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2004-05-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turks Change Laws In Serious Effort to Suppress Honor Killings

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-17 12:39:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's do the math:

99.99% of the offenses that incite these ~~"honor killings"~~ murders are sexual crimes committed by men against unwilling women.

Due to tragic and catastrophically irreversible side effects like broken hymens or unwanted pregnancies these women are then murdered so that they cannot serve as a lasting reminder of the affront done to them or their Direly Offendedâ¢ families by such criminal men.

99.99% of these ~~"honor killings"~~ murders are then committed by men in order to essentially cover up the wrongdoings of their fellow religious brethern.

Why the f**k is it that these Direly Offendedâ¢ male relatives cannot bring themselves to go out and cut the ba||s off the b@stard who dishonored their family in the first place?

Oh ... please pardon my naivety. Doing that would take substantially more courage, moral fiber and ostiones than slaying a helpless rape victim in the confines of her own home or hospital bed.

Worse yet, it might shed a glimmer of undesired light upon the inbred and entrenched culture of male privilege that has spawned this farcical miscarriage of justice in the first place. Perish the thought!

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
- LOUIS BRANDEIS -

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-17 2:01:07 AM|| 2004-05-17 2:01:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Geeze Murat, your country only got around last year to raising the sentence for honor killings to a "maximum" of 24 years?

That's a pretty poor showing.

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-05-17 5:46:36 AM|| 2004-05-17 5:46:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Murat, do you spend any time and energy contributing to this fight against honor killings in your country?

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-17 7:56:24 AM|| 2004-05-17 7:56:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4
I have a better idea. When an "~~Honor Killing~~" murder occurs, every male member of the immediate family, and the family of the perp, over the age of 13 is taken out and shot in the back of the head.

I think that the "~~Honor Killings~~" murders would come to a rapid halt.

-AR

Posted by Analog Roam 2004-05-17 9:32:33 AM|| 2004-05-17 9:32:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I have a better idea. When an ~~"Honor Killing"~~ murder occurs, every male member of the immediate family, and the family of the perp, over the age of 13 is taken out and shot in the back of the head.

I think that the ~~"Honor Killings"~~ murders would come to a rapid halt.

As an American, I am unable to condone such mass retaliation. However, since such measures are often not at all looked down upon in the Middle East, I'm at a loss to explain why this much more effective solution has not been put in place.

I can only assume that keeping women "in their place" is of far greater importance than stopping their routine and senseless slaughter, maiming, disfigurement, assault ... ad nauseum
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Posted by Zenster 2004-05-17 1:17:01 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:17:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6
As an American, I am unable to condone such mass retaliation. However, since such measures are often not at all looked down upon in the Middle East, I'm at a loss to explain why this much more effective solution has not been put in place.

Well...this American is more than willing to not only condone, but implement said measures. Women are not viewed as Humans in these "so-called" cultures. Only men are seen as having value, so, if you want to alter their reality without taking generations, you're going to have to get brutal.

I can only assume that keeping women "in their place" is of far greater importance than stopping their routine and senseless slaughter, maiming, disfigurement, assault ... ad nauseum

This, is the crux of the biscuit!

-AR

Posted by Analog Roam 2004-05-17 6:25:35 PM|| 2004-05-17 6:25:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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