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2004-01-19 Middle East

"Honor killing" with a twist: bomberâs family reportedly coerced her to suicide

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Posted by Mike 2004-01-19 12:43:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 12:45:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#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:

"Awadâs parents disowned him for helping his wife on such a mission; al-Riyashiâs refused to comment on their daughterâs act but they expressed outrage with their son-in-law."

Posted by Mike 2004-1-19 1:02:14 PM|| 2004-1-19 1:02:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 1:07:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 1:08:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 One of 70? Isn't that short two?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-1-19 1:13:12 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-1-19 1:13:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 and these people
really think they could run their own coontry?

Posted by smokeysinse 2004-1-19 1:13:54 PM|| 2004-1-19 1:13:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 1:34:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, this is all very interesting, but this still does not change the fact Yassin and Ass-ociates steel need the Big Dirt Napâ¢. Remove the head and the rest will settle down.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-1-19 2:17:20 PM|| 2004-1-19 2:17:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 These folks need to get in touch with their
Inner Brothel Keeper.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-19 2:36:59 PM|| 2004-1-19 2:36:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 2:41:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 2:53:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 2:53:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 3:41:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 5:32:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 8:44:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-1-19 9:04:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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