Excellent question. And here’s the answer. It also applies to everyone who thinks Islam is a religion of peace.
Posted on 07/28/2020 1:43:15 PM PDT by KingofZion
Ahlam dashed out screaming into the street, her father close behind. Bleeding from her neck, she begged her mother, the neighbors, anyone, to intervene. That was when her father picked up a cement block and smashed his 40-year-old daughter’s skull in. Then he sat down next to her body with a cigarette in one hand and a cup of tea in the other ***
The brutal public slaying July 17 in a suburb near Jordan’s capital, Amman, was the latest in a string of so-called “honor killings” to hit the Middle Eastern kingdom. It might have gone unnoticed, like so many others before it, except that it was caught on video and widely seen on social media. The footage of Ahlam’s cries ignited a furious nationwide debate not only over the myriad ways the country’s legal system has failed to protect women, but also how they’re viewed in Jordan’s deeply conservative society.
*** Hala Ahed, a lawyer and human rights defender, cited a case in which a father beat his daughter with a stick and poured gasoline on her and burned her to death. Her sin? Being out in public by eating on the roof of the house till sundown. Others recalled an incident in November, when a man took a knife to his wife for arguing with him, locking her in a room and taking her eyes out in front of her children. Or the brother who killed his 14-year-old sister when she created a Facebook account, for what he assumed were for shameful purposes.
*** More generally, violence against women, which already affected some 243 million women and girls worldwide in the 12 months before the COVID-19 crisis, according to figures from U.N. Women, has skyrocketed during lockdown; U.N. officials call it a “shadow pandemic.”
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I wonder how many feminists teach cultural relativity in our universities and how they reconcile those religions with treatment of women?
Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Let’s import these people into the United States. What could go wrong?
Yeah. We really need more involvement here. Lets send another couple of regiments. /s
I think that they are ignorant of it. Totally ignorant.
This is but one of the Demons/Trojan Horses the Dems have chosen to get into bed with, all in their quest for more political power.
“Let’s import these people into the United States.”
They obviously need the assistance of our social workers.
Well the woman who had her head bashed-in with a cement block sure does.
Islam is a war plan.
Excellent question. And here’s the answer. It also applies to everyone who thinks Islam is a religion of peace.
A real patriarchal society - feminists take note.
This isn't even Islam, just Middle Eastern tribal practice dating back millennia.
‘Barbaric’ would be a better term.
Hey SJWs: This is what REAL sexism and misogyny looks like.
This HORRIBLE L.A. rag put a “subscribe or else” notice over this article when I wanted to read it. (Probably because I was using an ad blocker.)
I DO NOT live in L.A., I do not regularly read this rag, and i have NO DESIRE to subscribe, or pay them even one penny! PHOOEY!!!!
As for muslim “honor” killings, I am totally against them!! Nor do I think that it is right that a father have absolute parental authority over his 40-year-old ADULT daughter, as if she were a child! PHOOEY again!!!!
The society known as islam.
Why there are so many mosques? Because our former Muslim President Hussein brought in millions of Muslims in to the country and no one said a peep.
This is the “religion” that liberals defend.
To answer your questions: Muslims.
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