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Did any of you see the video of the girl's death? I do not care about what religion or tradition has to say... in this MODERN world no one should have to die like that. Then people from the Middle East wonder why people look at them funny? Go figure!
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| FOUR ARRESTED IN IRAQ 'HONOR KILLING' Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four people in connection with the "honor killing" last month of a Kurdish teen -- a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video camera and broadcast around the world. Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/18/...ling/index.html |
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JB - I have never in my entire life seen footage that was so disgusting it made me turn it off. This video made me sick in the stomach. I would like 5 minutes in a boxing ring with any of these cowards who attacked this poor innocent girl. There is no religious excuse or justification for such a crime. It is blatant murder and every one of those low-lives should have the same thing happen to them.
I am truly shocked and upset by this and it leaves such a foul tremor in my heart. I hope the Iraqi authorities treat this as murder because anything less would be a massive crime against humanity.
The whole notion of honour killings is something that disgusts me. Unfortunately, because I have Indian heritage, I have heard of such cases before. It is not tied to any specific religion. It is an archaic, immoral act that gives new meaning to indecency. It is a sin, a lowly, cowardly crime. There is nothing more that I can say, I am truly shocked but perhaps not surprised that humanity can still stoop to such a low.
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The video made me sick to my stomach, I could not finish watching it...it was way too much to handle. I believe anyone in the right mind (no matter their religion affiliations) would NOT even try to justify this horrible murder. I do not give a darn if that's the way they have been raised, if that's their culture (if you want to call it that way) or if is even religious. This was a horrible murder, interesting enough there are hundreds of murders just like this one reported in Iraq every month as well as other countries.
The primitiveness of their mindset is beyond me.
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What is absurd about it? We are not talking about a serial killer or a cult family, we are talking about a regular tradition here. I do not know any other culture in the world that will kill you just because you express love for someone other than the person to whom your family thinks you should express it for?
| Rather off topic, but... The Jews have been known to do this too in times past, but I am not sure about now. However there are specific Threads dealing with this in detail. |
In keeping with the Topic here I must say that this is one of the big reasons the US is having trouble in the region, the people do not want Western ways or Western thinking... they have their own traditions that will not go away - the US has to understand this.
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| QUOTE (Karbala @ 24-May 07, 9:41 AM) |
| What can I say? I hope you yourself can see the absurdity of that statement. |
Did you see the video we are discussing about? What is your opinion about it ? How can the statement be absurd? It is obvious that if there are reports of hundreds of these "traditions" taking place in Iraq as well as other countries, people will look at Muslims as funny individuals. In the Western World, stoning someone to death for just loving someone who your relatives do not agree with is unconceivable yet in the Eastern World is a common practice.
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I think what Karbala was implying is that it is such a minority of idiots who commit honour killings that you cannot generalise about the whole Middle East region based on this one crime. I agree this is not normal behaviour and should not be treated as such, but it is not an Iraqi tradition. It's like everyone thinking Americans are gun toking, trigger happy lunatics because they have more gun massacres than any other country.
The truth is honour killings are not a religious disease. They are not bound to Muslims. They very much occur among followers of the Hindu religion and others around south Asia. It's not a religious problem, more a backwards cultural problem. Iraq does not have more honour killings than India or Pakistan. So I think we need to be careful when associating such a horrible deed with any specific culture or group of people. 
Edited: arvhic on 24th May, 2007 - 9:32pm
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