In America, if you're a young woman and your parents disapprove of your boyfriend, you'll probably marry him anyway.  But in Afghanistan, it happens a little differently.  Maybe even something like this: 1) Your parents will force you into an arranged marriage. 2) They will sell you for something like 30 goats, and even some cows, if you look sexy in a burka. 3) If you instead elope with your boyfriend, your family will hunt you down to kill you. 4) If you go to the police for help, the police will arrest you for adultery. 5) When a mob comes to the police station to demand your release, the police will hand them over to you. 6) Your family members will execute you for having shamed them, since they received all these lovely goats and you refused to let a strange man rape you. An armed mob that included relatives of a young woman who had eloped with her lover stormed a police station holding the couple in eastern Afghanistan over...(Read Full Post)