Friday, May 04, 2007

Honor Killings!





Where is the honor in murdering a child?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You do know that that girl was stoned to death for converting to Islam, right?

SERENDIP said...

I don't think she was stoned to death for converting to Islam. She was stoned to death because she had shamed her family for not coming home at night; hence shaming and dishonoring her family. Stoning is reserved for acts such as adultery, prostitution, or losing your virginity before marriage. For converting to another religion, you will be hanged or executed.

But you're right. She was a Yezadi and not a muslim. I thought Yezdid was a branch of Islam. I had mistaken the Yazid with this Yezid.

Rosemary Welch said...

There is only shame...on the perpetrators of the murder.

Anonymous said...

This video cemented the idea for me that Iraq is hopeless. I mean, if any group knows about oppression in Iraq, it's the Kurds. What are we to do if the oppressed take their sadism out on their own; when bystanders cheer, the police participate, and her own family drags her to her execution?

Iraq may be stabilized, but these open-market killings will continue.