Selling little girls to pay back debt

[isshinwhat]

The film traces another story of an ill-fated Afghan farmer. “It just seemed too awful to be true,” producer Jamie Doran told Amanpour about that man’s plight. “[He] couldn't pay the traffickers back and refused to give his daughter away. And we actually have the entire film of him being beheaded with a penknife. That's what they do if you refuse to hand over your daughters.”

Selling little girls to pay back debt – Amanpour - CNN.com Blogs

May God have mercy and grant him forgiveness.


John 15:13 - Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

1 Peter 4:8 - But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

 

[MikeK]

That's a day-ruining article. My prayers for all involved.

I loathe the drug war and all of the lives it harms in the US, but at the same time I loathe every smack-head who knows full well that the money he's spending is destroying lives on another continent.

 

[isshinwhat]

The Frontline episode it mentions is heartbreaking...

 

[WarriorAngel]

I am sure - He is Heaven bound. His love and offering up his life - surely is pleasing to the Lord. [martyrdom in love for others]



Sad sad way to have to live. Truly vile that anyone wants to take someone's daughter. This man loved his daughter more than his own life. May his death help others to follow.

 

[Cjwinnit]

That's a day-ruining article. My prayers for all involved.

I loathe the drug war and all of the lives it harms in the US, but at the same time I loathe every smack-head who knows full well that the money he's spending is destroying lives on another continent.

It's typical smack-head envy. It's not enough to destroy just yourself - someone else always has to go down with them.

 

[MikeK]

It's typical smack-head envy. It's not enough to destroy just yourself - someone else always has to go down with them.

I have a lot of empathy for heroin addicts...I remember how hard it was to quit smoking, and quitting smoking is merely unpleasant, it doesn't make you sick or dead every time you try to stop. I don’t think most H addicts intend to kill others, but I suspect that most, in reflective times, will concede that they are. I also suspect that the vast majority of "H addicts (or addicts to other opiates) would like very much to be clean and wish they never dabbled in the first place. I wish there was more we could do as a society to help them, but nothing really works. Tough love doesn't work. Imprisonment doesn't work. The only think I can think of that might help is legalizing the stuff, growing it domestically and subsidizing it if necessary to keep it cheap and keep the black market out of the game....and that "solution" comes with its own problems.

 

[Michie]

 

[Fantine]

What a brave, loving father! Prayers to end trafficking around the world.

I wonder if the anti-trafficking groups will be picketing outside this year's Super Bowl, as they did at last year's....

Maybe that's what the March for Lifers did wrong....you are guaranteed tons of publicity if you locate your March in the Super Bowl Stadium parking lot.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Nice job of politicizing.......oh never mind.

 

[Fantine]

It was an observation, and there was nothing political about it.

Anti-trafficking demonstrators DID protest at the Super Bowl. They had a lot less than 400,000 people and got a lot of publicity, because they were in the right place at the right time.

My suggestion that other groups who are bemoaning their lack of publicity do the same thing is not political--it's common sense.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Yeah.......right......

 

[Needing_Grace]

I am sure - He is Heaven bound. His love and offering up his life - surely is pleasing to the Lord. [martyrdom in love for others]



Sad sad way to have to live. Truly vile that anyone wants to take someone's daughter. This man loved his daughter more than his own life. May his death help others to follow.

If the person wasn't a baptized Catholic who died in the state of grace, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[MikeK]

If the person wasn't a baptized Catholic who died in the state of grace, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Eh, chances are he was never really exposed to Catholocism and was never given the freedom to explore it and choose it. The Church teaches that our God is all merciful, and that we have reason to be hopeful that such souls will be saved.

 

[Ave Maria]

Wow. That is incredibly sad. If I ever had children I could never sell them off to pay a debt. I just wonder though, is the man in the original post a martyr since he accepted death for standing up for his moral beliefs that his children shouldn't be sold into what was probably sex slavery?