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Middle East
"Honor killing" with a twist: bomber’s family reportedly coerced her to suicide
2004-01-19
by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post.
Expands on yesterday’s posting. EFL.
The family of suicide bomber Reem Salah al-Rayashi, the Gaza City mother of two who killed four in last week’s suicide attack at the Erez crossing, . . . dismissed as lies reports that she had been forced to blow herself up after her husband discovered that she had been unfaithful.
"Lies! All lies!"
Quoting military sources, Yediot Aharonot said that Rayashi was forced to carry out the suicide attack as punishment for cheating on her husband.
Hid the strange baloney, did she?
According to the paper, information that reached Israel regarding the circumstances that led Rayashi to carry out the attack suggests that she "was not a cold-blooded terrorist, steeped in faith and madness, who chose out of free will to turn her two young children into orphans – but instead a woman who was forced to carry out the act." According to military sources, Rayashi paid a cruel price for being involved in an illicit love affair and was forced to sacrifice herself in order to "clear" her name and the honor of her family. . . .
Yeah. Well, I guess that dried the old wet spot...
[IDF] sources said the man chosen to recruit and equip Rayashi with the explosive belt was none other than the lover with whom she cheated on her husband. The Sunday Times reported that the husband even drove his wife to the Erez crossing. . . .
Cheaper than divorce, I guess. David Frum at National Review Online had this to say:
Can we please, please, please now retire the often-heard line that Western societies have something to learn from the simple, heartfelt faith of the Islamic extremists? I’m not sure whether Hamas reminds me more of the blood cult of the ancient Aztecs or the cruelest subsections of the American Mafia, but I am sure that the United States with all its fads, follies, and vices is in every way a more moral and godly society than the one that Hamas seeks to realize. And if the choice really is between a society that produces a Reem al-Reyashi or one that produces Britney Spears 
 then hand me the channel changer: I want my MTV!
Posted by:Mike

#16  If you want to have some fun some time, talk to one of the wahabi-types about Sufis. Start off by mentioning how the Sufi's seem much happier than many other Muslims, and how they really sound interesting. A half step back is advised (to avoid most of the spittle). Lots of fun.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2004-1-19 9:04:57 PM  

#15  Don't Paleos know that Raisinettes can be purchased by the Box! at most Cinema concession stands! Right next to the Joo-Joo-Bees!
Posted by: Frank G   2004-1-19 8:44:42 PM  

#14  Desert Blondie

Because in Islam you don't have to question yourself. You aren't really an individual but a
part of a collectivity, the Ummah. You have to
submit to God: Islam does not mean Peace as the Islamists say (Peace is Salam in Arabic, cf Shalom in Hebrew) it means submission. Notice the purely external nature of the five pillars of Islam: take the Muslim oath, pray five times a day, fast for Ramadan, go to Mecca and give 2.5% of your revenur to the poor. It doesn't go into complications like: "Honor your father and mother", "Don't kill" or "Don't lift a false testimony". You can find their equivalents in the Mecca Sourates but... but they are not mentionned as pilars of Islam and central to it while the Ten Commandments are central to Judaism and Christianism.

Some people feel attracted to a religion where all what is really required for salvation is easily verifiable, like "Did I pray five times a day?" instead of "Was I good enough toward the others?"

AFAIK (but I am not an expert) sects like the Suffis add real moral requirements but Wahabis stick to "Koran only" and thus to the mechanistic
Islam I mentionned above.
Posted by: JFM   2004-1-19 5:32:03 PM  

#13  JFM--If what you are saying is true, now I'm REALLY confused as to why any intelligent woman, or for that matter, any woman able to breathe on her own would ever convert to Islam.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-1-19 3:41:59 PM  

#12  My guess is that this guy in the Times of London has
taken advice from a locall mullah who couldn't resist to play a joke on a kaffir (That means that this mullah is probably a good guy since a true wahabi doesn't laugh).

There is a whole surate in the Koran detailing Paradise and it is a layered one: women go to the lowest layer and there is no mention of sexual partners for them. Men go to a higher one and are served by a number of women (some sources say they also have boys... but I don't remember well). There is no hint the wife would be between them (in fact either she is in hell or in the lower layer so she can't be there) and everything points to these being ideal women designed specially for paradise and who had no life on earth.
Posted by: JFM   2004-1-19 2:53:35 PM  

#11  Glad she cleared her family name by blowing herself up so that her infidelity can be covered in papers throughout the world.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-1-19 2:53:00 PM  

#10  The Times of London is reporting that the bomb-ette "believed her death would turn her into one of 70 (72?) nymphs who would welcome [her husband] Awad to heaven if he carried out a similar suicide attack.
Thanks for providing that clarification BAR. I've been concerned that Reem was only going to get a small box of raisins for her effort.
How does that work? Does she do purgatory or something in the Virgin Islands?
Posted by: Gasse Katze   2004-1-19 2:41:55 PM  

#9  These folks need to get in touch with their
Inner Brothel Keeper.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-1-19 2:36:59 PM  

#8  Well, this is all very interesting, but this still does not change the fact Yassin and Ass-ociates steel need the Big Dirt Nap™. Remove the head and the rest will settle down.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-1-19 2:17:20 PM  

#7  Wow--so not only is she "re-virginized", but she gets to share her hubby with dozens of other women, too? That's one hell of a reward system for maiming innocent people.

Twenty-first Century, let me introduce you to Twelfth Century. Let the festivities begin.
Posted by: Dar   2004-1-19 1:34:48 PM  

#6  and these people
really think they could run their own coontry?
Posted by: smokeysinse   2004-1-19 1:13:54 PM  

#5  One of 70? Isn't that short two?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-1-19 1:13:12 PM  

#4  The Times of London is reporting that the bomb-ette "believed her death would turn her into one of 70 nymphs who would welcome [her husband] Awad to heaven if he carried out a similar suicide attack."

"Can you say stupid? I knew you could."
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-1-19 1:08:53 PM  

#3  wow it just dosn't get any dumber then this. I'm awestruck by the stupidity of those 'people' involved.
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K   2004-1-19 1:07:14 PM  

#2  Update:

The Times of London is reporting that the bomb-ette "believed her death would turn her into one of 70 nymphs who would welcome [her husband] Awad to heaven if he carried out a similar suicide attack."

That's even creepier than the "honor killing" theory. On the other hand, the Times has this hopeful detail:

"Awad’s parents disowned him for helping his wife on such a mission; al-Riyashi’s refused to comment on their daughter’s act but they expressed outrage with their son-in-law."
Posted by: Mike   2004-1-19 1:02:14 PM  

#1  Equal-opportunity, islam style. I'm sure the liberals at DU are celebrating this empowerment of a muslim woman.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-1-19 12:45:44 PM  

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