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| 2016-01-26 | |
| by Daniel Greenfield [FrontPageMagazine] This is an excerpt from a larger Asra Nomani piece on honor killings in the Wall Street Journal. It's quite a dark look at what life under Islamic mores is like for women. In one particularly poignant chapter, Ms. Zoepf steps through the doors of a girls' prison in Syria, where 16-year-old Zahra al-Azzo was jailed for being raped. (That's right, they jailed her.) The prison is a sort of holding facility for girls like Zahra who are at risk of being murdered by their families in a so-called honor killing. Yet there is little to protect the young women once they leave. "One of the girls came to me, crying, the other day," the head social worker tells Ms. Zoepf. "She wanted to go home and it's an honor crime situation. I told her, 'Try to relax here for a while because they're going to kill you anyway when you're released.' It sounds cruel, but I needed to calm her down, to get her to behave sensibly.'"
The day of her murder, Ms. Zoepf chronicles, the girl's family threw a party. When you consider the problem of terrorism, it's important to remember that we are dealing with societies where dehumanization and murder of even one's own closest relatives is not an aberration. Expecting a culture where you throw a party for murdering your own daughter who had been raped to treat us better than they have, let alone to understand that killing is wrong, is just unrealistic. Ms. Zoepf gingerly traces the roots of twisted practices, such as honor killings, to Islamic concepts such as fitna, or the "chaos" that is often connected to "temptation of a sexual nature." That accusation, incidentally, has also been directed from the Muslim world at the entire West. | |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #2 This is called an honor killing but it is really revenge for depriving the family of her bride price. Unlike most societies in which the bridegroom's family pays dowry to the bride, the Arab tradition is that the groom's family pays a bride price to the bride's family. This money is needed by the brother to pay as bride price so that he can marry. He is outraged at the loss of this which may make it impossible for him to marry. He has counted on this money all his life. If his sister ran off with some guy, the problem would be much less, because it might be possible for that guy's family to come up with some money to pay off her family. In the case of rape, that is hopeless. So she must pay with her life, for stealing this money from her brother. It should be called a mercenary crime, which to us is a crime of dishonor. The brother dishonors the family by his selfishness more than she dishonored it, in the eyes of the civilized world. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2016-01-26 03:15 |
| #1 Hominids from this sort of sub-civilized culture simply cannot be allowed to migrate to civilized nations. There are not capable of assimilation. You do not allow rabid animals to migrate unmolested into your midst. The same policy should be applied to these Orcs. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2016-01-26 00:49 |