Taliban showing off their spirit of peace and freedom

The demented beasts are once again doing what they do best: spreading terror and pain to discourage the very notion of a people practicing its inherent right to vote for their leaders, instead of having barbaric monsters imposed upon them.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Making good on a threat of election day violence, the Taliban sliced off the index fingers of at least two people in Kandahar province, according to a vote monitoring group.

After they cast their ballots, the fingers of Afghan voters are stained with ink to prevent them from voting multiple times. The fingers of the two women in Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban, were cut off because they voted, said Nader Naderi of the Free and Fair Election Foundation.

The Taliban had vowed to disrupt Thursday's election and the risk was too great for some Afghans to venture out, especially in the southern provinces that form the heartland of the radical Islamist group.

Just days ahead of the election, U.S. Marines and other NATO forces carried out military operations to clear and hold sectors that have long been in the Taliban grip, and free up the population to vote.

Sporadic attacks on election day killed 26 people and injured scores more. Still, Afghan officials hailed the voting as a success.

Jon Stewart joked about this very topic – Taliban slicing fingers off the hands of anyone who gets "caught" voting – just a few days ago; I think this is one of those stories any respectable and dignified comedian just shouldn't joke about, not when they speak of such evil and horrific injustice. Just imagine, going out to vote for the leader you think should lead your country, and you come back home bleeding and screaming in pain with a couple of fingers sliced off by barbaric ... (I've run out of names that do justice to the extent of my hatred and disgust for the Taliban and other such inhuman monsters).

Trust me, I'm the very last person on Earth who would normally say this, being so stridently anti-war and anti-army myself, but this is one of those times where I would happily encourage America (and any other reasonable country) to send their troops in and fight for the people's protection – and freedom (to vote), the very core value at the heart of any democracy.