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Honor Killings Are Still Murder

I could quote from news articles from Middle Eastern and African nations where more madness goes on that is more common than child abuse deaths in America.

In one Middle Eastern country, a Yazidi girl fell in love with a Muslim boy, and the Yazidi menfolk demanded that the Yazidi sheik protecting her release her to her family. Or else.

So the sheik did so, whilst urging the men not to harm her. She ended up stoned to death, merely for falling in love with a Muslim boy.

In Egypt, Coptic girls are routinely harassed by men of Salafi Islam sect, merely for being Christian. The Egyptian government usually looks the other way.

In Libya, blood feuds are going on right now, just because a handful of clans supported its former leader Gadaffi. Yet we never hear any stories from the women of Libya. In fact, the West has been repeatedly told to mind their own business.

In Somalia, a 13-year old girl was stoned to death for reporting a rape to the militia. Before the stoning, witnesses to the rape tried to rescue the child but were shot by militia members.

Imagine how many deaths of Syrian girls are happening right now just because their brother, cousin, or father is a rebel.

However, honor killings are still murder, yet because of the Law of Hammurabi, the men in those countries will get away with it.

Then think about the Palestinian girls caught in the bombing of the Gaza strip by Israel in November 2012, left shell shocked and mourning their loved ones.

I know of one story where a Palestinian girl was shot by an Israeli sniper.

While that's not an honor killing, it is proof that Israel is willing to do anything to keep the big business of warfare alive so the right-wing and religious parties could dominate Israeli politics, using the victimhood of anti-Semitism to ensure its popular vote.

With recent Israeli elections in January 2013, though, the government's political stance has moved slightly to the left from right. Currently the left / centre / Arab parties took 59 seats while the right-wing / religious parties took 61.

All of this killing is terrorism in the Middle East, whereas in America, instead of terrorists, we get school shooters making news during Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and the return to school at the end of August.

Yet the only difference between a terrorist and a school shooter is the former kills to fulfill the demands of his ideology whilst the latter kills due to the misused ideology of his parents.

References:

Yazidi girl stoned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_Du%27a_Khalil_Aswad

Blood feuds threatened by Gaddafi's clan: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-libya-idUSTRE7A36TW20111104

Civilians seize besieged former Gaddafi stronghold: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/us-libya-clashes-idUSBRE89L11B20121022

Coptic Christians harassed by Egyptian Muslims: http://www.charismanews.com/world/34595-coptic-christians-harassed-by-egyptian-muslims

Two Christian Coptic Girls Disappear: http://global.christianpost.com/news/two-christian-coptic-girls-disappear-in-upper-egypt-muslim-youth-believed-responsible-90077/

Child of 13 stoned to death in Somalia: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/child-of+-13-stoned-to-death-in-somalia-20081031

Sectarian violence in the 2011-2012 Syria uprising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_in_the_2011%E2%80%932012_Syrian_uprising

Israeli air strike kills three generations of Palestinian family: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict.html?_r=0

Gaza Ceasefire (source for 166 Palestinians killed in recent Israeli air strike: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/gaza-cease-fire_n_2177031.html

Israeli sniper shoots girl in her home:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-sniper-bullet-takes-12-year-old-girls-life/7403

2013 Israel Election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2013
In 2009, out of a total of 120 seat in the Knesset; the right-wing / religious parties had 65 seats
versus the left / centre / Arab parties having 55 seats.
In 2013, the right-wing /religious parties now have 61 seats to the left / centre / Arab parties having 59.

Christmas shootings:
2012: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/12/26/1-dead-13-wounded-in-christmas-eve-christmas-shootings/
2011: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-bodies-texas-idUSTRE7BO0GV20111228

2012 Sandy Hook shootings: http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/14/deaths-reported-at-us-primary-school-after-shooting/

Easter shooting in 2012:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/us/tulsa-murder-suspects-have-bail-set-at-9-1-million.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/18/opinion/walker-tulsa-shooting

Thanksgiving shooting 2012:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57554348-504083/byron-smith-update-minn-shooting-suspect-says-he-fired-more-shots-than-needed-in-teens-slayings-complaint-says/
http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-28/little-falls-shooting-shooting-victims-may-have-links-other-break-ins


August 2012 school shooting:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57500919/perry-hall-high-school-student-shot-on-first-day-of-school-baltimore-police-mum-on-motive/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-school-shooting-victim-downs-syndrome/story?id=17094155



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