We have yet another horrific “honor killing” — this time in Pakistan. Muhammad Siddique became outraged when he learned that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had not asked him for permission to leave the house to visit her sister so he and his father beat her, doused her with gasoline, and burned her alive. The only good news is that the authorities have arrested the father and son and charged them with murder as well as terrorism.
Once again, we have the inconceivable crime of two religious men who insisted that they were only being good Muslims by burning a woman alive. Not surprisingly, Siddique had been accused of spousal abuse for his entire three year marriage.
The arrest is a positive development since these honor killings are often quietly condemned in some areas.
Source: Yahoo
The infamous “black” bee-keeper costume is synonymous with extremism and terror…nothing more
“If ifs and ands were pots and pans, the world would need no tinkers.” Bernard Shaw, ‘St. Joan’
It’s not religion. It’s not a moment in history. It’s simply evil. The sooner mankind realizes this and stamps it out the better.
All this is happening under the dominion of our our 90,000 soldiers!!!
Wadewilliams – George Bernard Shaw said that woman were like carpets, they should be taken up and beaten regularly.
Sick.
won
Say, did you know that in South Carolina you will get five years the first time you beat your dog?
but…
You get thirty days the first time you beat your wife.
Thems sho great ‘Merican Values!
Wadewilliams – South Carolinian women pack a punch. It is usually an even fight.
Oh look. South Carolina newspaper wins a Pulitzer for its seven part article on domestic homicide.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/04/20/the_post_and_courier_wins_pulitzer_for_domestic_homicide_expose_south_carolina.html?wpsrc=slatest_newsletter&sid=5388d805dd52b8870b00f6bf
…”comprehensive approach to the problem, showing how cultural attitudes, law enforcement neglect, and legislative indifference all work together to create a state where there’s very little protection for women who have had the misfortune to fall in love with dangerous and violent men. Particularly impressive was the series’ willingness to look at how traditional gender norms work against women seeking relief from abuse.”
I hope someone will try to distract Karen. This is sure to make her so, so sad that these Americans have not been properly assimilated and accepted our cultural values.
Wadewilliams – ask yourself, when was the last time a conservative paper or writer win a Pulitzer?
That same 49% also believe in astrology.
So true, Annie, so true!
Po, your article @5:44 is right on the mark. We see this trend in various issues such as Islamic bigotry, Feminism and women’s issues, LGBT rights, voting rights and more. If we don’t want a Theocracy in our not too distant future, we need to get Americans to wake up and smell the coffee.
Paul, 49% of the American public does not trust the Muslims they don’t know.
As long as you do, that’s all I am asking for.
Missed you too, Paul.
To add to TJ ustice’s comment above…
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‘God Told Me to Do It’: The Dangers of America’s Lunatic Right
By Peter-SterryPeter Sterry
April 20, 2015 “ICH” – “21st Century Wire” – These are truly insane times.
Aside from the odd grumblings about being a “Christian nation”, here in Britain we are mostly divorced from strong religious themes in our politics. Not so in the US, and I’m not talking about Prayer in Schools here either.
Something big is brewing in America, and it’s not all good. It’s not just the usual war hawk talk from the rank and file Rambo crowd like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and new baby hawks like Senator Tom Cotton. We understand them and their desire to act on behalf of the military industrial complex to sell more Apaches, planes, bombs, boats and missiles. Men such as these can be found everywhere throughout history. They love and want war, and always will.
That’s not it though. There is something else. There exists a rather ugly anti-Arab, or more specifically – anti-Islam wave which is being pushed along, gradually building up into a Zeitgeist in US right-wing political and ‘Christian’ discourse. Presently, this is threatening to go mainstream in America. This is partly due to 15 years of the West’s war against Arabs, and a classically conditioned Pavlovian western anxiety surrounding Muslims. This is not just traditional bigotry, or even racism. It is both disturbing – and frightening, not unlike similar Nazi rhetoric which ushered in Germany’s modern dark age. The same patterns are now being mirrored in certain side-shows within the US political circus.
This is exactly how Hitler gathered steam in the early days of the Third Reich – by employing an overtly jingoistic, and even genocidal, racist party line – in order to invigorate his hard core supporters whom he knew would form the phalanx of his foot soldiers later on. In this kind of jagged political environment, facts do not matter at all, but FEAR is everything. If a politician or a street agitator can instil fear into the crowd, then he, or she, knows that power is well within their grasp.
To super charge the political narrative, and rally the remaining foot soldiers who don’t necessarily understand politics too well but are still eager to follow, a leader must evoke fundamentalist religious, mythological, or occult-based belief systems. To make this ideological jump, no goosestep is required. Here, fellow travelers Adolph Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Heinrich Himmler were able to quietly coordinate a masterful mix, establishing a popular and potent cocktail of reactionary politics and derivative occult and mythological lore and corresponding symbology.
The soil for this kind of convergence has never been more fertile in the US as it is today. Since the early 1980’s, when the Republican Party discovered how important the Evangelical and Christian Zionist right-wing movements were in providing a strong political base, ‘End of Times’ mythology has steadily propagated throughout the United States. With that, a collection of bizarre, yet well-organized movements and sub-movements have evolved, and in each instance, these have provided universal backing to US wars and interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere, seeing these as ‘Holy Wars’ – in a Clash of Civilisations – rather than geopolitical maneuvers. As writer Daniel Spaulding explains, “The United States has long been the home of a wide assortment of bizarre and eccentric sects and cults, most being harmless, or at least lacking the ability to do any serious harm outside of their immediate proximity without large-scale followings nor serious political access. But there are always exceptions, and one of the more prominent and influential ones is the highly politicised and well-funded Dispensationalist movement, a vocal and well-represented faction among fundamentalist Protestants. Not only do Dispensationalists have a large scale following, but they also manage to wield considerable influence in Washington, especially on US foreign policy.”
Within this contrived ‘End Times’ meets the Crusader, or Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’ dialectic, Arabs and Muslims are almost universally characterized as terrorists and generalised as a universal threat which “must be dealt with”. Given enough time, these same preachers will be eventually craft a similar ‘End Times’ narrative around Russia, or China (some already have).
po – 49% of the American public does not trust Muslims.
TJustice
American exceptionalism says: It’s never burning people alive when you can burn them alive via video game console.
Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men? The ayahtoilet do.
Mention of shariah law at 4:07, by none less than Mullah Karen!
po – you have been notable by your absence.
Failing to address the evil concept of honor killings in Muslim societies, which is at the core of this article, only serves to help perpetuate these barbaric practices. Nobody wants to face the elephant in the room. Too frightened to be called Islamaphobic or some other newly coined name. Honor killings, such as these, are prevalent in the Muslim world. Women are the possession of their husbands or fathers. Islam condones these practices. This only shocks us because we are unfamiliar with its regularity.
I have an idea. Let’s discuss gun violence and get off of an uncomfortable topic.
Compassion – the documentary “Honor Diaries” does a good job of explaining how women become the external personification of a man’s honor in Muslim and Hindu cultures. Only blood can wash away a slight to a man’s “honor.”
The movie also follows how Muslim women activists are trying to reform from within.
From skimming the comments, it is unhappily clear that many are ignorant of the plight of women in the Middle East under Sharia Law. If they’re in denial they can’t call for change.