[Shasown]

Theres a big clue as to the Afghani culture in the delight shown by the young lad in the vid it may even have been his own pet sheep.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Theres a big clue as to the Afghani culture in the delight shown by the young lad in the vid it may even have been his own pet sheep.

Doubt it very much.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Snowball

Doubt it very much.

You think the Afghan people share our Western sensibilities?

Be serious, the Taliban werent as unpopular as the western media and governments made them out to be

Have a look at this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-new-face.html

It happened under a "muslim" regime even though that sort of disfigurement is outlawed by Islamic law

[Wildcat!]

Originally Posted by Shasown

You think the Afghan people share our Western sensibilities?

Be serious, the Taliban werent as unpopular as the western media and governments made them out to be

Have a look at this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-new-face.html

It happened under a "muslim" regime even though that sort of disfigurment is outlawed by Islamic law

So now that your point is totally ridiculous, you come in here post something completely off subject to further your agenda.
Do you have nothing else to talk about? Then Go open a thread about this mutilation.
I am sure you can gather muslim bashers to help ou with it.
This thread as zero to do with Taliban, islam or muslims. Its about american soldiers cheering and barbarically killing a sheep. Period.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Wildcat!

So now that your point is totally ridiculous, you come in here post something completely off subject to further your agenda.
Do you have nothing else to talk about? Then Go open a thread about this mutilation.
I am sure you can gather muslim bashers to help ou with it.
This thread as zero to do with Taliban, islam or muslims. Its about american soldiers cheering and barbarically killing a sheep. Period.

I do get the feeling that the guy doing it clubbing it would have been one of the soldiers - obviously I don't know for sure - but I do think there is more chance of him being one of the soldiers and not an Afghan.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Shasown

You think the Afghan people share our Western sensibilities?

Be serious, the Taliban werent as unpopular as the western media and governments made them out to be

Have a look at this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-new-face.html

It happened under a "muslim" regime even though that sort of disfigurment is outlawed by Islamic law

I'm not relating Western sensibilites to anything - I'm saying that there is no way that that anyone sacrificing a sheep for Eid or Islam would do so in the manner in which this guy did. I am relating what I have seen with my own eyes, happen in a Muslim country and in the manner in which is customary to conduct such a sacrifice: and this is not it.


That link has not a thing to do with this story.

[Wildcat!]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Theres a big clue as to the Afghani culture in the delight shown by the young lad in the vid it may even have been his own pet sheep.

The delight its a kid!!! And kids equate the slaughtering of sheep to Eid. When I was a kid, we would cheer as well. But like I said real,muslim would never do that or eat such animal.
And especially on Eid day, anyone who is doing it for religious reasons like the poster suggests, will do it accordingly. Otherwise whats the point?
My objection was to that! Not weather he is afghan or not! If youve seen some barbaric slaughter of a sheep, its very possible, but it had nothing to do with Eid, or ISLAM

[Wildcat!]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Theres a big clue as to the Afghani culture in the delight shown by the young lad in the vid it may even have been his own pet sheep.

Yeah, because a poor Afghan kid having a pet sheep makes a lot of sense!

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Wildcat!

Yeah, because a poor Afghan kid having a pet sheep makes a lot of sense!

Makes more sense than a poor Afghani kid having a hamster or a guinea pig doesnt it.

In reality the Afghan kid probably looked after the sheep, so in a way it would be akin to his pet, wouldnt it?

[Wildcat!]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Makes more sense than a poor Afghani kid having a hamster or a guinea pig doesnt it.

In reality the Afghan kid probably looked after the sheep, so in a way it would be akin to his pet, wouldnt it?

ReAlly, and you nkow this how?
Ermmm newsflash, poor people tend to eat their sheep, and if anyone was looking after it, it would be in a hurd, not as an individual pet. Your points are very stupid!

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Wildcat!

ReAlly, and you nkow this how?
Ermmm newsflash, poor people tend to eat their sheep, and if anyone was looking after it, it would be in a hurd, not as an individual pet. Your points are very stupid!

I have worked in Afghanistan.

Yes they would keep their animals as a herd but generally its the younger members of the family who get to look after them, in some areas even having to share the same sleeping area with them.

[Callum]

I watched this about an hour ago but couldn't post here because the thread was locked. Those men are utter scum, they deserve to rot in hell. I'm fed up of this whole attitude that we should respect all troops for their work and that they are all heroes, I'm not denying that a good majority of the troops are good people who are fighting on behalf of their country but when I see things like this it just angers me. I would never respect people like that, no matter what job they do.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Rudolph

I watched this about an hour ago but couldn't post here because the thread was locked. Those men are utter scum, they deserve to rot in hell. I'm fed up of this whole attitude that we should respect all troops for their work and that they are all heroes, I'm not denying that a good majority of the troops are good people who are fighting on behalf of their country but when I see things like this it just angers me. I would never respect people like that, no matter what job they do.

THIS^well said

[Wildcat!]

SHASHOWS TAKE on the clip:

"In reality the Afghan kid probably looked after the sheep
it may even have been his own pet sheep.
The soldier with the bat was either an American given the honour or was in fact an Afghan who had the honour to sacrifice the sheep in a religious festival to honour Eid al-Adha.#
As for those around cheering etc, again they have been told to respect even join in local celebrations, in fact in the Afghani eyes not to partake or to show disdain would also show disrespect."


Perfect take on it!!!

[Livia]

This has nothing to do with religion or sacrifice or hallal or any other thing connected to Muslims or any other religion. It has to do with sick, cruel people getting their kicks by torturing a terrified, defenceless animal to dealth. Unfortunately for the world, no one country has the monopoly on these dispicable people. Atrocious cruelty to animals goes on every day in this country, ask any RSPCA Officer, and to suggest this kind of thing is part of anyone's culture is ridiculous and insulting.

[lostalex]

Since when is it illegal to kill a sheep? This would not even be illegal in England. If you have a sheep, and you want to kill it and eat it, you have every right to bash it in the head and kill it.

How many of you are vegetarians? Bashing an animal in the head with a baseball bat is not cruelty. That's probably the most humane way of killing it with limited resources.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Since when is it illegal to kill a sheep? This would not even be illegal in England. If you have a sheep, and you want to kill it and eat it, you have every right to bash it in the head and kill it.

How many of you are vegetarians? Bashing an animal in the head with a baseball bat is not cruelty. That's probably the most humane way of killing it with limited resources.

I think it's more to do with the manner in which it was killed, it was done for entertainment, not for food or because it "the most humane way" of doing things

Although I do find it quite hard to get really worked up about this, there are far worse things happening in Afghanistan after all, and I do eat sheep all the time and I'm sure the way it is often killed in an abattoir isn't always so humane either

[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I think it's more to do with the manner in which it was killed, it was done for entertainment, not for food or because it "the most humane way" of doing things

Although I do find it quite hard to get really worked up about this, there are far worse things happening in Afghanistan after all, and I do eat sheep all the time and I'm sure the way it is often killed in an abattoir isn't always so humane either

I get what you're saying, and I agree with the abattoir comment, but this has been done for fun. I don't agree with any kind of killing for fun, not hunting stuff you're not going to eat and definitely not beating an animal to death with a baseball bat while dickheads around you whoop and clap like the morons they are.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

I get what you're saying, and I agree with the abattoir comment, but this has been done for fun. I don't agree with any kind of killing for fun, not hunting stuff you're not going to eat and definitely not beating an animal to death with a baseball bat while dickheads around you whoop and clap like the morons they are.

how do you know it was done for fun? The video doesn't explain at all why the sheep was killed or what they did with the meat afterwards. Do fisherman not get excited and cheer when someone catches a large fish to kill?? Do hunters not get excited when they kill a large deer and celebrate??

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by lostalex

how do you know it was done for fun? The video doesn't explain at all why the sheep was killed or what they did with the meat afterwards. Do fisherman not get excited and cheer when someone catches a large fish to kill?? Do hunters not get excited when they kill a large deer and celebrate??

Yes ALL cowardly idiots that like to feel their 'power' over life and death,No need to kill in such a barbaric way unless of course you are a moron of the highest degree.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Livia

I get what you're saying, and I agree with the abattoir comment, but this has been done for fun. I don't agree with any kind of killing for fun, not hunting stuff you're not going to eat and definitely not beating an animal to death with a baseball bat while dickheads around you whoop and clap like the morons they are.

Yeah I do agree with that

Edit - your post I mean, not the whooping at the animal being beaten with a baseball bat

[Livia]

Ahhh... dedicated non-thinking contrarian hour has arrived. And I don't mean you, Arista.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

Ahhh... dedicated non-thinking contrarian hour has arrived. And I don't mean you, Arista.

oic, i'm non-thinking (that's a personal attack by the way and against the rules) but you can't even formulate an actual intellectual response to my post.

Tell me, would it be illegal in the UK to kill your own sheep by bashing it in the head? Ofcourse it's not illegal. Please prove me wrong.

If you were going to kill a sheep to eat, how would you kill it Livia?? What is more humane than bashing it in the head? The electric chair? A gas chamber? stab it??

[lostalex]

i also think it's hilarious that this thread has more pages than the thread about a BRITISH woman MICROWAVING a CAT. So whoever said "not surprising, american soldiers are horrible" yet your own people in YOUr OWn COUNTRY, put cats in microwaves... and she wasn't killing it to eat, unlike the sheep video.

hypocrisy is in no short supply here at TiBB

[arista]

Originally Posted by lostalex

i also think it's hilarious that this thread has more pages than the thread about a BRITISH woman MICROWAVING a CAT. So whoever said "not surprising, american soldiers are horrible" yet your own people in YOUr OWn COUNTRY, put cats in microwaves... and she wasn't killing it to eat, unlike the sheep video.

hypocrisy is in no short supply here at TiBB

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