Posted on 07/16/2006 2:27:04 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Every few weeks in Batman and the surrounding area in southeast Anatolia, which is poor, rural and deeply influenced by conservative Islam, a young woman tries to take her life. Others have been stoned to death, strangled, shot or buried alive. Their offenses ranged from stealing a glance at a boy to wearing a short skirt, wanting to go to the movies, being raped by a stranger or relative or having consensual sex.
Hoping to join the European Union, Turkey has tightened the punishment for attacks on women and girls who have had such experiences. But the violence has continued, if by different means: parents are trying to spare their sons from the harsh punishments associated with killing their sisters by pressing the daughters to take their own lives instead.
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Speaking for myself, I have read about so many Islamic atrocities of one kind or another, I can't even be shocked by them anymore.
Of course, this kind of anti-woman atrocity has inflamed the feminists and the National Organization of Women, who are planning all kinds of demonstrations and rallies to support the women and girls in Turkey. </sarcasm>
"Islam is a looking glass into a prehistoric world of cave-dwelling neanderthals.
Unfortunately, these neanderthals want you, me and every other non-muslim dead."
I couldn't have stated it better, myself.
Nothing to be shocked about, because it's not about the sanctity of life, it's simple economics, dressed in a religious tenet. It's merely a late-term abortion of an unwanted financial burden and has been going on for hundreds of years. It's a direct "convenience" correllary that makes aborting babies in the womb almost seem merciful.
The muslims hide their ugly practice by saying Allah demands it. Americans and other more so-called progressive societies hide it by saying their "situation" demands it.
It's all really economic Situational Ethics, if you will, sanctioned by Allah in the Mideast and the liberal Left in the West.
"The muslims hide their ugly practice by saying Allah demands it."
Actually, the Koran does not sanction so-called Honor Killings.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't sanction suicide bombings, either... or killing steet vendors for selling "modern" food.
They still hide behind it, they teach it, and they relieve their guilty conscience by dressing it up real nice in religious righteousness. Either way, it's a lie.
We can talk about the Koran, or we can talk about how to view and solve the vile "honor killing" cults. But the problem isn't the Koran, it's the human sin of deadly convenience.
And remember, this is in Turkey, arguably the most secular Islamic nation on earth.
Just hideous.
There's actually a place on this planet called Batman?
The problem is, they'd also never condemn a fellow Muslim doing such atrocities, or take any constructive acts to prevent them. Being a Muslim means never having to say "sorry, infidel", as long as you act in Allah's name.
If Muslims think so little of their own family members, if they kill other Muslims when their are no Americans or Jews around to kill, when they commit hidious atrocities, how can any "infidel" expect better treatment? We're no better than pigs or dogs to them.
What really appalls me is being called a "bigot" on this forum by so-called conservatives (and libertarians) because I accurately depict the acts of Muslims, while my detractors quote the words of their Muslim friends as definitive on the nature of Islam. I'm a "hate filled bigot", but the libs, RINO's, and libertiarians are morally superior to me because they defend "the religion of peace" and Allah's murderous followers.
In 2001, I said things like "careful, most Muslims are decent people; it's just the crazies out there that murder ..". I should have known better. I did the Christian (and American) thing and gave Muslims "the benefit of the doubt". That consideration was unwarranted then, and after five years of war and greater threats on the horizon, it is idiotic now.
Americans need to grow a backbone. We need to recognize the potential threat that every American Muslim represents, and act to protect this country. We need to recognize that Iraq and Afghanistan may be "our friends" today, but will pick any Muslim over us tomorrow, and then, probably try to kill their Muslim "friend" the day after that. They do it all in the "name of Allah". No "infidel" can ever trust a Muslim; but we should trust Muslims to be consistent with the Quran.
SFS
This is interesting, a minor-aged brother was usually ordered to kill his sister. That must have been fun, and no doubt all other family females were properly scared to pieces of the young murderer afterward.
A logical question might be why no male family member was sent to kill the male that was believed to have seduced their female.
Of course that might be too dangerous, it might start a clan war getting males killed, so just getting junior to kill his sister seems to be the honorable way to go for them, and the ex-boyfriend gets a free pass to go and sin some more.
I have seen too little evidence of any "honor" among the largest part of the Islamic community....
Little? Hell, NONE.
Semper Fi
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