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You are clearly missing my point. IF there purpose is to affect some change in America, then why offer background on an American slang term? I would venture to say that every American citizen over age 18 knows what "knocked up" means. It's just a very telling sign that this press release was intended for eyes other than the American press.

i totally agree. organizations like this only exist if there is some sort crisis ...sometimes one must be manufactured. cair is obviously trying to "stir the pot".

I get your point, I was just adding the extra part about the honor killing as another perspective, no offense meant to you.

From my relatives in the UK, "knock up" to them means to build something hastily...

Some one's post on another site that seems to believe that this photo is fake. [I don't see all that he's pointing to, as it looks real to me, but what do I know]:

OK my last post seems to have disappeared - hmmmmm!

This is not even a good fake, lets run it down for the skeptics. BTW actually read this before you censor it again.

1.Look at the blue arrows - those cardboard colored smudges are very obviouslly where the original text was smudged out with a color sample from the cardboard. The author used the same color sample for each section that was to be wiped out and didn't take into account the subtle color diferences in the cardboard (light, staining, etc.) that's why some of them are more pronounced than others

2.Each of the new words were put in a color block and placed on the cardboard and then the author tried to blend in the edges, but you can still see the outline of the shape of each block.

3. Very sloppy work on the word "knocked". This word block was laid down twice the last had a straight edge on the left. Guessing the word was misspelled the first time and the second laid over the first in a hurry - take a look at the letters you can still see some of the edges of the text of the first attempt and they don't quite match up

4. OK to address the "thumb" (in the green circle) this is probably the most damaging problem with the picture. Consider this: if it is the boys thumb it would have to be about 5 inches long, second look at the color of the skin, it is lighter than the fingers below indicating that it must be the palm side of his hand (the skin of darker colored skinned peoples palms are lighter and have a pinkish hue)- if it is the back of his hand it is physically impossible for his thumb to be in the position, not to mention parallel with the fingers).

5. Some additional sloppy work by what is presumed to be "then" - the author let some of the boys skin color to bleed into the "th".

6. More sloppyness in the shadow at the left of the sign. There was some text there that had to be covered up - the dark opaque color used caused all of the wierd off-color zig zags you see - photoshop couldn't resolve the color because of all of the shade of black and grey all around that part of the image.

7. OK now the kill shot - take a look at the blue circles - some of the original text of the sign bleeds through. It is in a different handrighting with more block style caps with straight edges (men typically do this - ask you local graphologist).

this was obviouslly a badly done fake, probably a prank played by the soldiers mildly pc skilled buddy. After all who else would know what the abbreviation of Lance Corporal is. (The author knew - hmmmmm) Sometimes you will also see it as L/cpl.

Dooooh!