(Two Afghan women photographed moments before they were executed. The “after” photos, plus the AP video, at the link.)
This is why we despise you.
We would remind the AP that the act of the Taliban inviting a reporter to the murder means they wanted this news out there. The AP was clearly being used as a propaganda outlet for the Taliban.
Does this make him an accomplice or only a witness to the crime? When you know a crime is about to be committed, do you not have a moral and ethical obligation to try to prevent that crime? Even if you’re a journalist? Even if all you do is try to call the authorities, in this case someone in the Afghani government or NATO?
A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to indicate that he’s very friendly with the Taliban. Many of the pictures show Taliban fighters posing for the AP photographer.
Any culture where people hide their faces, either because the women in their society are forced to hide their faces, or because the cowards that kill these women hide their faces, is not a culture that deserves to survive.
I truly get sick and tired of seeing fools ranting in Arabic with their faces covered.
Lord of the Flies and painted faces…
The resulting outcry from moderate islam will be deafening,or not? It’s not like these were useful women,they were obviously way past puberty.Allah ackbar.
It’s comforting to think of these as simply extremely late term abortions.
I’d be willing to bet that this was deemed completely legal under Sharia Law.
I’m sure Jack Layton could have sent Libby Davies as a special envoy to clear this mess up…
From Wikipedia…
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The Associated Press (AP), is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributive members of the cooperative.
As of 2005, the AP’s news is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television and radio broadcasters. The cooperative’s photograph library consists of more than 10 million images. It operates 243 news bureaus and serves 121 countries, with a diverse international staff drawing from all over the world.
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Any news organization that is part of the AP or uses its products is complicit in the murder of these women as well as numerous other incidents in the past. When you pick up your local newspaper or watch the news remember that the reporters and talking heads are all actively participating in the death of innocents and spreading enemy propaganda.
Why would you want to encourage this behavior?
I doubt the photographer could have prevented this crime. These pictures never showed up on any Canadian MSM sources. Perhaps news editors determined such material would have distracted readers and viewers from the day long orgy of Khadr-philia.
At least the Taliban didn’t question them and make them cry.
Notice that the AP photo captions refer to the women being “executed” while the Jawa Report consistently uses the term “murder” (as does Fritz above).
A vital distinction, and one that civilized people must point out and pound home relentlessly.
Surrender of the language is one step on the road to surrender in the war.
These two iridescent light blue burqa clad women were shot to death by Taliban fighters who accused them of running a prostitution ring that catered to American soldiers. Fat bloody chance of that.
Its more like the weekly/monthly fear and death quotas of random innocent people ( ie: Saddam’s Iraq ) – to quell the local population you understand.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this AP fellow, Rahmatullah Naikzad shared a few Taliban chuckles and Khatai cookies with these “militants” at some point or another.
When these G-dless, backward, barbarous motherf*****s are finally put out of business….. busy it will be, in the next world celestial court.
As our complicit MSM continues to trot out the religion of peace bullshit in the face of these kinds of barbaric acts, cowards, faces covered as usual it is surreal. This is a religion of the devil himself if this is what classes as peace.
Well said Fritz. These so-called reporters/journalists are disgusting and both they and their work should be shunned at the very least.
Also disgusting is how all the western feminist groups (human rights groups included) continue to ignore the plight of women under Islamic rule.
The AP (and its member companies) should immediately fire everyone involved with this, develop a program to prevent this snuff “journalism” in the future, and publish an apology.
Somehow I doubt that any of those things will happen. The press is just as sick, twisted, and yellow as it was at the turn of the last century.
The AP (and its member companies) should immediately fire everyone involved with this, develop a program to prevent this snuff “journalism” in the future, and publish an apology.
Somehow I doubt that any of those things will happen. The press is just as sick, twisted, and yellow as it was at the turn of the last century.
The AP (and its member companies) should immediately fire everyone involved with this, develop a program to prevent this snuff “journalism” in the future, and publish an apology.
Somehow I doubt that any of those things will happen. The press is just as sick, twisted, and yellow as it was at the turn of the last century.
How can you even describe evil like this. Its hideous pre meditated murder. Not only the Women being killed but this guy making a snuff film of it, than staying with the fiends for a day, if not more. One can only conclude AP has been suborned for a period of time to not even see the ethical implications of this. Least of all any moral sense.
A little terror here , than follow it up with legal challenges in democracies to weaken them into rabbits for the snare. Fools that we are, we have allowed this pandering to barbarians to go on. Better to close ones eye’s to reality than having to face up to real sacrifices for freedom. The problem with that is your enemy will come for you anyway, only now your way has been lost by becoming there slave by acquiescing to unreasonable demands to keep a false peace.
“Any culture where people hide their faces, either because the women in their society are forced to hide their faces, or because the cowards that kill these women hide their faces, is not a culture that deserves to survive.”
Hear, hear.
Gimme a break. Any evidence that the reporter was present is entirely circumstantial. I’m not saying that these things don’t happen, and that they are not atrocities. Simply that these images prove neither.
Gimme a break. Any evidence that the reporter was present is entirely circumstantial. I’m not saying that these things don’t happen, nor that they aren’t atrocities. Simply that these images prove neither.
Gimme a break. Any evidence that the reporter was present is entirely circumstantial. I’m not saying that these things don’t happen, nor that they aren’t atrocities. Simply that these images prove neither.
Any evidence that the reporter was present is entirely circumstantial.
Duh, the original photos (both before the murder and the one taken of the bodies after) contain this credit: AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad. And they’ve also taken credit for the snuff video of the actual murder taking place. That’s what you call circumstantial?
BTW, you don’t need to post the same message three times; we got it the first time.
Actual heading for video from AP site:
Afghan Execution: Taliban militants say they have executed alleged prostitutes
Nice tame words: “execution” – makes the women sound like criminals (alleged prostitutes – oh, brother); “militants” – don’t call them terrorists (that wouldn’t be nice).
I think AP and al Jazeera should merge – it’s a match made in …
Disgusting! There is no other word to describe this act of barbarity. And these are the scumbags that taliban jack and bombardion wish to negotiate with?
From the perspective of a father of 3 daughters, and the brother of 4 sisters, the whole bloody mess turns my stomach!
And where the f@#$ are the hairy legged, birkenstock wearing dykes on this one? Your sisters are getting slaughtered girls, and you sit on your strap-ons and do nothing.
Oh, I forgot, you are too busy filing HRC complaints against evil comedians!
This one picture alone justifies every nickel Canada has spent killing taliban, and justifies the loss of every Canadian soldier in Afghanistan.
VOTE REFORM!
GO ARMY!
Too bad pimps aren’t dealt with in similar fashion over here.
Oh, crap, this is sick stuff. WTF??? I can’t the women in my life under this “rule”.
Sorry. That should read: can’t IMAGINE the women in my life under this “rule”. pimf
Not first time. Note that the feminists are, and will be, totally silent. They only react on left wing issues, and the treatment of women by Islamonazis is not among them……
Here is the question.
Would the women have been killed if there wasnt a reporter present?
Does he know the murderers and will he squeal?
And yes, major cognitive dissonance when one compares Omar’s “you dont care about me” whinge with the cold murder of the women. A mash up showing them side by side would be an effective provactive display (as disgusting as the murders are)
So does this mean that talking to the Taliban will be productive?
If these women actually were prostitutes, I’m guessing the overwhelming majority of Afghan men, Taliban or not, would not be too troubled by their “execution”. New “nation building” plan – allow as many Afghan women and boys under 6 to immigrate as may apply. Re-deploy the military budget to perpetual drone monitoring and guided missiles.
There may be one benefit for having filmed these women’s deaths. We in the west might steel our resolve to eliminate this blight upon humanity called islam.
Evidently I didn’t stop the post without the “” around “execution” in time. The “” version is the right one, of course.
Where are all the women’s groups in the West on this? Why are they not avocating for the rights of ‘sex workers’? The women’s movement in the West has been very absent from any discussion on the rights of women in Islamic societies – why is that?
I agree with Jefro on one thing though. You can’t take the AP’s word for anything.
The key question is would this have happened had the taliban not had media exposure? Was this a show execution for a media show? To my way of thinking AP is an accessory to murder, as had there been no media coverage there may very well have been no murder. What constitutes an accessory to murder?
Western Canadian asks (correctly!), “What constitutes an accessory to murder?”
Lets just do a little cognitive juxtaposition and see what flops out.
Two black women are photographed and videoed by a white AP photographer at their “execution” (lynching) for “prostitution” (hanging out with white boys) by the Ku Klux Klan in God’s Wrath, Georgia. The photographer sells the pics to AP for real money. AP sells the pics to the papers and TV for real BIG money.
So even if the photographer wasn’t physically there and the pictures were taken by one of the participants, both Mr. Honkey Photographer and the AP made money from the deaths of the women.
Is there a court in the USA or Canada that wouldn’t give itself a collective hernia trying to convict Mr. Photographer AND the AP of -something- in that case?
Is posession of kiddie porn a crime even if you didn’t take the picture yourself? How about selling it?
So to me the key questions are,
A) How fast can we kill what’s left of the Taliban?
B) Has the AP been charged yet?
Where is the OUTRAGE fom the MSM?
oh ya forgot they are concentrating on getting the little boy lost out of Cuba.
Tower said: “…can’t IMAGINE the women in my life under this “rule”.”
I can. Most of them would be killing these Taliban creatures by stealth in the night, setting booby traps, suckering them into abushes and generally being much more dangerous than most of the men I know.
Women are like that. Don’t ever doubt it.
I was at the eye doctor’s office the other day (in Delta BC). In comes someone dressed in black from head to toe with only eyes uncovered!! She (??) sat across from me in the waiting room. My reaction to this? I must confess that I wanted to punch her right in the face and tell her to “smarten up” When I finished with her, I would would want to deal with the “man” in her life. What the hell is he thinking? And why are we bringing people who think like this into our country???
Let’s see”AP” The news org that has been caught how many times with faked photos.
Yeah we should trust them alright!
NOT….
It’s pretty apparent that Rahmatullah Naikzad was embedded with the Taliban. I doubt he got a phone call to his motel room to run right over. Change the paradigm to 1943 and think of Ernie Pyle embedded with the SS at Auschwitz. Ethical journalism? Are their any hideous news events that in good taste don’t require coverage? I think so.
I’ll say this, that video ought to be required viewing for every foolish little lefty birdbrain that still thinks all cultures and religions are equal or that it was all-about-oil that sent the US military into Afghanistan.
The truth is we are never going to reform this rotten religion and the culture that supports it. All we can do is to annihilate those that would harm us and move this scourge out of the west and back into the box it spilled out of.
Disgusting. You’re right, Kate. This is precisely why we despise the left-wing media. It’s also why I despise people like Jack Layton, who would even think to negotiate with Taliban terrorists.
To stop the left wing MSM people have to use the power of the dollar. I used to get the G&M daily for its buisness section, but I got sick of it’s left wing bias, so I stopped. I also have a Globe Investor account and while I like this, I will in all likelyhood cancel at the end of my subsctription in protest of their scewing the news. This is the only way to change them. Bitching about what they print will not change them as they see that people are reading what they publish. So the only way is hit them in the pocket book.
For my money …. I’d like to see this clown rounded up by our troops and his sorry ass waterboarded till he coughs up the contact info for every last scumbag he knows !
I found the caption under the first photo telling.
The women were “chatting” with each other prior to their execution?????
Yeah – I am sure they were talking about the weather and what their plans were for summer vacation. Is that supposed to “normalize” everything.
The fact the Canadian MSM reports on all Kahdr, all the time while choosing NOT to report this is disgusting; albeit typical….sigh.
Any word on when Avi Lewis and all those other former CBC staffers will be making the jump from Al Jazeera to AP?
mike in ontario – it’s not just cancelling newspaper subscriptions, clicking on MSM web sites garners numbers they can use to negotiate with advertisers. It’s why I refuse to directly click onto the NYT’s site. I’ll follow a link from a blog to them, but, I refuse to allow the the creeps to count me in their web subscription numbers.
The lefty MSM is impervious to criticism. They really don’t give a damn because it’s about ideology not profit to them. Any other industry in as bad a shape would be surveying customers, seriouly trying to build a better product, but, not these fools. Never does content ever get cited by them as THE problem. Fools.
Pictures that show the Taliban killing fellow Afghani citizens reinforces the need to eradicate their blight from the face of the planet.
Jahangir Razmi, a pulitzer prize winning photographer, risked everything to show the brutality of the Ayatollah:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116499510215538266-w6oLtTyb6LO2glORvqxTV1PwiTM_20061211.html
The Taliban and their radical Islamic ilk are rabid monsters. The more the world sees the evil they do, the quicker they’ll be sent to hell.
mike in onterio
yuppers, I cancelled my Red Star subscription a long time ago
also quit reading the “bible bangin” T O sun for a while
I now read the sun again as they seem to have put the bible aside!!!!!
Some serious hypocrisy going on here; on the one hand much wrath at AP and their Taliban-insider for taking and publishing these pics and video, and on the other hand an equal amount of disgust at Canadian MSM for NOT publishing this stuff.
Personally, I think these pics reinforce the West’s case against sticking it out in Afghanistan.
Any time the NDP get on their hobby horse, this needs to be rubbed in their face.
Rahmatullah Naikzad should be given a big ‘Thankyou’ for handing us this moral ammunition. It may not have been their intent, but it’ll certainly be the result. The deaths of the women were inevitable whether they were photographed or not, as are those of the innocents slaughtered in any one of the Islamic pogroms currently (past present and future) taking place.
Sheila T, yes circumstantial. Check your dictionary. At the time of my post I wasn’t aware of a video but did you watch it? It shows nothing more really than the before and after photos do. My apologies about the multiple posts.
Precisely my point, Dustoff. It strikes me that the people who are so quick to critique the AP and point out inconsistencies, fake photos, doctoring, etc are the somehow the same ones who jump all over this sort of thing and assume it to have happened exactly as it’s described and shown!
Jeffro, is it illegal to possess kiddie porn? Even if you didn’t take the picture yourself?
Why is that, do you suppose?
Might that rule extend to possessing and selling pictures of a murder while protecting the source of same?
I wasn’t aware of a video but did you watch it? It shows nothing more really than the before and after photos do.
It was taken at night during the actual execution. It’s not what it shows or doesn’t show. It’s the audio that accompanies it – the gunshots and their screams as they’re being executed.