Here's something that's COMPLETELY out of the hands of American politics, and nobody has anything to say about this dead woman or her killers?

What is there to say? Islamists treat women as property. If they venture to assert themselves, they are murdered.

End of story.

Doesn't matter what country, wherever Islamists are found, even in the US, the story is the same. The excuse is always "honor", which is just that....an excuse.

Here we go again. Why don't you stick to FACTS instead of all this sensationalism. "The sons both survived the shooting." You make it sound like both boys "escaped" being killed. Obviously they weren't the target. And what does the fact they are women have anything to do with it? They aren't killing men? Media is getting notorious for trying to manipulate the gullible.

"tired of propaganda", please just do a little research on the history of the Taliban, so you have a broader and more accurate perspective.

The fact that they are women has EVERYTHING to do with the ideology that this group has violently executed...

The west generally ignored the Taliban's actions in the 90's until it was a bit too late...

btw, only the gullible can be manipulated, so if you don't fall into that category, just get over it; you'll be okay...

I completely agree with Rick and completely disagree with the radical feminist...the media loves to sensationalize when women are involved in any way when involved in violence in areas of conflict. Men and boys are victims of this type of violence probably 95% of the time (I don't have any link to site, sorry...that is why I said "probably"). I feel horribly for the journalists that were killed, it was a crime, but the story should simply be that two journalists were killed...the headline does not need to include any indication of sex...that is done to grab naive readers.

Back to the feminist. Sure, the Taliban is involved in honour killings, but men and boys are still, by far, the victims of senseless slaughter at the hands of the Taliban far more often than women.

Standing up for basic human rights is "radical"? ha ha

And Jay, you're wrong, this is not a sensationalized story; it's pretty matter of fact. Perhaps YOU'RE reading into any level of sensationalism...

so the manly men of afghanistan -- the ones who sneak into a woman's home in the dead of night and shoot her in the head while she sleeps -- are at it again.

what a testament to their manly courage.

It's either a direct hit on her by the Taliban or they paid some dude's to whack her for them...and I would say that maybe the majority of Afghani men are pro-reform now. They've been given a taste and it's simply up to them to push ahead against the ultra-conservative, fundamentalist militants and their agenda...men kill women in the US, too...

She was killed because she was a woman working as a journalist. She had been warned to stop and get back in her home where she belongs. The Taliban does not believe in women working or providing education to girls and women. Teachers (men and women) have also been targeted and killed.

The Taliban is currently involved in the following "heroic" actions in Afghanistan: threatening to kill those who teach girls AND carrying out those threats; threatening families who permit their daughters to be educated;
attempting to enforce the Paktun shuttle-cock burqa on every ethnic group in the country; and, last but not least, murdering clerics, Sunni and Shia alike, who do not follow their rather narrow version of Deobandi theology.

Here in the US various Sufi orders have raised money for schools in Afghanistan: Jerrahis, Mevlevis, and others have all raised money for (separate) schools for girls and boys. The fact that these schools are overseen by Muslim clerics has not spared them from Taliban threats over the matter of female education.

Much of what the Taliban is attempting to force on all of Afghanistan is a tribal code known as Pushtanwali. It has nothing to do with Islam although the Taliban has attempted to wrap this tribal code up in a Turban and call it Sharia. Afghans who are not Paktuns have very little interest in following Paktun tribal customs.

So yes, the fact that these particular murdered journalists were women is important. Journalists of both genders are being murdered in Afghanistan - but only women are being murdered because they dared to learn how to read and write and don't stay home in purdah (seclusion).

So men are not as important as women? People are smarting up about pig fat swill
Your type of reporting is a turn off