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| Taliban kills 17 Afghan villagers — was dancing the reason |
| 2012-08-28 |
| Well, if dancing wasn't the cause, that leaves just one possibility, jealousy over boyfriends.. Taliban insurgents killed 17 Afghan civilians Sunday and beheaded as many as 15 of them in the southern province of Helmand, officials said Monday. But the circumstance of their deaths was sharply disputed. One version said they’d been killed because they’d attended a party where women danced with men. But others scoffed at the idea, saying women would not have been dancing in such a conservative area of Afghanistan. “It is not possible to sing a song in a Taliban-controlled area – let alone have dancing, and especially women dancing,” said Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand’s governor. Even the location of the killings was uncertain. Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that armed Taliban had “opened fire and beheaded” the civilians – including two women – in Helmand’s Kajaki district, a version with which Ahmadi agreed. But Haji Abdul Wahab, a tribal elder from the neighboring Musa Qala district, told McClatchy that the killings had occurred in his district, not Kajaki, though he, too, dismissed the idea that the victims were at a late-night celebration with music and dancing. “It is not possible to have a dancing party in conservative Helmand province,” Wahab said. “Helmand is a Pashtun province, and it’s taboo to have women dancing here.” Pashtuns are the dominant ethnic group in the region. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 "It is not possible to sing a song in a Taliban-controlled area ..." How about if I just hum a few bars? Will I only get my fingers removed??? You know ... this policy is going to pour cold water on "Dancing With The Stars". Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-08-28 12:28 |
| #1 "Footloose" - Pashtun style. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2012-08-28 03:59 |