7.07.2012

Shades of the 'Pericope de Adultera'

Afghan Taliban publicly execute woman accused of adultery; men cheer Excerpt:
A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province. "Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed".
Comment: the 'Pericope de Adultera is the famous passage from John 8. And there is an interesting similarity - Where was the man?

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