‘Honour’ killings grow as girl, 17, stoned to death

Kurdish Media ^

[ddtorquee]

It is seven months since Du’aa was stoned to death by a mob in the Kurdish hillside village of Basshiqa, northern Iraq

...Du’aa was taken to the home of Sheikh Sulaiman Sulaiman, the senior Yazidi figure in the village.

...A 65-year-old uncle, Salim, a science teacher, backed the head of their tribe, Omar Hamko, 73, in demanding that she be killed to “cleanse the family honour”.

Her father would not countenance it. He proposed that she be married to a cousin and moved to Syria.

...When the uncle insisted that he would decide Du’aa’s fate as the elder sibling and head of the local Communists, her father ordered him out of the house.

...Salim sent sons, nephews and party supporters to surround the home of the sheikh, firing shots into the air. “They came with guns and stones, shouting and screaming in anger,” the sheikh said last week.

Looking back on the terrible scenes that followed, he lamented the manner of Du’aa’s killing, but not her death.

...the sheikh said. “It was down to her family to cleanse her shame. Maybe kill her with one bullet, electrocution, any manner but not through this awful stoning.

...The mobile phone clips show her being taken straight from the sheikh’s house to the marketplace in a headlock, wailing and screaming as armed police watched in silence.

In the marketplace, she came under a hail of stones and her face and clothes were soon covered in blood. Among those hurling the stones were several male cousins from her father’s side of the family and one – Araas – from her mother’s. It was Araas who approached as she tried to struggle to her feet and smashed a large piece of concrete over her head to finish her off.

[ddtorquee]

"According to the human rights ministry in northern Iraq, 598 women have been burnt, beaten, shot, strangled, thrown from tall buildings, force-fed with lethal drugs, crushed by vehicles, drowned, decapitated or made to kill themselves so far this year, exceeding the 553 recorded for the whole of 2006. "

[Melinda]

If anyone thinks compassion is an innate quality, this should put that argument to rest. What happened to “In the name of Allah the most merciful”?

[farmer18th]

“Islam is a religion of peace” — George W. Bush

[LasVegasMac]

This whole cult needs to be rounded up and sent to Exile Island.

Forever.

1400 yrs and just going for it......

Truly sick.

[yldstrk]

People are so stupid and low.

[farmer18th]

The new "Nation-Building" Iraqi Constitution: Article 2: First: Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation:.. No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.

Why are we sending our boys to die for these animals? The liberators of the camps in Germany and Poland at least got back to come back and say "we destroyed the Nazis."

It's time to start taking a more Crusader attitude.

[farmer18th]

I kinda hope our female diplomats and mebers of the fourth estate take a look at those cell phone videos before they put a head scarf on in those countries.

Where is Gloria Steinem, by the way?

[JamesA]

I kinda agree...These people have been kept in the stone age and haven’t grown in reason since the advent of sand.

[beethovenfan]

These are the sub-human creeps that Hussein Obama wants to “dialogue” with. I wonder if he knows who Chamberlain was.

[yldstrk]

At least her dad did speak up for her...I have no respect for those dim witted thuggish male family members......”family honor” as what ?? Killers?

[Eaker]

muslim people are so stupid and low.

There, fixed it.

[LiberConservative]

“Girl bad! Stone good!” (GRUNT) “Praise be to Allah!”

[farmer18th]

"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace." -- George Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html

So, to try to understand this incident, and others like it, in Iraq, of brutal stoning deaths, we must understand that these peace-loving Muslims were really practicing terrorism against, against, um...

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to get inside the head of a "Gentleman's 'C'" Yalie.

[umgud]

There were plenty of good reasons to go into Iraq militarily and I stood with Bush on this issue. I differed with him, however, on his compasion to save these people. They’re not worth it in my mind nor are they worth our deaths.

[InsensitiveConservative]

Another woman there, “J”, was forced to marry a much older man when she was 16 but bumped into a former sweetheart while shopping. Relatives who saw them chatting assumed the worst and drove the two of them to a remote area. J’s nose was cut off with a knife; her ex-boyfriend lost an ear.

Islam, the religion of pieces.

[SkyDancer]

Islam is Satanic, period .....

[ccmay]

While there is no doubt that this bestial tradition is well established in Muslim lands, everyone should keep in mind that this particular tribe of bloodthirsty savages is not Muslim. In fact, the poor girl was stoned to death precisely because she had a Muslim boyfriend.

These people are Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion that worships fire. They are reviled as devil-worshippers by Christians and Muslims alike. The faith is one of the oldest on Earth, preceding even Zoroastrianism.

[353FMG]

“It was Araas who approached as she tried to struggle to her feet and smashed a large piece of concrete over her head to finish her off.”

Araas the compassionate one.

[Bringbackthedraft]

These people are Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion that worships fire. ................... Just more uneducated, ignorant inbreds, regardless of their religion. Seems the whole region is full of them.

[mgstarr]

"...a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel..."