Posted on 05/31/2011 2:28:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Katya Koren, a 19-year-old Muslim girl growing up in the Crimea region of Ukraine, entered a beauty contest, she couldn’t possibly have known what would result.
According to her friends, she just liked to wear fashionable clothes. The judges awarded her seventh place — but three young Muslims allegedly thought she deserved a different finish. Koren was brutally stoned to death.
Her battered body was buried in a forest and was found a week after she disappeared.
Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming her death was justified under Islam.
One of the three – named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev – is under arrest and told police that Katya had ‘violated the laws of Sharia.’ Gaziev has said he has no regrets about her death.
In an area governed by Shari’a law, Koren’s decision to compete in a beauty competition might actually be against the law. It seems relatively safe to say Shari’a includes no specific edict against pageants, but the Quran enjoins modesty without actually defining it. That means, in some places, some could construe Shari’a to prohibit such competitions.
Appallingly, in those places where Katya’s status as a beauty contest competitor might be considered against the law, the youths’ stoning of her might even be considered acceptable, said Andy Cochran, who runs the site 7thAmendmentAdvocate.org.
“In areas governed by strict Shari’a, it could, especially if the youths sought a ruling from a local imam first,” he explained.
Certainly, adultery is an offense considered in some places to be punishable by stoning — but a beauty competition seems a very, very far cry from adultery.
At any rate, talking about Shari’a is ”like talking about state law, without ever asking what state,” according to American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Michael Rubin, who writes regularly about issues related to the Middle East. “There is no universally accepted standardized Shari’a.”
In the end, it was sheer radicalism — not some subtle or advanced understanding of Shari’a — that led Gaziev to say what he said and to do what he presumably did.
“You’re talking about ignoramuses who are spood-fed Saudi-inspired radicalism and accept it blindly,” Rubin said in an e-mail.
And because Katya’s murder occurred in Ukraine, what matters more than what Shari’a has to say about modesty is what the Ukrainian authorities have to say about the case.
“Murder is murder,” Rubin wrote. “I would hope the Ukrainians would send them to the gallows.”
Still, Koren’s heart-breaking death is a reminder to cherish the culture of freedom we enjoy in the U.S., where just last year Rima Fakih became the first Muslim to be crowned Miss USA — to no real controversy. (Later, when Fakih spoke out against the proposed Ground Zero mosque, she found herself on the receiving end of criticism, but her participation in the pageant itself was rewarded by nothing except an enviable prize package and a Mikimoto crown.)
As Cochran puts it, “The Bill of Rights, which was first based on the Magna Carta signed in 1215, has led to a system of procedures fair to all parties, such as the use of juries in criminal and civil cases and standard procedures for each type of case. That system has been a beacon to societies around the world, for which men and women of all races, creeds and colors have fought and died.”
I’m almost certain the Koranimal savages raped her before murdering her. That’s SOP in such stonings.
Crickets from the feminazis as usual.
There’s a name for people who just plain love to kill....
Monsters that have no life, no future, bored, unfulfilled find
pleasure in torturing others.
And they all the West satan.
It seems to me that all the good looking Islamic women are either battling their religion or getting stoned to death. Not a good future for the religion.
well, I guess Afghanistan won’t be joining the Miss Universe contest ever....
Maybe but it's usually little boys they rape...girls they kill. Sick, twistwed death cult!
Yeah wait until all the Hollyweird Glam & MSM Couric types get a load of Sharia . . .
The above coming to a country nearer you.
Such as Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya.
Thugs like Mubarak are bad, but at least he was our thug.
Now the vocal minority will take over and the freedom anticipated will give way to Taliban like gloom.
“You’re talking about ignoramuses who are spood-fed Saudi-inspired radicalism and accept it blindly,”
Wait! Don’t the Saudis allow beauty pageants? Or is that just for camels?
>>>well, I guess Afghanistan won’t be joining the Miss Universe contest ever....<<<
Afgahni ‘men’ prefer 8-13 year old boys over pretty women. That’s why they make the women bag up so they don’t distract all of the pederasts from staring at little boys.
They have beauty contests for the little boys they sodomize. Homosexuality is natural for them.....(learned) .... which is why women are always hated...or second class citizens or slaves as in all homosexual cultures (ancient Greece).
Their only obligation to women is to reproduce with them and they find it revolting, they will have a steady stream of little boys, though.
No, I believe that would be the people throwing the rocks that were to blame.
Words, written or spoken only have the power that people give them. No "I was only following orders". No "but the prophet said". The ones who picked up the stones and threw them are to blame for their own actions. No cop outs allowed.
This crap doesn’t belong in the Ukraine. This is Slavic land, not for Koranimals, they can take it to Azerbaijan or whatever.
Before we jump to conclusions, we must remember these were stones of peace.
Here’s another point to ponder... and think about this carefully...
What current or potential candidates have ever spoken out directly against the barbarism and insanity that is Islam?
There are only a handful and they are the same ones that the MSM/left has attacked as everything from racist bigots to schoolyard claims of stupidity.
Palin, Alan West, Cain, Trump and perhaps a couple others.
Now of course the above are hated by the left for far more than any Islam connection but isn’t it curious that any time that any of these people make a remark about Islam, in ANY capacity, the MSM, CAIR and the usual subjects fly out of the woodwork to attempt to shut them down/change the subject as quickly as possible?
Isn’t it also curious that all the UN types/socialist country leadership does the same to those like G. Wilders?
One of the reasons I have relied on Free Republic as my first source of news since I started coming here in the late 90s (Yea, I been here since the beginning ;) is the ‘diversity’ of news/info sources from around the globe. Since I’m a political junkie I read all kinds of things, even on subjects I am not particularly interested in.
After a while even the ‘untrained eye’ starts seeing patterns and putting things together.
The amazing thing is that so many supposedly educated women around the planet are active participants in hastening their own enslavement and death. Oh, what I would give to publicly debate a group of these ‘experts’.
Very sad and tragic story. Where is the outrage from women’s rights groups?
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'There were conflicting reports of how and why she was murdered. Some local newspapers claimed she had been stoned to death by hardline Muslims upset by her participation in the beauty contest and that police had three suspects in their sights.
'But the police said her killing had nothing to do with sectarian violence and that the girl had been killed by a psychologically troubled classmate who had given her a lift on his moped and then robbed and possibly raped her before battering her to death with a rock.
'"A student did it, killing his classmate. There is no other underlying reason, neither religious nor linked with inter-ethnic conflicts," said Sergei Reznikov, a senior policeman involved in the case.'
The story added, 'Police said the main suspect, 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev, had a long history of mental health problems and was already in custody. He is understood to have confessed amid reports from his village suggesting he had developed an unhealthy and unrequited obsession with Miss Koren.'
That Islam/Mullahs issue fatwas etc to carry out this very act is the problem. Even if it turns out that this kid was a psycho...in this specific case, ISLAM and it’s adherents pull this evil out of their peaceful hats on a regular basis.
They can end it or eventually the Crusades will make a triumphant return. The choice is theirs.
> Maybe but it’s usually little boys they rape...girls they
> kill. Sick, twistwed death cult!
I think they rape them first, because they ain’t s’posed to kill a virgin girl.
Gotta be sure, ya know.
Sick, twisted death cult only scratches the surface of the depths of the depravity of Mohammedanism.
But, what do you expect when you consider the way their pirate, pedophile, polygamist, raping, slave-trader, mass murderer “prophet” lived?
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