Taliban’s Sharia Execution of Najiba aged sixteen

(This post is Luke
Mogelson’s “Najiba” direct from the New York Times Magazine.)




Sharia Execution of Najiba (16).


SHE CROUCHES AT THE BANK OF A RIVER, a shawl wrapped around her head and
shoulders. Behind her, men crowd a steep hillside and stand on rooftops and mud
walls. Several hold up cellphones to record what is about to happen. The girl
seems to look across the river, at a grove of