The story comes first! Let nothing stand in the way of a good scoop!
And the Associated Press means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING… Not even human lives.
Rahmahtullah Naikzad, Associated Press journalist, stood casually by and nonchalantly took photos, while Taliban terrorists announced their intention to unilaterally convict and murder two captive women for ‘moral crimes’…
And then enthusiastically filmed their execution and photographed their dead bodies.
The Jawa Report has the whole story, including more photos, the timeline showing how the AP journalist spent days with the terrorists. There is also a video of the actual execution.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
VIDEO: The Jawa Report link or Liveleak link.
Rahmahtullah Naikzad spent at least the night and morning with the knowledge that two probably innocent women were about to be murdered in cold blood.
His humane, compassionate and righteous response: Grab more film and ready his camera for a ‘sensational scoop’.
You have to wonder if the scumbag even actually told the terrorists to pose in certain ways, or even shoot the women just so in order to get the perfect (camera) shot.
The Jawa Report seriously questions what kind of ethics the AP’s ‘professionals’ have.
UPDATE: Naikzad has been detained and questioned, says he ‘only expected to see hands being chopped off thieves‘.
Also being covered by original source Pajamas Media, and at Hot Air, Pirate’s Cove, Ace of Spades, Little Green Footballs.
“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” – Thomas Mann
“Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was unfairly accused and you did not plead for me, I was threatened and you gave the authorities no warning, I was held captive and you went jollying with my oppressors, I was about to be executed and you did nothing but take photos, I was brutally murdered and you only videoed my death.”
They will answer, “Lord, when did we see you accused or threatened or a captive or about to be executed or murdered, and did not help you?”
He will reply, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
– Jesus in Matthew 25, paraphrased
Do realize that this sort of fanatical, murderous misogyny is nothing new to this earth:
NOTE: If you take more offense at the titles of the above posters than the actual acts of murder they depict, you are totally one of the fascists.
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THE SCOTTTCAST 
July 16, 08 at 1:58 pm
Very well paraphrased on Matt 25 ! This is part of the end time era and the prophecy have to be fulfilled but nonetheless, this is just so evil. How can a human being stand aside and watch those killings and even capture it on video ? We have lost humanity as such and are worse than animals so to speak. These ‘ righteous ‘ ones knows no fear as if there are God itself as to mete out those punishment for whatever wrong that was done by the women. How barbaric can it be or we may as well just go and live inside the caves,…… back to the dinosaur era.
Let all those who are in the right frame of mind pray that justice will be done and these evil acts to be stop. For in their barbaric mind : on the left there is nothing RIGHT and on the right there is nothing LEFT. So what good can we get out of it but just to conclude that we are indeed in a fallen world today and waiting for the judgement day.
July 16, 08 at 4:04 pm
i think the issues are more complex and i would hesitate to pass judgment. journalists and photographers have long debated this and i think it’s not about taking a photo or video about an execution for the heck of it. journalists have a job to do. think about what you would do if you were in that position – a foreigner in a foreign land where such executions are accepted – and you try to to intervene or interfere.
(see for instance http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00AZHT)
how about extending the argument: think about being an ordinary malaysian seeing families broken up thru ISA detention without trial. isn’t this just as evil? and shouldn’t we do something instead of standing by? think about the ordinary acts of racialism/racism that are perpetrated in the country? isn’t this evil, something to be resisted as well? and how are we resisting this in our language and attitude? what are we doing to build bridges instead of surrendering to convention?
or how about resisting those pirate dvd sellers? it is a well-known fact that the syndicates behind this are no saints. shouldn’t we resist buying pirate dvds and therefore avoid supporting criminals who openly break the law? are we not accessories to crime by not reporting these dvd sellers everytime we see them in the pasar malam or roadside?
what i am saying is, it is a complex issue. there are always limits, constraints. not everyone is equipped to respond appropriately even if we want to. it is commendable to pray that justice will be done and “evil to be stopped”. but it will have to begin with us. perhaps we will find enough strength and wisdom to resist bigger acts of evil when we faithfully say ‘no’ to sin and exercise small acts of grace daily.
July 17, 08 at 4:48 am
“Evil triumph when good men choose to be oblivious or remain ignorant of its existence” Witnessing the execution style murder above reinforces that evil is no where near extinguish from our world today where humanity for all remain a distant dream for civil society.
July 18, 08 at 3:27 am
Inaction on the part of world organization and super power on evil act commited against humanity, encourage if not promote the prevail of evilness.