More evidence of the sharp distinction between believers and unbelievers in Islam -- a distinction that colors virtually every aspect of Muslim/infidel interaction and coexistence. From IslamOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in:
A German woman recently released in Iraq after being held hostage for more than three weeks said on Monday that her captors promised not to hurt her because she is a Muslim.Susanne Osthoff, a 43-year-old aid worker and archaeologist, told an Arabic TV channel that her kidnappers also said they didn’t want money in exchange for her release.
“They said 'Ms. Susan, we know you and you are Iraq's friend'," said Osthoff, a convert to Islam.
"'We're informing you now this was a political reason why we kidnapped you, and we'll inform you later about what will happen, so don't be afraid, we don't harm women or children, and you are Muslim'," Osthoff quoted one of the kidnappers as saying.
Wasn't Margaret Hassan a Muslim convert? If Muslim hostages are not harmed why was Hassan shot in the head?
Yes, Miss Susan better not press her luck. She should leave while her head is still attached to her body. The need for a sensational new beheading video by that growing industry might yet endanger the German do-gooder.
"...we don't harm women or children..."
Except the ones they bomb.
As Roxane points out, the head-choppers have a poor record of sparing their own. It's equally likely Osthoff was treated well because her government is well-known for handsome pay-offs -- this time included.
One of their own huh....well we all know how they treat the rest of us and that aint good,maybe Susanne Osthoff felt honored to be chosen as a guest of honor?????
yeah what about all the suicide bomb killers in iraq ? they were prol. paid well by the german govenment!
"...we don't harm women or children..."
Except the ones they bomb.
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Or the ones they train to harm themselves (and others).
Is there some reason that people are unable to comprehend the world except when it directly effects their life. She had just been kidnapped and comes out with a gem like this:
"I knew I wasn't in the hands of criminals"
How exactly would she describe them?
"...we don't harm women or children..."
Isalamo-A.D.D.gone wild. How about the psychotic torture and massacre of 300 women and children in the school at Beslan. Young childen dehydrating to death forced to drink urine. And the ones that cried - had their throats cut to glorify Allah. Human life(of any age or gender) to these freaks is no more valuable than camel dung.
Well, to paraphrase Eddie Said, those "kids" in Beslan were probably only simulacra of "children." And if they were real [that would be hard to believe, probably robots put there by Putin], most of them were only Ossetians, and who cares about Ossetians, and why shouldn't the Ossetians pay for Russia's crimes against Chechnya --And then they had to die for the cause of all causes -FILASTIN!! -- or maybe this week it's Iraq or Kashmir. So Thumper, remember, it's all for the cause.
More seriously, the PLO was murdering Jewish kids way back. In the early 1970s there was the Avivim schoolbus, there was Qiryat Shmonah, Ma`alot, etc. And the West and Commies made excuses for those murders then, and now it's become a general, worldwide plague. If the outside world had opposed these crimes then . . .
Come on folks use the dots ??
Islamic terrorist releised from German Prison and little gal get releised from pal islamic terrorist??
And now islamic terrorist shoot missels into Isreal hessi boys and where did the German Prisoner go but to Lebnon??
Now this Prisnoner was not just anybody but had been in Jail Sence the 1980s and what for Killing aN American Who was in the Navy on a Plane that was higjacked by islamic terrorist??
This islamic terrorist had a life sentance but seams the Germans don't care about that and are willing to screw their buddys for a little old mulsum gal??
Well what do the mulsums do to their gals??
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/12/28/221328.shtml
Pakistani Man Discusses 'Honor' Killings
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005
MULTAN, Pakistan -- Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year-old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" - a crime that shocked Pakistan.
The 40-year-old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to prison, confessed to just one regret - that he didn't murder the stepsister's alleged lover too.
Hundreds of girls and women are murdered by male relatives each year in this conservative Islamic nation, and rights groups said Wednesday such "honor killings" will only stop when authorities get serious about punishing perpetrators.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in more than half of such cases that make it to court, most end with cash settlements paid by relatives to the victims' families, although under a law passed last year, the minimum penalty is 10 years, the maximum death by hanging.
Ahmed's killing spree - witnessed by his wife Rehmat Bibi as she cradled their 3-month-old baby son - happened Friday night at their home in the cotton-growing village of Gago Mandi in eastern Punjab province.
It is the latest of more than 260 such honor killings documented by the rights commission, mostly from media reports, during the first 11 months of 2005.
Bibi recounted how she was woken by a shriek as Ahmed put his hand to the mouth of his stepdaughter Muqadas and cut her throat with a machete. Bibi looked helplessly on from the corner of the room as he then killed the three girls - Bano, 8, Sumaira, 7, and Humaira, 4 - pausing between the slayings to brandish the bloodstained knife at his wife, warning her not to intervene or raise alarm.
"I was shivering with fear. I did not know how to save my daughters," Bibi, sobbing, told AP by phone from the village. "I begged my husband to spare my daughters but he said, 'If you make a noise, I will kill you."'
"The whole night the bodies of my daughters lay in front of me," she said.
The next morning, Ahmed was arrested.
Speaking to AP in the back of police pickup truck late Tuesday as he was shifted to a prison in the city of Multan, Ahmed showed no contrition. Appearing disheveled but composed, he said he killed Muqadas because she had committed adultery, and his daughters because he didn't want them to do the same when they grew up.
He said he bought a butcher's knife and a machete after midday prayers on Friday and hid them in the house where he carried out the killings.
"I thought the younger girls would do what their eldest sister had done, so they should be eliminated," he said, his hands cuffed, his face unshaven. "We are poor people and we have nothing else to protect but our honor."
Despite Ahmed's contention that Muqadas had committed adultery - a claim made by her husband - the rights commission reported that according to local people, Muqadas had fled her husband because he had abused her and forced her to work in a brick-making factory.
Police have said they do not know the identity or whereabouts of Muqadas' alleged lover.
Muqadas was Bibi's daughter by her first marriage to Ahmed's brother, who died 14 years ago. Ahmed married his brother's widow, as is customary under Islamic tradition.
"Women are treated as property and those committing crimes against them do not get punished," said the rights commission's director, Kamla Hyat. "The steps taken by our government have made no real difference."
Activists accuse President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a self-styled moderate Muslim, of reluctance to reform outdated Islamized laws that make it difficult to secure convictions in rape, acid attacks and other cases of violence against women. They say police are often reluctant to prosecute, regarding such crimes as family disputes.
Statistics on honor killings are confused and imprecise, but figures from the rights commission's Web site and its officials show a marked reduction in cases this year: 267 in the first 11 months of 2005, compared with 579 during all of 2004. The Ministry of Women's Development said it had no reliable figures.
Ijaz Elahi, the ministry's joint secretary, said the violence was decreasing and that increasing numbers of victims were reporting incidents to police or the media. Laws, including one passed last year to beef up penalties for honor killings, had been toughened, she said.
Police in Multan said they would complete their investigation into Ahmed's case in the next two weeks and that he faces the death sentence if he is convicted for the killings and terrorizing his neighborhood.
Ahmed, who did not resist arrest, was unrepentant.
"I told the police that I am an honorable father and I slaughtered my dishonored daughter and the three other girls," he said. "I wish that I get a chance to eliminate the boy she ran away with and set his home on fire."
© 2005 Associated Press
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