Posted on 08/23/2009 8:30:32 PM PDT by Chet 99
If her life is indeed at risk, I sympathize with her. At the same time, I think there's a possibility she's not telling the whole truth. Her parents are from Sri Lanka, a country with a 92% non-Muslim majority and no history of Muslim honor killings which - as in other non-Muslim countries - is a capital offense. The practice of Islam varies from country to country, but it is safe to say anywhere where honor killings are prosecuted as a capital offense (i.e. offenders are executed or given life terms), they are virtually non-existent.
This picture doesn’t mean much of anything except that she’s in the photo w/this young man.
That’s my question also.
I know I sound like I’m from the dark ages...and maybe I am. But, I graduated high school at 17..got a job and my own place.
(Needless to say, I walked up hill in 10 feet of snow to school...both ways, in Texas, no less! :))
You know, that might be true.
Seventeen year olds are not noted for good judgement.
But in this case if there is even a sliver of a chance she could be killed if returned, I’d say it’s worth risking getting hoodwinked by a 17 year old.
Remember the 2 sisters in Dallas who’s mother believed their father wouldn’t harm them if they returned. They did and within a week both girls were dead.
It’s just not worth the chance.
It’s not just parents. Brothers, uncles, cousins, anyone in the family can kill her for ‘honor’.
Calling Janet Reno!
Reportedly, she had bruises to show where her father beat her for not wanting to wear their garb. How can we so quickly forget the guy who beheaded his wife right here in America at a tv station?
Yes, that is their law and even if her parents deny they’d kill her, they could just be lying. Chances are, they’d just get a slap on the wrist from the liberal courts if they do kill her. Can’t offend those lovely mercy killers, can they?
Sad as that is the 17 year old is certainly in the position of making decisions good or bad for herself and old enough to accept the results of those decisions. In a free country, if a child at 17 wants to refuse to accept Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, Buddhism, etc., then I think they are certainly in the realm of age to do so and by golly the parents can use their faith to pray over the situation but certainly cannot use the law to enforce it!
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