing either. Just knowing that it happened is bad enough. I hate the fact that through much (if not all) of human history, that such evil beliefs and attitudes have been held by so many people. the dangers in this life definitely include dangerous ideas, too.

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It is a sad day when anyone is killed because of the invisible man.

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I see a deep hatred for women there. It's hard to watch.

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Afghanistan. Pakistan. ect Third world 'Toilets' populated by male religious savages.

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and human beings are watching this inhumane barbaric act? participating in this with no conscience whatsoever? I cannot believe a society (even that brainwashed by their sick beliefs) can perform such a public violent horrific act against a fellow human being. The suppression of women in that country is horrific with sickening outcomes! The longer their religion condones this, the longer their madness will continue. I got sick to my stomach watching this. The Police actually knowing what was happening, making way for this sick act to continue, without any arrests for such crime s terrible crime is more sickening! and to think societies such as these exist and carrying out these acts against women daily? No-one trying or attempting to stop this is worrying and questionable even given what their religion condones, ...that it's actually being carried on in daylight while other's cheer on. What are they made up of? Where's the human element? This woman stood no chance at survival. Another sad day! I remain horrified!

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Islam is a violent religion, Christianity not so much. There is quite a bit of bigotry and hate in Christianity especially toward the LGBT community. Blaming conservatives for the violence is crazy.

The inquisition, the crusades, the Salem witch hunt. Really, not violent.

@noworry28 That happened long ago. In modern times the Islamic radicals have caused a lot more problems than Christianity.

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Did this happen when ISIS controlled Afghanistan? In Kabul, ISIS held public lynchings and killings in an outdoor stadium to terrorize citizens.

It would be Taliban control Afghanistan!

Isis is a very small off shoot of Islam in Afghanistan!

That was not ISIS, ISIS was created recently, it was Taliban

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