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2003-09-22 Middle East

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Posted by Katz 2003-09-22 2:16:24 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My what a LOVELY culture!

Posted by Craig 2003-9-22 3:48:19 PM|| 2003-9-22 3:48:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 what about the Arab women supporting the honor killings? What's their excuse? cultural and religious brainwashing? Too frigging stupid to understand they're perpetuating their own miserable station in life? Jeebus!

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-22 4:25:42 PM|| 2003-9-22 4:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just more of that progressive thinking from the Religion of Peaceâ¢ (assholes!).

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-9-22 4:30:25 PM|| 2003-9-22 4:30:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank G--maybe it's sort of a Stockholm Syndrome kind of thing going on in addition to all the above. That's why you see females who get the living sh** beaten out of them getting irate when the cops arrest their husbands/boyfriends. (The worst I ever heard of was a female [can't call them women....that implies maturity, and don't give me all that PC crap 'cause I don't wanna hear it] going down to the jail after being released from the hospital with a broken leg and dislocated shoulder demanding that her boyfriend be released in time for their trip to Disneyland the next day.
May bees pee upon those who think this "honor killing" crap is a good thing.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-9-22 6:06:41 PM|| 2003-9-22 6:06:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It is what they have been taught since he cradle, reinforced by the cultural dependence on personal good-will to get anything done. I think it was a Jesuit who said basically "give me a child until the age of six, and that child is ours forever."

Still, it would be nice to see a variation of Lord William Bentinck's stance on suttee [sati=faithful wife]. Acknowledge that 'honor killing' may occur, but that participants will face murder charges, preferably in a court no less than twenty miles from the family home.

Posted by John Anderson 2003-9-22 6:41:42 PM|| 2003-9-22 6:41:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This looks less like a problem of Islam and more like a backward practice of a tribal culture.

Wait, I sorry. My kids keep telling me that at school they have learned that tribal cultures are to be accepted.. no honored. That's right, the real brutality is in Western Society as epitomized by America where a homeless person has to travel all the way to Frisco to get a cool $400 of unregulated spending money.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-22 8:01:50 PM|| 2003-9-22 8:01:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "This looks less like a problem of Islam and more like a backward practice of a tribal culture."

Except the areas where it is practiced coincide with the areas that Islam is practiced, and not with any particular culture. I've read reports of "honor" killing from Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, and the Arab nations; there's no "tribe" in common in those areas.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-9-23 8:47:24 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-9-23 8:47:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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