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| Honor Killings, Up Close and Personal | |
| 2004-12-01 | |
| HT from Polypundit - this is a blog from a NC native who is studying in Jordan ....Sally and Malik haven't been dating for very long and I won't go into the details of their relationship, but she really did like this guy, and I liked him as well. He seemed very Western, spoke English well, acted respectably, dressed nice, came from an affluent and well-off family. He even lived in Europe for two years and had relationships with girls there. They went out to eat last night and she brought up the subject of honor killings. Malik nonchalantly said that he would be willing to kill his sister or support his uncle or dad if they killed her if she had sex. This really upset Sally. They were holding hands and she immediately jerked away. He looked at her quizzically and asked what was wrong. She said she couldn't be touched by someone whose hands would kill his own sister for doing things that this guy enjoys fairly often with females. Malik just didn't get it. He said it was just his culture...
Athena has also posted comments about how PhDs in the Arab world believe in the "the Mossad did it" theory of 9-11 and how the same PhDs believe the Protocol of the Elders of Zion myth, etc. Its quite horrible especially since these are the most enlightened people in one of the most enlightened Arab countries. | |
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