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.
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Pogo has been calling me Annie as of late, but he called me by my REAL name LONG after I had changed it back to a psuedonym(again for GOOD reason). Paul and forgetwhoiam continue to call me by my REAL name.
Annie,
Wait.
You’ve made a simple request of only a few commenters. I’m sure they will find it easy to comply with so simple a request. Let’s see what they have to say.
Darren can be a dork. That does not mean his name is Dork. Same with JT. He can be TooCivil. That is not his name. I like No Name No Blame. Let us stick with No Name No Blame. That way our kids can not call us out for being too dorky or too civil. Two civil and five will get you ten.
How about you KCFleming, and Forgot,
Will you call Annie, ‘Annie”?
Well Mike, if they can call me what they like due to the new “WAIVER” rule by Darren, I will feel comfortable referring to KCFleming by either “Pogo or Chief Consort to the Progressive Grand Inquisitor”, until I am told the “waiver” is indeed not a NEW rule but something Darren decided To put forth. This WAIVER idea is contrary to what JT himself has said in the past.
Schulte
What say you? Will you call Annie, “Annie’?
Everybody here thinks Annie can be called by another name although her name reads “Annie”?
Also Darren, according to an email discussion I had with Professor Turley in the past about people using my REAL name and doxxing me, he came on to the threads to ask people to honor each other’s pseudonyms, IIRC. I think YOUR rules do not jive with the civility rules or past comments by JT himself. If the rules have changed, perhaps the civility rules should’ve been updated to reflect the rule change.
Annie
Nevermind KC. Time for a safe house.
So if a commenter used a different name here in the past, according to Darren’s new rule here, that would constitute a waiver. So I guess it’s Ok to call KCFleming, his past two pseudonyms.
Seems to me it’s fair to call a commenter by the name on the current thread – most especially when responding to a particular comment from a particular writer.
I’m actually quite shocked at Darren’s singling people out this way. It’s disturbing and harkens back to some mistakes that were made in the past regarding respecting commenter’s privacy here.
Nevermind.
There’s the answer.
Annie
Why no note published to KCF, Forgot, or Paul?
Also KCFleming used my REAL name numerous times on these comments threads. I’d appreciate it if he was told to not do so in future.
Also, please tell Forgotwhoiamiam to stop using my REAL name on these comments threads. Both he and Paul have been getting away with this for quite sometime now.
Annie,
Unfortunately you opened that box when you chose for a few months to use your real name displayed with your avatar. So that would constitute a waiver. You can ask those persons to refrain from doing so but since you waived this aspect I am not able to ask others to so oblige.
Darren, I only used my real name after I was doxxed here. I chose for very GOOD reason to go back to using a psuedonym. The civility rules allow us to do so. I would appreciate if the civility rules would be enforced equitably in this matter. I have children that are professionals and I do NOT want my real name to be doxxed here again. It doesn’t matter what name a commenter used in the PAST, if you want to be respectful of EVERY commenter here you might show a bit more equity in this matter. KCFleming also used a two different names here, is it acceptable for me to call him by either of those two past names he used in these comments threads? No? Then I would appreciate the same level of consideration and respect.
Well Mike as far as I’m concerned it’s an apt description, though I’ve not seen the carnage.
Annie and Dusty
My bad. Must be my choice of reading material.
Yes Darren, that was a joke. It haven’t repeated it. Now please tell Paul not to dox me by using my REAL name. Let’s have a modicum of equity here, please.