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Omaha Steve

(99,703 posts) Sun Mar 17, 2013, 04:29 PM Mar 2013

Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves in public (WARNING for graphic photo!!!)

Last edited Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: AP-Excite

By AYA BATRAWY

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, stripped them half-naked and hung them by their feet in a crowded bus station in the Nile Delta on Sunday, according to security officials. Both men died.

A witness said some in the crowd of about 3,000 people who watched the lynchings egged them on with chants of "kill them!"

The lynchings came a week after the attorney general's office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police.

It was one of the most extreme cases of vigilantism in two years of sharp deterioration in security following Egypt's 2011 uprising. The worsening security coupled with a police strike prompted the attorney general's call for citizen arrests last week.

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Egyptian men surround the bodies of two men who were beaten and hung by vigilantes after being accused of theft in Samanod, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday March 17, 2013. Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, then stripped them half-naked and hung them still alive in a bus station in a small Nile Delta town on Sunday, according to security officials who said both men died. The killings came a week after the attorney general's office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police. (AP Photo)

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Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves in public (WARNING for graphic photo!!!) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2013 OP

NO NO NO NO NO!!! tblue Mar 2013 #1

what is wrong with people? ugh secondwind Mar 2013 #2

please add a warning to your subject line Skittles Mar 2013 #3

This is your society. This is your society on religion. Kurska Mar 2013 #4

Yeah. Why blame this on religion? Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #5

Religious party calls for vigilante justice, this what you get. n/t Kurska Mar 2013 #8

Lynch mobs were an expression of christianity, I presume? Scootaloo Mar 2013 #6

I also noted that it said the authorities asked them to hand over criminals to them, not kill them. freshwest Mar 2013 #7

Yes the wave of religious extremism has nothing to do with what is fucked up with Egypt now. Kurska Mar 2013 #9

You're right, it doesn't. Or at least, not as much as you wish it did Scootaloo Mar 2013 #10

The POLITICAL Islam practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood is homophobic, misogynist and hierarchical. Kurska Mar 2013 #12

Justified or not... cbrer Mar 2013 #11

When did car theft become a capital offense? Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #13

Their police forces are in a serious state of disrepair... Ash_F Mar 2013 #14

tblue

(16,350 posts)

1. NO NO NO NO NO!!!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 04:35 PM

Mar 2013

Vigilantism, prompted by the state? No, I don't think so. That picture just turns my stomach.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

2. what is wrong with people? ugh

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 04:50 PM

Mar 2013

Skittles

(153,185 posts)

3. please add a warning to your subject line

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:16 PM

Mar 2013

that's a picture to give people nightmares

Kurska

(5,739 posts)

4. This is your society. This is your society on religion.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:22 PM

Mar 2013

Any questions?

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

5. Yeah. Why blame this on religion?

Reply to Kurska (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:56 PM

Mar 2013

There is vigilantism all over Mexico, Central America, and South America, too, as well as other places. I think it has to do with ineffective and unresponsive criminal justice systems, not religion.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)

8. Religious party calls for vigilante justice, this what you get. n/t

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 06:34 PM

Mar 2013

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

6. Lynch mobs were an expression of christianity, I presume?

Reply to Kurska (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:57 PM

Mar 2013

Has fuck-all to do with religion, but plenty to do with mob mentality and weak / corrupt law enforcement.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

7. I also noted that it said the authorities asked them to hand over criminals to them, not kill them.

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 06:21 PM

Mar 2013

You are correct. This is mob mentality, nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. America has a long history of vigilantism or lynching. This came from a lack of funding for maintaining a just social order. Or hooliganism, or people with too much time on their hands as they are not employed.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)

9. Yes the wave of religious extremism has nothing to do with what is fucked up with Egypt now.

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 06:36 PM

Mar 2013

This is what happens when ever a society tries to go "biblical" or "back to the quran" or whatever you want to call it.

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

10. You're right, it doesn't. Or at least, not as much as you wish it did

Reply to Kurska (Reply #9)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 06:52 PM

Mar 2013

If I wanted to read Pam Gellar, I'd go to her blog. Not DU.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)

12. The POLITICAL Islam practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood is homophobic, misogynist and hierarchical.

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #10)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 07:53 PM

Mar 2013

And what is rapidly turning a formally secular state into a clown show of corruption and dysfunction. Religious beliefs are more than open to criticism when someone tries to run a god damn state with them. Especially when they use their religious beliefs as a cudgel to beat vulnerable minorities with (including people with other religious beliefs), as is also happening in Egypt. If the open and frank discussion of the flaws of organized religion, as applied to politics, is offensive to you, I don't know what I can say. I suppose you could ignore me.

There is certainly Islam that is not homophobic, misogynist or hierachial, but the Muslim Brotherhood by definition does not practice it.

Oh and for the record the Christianity practiced by the extreme right here is all those three as well and would do the same thing. I'm not playing favorites, all fundamentalism is disgusting and I have no interest in hearing anyone excuse the brutalities of it away.