We have another alleged “honor killing” in Europe. Rokstan M. is a woman who was gang raped by three Syrian soldiers and fled for freedom in the West. Her family however treated her as unclean and guilty for being gang raped. She reportedly feared being killed by her father and brothers. The young pregnant woman was found stabbed to death and her Syrian father is believed to have fled back to Syria. Police are also seeking her brothers who are believed to have participated in the savage murder. Rokstan wrote on social media shortly before her death that “I am awaiting death. But I am too young to die.”
Rokstan was employed as an interpreter on a book project on Syrian refugees. She recounted before her death that “I was taken by three men. Ever since that time my family has regarded me as unclean. My mother and my brothers mistreat me. They say that I deserve to die.” She lived at Papatya, a crisis center for girls and young women and the director, Eva Kaiser, believes Rokstan was killed by her family “because she was no longer a virgin and was raped in Syria.”
Her body was found behind a living area for Syrian refugees in Berlin. The father appears to have fled to Turkey and likely back to Syria — leaving his wife who is under investigation in Germany. The mother denies involvement but friends of the Rokstan say that the mother threatened her and once allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her.
There have been at least 129 documented honor killings in Germany in the last 20 years. Police documented an average 13 honor killings a year in the country and tie the large number to the 1.5 million refugees, mainly from Muslim-majority countries.
KCF
Your comment on honor killings in India and the seeming abandonment of the practice when Indians immigrate while Pakistanis do not was very interesting and leaves us to wrestle with the question of why this is so.
Gawd knows there is plenty of vicious killing between Hindus and Muslims.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991195,00.html
“Why Are Hindu Honor Killings Rising in India?
For three weeks now, a morbid murder story has been playing out in the Indian media. Nirupama Pathak, 22, a New Delhi–based journalist, was allegedly murdered by her own mother. Her crime? She had wanted to marry a fellow journalist who belongs to a lower caste — and she was pregnant. On a trip home to make a final effort to convince her family, Nirupama texted her boyfriend that she was being held captive, locked up in a bathroom. On April 29, she was found dead. The family claimed Nirupama had killed herself, and lodged a case against her boyfriend for rape and abetting suicide. But when the postmortem results revealed Nirupama had been asphyxiated, the police arrested her mother, Sudha Pathak.”
There, of course, were others, however not as high up in the Nazi party as Brunner, but many lesser functionaries who didn’t really advertise their presence and likely went to work as low level Baath party members. The Nazis were not anti Semitic in general but shared many of the same philosophies and goals….aka….kill the Jews. The Nazis had many close ties with the Arab world politically as well.
The larger amount of fleeing Nazis went to Argentina and South America where they were welcomed by the governments. As I said in my lost post….My Aunt was Argentinian and her now deceased father knew many of those who had fled from Germany post WWII.
The Arab Socialist Bath Party: The party was founded by the merger of the Arab Ba’ath Movement, led by Aflaq and al-Bitar, and the Arab Ba’ath, led by al-Arsuzi, on 7 April 1947 as the Arab Ba’ath Party. The party quickly established branches in other Arab countries, although it would only hold power in Iraq and Syria. The Arab Ba’ath Party merged with the Arab Socialist Party, led by Akram al-Hawrani, in 1952 to form the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. The newly formed party was a relative success, and became the second-largest party in the Syrian parliament in the 1954 election. This, coupled with the increasing strength of the Syrian Communist Party, led to the establishment of the United Arab Republic (UAR), a union of Egypt and Syria. The union would prove unsuccessful, and a Syrian coup in 1961 dissolved the union.
History is interesting and we should learn from it instead of making lame jokes.
Dusty
Well thanks for the info about Nazi Brunner. Were there many others, or just the one?
“Mike
1, October 12, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Yes. Historians AND professional blog judges
Truly blessed.”
Yep. (Thanks for that, Mike. Gotta laugh.)
Oh, gee. What a shame.
Here is an excerpt from my lost post. Regarding the connection between the Nazis and the Middle East.
Some high level Nazis did flee to the Middle East since the Nazi party and the Arabs have similar goals….the destruction of Jews.
Alois Brunner………..Brunner lived in Syria for many years, and was reportedly given asylum, a generous salary and protection by the ruling Baath Party in exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II.[7][8]
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, on November 30, 2014, reported Brunner had died in 2010 in Syria. Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date of his death and place of burial are unknown at present.
Google is your friend. Get educated.
I think before we attempt to cure the rest of the world of their destructive behaviors, we need to heal ourselves of our gun fixation. When yesterday in the abortion thread, a commenter refused to even entertain the idea of banning weapons that could slice and dice seven year olds in mere minutes, we got a glimpse of the sickness that is American gun culture.
Inga – knives slice and dice, guns do not.
Help comment lost in the nether…..
Thanks.
Indeed, Rokstan WAS much too young to die.
I wonder if all those 7 year olds had the very same thought just before they died?
It’s a blessing to have so many historians here.
Alternatively……you could use Google and get yourself educated instead of smirking and preening.
There were some close political and ideological ties between Hitler’s Nazi philosopy and the Arabs in the Middle East. The biggest common ground that they had and still have today is the goal of eliminated Jews and Judaism from the earth.
Adolf Hitler met with Haj Amin al-Husseini on 28 November 1941. The official German notes of that meeting contain numerous references to combatting Jews both inside and outside Europe. The following excerpts from that meeting are statements from Hitler to the Mufti:
Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests. … This was the decisive struggle; on the political plane, it presented itself in the main as a conflict between Germany and England, but ideologically it was a battle between National Socialism and the Jews. It went without saying that Germany would furnish positive and practical aid to the Arabs involved in the same struggle, because platonic promises were useless in a war for survival or destruction in which the Jews were able to mobilize all of England’s power for their ends….the Fuhrer would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation had arrived. Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world. It would then be his task to set off the Arab operations, which he had secretly prepared. When that time had come, Germany could also be indifferent to French reaction to such a declaration.[32][33][34]
Alois Brunner is one of the higher level Nazis who fled to Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Brunner
Brunner lived in Syria for many years, and was reportedly given asylum, a generous salary and protection by the ruling Baath Party in exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, on November 30, 2014, reported Brunner had died in 2010 in Syria. Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date of his death and place of burial are unknown at present.
And while most Nazis fled to Argentina and some other South American countries…..some did escape to the Middle East to areas where the Nazis had been looked upon favorably
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_%28World_War_II_aftermath%29
My Aunt is Argentinian and her father, now long deceased was acquainted with some of those who fled the country. They mostly just wanted to keep a low profile and live quietly on their ranches.
History is interesting and can be instructive if you bother to learn any of it.
Mike, well the US does have a reputation in the world for gun violence. Maybe they shake their heads and wonder why we are so violent, kind of like we do in these types of threads about different cultures and their odd behavior. I assume they think Americans are odd indeed to revere their guns and shoot each other up the way they do and they would be right.
BTW
Some of those dead American children are killed by their parents.
Just to keep things interesting….
You do realize there is a legal professor in India that writes a blog. About once a week he posts about gun violence in America.
Oddly there is also a professor in Sweden that often writes about gun violence in America.
Oh. Look. I just found a professor in Japan that often blogs about gun violence in American.
You do realize that much of the rest of the world thinks Americans are loony in their demand for guns – more and more guns – bigger and bigger guns.
They worry about the deaths of all those little American children.
Yes. Historians AND professional blog judges
Truly blessed.
Interesting thought…..Nazis seeking shelter in the ME?
I had thought they had little love for Semitic peoples.
It’s a blessing to have so many historians here.
Mike, lol, yep. Soooo many bookmarks, soooo little time…..
Give the poor man a break – he’s got all those bookmarks to manage.
Anon, yep.