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For Somali Women, Pain of Being a Spoil of War
ny times ^ | December 27, 2011 | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Posted on 12/29/2011 9:32:55 PM PST by george76

The girl’s voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and saw her best friend buried in the sand, up to her neck.

Her friend had made the mistake of refusing to marry a Shabab commander. Now she was about to get her head bashed in, rock by rock.

“You’re next,” the Shabab warned the girl, a frail 17-year-old who was living with her brother in a squalid refugee camp.

Several months later, the men came back. Five militants burst into her hut, pinned her down and gang-raped her, she said. They claimed to be on a jihad, or holy war, and any resistance was considered a crime against Islam, punishable by death.

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She spoke of being raped by two Shabab fighters at a displaced-persons camp in October. She said the men did not bother saying much when they entered her hut. They just pointed their guns at her chest and uttered two words: stay silent.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alshabaab; alshabab; alshabbab; hornofafrica; islam; mogadishu; rop; shabaab; shabab; somalia; trop

1 posted on 12/29/2011 9:33:05 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Soon to come to America...what’s the difference? We have the second amendment.


2 posted on 12/29/2011 9:38:04 PM PST by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: george76

Was this the incident at the Mall of America, or one of the others?


3 posted on 12/29/2011 9:38:27 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: george76

More Muslim murderers. They will never be capable of civilized behavior so long as jihad is a part of their religious and political ideology.


4 posted on 12/29/2011 9:40:21 PM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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To: george76

May have happened, may not have happened, who knows? Certainly gets the blood boiling for all those white knights and do gooders so at the least I can say it is effective propaganda (always remember that the first casualty in war is the truth). But what does this have to do with us? If given the opportunity that “poor little rape victim” would be forcing the conversion of captured Christian women and of course doing a little female circumcision right a long with it.

A pox on them all as far as I’m concerned, seal the Somali borders, sink all their pirate ships and let them stew in their own miserable Islamic rot.


5 posted on 12/29/2011 9:45:12 PM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: george76

It’s nice to hear these lovely stories about Islam. /s


6 posted on 12/29/2011 10:11:26 PM PST by occamrzr06
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To: occamrzr06
Jihad seems to be a code word for, "Anything goes".
7 posted on 12/29/2011 10:14:08 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Baynative

You must have missed that section in the culture sensitivity class.


8 posted on 12/29/2011 10:19:21 PM PST by occamrzr06
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To: South Dakota

Western women have no idea what their menfolk, imbued with Judeo-Christian values, have spared them from; they repaid them with affirmative action employment obstacles and punitive “family law”. Now they can see it; Minnesota has a large hive of Somalis, and they still keep their “culture” - there is no assimilation. Western breeding, in the meantime, continues to drop off due to the reasons cited above.


9 posted on 12/29/2011 11:12:01 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: trapped_in_LA

“If given the opportunity that “poor little rape victim” would be forcing the conversion of captured Christian women and of course doing a little female circumcision right a long with it.”

Yes, America’s determination to change Muslim cultures seems to have faced reality, culminating in the midnight rush out of Iraq; reality has set in that we are in a defensive war at this point. We are sandwiched between the forces of Isengard and Mordor, and like Aragorn, we need more men (and there are none).


10 posted on 12/29/2011 11:15:40 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: South Dakota

I read the entire piece. It’s worth reading. But it will make your blood run cold.


11 posted on 12/30/2011 3:38:36 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: george76

Clinton’s State Department has been importing these people into the US in droves.


12 posted on 12/30/2011 6:07:40 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: george76
And just think, we're importing these tolerant, diverse people into Minneapolis and environs by the metric ton.

Just waiting for when some of the Moose-limbs here in the states start killing queers in public. /get-the-popcorn>

As was stated in Lord of the Rings, "oft evil will evil mar."

NO cheers, unfortunately.

13 posted on 12/30/2011 6:19:02 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: george76

I was expecting to hear the rapists say “you better put some ice on that.”


14 posted on 12/30/2011 8:12:59 AM PST by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: South Dakota
Soon to come to America...

Al Shaba's been in the US for some years now. If anything it seems to have more adherants in the US than out of it.

15 posted on 12/30/2011 6:25:22 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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