Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing

The best way is to simply read the books instead of relying on Internet addresses for some answer that ar mostly incorrect wetter its the Bible or the Koran.

Did you read how that women died? Why don't I see posts of outrage? Horrified responses? No feelings here? No heart? What the hell is wrong with some of you?!

READ IT AGAIN!!!! I want justice for this crime! We are nations build on respect, we need to step forward and scream bloody murder when we see this stuff happen. We have Canadian representives there. What are they doing? We pay taxes that give them salaries. Something needs to be done about this. I'm pissed off! This women needs justice. Our troops are in that part of the world why? Because of this I believe!

Support Canadian troops at home.........Scream bloody loud about this crime for this women. That's why their there, to stop this crap from happening!

Just a little follow-up:

It turns out that the killing on the videotape is not of the journalist, that aspect of it is a hoax. The killing shown was committed two years ago by a Kurdish terrorist group, and the victim was a Nepalese man, who was killed along with 11 others (edited out). Someone went to a lot of effort to take the older, clear videos, edit them and and make them all grainy and blurry before passing them off on the Sunday Times. That's not to take anything away from how horribly wrong her murder was, but someone is obviously going to a lot of work to get a knee-jerk reaction out of people.

So far, neither Shia or Sunni factions have taken responsibility for the killing, but have both suggested that the other is to blame.

It really saddens me the way the people behind the invasion of Iraq don't seem to have learned anything from the period of 1946-1970. There was a reason that all of those third world countries were given self-rule, and that was because there was no viable way for a foreign power to control them. There still isn't, and there will never be. They had a brutal tyrant who treated the Shia and Kurds unfairly, but who nevertheless maintained order, with a secular government which treated women well. Hussein's secularism was why the CIA hired him and brought him into power in the first place, it was seen as a stabilizing influence in the area. Now Iraq is a bloodbath, complete chaos where rival fundamentalist groups compete to commit the largest and most shocking atrocities. Now there is a government where Islam is written into the constitution, and all that is left to be seen is which variety of Islam will ultimately lord it over the others. The future of Iraqi women, like that journalist, has never looked so bleak. Pathetic decision-making, with results which can only be said to be very, very sad.

...It really saddens me the way the people behind the invasion of Iraq don't seem to have learned anything from the period of 1946-1970. There was a reason that all of those third world countries were given self-rule, and that was because there was no viable way for a foreign power to control them. There still isn't, and there will never be...

...They had a brutal tyrant who treated the Shia and Kurds unfairly, but who nevertheless maintained order, with a secular government which treated women well. Hussein's secularism was why the CIA hired him and brought him into power in the first place, it was seen as a stabilizing influence in the area. Now Iraq is a bloodbath, complete chaos where rival fundamentalist groups compete to commit the largest and most shocking atrocities. Now there is a government where Islam is written into the constitution, and all that is left to be seen is which variety of Islam will ultimately lord it over the others. The future of Iraqi women, like that journalist, has never looked so bleak. Pathetic decision-making, with results which can only be said to be very, very sad.

The 1983 attack against Kurdish citizens belonging to the Barzani tribe, 8,000 of whom were rounded up by the regime in northern Iraq and executed in deserts at great distances from their homes.

The 1988 Anfal campaign, during which as many as 182,000 people disappeared. Most of the men were separated from their families and were executed in deserts in the west and southwest of Iraq. The remains of some of their wives and children have also been found in mass graves. A team of Human Rights Watch investigators determined, after analyzing eighteen tons of captured Iraqi documents, testing soil samples and carrying out interviews with more than 350 witnesses, that the attacks on the Kurdish people were characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass executions and disappearances of many tens of thousands of noncombatants, widespread use of chemical weapons including Sarin, mustard gas and nerve agents that killed thousands, the arbitrary imprisoning of tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people for months in conditions of extreme deprivation, forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of villagers after the demolition of their homes, and the wholesale destruction of nearly two thousand villages along with their schools, mosques, farms, and power stations.
Chemical attacks against Kurdish villages from 1986 to 1988, including the Halabja attack, when the Iraqi Air Force dropped sarin, VX and tabun chemical agents on the civilian population, killing 5,000 people immediately and causing long-term medical problems, related deaths, and birth defects among the progeny of thousands more.

The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shia Muslims after the Shia uprising at the end of the Gulf war, in which tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in such regions as Basra and Al-Hillah were killed. Estimates of deaths during that time range from 40,000 to 100,000 for Kurds, and 60,000 to 130,000 for Shi'ites.

A massacre of Kurds in 1991, which targeted civilians and soldiers who fought for autonomy in northern Iraq after the Gulf war, also resulted in mass graves.

In June of 1994, the Hussein regime in Iraq established severe penalties, including amputation, branding and the death penalty for criminal offenses such as theft, corruption, currency speculation and military desertion.

After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, several mass graves were found in Iraq containing several thousand bodies total, and more are being uncovered to this day. While most of the dead in the graves were believed to have died in the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein, some of them appeared to have died due to executions or died at times other than the 1991 rebellion.

Christian fundamentalists anymore are few and far between and the people who are oft called 'fundies' really aren't.

Then there's a host of them that call themselves 'moderate' but they play word games with the innumerable parts of the koran that advocate violence and they refuse to renounce these passages. Instead they play the liberal apologist game of saying that the koran is being 'misinterpreted'.

The Muslim faith is nothing but a cult. Muhammad raped, murdered children and women as he invaded villages.

This is one their prophets. ROTFL

There was also optimism that with self-rule, the colonized would develop their own internal institutions and come to have indigeneous populations every bit as capable of government as provided by a colonial apparatus.

There have been obvious failures of this plan, but also some great successes, including India, several East-African countries, and I think, ultimately, South Africa.

Jaime_Souviens Jaime_Souviens:

There was also optimism that with self-rule, the colonized would develop their own internal institutions and come to have indigeneous populations every bit as capable of government as provided by a colonial apparatus.

There have been obvious failures of this plan, but also some great successes, including India, several East-African countries, and I think, ultimately, South Africa.

You have a funny idea of what qualifies as successful self-rule considering that it was a direct counter-reaction to imperial colonialism. You cite South Africa that was given the gift of apartheid, India that had Gandhi overthrow British Imperialism and some east African countries??? Like what Somalia, Chad and Darfur??