Honor Killings Are Still Popular In Syria
From The New York Times
By Katherine Zoepf
Fawaz later recalled that his wife, Zahra, was sleeping soundly on her side and curled slightly against the pillow when he rose at dawn and readied himself for work at his construction job on the outskirts of Damascus. It was a rainy Sunday morning in January and very cold; as he left, Fawaz turned back one last time to tuck the blanket more snugly around his 16-year-old wife. Zahra slept on without stirring, and her husband locked the door of their tiny apartment carefully behind him.
Tango’s Take
Time for a serious downer. Evidently, there are parts of the world in which celibacy is still enforced with a knife. And there are parts of the world that a woman needs five male witnesses to prove that she was raped, Otherwise she is guilty of fornication and thus eligible for an honor killing. And there are some in America that force youngish girls into marriages with much older men and expect them to perform ‘marriage acts’. And this is done under the guise of religion and tradition. We’re not really sure what the point of writing this is, but we highly recommend that you read the linked article. Some people in the Middle East (and surrounding areas) wonder why we look down on them. It’s because of stories like this. On the other hand, at least Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals. It must be a brutal place with really lousy window treatments. Read the article from the Times.
Discussion
Honor killings. Jeez ... what a bunch of immoral backward holier-than-thou murderers. No doubt Mohammad himself would not only repudiate these barbarians but would rank them lower than those who eat pig. Someone ought to kill that barbarian scum Fayyez in the same manner, and they should give the person who kills him a medal the size of a soup plate for ridding the world of such an animal.
Oh, I'm sorry ... did you get the impression that this article really upset me? A whole nation full of religious savages who cloak any sort of savage act in the twisted words of the Koran.
Hmmm ... maybe I was a bit hasty. Should Fayyez be executed by the state for the crime of killing his sister? Perhaps so - most countries condone execution as punishment for murder - but then how would people learn that this sort of barbarism is unacceptable behavior in a civilized society?
