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.
Darren
Also sorry. However, it was not meant as an insult – just an easily remembered well known American brand.
However, I will be very careful not to make the mistake again.
“Sorry Darren, I did not do this on purpose, my iPad keeps autocorrecting”
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Submitted by Annie on 2015/09/27 at 4:24 pm
Max,
KFC should stick to making chicken.
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Typo or intentional, it nevertheless should stop
My.
Sorry Darren, I did not do this on purpose, my iPad keeps autocorrecting. I would like it if Paul used by blog name here not my REAL name.
Inga – since you have used this name or combinations of this name as your ID, I will continue to use it. I get tired of you changing your name all the time.
OK, Darren I have asked Paul to not call me Annie, he has now once again doxxed me. Where is the EQUITY here Professor Turley?
Violent video games. What fun.
Folks, our host asks that we refrain name calling. What we are seeing made toward KCFleming lately is such. Referring to him as KFC is insulting and needs to stop. If you have a need to express insults of this kind, there are other forums available elsewhere to do so.
I admit that I didn’t get your reference to PP Mike. Very apt connecting the ‘horror’ over the doctored videos to the horror of the carnage in Sandy Hook. I guess that carnage gets dismissed while they focus on the donated fetal specimens.
Annie
They’ll be no money for safe houses. That’s socialism. Let the women take care of themselves. Besides, they’re not citizens.
Slice and dice was my deliberate (and political) choice
You have heard the term thousands of times over the last several weeks.
Actually…no. I haven’t heard the term over the last several weeks. But then again, I don’t watch the news on television either or much of anything on television. I get my information from other sources.
It makes me think of Ron Popeil. Slice and dice-o-matic….but WAIT…..there’s more!!!!!
Or….World of Warcraft, it is a rogue skill I generally play a rogue or a hunter. Just like real life I suppose 🙂
“Slice and Dice is a core rogue ability learned at level 14. It makes quick work of enemies by allowing rogues to attack more quickly than normal. It increases the speed at which hits are delivered, allowing more poison applications within a given time frame.”
Annie
Is no one getting it? Slice and dice. It was, and is, used as politically powerful phrase in creating the BS undercover doctored investigation of PP.
It’s the favorite phrase of Chaffetz and Gowdy and Co.
Mike –
So, you are plagiarizing as well.
If these immigrants won’t assimilate it’s most definitely going to continue to happen. But how can they be forced to do so? I agree that these young women need safe houses, as I suggested upstream also. PSAs to let them know where to seek help.
Dusty
It will take generations. And maybe not even then. Christ. When the Buddhists start killing the Muslims I figure there’s not much hope.
Or an aversion to the horror? Would it have been less horrific to say “pulverized, torn to shreds”, etc? The stubborn need to dispute the validity of the terminology is a bit curious.
Eh, pedantic. Boring.
Dusty
Slice and dice was my deliberate (and political) choice. You have heard the term thousands of times over the last several weeks. It was supposed to invoke a powerful and horrifying image.
You’re smart. You know why I chose that phrase.
Mike – using slice and dice for gun shot victims shows a lack of writing style.
@ Mike
Note: This is not to diminish the horror of people being shot to death and not to diminish the destruction that guns (and other weapons) can wreak.
However on a linguistic tone and word usage.
Words have meaning and words create imagery. Slicing and dicing are specific terms that evoke specific mental images. Neat pieces of tomato sliced up. Diced carrots in uniform little pieces. This is what a knife does and this is the imagery that the words evoke.
If you had used the words pulverized, torn to shreds, mangled or ripped apart in conjunction with your gun discussion, no one would dispute that verbiage. The imagery of those words is more accurate to the damage and destruction that being shot can result in, especially if the ammo is exploding ammo.
Being sliced and diced by a knife or being shot to bits by a gun are both horrible. However, if you are going to write and use words, they should be the proper ones. Guns do NOT slice and dice.
Meanwhile…..back to the topic.
Honor killings and how to get people who have immigrated to the West to abandon this aspect of their culture. You can punish the perpetrators, jail them, but until you have some education and more importantly safe places for the young women to flee for protection, it is still going to happen.
Mike,
Ah yes, I’ve been watching it, it’s very good! Thank goodness they didn’t defund PBS.
Need a budget? Sorry we’re busy.
Need to raise the debt ceiling? Sorry we’re busy.
Fools.
*Country’s*
PBS Masterpiece Theatre is currently running a series ‘Indian Summers’. It’s not ‘Jewel in the Crown”, but it is quite good and the COLOR is marvelous. It’s available online.