Yep.
> Wonder, can not the young women refuse to be sent away to marry in another country? I know they would lose their families, but better than losing their heads. I think I’d disown my family first saving them the trouble, and then disown Islam which wants my head on a platter.
It is very, very difficult, when you're part of a culture that is so fundamentalist and authoritarian, to have to make that decision to forsake family and home. Even harder to give up your religion. And all for the sake of having gotten laid -- and quite possibly not even of your own volition (e.g. if your boyfriend or a stranger raped you).
I do not envy the Islamic woman, on any point or at any level. It is a losing proposition from start to finish.
You know the most disturbing part to me? Rather, the hardest part to understand of all it?
It’s that the woman is seen as sinning when losing her virginity before marriage but that the putting to death of a human being is seen as perfectly fine and no sin at all. So she lost her virginity. What gives another the right to take her life?
God created us all, whether we posses a Bible or not, to know that murder is wrong and to know that life is His gift to us and is precious and sacred. I don’t care what one’s professed religion is, He made sure he equipped each and every one of us with this knowledge.
Crap (for lack of a better term) like this angers me to no end. There’s no excuse under the sun for this horrendous treatment of another human being.
“Possessed” is the only word that comes to mind right now.