“We are all human. God created us from one dirt. Why can we not marry each other, or love each other?”
HALIMA MOHAMMEDI, an Afghan teenager whose love for another teenager, Rafi Mohammed, set off a riot by flouting their village’s tradition of arranged marriages.
“What we would ask is that the government should kill both of them.”
KHER MOHAMMED, her father.
From The New York Times, Sunday, 31 July 2011