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India-Pakistan
Nine year old Pak boy hangs himself 'like Saddam'
2007-01-02
Multan - A young boy who tried to copy hanging scenes from the execution video of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died in central Pakistan, said police on Monday.
Not to gloat too overtly over the death of a child, but this may have been the gene pool prophylactically cleansing itself of a future malignancy
No. That is gloating openly and I was gonna dump your comment but I decided to call you on it. He's a nine year old kid. He's growing up in a very unfortunate place, and into an exteremely unfortunate religion/cult, but he's a little kid, dammit.
Mubashar Ali, 9, hanged himself, while re-enacting Hussein's hanging with the help of elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home in Rahim Yar Khan district on Sunday, said a local police official. The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution on television and attempted to imitate the hanging as other family members thought they were playing in another room. "My wife and sister rushed to rescue Mubashar when children cried for help from the adjoining room, but he died due to hanging," said Alamgir Paracha, father of Mubashar. Police said that the death was accidental and a case of parental negligence.
Let us hope that more jihadis follow the example of this young standard-bearer
Again, no. And I don't really buy the parents' story either.
Posted by:Lone Ranger

#12  He's a nine year old kid. He's growing up in a very unfortunate place, and into an exteremely unfortunate religion/cult, but he's a little kid, dammit.

Yes, he's a nine year old kid. And by the time he was nine years old he'd had several years of indoctrination into Islam and all its warm Islamic goodness. By the time he was nine, he was a lost cause.

So, the yellow commenter was spot on, and you are out of line. BTW, isn't light blue the color Robin used?

Posted by: Slath Chush8530   2007-01-02 22:55  

#11  not funny
Posted by: Michael Hutchence   2007-01-02 21:35  

#10  Al Jazeera apparently has been playing videos and stills taken by those present at the hanging.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-02 20:03  

#9  Ptah: Doubltess, this child's soul is now playing in some delightful field of Heaven.

Unless the Koran really is the word of God in which case he is being eternally raped as a reward for some jihadi; Mohamed Atta, say.

Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-01-02 18:21  

#8  " The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution"

Poor Kid, Stupid parents.
Posted by: pihkalbadger   2007-01-02 17:32  

#7  Wasn't there an episode of MacGyver that prompted a few kids to emulate the faux hanging ?
MacGyver used some technique to escape from the noose IIRC.
I think TV writers are more aware now of how certain children will play act some quite dangerous scenarios
Posted by: john   2007-01-02 15:54  

#6  re: the Supreme-tress MODI-> Sea

righteous call, kidz are kidz, the Pak-land kid in the article never had a chance.
Posted by: RD   2007-01-02 15:40  

#5  Why was a nine year old allowed to watch such a video anyway?
Sheesh, must have been G rated?


Boggles
Posted by: Jan   2007-01-02 15:09  

#4  I don't think Sammy "hanged himself", but that's a quibble, I suppose.

Young & dumb.
Posted by: mojo   2007-01-02 13:43  

#3  Question, was the boy simply duplicating a hanging on TV that happened to be Saddam's or was the boy duplicating the hanging of some kind of hero or whatever? It's a fine point but I think an important one seeing as this kid was not even Iraqi.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-01-02 13:22  

#2  I agree that this is a tragedy, but the fault lies entirely with the Muslim media and mindset that no Muslim can do no wrong, and thus decided to puff a megamurderer, extolling manufactured virtues while covering up his manifest evil.

This boy was doing what boys have done from before the dawn of human history to become men: admiring and emulating those whose his society has held up a paragons of courage and heroism. This poor child was misled and mis-served by those who were responsible for him, starting with his parents and on up.

Doubltess, this child's soul is now playing in some delightful field of Heaven. Elsewhere in Heaven, some memos are being written in the Book of the Living under the names of those truly responsible for his being mislead. Probably something like moving them into a corner of hell where the thermostat is set several thousand degrees higher...
Posted by: Ptah   2007-01-02 11:39  

#1  What less would you expect from the "Religion of Pieces"? The kid is growing up in a death cult, no wonder he would emulate his hero Saddam.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-01-02 11:18  

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