Afghans Rage at Young Lovers - a Father Says Kill Them Both - NYTimes.com
It was the beginning of an Afghan love story that flouted dominant traditions of arranged marriages and close family scrutiny, a romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities that tested a village’s tolerance for more modern whims of the heart. The results were delivered with brutal speed.Every so often, there is a story or a picture that reminds me (and should remind every citizen) that I am lucky to have been born in the United States of America. This is one of those stories.This month, a group of men spotted the couple riding together in a car, yanked them into the road and began to interrogate the boy and girl. Why were they together? What right had they? An angry crowd of 300 surged around them, calling them adulterers and demanding that they be stoned to death or hanged.
