A brutal honor killing depicting a woman who was stoned to death in a hole by Afghan men
This is new video of Rukhsha incidents! A brutal honor killing depicting a woman who was stoned to death in a hole by Afghan men was caught on tape and posted to social media on Friday. Stoning, or Rajm (Arabic: رجم) in Islamic literature, is a form of capital punishment practiced in United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Northern Nigeria, Aceh in Indonesia, Brunei, and parts of Pakistan. In Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which have been central fronts for the U.S. in the War on Terror, stoning has been declared illegal. However, it is practiced extrajudicially and according to Sharia, or Islamic law. Rajm is described as punishment in multiple hadiths–Shi’a sayings can be found in Kitab al-Kafi, while Sunni sayings can be found in the Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim–but the method in the video is telling. In the sunnah of Muhammad, the method of stoning by digging a pit and burying the person’s lower half in it before stoning takes plac...