Abdication of Responsibility Alert. If the wicked Zionists are responsible for "Palestinian" honor killings, who is responsible for honor killings in Pakistan? Turkey? Great Britain? Australia?
From IRIN News.org, with thanks to all who sent this in:
RAMALLAH: Residents of this West Bank town say the shooting deaths of three Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip last month were "honor killings." The corpses of the women - Ibtissam Mohammad Musallam Abu Qeinas, 31; Samira Tahani Debeiky, 45; and Amani Khamis Hosari, 40 - were found within a 24-hour period in Beit Lahiya and Gaza City, leaving residents shocked."People are saying it was an honor killing, that the women were of loose morals. They were not related to one another - but they were all killed in the same way. It's really shocking," Mona Shawa, director of the women's unit at the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, said.
In 2006, 17 Palestinian women were reported killed in so-called honor crimes - 12 in the Gaza Strip and five in the occupied West Bank.
"The general atmosphere here in Gaza is encouraging this," Shawa said.
"There is no respect for law, no punishment of criminals and everyone has a gun."
Soraida Abdel-Hussein, a researcher at the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling in Ramallah, uses the word "femicide" to describe the killings.
She told IRIN that Palestinian society is undergoing radical change as a result of the daily violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and women are suffering as a result.
"Being under oppressive occupation gives you a feeling of low self-esteem, of being less intelligent, less powerful, less of everything," she said.
"That hits the masculine identity - and women pay the price. Men internalize the values of violence. They replicate the roles of occupier and victim. It will become part of the culture - part of how you see people and they see you. We are now at the stage where it is radically changing our society and structures."
From the article above:
"Palestinian society is undergoing radical change as a result of the daily violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and women are suffering as a result.
"Being under oppressive occupation gives you a feeling of low self-esteem, of being less intelligent, less powerful, less of everything," she said.
Yeah, cause women in islam WEREN'T suffering before.
And you hit the nail on the head about the oppression thing, lady. Women in islam suffer it EVERY SINGLE DAY, and not just in 'palestine' either.
The thing is, and I suppose this is just WAY too difficult for the muslim mind to understand, all the 'palestinians' need to do to end the 'oppression' IMMEDIATELY is to *QUIT FREAKING BLOWING EVERYONE UP, QUIT FIRING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL, STOP WITH THE NONSENSE AND JOIN THE HUMAN RACE* If they stopped fighting today, next week Israel would pull out and the oppression would end. PERIOD!
What's that saying... If arabs laid down their weapons, there would be peace; If Israel laid down her weapons, there would be no Israel.
...all the women have been killed By Muslims....I suspect all were unarmed, posing no threat to anyone....
"The general atmosphere here in Gaza is encouraging this," Shawa said."
...only Muslims are encouraging this.....
Yeah, like honour killings and other acts of myscogeny aren't taking place in Muslim communities far from the Zionist Enterprize, regardless if they are under Muslim or infidel rule. Has our Ms. Abdel-Hussein not heard of what's going on in Darfur?
The high propensity toward violence is what has been bread in the bones of Palestinian society with incredible intensity. While it is very much an honour/shame society, it is also one that has been cultivated to believe that women are chattel and that violence is the only available response to conflict.
"Honor Killings" HAVE taken place and DO take place ANYWHERE THERE ARE MUSLIMS. End of story.
But, I like the term "Femicide." It's true.
The real reason these idiots have problems like this is because they've been oppressed by an occupation worse than anything the Israelis can dream up. They've been oppressed for 1400 years by Islam. Their minds have been occupied for far too long with utter garbage-this is the occupation they need to end, not some imaginary one by those awful Jews.
Whitey always gets the blame for antiquated practices such as honor killings, child marriage, widow burning etc. It's always f***ing about whitey isn't it?! Gosh, as an Indian, I'm so f***ing sick of backward third world practices being blamed on white Europeans (and half of the population of Israel is European).
I think a lot of the honour killings by Pakistanis in the UK can be directly linked to the oppression of muslims in south Thailand by those evil Budhists.
I suppose occupation is also the cause of constipation and bad breath.
This is ridiculous. Pushing the blame on those Jews again, I see. They are blamed for literally everything in the Islamic world. Muslims have the sense of responibility similar to those shown by tiny children. `He did it` Absolute zero morality in these people, it makes me sick.