Sometimes you read a story and you wonder if the Rapture is actually happening in real time. The fact that people still get stoned in certain places around the world in amazing to me.
I think sometimes we take for the granted some of the freedoms we have in the United States, but then you read stories like this and snaps you back into reality that maybe we shouldn’t complain so much.
A would-be teen beauty queen was stoned to death after her participation in a Ukranian pageant reportedly infuriated local Muslim youths.
Katya Koren, 19, was targeted by three fellow teens who said her seventh-place finish in the beauty contest was a violation of Muslim laws, according to British newspaper reports.
One of the suspects, identified as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev, told authorities that he had no regrets about the stoning because the dark-haired Koren “violated the laws of Sharia.”
The teen’s battered body was found buried in the forest near her village in the Crimea section of the Ukraine. She had disappeared a week earlier.
Just an awful story and senseless death.
Thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family.