Islam's Descent

NewsMax.Com ^ | Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 | Ralph R. Reiland

[vladog]

Dostoevsky once said, "While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him." What's difficult to understand is how a culture went from being in the forefront of human achievement to the very bottom of the international barrel – how an Islamic culture that led the world in economic, military, political and intellectual achievement dropped to the level of killing its own daughters and fitting its pubescent boys with dynamite belts.

Family values

"Abdalla Yones, 48, cut his daughter Heshu's throat and left her to bleed to death," reports The Telegraph of London. "He had subjected her to months of beatings before killing her in a frenzied knife attack."

Heshu Yones, 16, was found in the bathroom of her family's apartment in London with a kitchen knife sticking out of her neck. Her father, a Kurdish Muslim immigrant from Iraq, had stabbed her 11 times and slit her throat.

"Heshu used a mobile phone, preferred to spend time out with her friends rather than at home and wore makeup – always applying it at college or a friend's house," reports The Telegraph. She also had an 18-year-old boyfriend, a Lebanese Christian, a fellow student at the William Morris Academy in London.

During the investigation of her death, police found the "runaway" letter that Heshu had written. "Bye Dad, sorry I was so much trouble," she wrote. "Me and you will probably never understand each other. I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted but there's some things you can't change."

Another part of Heshu's letter led police to believe she had been beaten for months prior to her murder. "Hey, for an older man you have a good strong punch and kick. I hope you enjoyed testing your strength on me, it was fun being on the receiving end. Well done."

The 16-year-old ended her letter with these words: "One day when I have a proper job every penny I owe you will be repaid in full. I will find a way to independently look after myself. I will be OK. Don't look for me because I don't know where I'm going yet. I just want to be alone."

Scotland Yard, referring to the crime as a "clash of cultures," described Heshu's murder as an "honor killing," a way of dealing with strong-willed daughters that is not altogether uncommon in Iraqi Kurdistan. Concurring, the sentencing judge said the murder was rooted in "the irreconcilable cultural differences between traditional Kurdish values and those of Western society."

British police believe there were 12 Muslim "honor killings" in the United Kingdom last year, reports WorldNetDaily.com – 12 murders of relatives who were seen as bringing shame to their families by way of everything from lip gloss to unauthorized hand-holding.

Holy Land

Closer to the hot spots on the Holy Land tours, Jordanian police found the remains of two sisters who were hacked to death by their brothers.

The Jordan Times reports the Muslim brothers admitted to taking an ax to their sisters, 20 and 27, in order to "uphold family honor." The older sister had left home to marry a man without her family's consent; the younger sister had run away to join her.

The sisters, the paper reports, were thought to be the 11th and 12th women killed this year in Jordan for "family honor" reasons. "One victim's head," said the newspaper, "was nearly cut clean off."

In Pakistan, where Islamic militancy is in full bloom, a report from Zahid Hussain published in The Sunday Times of London last December showed the year-end tally of religious attacks on women to be at an all-time high.

"At least 460 Pakistani women this year have been slaughtered by relatives in so-called 'honor killings' to protect the family name, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan," reported Hussain.

"The commission gave examples of mothers killed by their sons. In one case, a man killed his widowed mother for being 'immoral.' In Faisalabad, a young woman was hacked to death with an ax by her brothers after she was accused of having sex with a neighbor."

The mind-set? A man gets big by killing those who make him feel small. If Heshu is too free, get out the knife. If America is too rich, call out the hijackers.

Bottom line: We're witnessing a way of thinking that's opposed to freedom and modernity, a mind-set that promises only to deliver even greater levels of tyranny, poverty and underdevelopment to the Islamic world.

Ralph R. Reiland, a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, is the B. Kenneth Simon Professor of Free Enterprise at Robert Morris University.

[vladog]

These people don't have any idea what 'honor' really means.

[Buell_X1-1200]

Did you forget to add the "Religion of Peace" Alert? :-)

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - RELIGION OF PEACE

[tkathy]

Seems to me they should be called "cowardly killings", rather than the honor thing.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Islamic culture that led the world in economic, military, political and intellectual achievement

Pu-leeze  Islamic culture was never at the forefront of political and intellectual achievement.  By and large, the great Islamic contribution to civilization was as a transmitter of knowledge.....not as a contributor.

It that capacity, the role of Islamic culture could not be overstated.....but Islamic culture didn't add much to the bulk of knowledge they held alive while Europe was in the Dark Ages.

Islam was hostile to the free inquiry virtually from day one.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Apparently it is not just in Islamic cultures. See this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037113/posts

[Ancesthntr]

I wonder how the sick SOB's that murder their own family members manage to square what they've done with what Allah would want them to do. More to the point, I wonder how the Muslim clergy can sit by and not publicly denounce these acts and religiously punish the perps. I would normally say that the faith of these people (the perps and the clergy) is sick and deviant, but that would be very un-PC and I will, therefore, not say it.

[American Infidel]

This article is biased against the "religion of peace", islam. We are just ignorant, closed-minded Americans who have no right to judge the islamic world. Sure, slicing the throat of one's daughter may seem harsh to we simple-minded, unsophisticated, jingoistic Westerners, but we have to be more understanding, tolerant and accepting of that with which we disagree. I am sure our 'backward' cultural practices of allowing women to drive, own thriving businesses, and serve as National Security Advisor, may seem equally abhorrent to the islamic world. It's time for all of us to open our minds a bit.

[MoralSense]

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[Cicero]

Well, his point is taken, but he doesn't have much sense of history. Islam never contributed much of anything to civilization. They conquered several ancient civilizations, and some of their slaves contributed. But what Muslims seem to have been chiefly interested in was power, money, slaves, and women.

[RLK]

What's difficult to understand is how a culture went from being in the forefront of human achievement ...

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That condition never existed. In its conquests Islam came into contact with achievements in other areas of the world and inadvertantly distributed them, but it was not, itself, crative. The Arabic numeral system was invented in India.

[richardtavor]

"She also had an 18-year-old boyfriend, a Lebanese Christian, a fellow student at the William Morris Academy in London."

The reason she was killed--Lovers of Hate and Haters of Love.

[TalBlack]

Islam is Marxisim that cleverly wraps itself up in god.

Muhammad was a power mad man who acheived control thru being false prophet.

Islam in it's structure is virtually indestinguishable from Marxisim.

Yet structurally it has nothing in comman with Judaisim or Christianity.

[quadrant]

Islam is a brittle faith; that is, it is a religon with a great deal of surface strength but unable to bend. Sooner or later, the pressure will be to great and Islam will splinter.
It is a tragedy that thousands have died because of Islamic rigidity and thousands more will die before the people of the Middle East (and elsewhere) throw-off the dead weight of a medieval faith.

[Jones14nets]

Islam is a false religion, with a false God, so how can we expect Muslims to act rationally when they are following the Koran.

I have known a few Muslims, and Muslims are people just like everyone else. All the Muslims I knew were good people, but how can they stay good if they are forced to stay strictly within their religion?

One Muslim I knew was a cab driver. For a long time I thought he was Jewish. He had given me a few short free rides because I worked at a business where he picked up fares. I thought he must be Jewish, but one day he had a sign in the front seat of his cab saying, "Islam is a peaceful religion."

He and I mentioned God a little bit, but we never got beyond that. Well, he was peaceful, but I did not know enough about Islam then to tell him some of the evils of Islam. Hopefully Muslims living in democratic countries will learn enough about Christianity to change their faith.

Jones14nets

[Kenny Bunk]

Yo psycho, this great mythical Islamic contribution is based upon their overrunning the Byzantine empire in the East and what was left of Roman Civilization in North Africa and Iberia.

The bastards probably ate more books than they read.

[AdmSmith]

There is a saying "follow the money". My advise to the police in the UK (I hope that they read this) is to check if the family had planned to "give" the girls to another family and already had received money for this. Probably they could not reverse this deal as they already had spent the money they got.

They they should sue the family for trafficking.

[PsyOp]

No real suprise.

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

[Clintonfatigued]

You stated it perfectly. Not only that, but in many cases, the evidence against the victims is weak. These men are just sadists and cowards.

[fire_eye]

My, my. This "9/11" incident has really served to bring Western and Muslim culture closer together, so now we're really beginning to understand them better, and become more certain of why we need to exterminate them like insects.