.... She was savagely beaten by a mob alright - beaten, run over with a car and burned before her body was thrown into the Kabul River - but everything else about that turns out to be wrong. Far from being mentally ill, she was an Islamic scholar and a recent graduate.
She got into an argument with some men selling cheap religious trinkets, we now learn, telling the women customers not to waste their money on such trash. The men, in return, made up the stuff about burning a Koran, and the mob did the rest - while the police stood by and did nothing. [Mick Hartley] Read more
