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
Showing posts with label honor killing. Show all posts
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20100619
Honor Killings are Domestic Abuse
Domestic violence includes honor killing.
That the State agrees honor killing is a religious matter and that somehow it is racist and violation of freedom to practice religion is in itself against sharia.
Sharia does not really condone honor killing. Indeed, the imam would say it is wrong, but the unsaid is "what can a religious leader do in the face of neoconservative Muslims?"
After that, you won't hear of one imam saying anything in public least he be subject to "public opinion" including threats against his life.
Yet if a Christian minister denounces domestic abuse, you NEVER hear of death threats against him, because despite State and Church in the west being separate, because West is based on Judeo-Christian ideology, no one would think of considering a priest or even a preacher of being unbeliever for criticizing violence against women and children.
That Islam condones such violence does not imply that their laws condone it. Rather, it means that Public Opinion in the Muslim world still honors the family before they do God.
In essence, the will of the family (hadith) is honored over sharia (the will of God).
So in essence, tho Muslim claim to believe in God, they still honor the family before they honor Sharia.
Indeed, they claim that honor killing are done out of respect to the will of Muslim society.
Though they believe in God, their first duty is to family, and they cover up their honor killings by hiding behind Mohammed.
For very few imams would dare disturb public order by condemning honor killing, lest some one in the Muslim community then think the community's honor is sullied by such "blasphemy".
In truth, honor killing is still a dishonor to God's will because the head of the family, a man, the father of the victim, usually a woman, kills and justifies it by stating clearly that is it the will of the Muslim community/society.
For the only authority then is Muslim society, not God.
Thus honor killing is done so that the Muslim man's honor is respected by his community.
Yet in taking a life, that Muslim is defying God's will.
That few Muslims see the difference between Muslim society and God with regard to God's will shows the depth of control that a society which uses shame as social control has over its people.
That the State agrees honor killing is a religious matter and that somehow it is racist and violation of freedom to practice religion is in itself against sharia.
Sharia does not really condone honor killing. Indeed, the imam would say it is wrong, but the unsaid is "what can a religious leader do in the face of neoconservative Muslims?"
After that, you won't hear of one imam saying anything in public least he be subject to "public opinion" including threats against his life.
Yet if a Christian minister denounces domestic abuse, you NEVER hear of death threats against him, because despite State and Church in the west being separate, because West is based on Judeo-Christian ideology, no one would think of considering a priest or even a preacher of being unbeliever for criticizing violence against women and children.
That Islam condones such violence does not imply that their laws condone it. Rather, it means that Public Opinion in the Muslim world still honors the family before they do God.
In essence, the will of the family (hadith) is honored over sharia (the will of God).
So in essence, tho Muslim claim to believe in God, they still honor the family before they honor Sharia.
Indeed, they claim that honor killing are done out of respect to the will of Muslim society.
Though they believe in God, their first duty is to family, and they cover up their honor killings by hiding behind Mohammed.
For very few imams would dare disturb public order by condemning honor killing, lest some one in the Muslim community then think the community's honor is sullied by such "blasphemy".
In truth, honor killing is still a dishonor to God's will because the head of the family, a man, the father of the victim, usually a woman, kills and justifies it by stating clearly that is it the will of the Muslim community/society.
For the only authority then is Muslim society, not God.
Thus honor killing is done so that the Muslim man's honor is respected by his community.
Yet in taking a life, that Muslim is defying God's will.
That few Muslims see the difference between Muslim society and God with regard to God's will shows the depth of control that a society which uses shame as social control has over its people.
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