And why is he unrepentant? Because as far as he is concerned, the evil she has done has brought shame to the family, and he has cleansed the family of that shame by killing her. This barbaric practice finds sanction in Islamic law's provision that if a parent kills his child, he is not subject to retribution -- hence the relaxed penalties for honor killings in some Islamic countries. "I'd do it again, says honour killer," by Anne Barker for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):
There is a growing push in the Arab world to have men responsible for so-called honour killings treated as murderers by the courts.Every year hundreds of women are killed by their husbands or brothers or another male family member for supposedly bringing shame on their families.
In many countries the honour killers are given leniency. Many men are not charged, or they spend only a few days or weeks in custody.
But Palestinian human rights groups have recently drafted their own amendments to have them treated as murderers.
Khaled Mahmoud, 21, admits beating his sister to death last year in the West Bank.
"She has made very wrong decisions," he said.
"I started drinking then I got crazy. When I saw her I beat her. I smashed her head to the wall."
His sister Asmaa - not her real name - was 23, a university student, and engaged to be married to another Muslim.
As brother and sister they were close, yet Mahmoud says she made the unforgivable mistake of sleeping with another man, a Christian, and brought enormous shame on the family.
"I was telling her that she should stay away from him and she shouldn't talk to him because he was playing," Mahmoud said.
"He wasn't serious with her and he is bragging about what he was doing. I was so ashamed with my sister."
Mahmoud says it is hard to describe how he felt after killing his sister.
"I don't say that I wish I hadn't killed her, but I say I wish she hadn't done that," he said.
"I am really sorry for what happened, but I think even if I'm in the same situation now after this experience and she does the same thing, I would kill her again."
Mahmoud says he found a note belonging to his sister with several phone numbers and rang one to find it was a clinic that restores a woman's virginity through surgery.
He says that was the final straw.
"She was violating rules of the society. Why has she done that?
"She didn't have the right to do that. She shamed our family."...
He beat his sister to death.
"He wasn't serious with her and he is bragging about what he was doing. I was so ashamed with my sister."
WTF? He was ashamed of his sister because of the Christian's attitude?
This is why "honor killings" are so disturbing and irrational. According to this guy, it was the Christian leading his sister on and using her, but somehow that's her fault? She deserved to die for being mislead?
You can make a case for 'honor killing' in any religion, but the fact remains that in modern times it is muslims disproportionately committing this crime.
islam is a disgusting, backward, draconian belief system. We need to stop calling it a religion. We need to stop giving it the benefit of religious freedom and protection.
It isn't a religion, it is a cult.
Obviously drinking himself into a murderous rage then savagely killing his own sister doesn't "violate the rules of the society"—at least not compared to his sister possibly having slept with a non-Muslim.
What a sick, sick "society" Islam creates.
"I don't say that I wish I hadn't killed her, but I say I wish she hadn't done that," he said.
============
It was all her fault. He'll walk.
"He beat his sister to death."
Even worse, he says he would do it again.
Islam is a collective mental disease, and that disease in all its myriad manifestations, is directly related to why they are trying to kill us.
Things to do:
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2008/01/honor-killers.html
PERCENTAGE OF HONOR KILLINGS DONE BY MUSLIMS
According to the article "Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings," published in the Middle East Forum, Muslims do 91 percent of honor killings worldwide and 96 percent of honor killings in Europe. If you click on the link, those percentages can be found five paragraphs below the heading "Methodology."
According to Encylopedia Brittanica, Al-Azhar University is the "chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world..." Robert Spencer wrote that
See pp. 583-584 of Reliance of the Traveller, the English translation of Umdat al-Salik.
That may be why 91% of honor killings worldwide, and 96% of European honor killings, are done by Muslims.
And more here:
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/if-youre-a-scared-muslim-.html
From the article:
“And why is he unrepentant? Because as far as he is concerned, the evil she has done has brought shame to the family...”
~~~~~
Oh yes, Islam is excessively conservative nearly beyond words description.
I don't know if Khaled Mahmoud is a sociopath or not, but his responses are right out of the textbook.
Must be cultural, then.........
There seems to be no end to the violent reactions Abramic religions and phychotic Americans have toward their children. You would think that everyone would join us in the 21st century and abandon these barbaric religions like Judiasm, Christianity and Islam.
Along with infanticide Americans enjoy drowning their children.
http://www.easterniowanewsnow.com/2010/06/18/mothers-who-kill-their-children-isnt-so-uncommon/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2619_v125/ai_18967468/
I am an ex-Muslim. While on the general topic of this article, here is rather funny story from the road>>>
In late July of this past summer, I had a hilarious encounter with a gorgeous little Muslimah gal.
I live in a major Canadian city. It was a Friday night and I was off to meet friends for drinks after a hard days work. Before leaving the house I primed up on a few cocktails and was in a very good and light-hearted humorous mood.
In short, I crossed paths with a young Muslimah and decided to push her buttons. In an animated fashion I asked her whether she was Muslim and told her that she was very beautiful. She was taken a back by this, so without hesitation I propositioned her right there on the street.
I told her that I was an ex-Muslim and my real (ex)Muslim name (includes the words bin Abdullah), and that I would love take her back to my place and f**k her little Muslim brains out.
Then I just stood there and stared her down with a smile on my face.
She became infuriated but remained silent and eventually walked away. Sometimes Muslims need to be shocked back to reality this way.
I had a good laugh over the incident and walked away wishing her nothing but the best.
I have done this same sort of thing several times before in the past and should keep doing a lot more it I suppose. Good times.
http://www.considerationsofacanadianex-muslim.org
This is one more reason why the USA should try to keep its involvement in the Islamic world to a minimum; and remain open to granting asylum to non-Muslim minorities from the Islamic world.
This being said, I approve of Undaunted's post. We should not worry about women who wish to remain Muslim, but who are just trying to get away from clitorodectomies or wear a different-colored hijab. The sort of culture Islam fosters is simply too violent and vicious.
BTW, I know it's OT, but someone in Libya once observed that if hudud punishments were strictly enforced in Libya, most of the male population would be missing hands.
A STANDARD ISLAMIC LEGAL REFERENCE, CERTIFIED BY AL-AZHAR, THE CHIEF CENTER OF ISLAMIC AND ARABIC LEARNING IN THE WORLD, NOT ONLY SAYS ONE CAN KILL ONE'S CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN WITH IMPUNITY; IMPUNITY ALSO EXTENDS TO A MUSLIM WHO KILLS A NON-MUSLIM
From page 583-584 of The Reliance of the Traveller/Umdat Al-Salik:
From the back cover of Reliance of the Traveller:
The back cover also says the bookAccording to Encylopedia Brittanica, Al-Azhar University is the "chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world..."
Don't ask me to play kumbaya with these people. Ever. No pleading with them to be sweet and reasonable. Just the warning: rid yourselves of the curse of Islam and Sharia, or eventually you will suffer the consequences.
With that in mind, I understand there is to be open house in mosques about a month from now with the intention of taqiyya-ing all the little trusting American kuffar into a deeper level of dhimmitude. I think this is potentially an excellent opportunity to get into mosques in the presence of numerous non-muslims, some of whom may have at least some of their wits still about them, and ask some hard questions.
Saleem, we seem to share a similar unruly attitude. What do you think? Teams of two or more mingling with the wide-eyed kuffar ready to challenge the lies such as the one about women voting in Mo's time that they tried to pawn off on those kids in the mosque up in Boston. We'll probably get thrown out in short order -- perhaps to be replaced by a second, back-up team?
Picketing and protesting the "open-houses" would probably be a very bad idea since they would use that to try to claim "bigotry". But some pointed and politely but very persistently asked questions by people who know how to get around the taqiyya to the truth? If we awaken the curiosity of and raise doubts in the minds of even a few open-house attendees, would that not be worth the effort?
"It isn't a religion, it is a cult."
It isn't a religion, it's a mental disease.
You need to find another website.
This is not "Judaism/Christianity Watch."
It's Jihad Watch. Now get out. You contribute nothing.
Again we see, there doesn't seem to be any forgiveness in Islam.
DANIEL BOORSTIN: "THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE...BETWEEN THE HEBREW-CHRISTIAN GOD THE MAKER AND THE MUSLIM GOD OF FIAT."
"For a believing Muslim, to create is a rash and dangerous act."
In a very short chapter of Boorstin's The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (a book that with his The Discoverers and The Seekers forms a magisterial and deservedly famous trilogy), Boorstin sought the heart of the difference between Islamic and Judeo-Christian culture. Here are some choice excerpts:
(my bolding; Boorstin, 1992, pp.63-69.)Correct, but I can't help but think that retards like yourself fail to address the real problem that exists and carry on that it's the Muslims to blame and not the Political systems around the world including the Muslim Countries themselves that are responsible.
Whining about Muslims in fact is not the solution, but for one removing importance of religions themselves as having any Political importance. Otherwise your left with the lame discussions your having about my imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend.
If your afraid of reality maybe this site is in fact not right for you and you should be on the Planet Nibiru websites. You in fact lack anything to bring to the table that would any way effect Foriegn Policy. The topic of we like 2/3's of the Abrahamic religion is pointless and will never get you any where but having the rest of the world look at you as the SMUK you truly are.
SaleemSmith said: "...that I would love take her back to my place and **** her little Muslim brains out."
Marisol, Robert, somebody; time to revoke little Saleem's commenting privileges. He doesn't play by the rules.
OT
Feisal Rauf's op-ed in Malaysian newspaper The Star.
All married Muslim women must become the slaves of slaves because all Muslim men are the slaves of cruel god Allah or should we call it the Muhammedanism cult of Islam?
I've read the Torah and the Talbut which reads like the Islamic Hadiths. The God of the Old Testament is a bit of a prick, responsible for mass genocide and tinkering in normal human evolution.
Also if Kane and Able are the sons of Adam and Eve then humanity would have ended unless one would sleep with their mother. We can go on forever at how ridiculous any of these religions truly are.
Let's maybe focus on how we can prevent ourselves from being terrorized by these crazy religions.
Obviously this animal thinks Sharia Law clears him, and Sharia is supreme. Let's hope he learns "not here" the hard way. Find the nearest hangin' judge operating under the US Constitution.
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
This is for Saleemsmith: What you did and do is disgusting.
You get drunk and insult women. I don't care if they are Muslims or voodoo witches, you don't treat another human being with sexual taunts. You didn't know her, you assumed because she subscribes to Islam which she does to keep to her family traditions and doesn't know any other way, that she is an object to be dehumanized. Shame on you!!
You're the "retard," and an extremely sick, nasty person as well. Most probably a psychopath. Definitely a "prick." Now bug off you creep.
Can someone do something about the above a**hole?
Hey Filthy,
Loosen and lighten up my stinky friend.
The world doesn't revolve around your delicate sensibilities.
The Muslims damn sure demand that the world revolves around theirs though doesn't it??
Muslims generally love us ex-Muslims because we speak truths they are incapable of speaking out of fear for their lives.
Although I wouldn't expect you to understand this my friend.
It appears freedom of speech is not part of your agenda and you wish anyone who looks for the truth would be silenced. Saddam Hussain would be proud of you.
There you go again, Thereisonlynogod - lumping in Judaism and Christianity, with modern day Islam. You constantly refer to Islam as being a part of the " Abramic religions ", when it's not.
Islam is a made up religion, based on Mohammad's very limited knowledge of the scriptures. And conveniently altered, to suit his needs.
You also write " You would also think that everyone would join us in the 21st century and abandon these barbaric religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam ".
What's "barbaric" about anything that Christ said, or did ?
" Love your neighbor ? Pure evil ! " Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you " ? Vile !
Yeah, Christ was a real SOB !
Before you spout such nonsense, you should do your homework first, and read the message of Jesus Christ,as is presented in the New Testament, and compare His words, to those of Mohammad.
Different as night and day.
You can be an atheist, and still see the differences.
Your initial comments caught my interest..but it now appears to me that you are either just plain ignorant, or purposefully deceitful.
I would hope that it's the former...
By the way, I'm inclined to believe the latter, when I see that you wrote " Along with infanticide Americans enjoy drowning their children ".
Here's a News Flash for you - The evil Christians disapprove of infanticide, and murder.
Those obscenities are endorsed as a matter of public policy by " Progressives ", like yourself.
They don't call communists " Godless ", for no reason.
Hey there Thereisonlynogood,
We regular JW readers and commentators seem to agree that you are a typical duplicitous Muslim cultist playing games.
Or have we judged you wrong my friend?
If so, please make another comment explaining yourself and clear your good name my dear brother.
Your comments have absolutely nothing to do with "truth." Something's very wrong with you mentally, nasty troll.
In fact, you remind me of Saddam Hussein, also a nasty psycho.
therisnogod: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. A. Einstein Koch
(for the NT literate, pearls..swine, situation here, but I'll indulge anyhow)
So tell us therisnogod , on your non-Judean/Christian utopia what kind of specific customs, laws and ways for conducting ordinary, everyday business do you envision which will make this a better place for everyone? Have you thought it out all the way or are you just fixated on some surely repugnant antisocial behavior you would like to engage in without much opposition?
Paul, something's very wrong with this troll. Demented. Deliberately provoking by bashing Judaism and Christianity.
This is not an Atheist site. Go vent your hatred of all religions' elsewhere. Oh, and you give atheism a very bad name, btw.
The troll's "comments" are pure poison, venom, it's like a cobra. And he's deliberately trying to incite. As Saleem suggested, could be a "duplicitous Muslim cultist."
Pathetic...just like the cult he's a part of.
When reading this story - and I advise everyone to click on the link, and read it all, it is in its way a classic expose of the Muslim mind - the reader must bear in mind at all times that we only have this murdering brother's word to go on, as to what his sister did or didn't do, and also as to the supposed motives of her alleged Christian lover.
What should also be borne in mind by persons new to the subject of Islam, who may be reading this, is that the murderer is claiming that his sister breached sharia norms in two ways: not only by sexual misconduct (which would be enough to get her killed out of hand, even had her lover been a fellow Muslim), but - which is far, far worse even than that - by getting involved with a non-Muslim.
Sharia allows Muslim men to marry Jewish or Christian girls who remain non-Muslim, but the reverse is strictly forbidden: woe betide any Muslim girl who has a relationship with a non-Muslim man who remains non-Muslim, both partners are likely to be killed. People who've been here awhile will remember the British Muslim actress who played Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter films; she was beaten and threatened by her father and brother for breaching sharia norms by taking a Hindu boyfriend and refusing to give him up. Some years ago, a British non-Muslim guy and Muslim girl, 'Jack' and 'Zena' had to live in hiding for years, *in the UK*, in order to escape the murderous threats of Zena's family.
Of course I don't know, nobody knows, whether the murdered girl in this story from Arab-occupied Judea and Samaria did in fact *have* a lover, and whether that lover was an Arab/ised Christian, and unless our Aussie journalist Anne Barker has enough intelligence to try to find out whether the Christian lover exists and if he does, interview *him*, we can't know whether he had the nefarious motives that Khaled Mahmoud ascribes to him (most likely, not - much of what Khaled says seems to me to be boilerplate projection, un caso clinico).
There is something else going on here, too. Look again at what Khaled says:
"I was telling her that she should stay away from him and she shouldn't talk to him because he was playing", Mahmoud said. "He wasn't serious with her and he is bragging about what he was doing. I was so ashamed with my sister".
By this rhetorical move Mahmoud now represents his sister as the victim of a heartless non-Muslim seducer, so as to push off the ultimate responsibility for the murder onto a non-Muslim - i. e. 'that evil kafir seduced my sister and thus forced me to kill her; so it's all *his*, the kafir's, fault'.
All the way through, Khaled Mahmoud excuses himself by projecting all blame for the murder onto the his murdered sister and then, in addition, onto her alleged *non-Muslim* lover. (We should also take with a grain of salt his claim to have been in a drunken rage when he killed her: first, because it's yet another evasion of responsibility, "the drink made me do it" intertwined with "she was so bad she drove *me* - me, a good Muslim, to whom alcohol is forbidden - to drink", but also because all the research on honor murders shows that the vast majority of such cases - though they may be carried out by one person - are pre-planned and colluded in by the victim's entire family.)
I must say I have an evil mind: I wouldn't be at all surprised if his sister had done little or nothing of what he claims, and what he is doing is manufacturing - and exaggerating - her 'guilt' ex post facto. Any Muslim can kill another person, in dar al Islam, and get away with it, so long as they can convincingly claim that the murdered person had done something that, under sharia, requires punishment by death.
Twice over, we see the Muslim mind, which 'blames the victim' and denies all responsibility for its own actions, on full display.
First here:
"I don't say that I wish I hadn't killed her, but I say I wish she hadn't done that", he said.
In other words: it was all her fault.
And then, even more plainly, here:
"It wasn't my fault, and I haven't done anything wrong", he said.
There it is, in a nutshell - 'It wasn't my fault and I haven't done anything wrong' - the mind of Islam, that murders, and as it murders, projects all blame onto the murdered, exonerating itself and viewing itself as a victim and as a righteous executioner of those who breach the Islamic order - whether such 'offenders' are a perceived-to-be-erring Muslimah, or (under other circumstances) the guilty kuffar who so unaccountably refuse to submit to Islam.
Courreges w is right, this is not Judaismwatch/ Christianitywatch.
And you still have freedom of speech, but this website is about a certain topic and is not obliged to let you say everything you like and create diversions with your tu-quoque-reasoning.
Besides, the main opponent of Islam and Muslims are the secular Democratic system and its defenders/ promotors. The Jews and the Christians in vast majority are already on board of the secular Democratic system. There are no dictatorial Jewish and Christian states where Judaism and Christianity are heavily favored.
But there are 56 Islamic states and they are mostly un-democratic and even anti-democratic. There Islam is unjust heavily favored with much violence, propaganda and censorship. And it is now shown by Nonie Darwish that Shariah law, supported by vast numbers of Muslims, contradict totally at least 33 related Democratic laws.
The information-stream, logical reasoning and dialogue on this website is eventually meant to resolve peacefully the big undeniable current controverse between Muslims and Democracy-loyalists. Stopping it might result in much more violence, even war, in my opinion.
And arguing to consider other pressing problems or the risks of hate speech, hurt feelings etc more important than that is in effect trying to shut it down, a negative effort on your part, leading nowhere, in my opinion.
". She shamed our family"
If so doesnt it then follow that every muslim who has killed some family member for the same kind of reasons must be terribly mortified of shame, that they cannot bare shame. They are thus incapable of humility and they are not manly enough, intellectually developed enough to take it, now that indeed is a silly and more profoundly lasting shame. Never mind the deserved ridicule for their belief in a brainwashing despotic idiot of prophet (HNOEOE) hear no one else or else!
I agree with you, Courreges W - but setting the record straight, and publicly, when it comes to dealing with the likes of a three card monte player like "Thereisonlynogod ", is necessary at times.
There seems to be no end to the violent reactions Abramic religions and phychotic Americans have toward their children. You would think that everyone would join us in the 21st century and abandon these barbaric religions like Judiasm, Christianity and Islam.
Along with infanticide Americans enjoy drowning their children.
.................
You'll have to pedal this idiocy somewhere else.
What cases have you found where a Christian or Jew murders a family member *in the name of their faith*? Khaled Mahmoud killed his sister in the name of Islam, as is the case with all too many "honor" killings.
What nation on earth winks at murders done in the name of Judaism or Christianity? There is not a single such nation—however, there are many Muslim nations that do so with "honor" killings done in the name of Islam.
A minor point, but the above story is not about America, in any case—it is about *Australia*. Although it is true that it could have happened anywhere in the world where you find the followers of the "Religion of Peace".
Saleem: What's the point? Doing on games on slaves with no mind?
How a about trying another kind of game on the men? Pick on them. They are the ones you have to do the shocking to.
EVEN IF ONE IS AN ATHEIST, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RELIGIONS MATTER, BECAUSE THOSE DIFFERENCES OFTEN LEAD TO DIFFERENT SOCIAL OUTCOMES
Suppose, just for the sake of discussion, I accept the premise that all religions are equally unbelievable. It doesn't follow that they all have the same social outcomes.
Tina Magaard is a linguist who got her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication from the Sorbonne. She did a three-year study of the original texts of the world's ten largest religions. One of her findings was that the core texts of Islam are the most aggressive against other groups. One can be an atheist and consider that distinctive feature of Islam significant.
It is not in accord with the diversity and uniqueness of phenomena to say that all religions have the same outcomes. Religions exist at various points along a spectrum that extends from benign to malign, and through every point between. It makes sense, therefore, to notice the differences in their doctrines, even if one does not believe in any of them.
For example, the violence in the Old Testament is descriptive: we read about how, in the past, the Old Testament God said to wipe out certain, specific, named, towns. But the Jewish God does not tell Jews to make war on all non-Jews till the end of time in order to subjugate them under the rule of Jewish law.
By contrast, the violence in the core texts of Islam is prescriptive: it commands violence in the present and into the future, until the end of times, against non-Muslims who refuse to accept rule by Islamic law. That is a huge difference, in terms of potential social outcomes.
Another huge difference: Judaism has only about fifteen million members worldwide. Even if they wanted to dominate the world, they could not do so. Islam has about 100 times that number: 1.5 billion. Islam is a proselytizing faith, and significant percentages of its adherents support the expansion of Islamic law around the world and the rise of a caliphate. Islam's rapidly increasing numbers give it the capacity to dominate large regions of the globe. Mainstream analysts have pointed out that due to extremely rapid Muslim population growth in Europe, that continent may be majority-Muslim before the end of this century. So even if both Judaism and Islam are fictions, they have very different social outcomes for you and me.
Another huge difference: With 1/100 the population of Muslims, Jews have produced about 100 times more Nobel prizes in Physics, Mathematics, Economics, and Medicine than Muslims have produced. If 1/100 the population can produce 100 times more Nobel prizes, a quick calculation shows that a Jew is literally about 10,000 times more likely to produce a Nobel prize in the sciences. Now, that's a huge difference in social outcome. That could be the difference between civilization and barbarism.
Another huge difference: The central figure of the New Testament said "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's," and also, "My kingdom is not of this world." And he told his disciples that the disciple who would be greatest among them would not lord over them but would serve them and wash their feet, as Jesus washed their feet. Those statements and others from the central figure portrayed in the New Testament led, despite resistance over nearly two thousand years, to a separation of religion and state. By contrast, Muhammad did not lay down a division between the "things of Caesar and the things of God." Muhammad, the chief exemplar for Muslims, became Caesar, i.e., the ruler of a State, and an expansionist theocratic state, at that. Thus the world's Muslims usually do not aspire to separation of religion and state.
There are many other critical differences between religions. The differences matter, even if you are an atheist.
A minor point, but the above story is not about America, in any case—it is about *Australia*.
..............
Muslim Ah—I read the story too quickly. I had through it was about a "Palestinian" family in Australia—instead, it is about a Muslim family in the "West Bank", reported by an Australian news outlet.
My apologies. It is not, in any case, a story about Americans.
I find it hilarious that you morons think I support Islam and all it's moronic values that it inherited from the earlier crappy versions. I can tell from this crowd that you enjoy dishing out what you can not take.
If Muslims rule the world a Muslim does not have any fear. Likewise if the New World Order rules the world someone who supports the rights of individuals to buy the world has no fear. Which one am I ?
Were one Abrahamic religion away from squashing this pestilence that is been a scourge on society for centuries. Look around we are winning, your Countries are caught in civil wars between your useless religions and it's only a matter of time before we free the world of your retarded belief system and move on to one world thinking of peace and harmony.
Your stupid religion has us marked as the anti-Christ due to the built in security of them being all non believers go to he'll for eternity. Logic, eternity is another word for infinity which has no beginning or end, you can not enter this halfway, you can not got to heaven or he'll for eternity, it's logically impossible. We will soon free you from your retardiness.
I'm an agnostic but your lumping Judaism and Christianity together as essentially equally bad as Islam is moronic. There's nothing in the Judeo-Christian ethic or its doctrines which are inimical to democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and equality under the law. Contra Islam, which in its doctrines and putrid ethic, calls for the crushing of freedom of all kinds in this world.
Moreover, you are oblivious to the fact that the Bible does not serve as a literal paradigm of action for all time while the Koran does exactly such (this is why, for example, not a single Ultra-Orthodox rabbi can be found who still wants to stone adultresses but millions upon millions of Muslims and their misguided imams most definitely desire this). Grow up intellectually and emotionally if you can, which I kinda' doubt. So tired of rubes like you who engage in the abysmal business of tu quoque reasoning. You're boring and wrong. Bordering on stupid too---you know, that special kind of stupidity which is manifested by persons who have bits and pieces of knowledge but still not nearly enough.
"I've read the Torah and the Talbut..."
There's no such thing as 'Talbut' in Judaism. I think if you're reading something you should at least know its name. Also reading these books isn't enough - you should also read about Orthodox Judaism vs. Reform Judaism (for instance, Reform Jews have male and female rabbis, including gays and lesbians, and support gay marriage - did you read about it in the, er, "Talbut"?), and you should also read more contemporary interpretations and works since not everything written in the Torah is carried out quite literally these days, or in the last millennium or two, maybe you've noticed. Of course, it's perfectly understandable if you don't want to waste your time on that, but just don't pretend you know it. You can be an atheist without pretending to know all religions or any religion.
I'm an atheist (and I don't pretend to know any religion), but I don't think that ridding the world of all religions is going to solve the human condition. After all, Nazism and Communism, both secular ideologies, have inflicted an enormous damage on humanity and lead to the killing of tens of millions of people in a relatively short period of time.
DJM: She deserved to die for being mislead?
I think it was more likely that she died for disobeying her brother, thus shattering his ego, battering his self esteem, and making him wonder what all the other (male) Muslims were saying about him and his failure to control his sister.
Disgusting, isn't it?
Thanks DDA, once more a very interesting post.
Giving us an inside glimpse in the mind of Muslims.
How abhorrent, stupid. One aspect of it is that the behavior of another adult human, Asmaa was 23, can result in how another adult human feels so strongly. In our culture we think that a person is autonomous and free to a much greater extent. Very fortunately we have no laws against adultery.
And it seems very stupid to us to let the behavior of another person influence how we feel inside so outrageously. It is as if Muslims have a button-board on their backs and other persons can regulate all their feelings by pushing buttons, without the Muslims having any influence on their feelings, any responsibility for them THEMSELVES.
Ah, you're the moron, and you have demonstrated this to so many of us quite clearly. LOL.
Awww, look at the cutest piece of propaganda I just found:
http://www.zurmat.com/?p=1477
Sooo cuuute!
:P
That's rich, coming from some loser that doesn't have anything to say but the lame line you pitch.
Can't think of anything to say not anti Muslim.
You Suck!
I never said, or implied, that you supported Islam.
My problem with you, is that you knowingly group Islam ( and apparently all religions ) together in a single group.
That is being dishonest ( a three card monte dealer ).
And name calling ( Morons ), only further diminishes you.
You also write " We will soon free you from your retardiness ".
Who are " we " ?
Dude, I'm all ears for logic and reasoning with facts, but now you sound like a writer for a low budget horror film.
Boring....
OT kinda sorta, but not really: Thereisnogod is the exact product the Frankfort School was hoping to deliver when their collective brains hatched PC/MC.
Here is a great vid with background on the Frankfort School; what sort of people taught there, how their vile ideology came to be, what and how they hope to achieve their goals.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1429144751008474466#docid=8630135369495797236
Hello allat, interesting comment, thank you for your... concern?
You know nothing about me or what I have done with Muslim men in the larger world so your comment is rather amusing to me.
~~~~~
And what exactly is it that you have done to expose the evils of Islamic theology my friend?
Lady Gaga is fighting for the right to have flaming homosexuals be openly gay in the military. Muslim Countries will love there opponents.
Before leaving the house I primed up on a few cocktails and was in a very good and light-hearted humorous mood.
In short, I crossed paths with a young Muslimah and decided to push her buttons. In an animated fashion I asked her whether she was Muslim and told her that she was very beautiful. She was taken a back by this, so without hesitation I propositioned her right there on the street.
I told her that I was an ex-Muslim and my real (ex)Muslim name (includes the words bin Abdullah), and that I would love take her back to my place and f**k her little Muslim brains out.
Then I just stood there and stared her down with a smile on my face.
She became infuriated but remained silent and eventually walked away. Sometimes Muslims need to be shocked back to reality this way.
..................
Saleem, I have enjoyed many of your posts in the past.
This is *not* one of them. What you did with this woman was entirely inappropriate. You gave her good reason to be alarmed, at the least—or perhaps actually frightened.
Teaching a woman—*any* woman—that some men can be drunken jerks is not "shocking her back to reality"—it is just obnoxious.
If you had actually engaged her, in a polite manner, on some of the more disturbing aspects of Islam, it would been different.
Moreover, you have probably just confirmed this Muslimah's image of Infidels—that they are drunken creeps with no sexual control. Thanks a lot.
“[H]ere is rather funny story from the road.”
No, not funny.
“I had a good laugh over the incident and walked away wishing her nothing but the best.”
You’re sick. Decent, empathic people don’t act like that.
There was a recently discoverd tribe of New Zealand cannibals. Every full moon, they raid a neigboring tribe to snap up a victim. After lunch, they give tnanks to their Moon God for the sumptuous meal.
Every muslim should be REQUIRED to spend time with this tribe in order to learn how to mix religion with civilized behavior.
Please, if you would, explain why what I said is lame. Details if you would, details if you can. Give it a shot, loser.
King of the one sentences Wellington wants to know why he is lame. I think it's self explanatory clown.
You need to back off, dirtbag. Wellington's been commenting here very sagaciously for quite some time and you're just a fucking new guy with a dopey name.
This is the type of retarded non informational type of commentary I'm talking about. You can go to the head of the class with your dunce cap on KRASHKOWALSKI.
Wow, such an intelligent person that Robert Spencer is with all his research must be embarrassed with you clowns who have nothing to bring to the table. UNDAUNTED by intelligence. In case you haven't noticed this is not a Union where seniority of Jack a$$es reign but just the comment section of some blog.
Replying to several comments made above:
~~~~~
Fair enough.
If some people want to drag some kind of feminist thing into this discussion whatever.
My main reason that I wrote what I did in the above comment is that I know from experience that many Muslimahs will never leave Islam unless something profound befalls them.
In closing, both female and Muslim males are petrifiied by fears of Islamic hell fire and need to be pulled out of such nonsensical bullshit.
I'm happy that within your cowardness and hatred for Islam that you would pick on a Muslim woman and not a man. Grow a pair loser.
Notice to Marisol/RS:
The very sick insulting and name-calling demented individual "thereis" (see above) is really bringing the site down to the level of an ape throwing his ****.
Please do something about it. And, he keeps using the words "retarded, retards, morons" so you see how low-level he is. The boot, please, the nasty troll deserves it.
therisnobrain inside therisnogod.
His response is the typical one line insult of a school yard bully lacking the brains to do much else. Apparently he is too stupid to understand who he is up against attempting to bemuse Wellington who time and again I have witness squash idiots such as -t-i-n-g without much effort.
Sadly, another one to add to the long list... And to this image -
http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-writers/63-acharya-s/413-dishonor-murder
It's good news that there's "a growing push in the Arab world to have men responsible for so-called honour killings treated as murderers by the courts." Maybe these pathological savages will finally join the human race?
I submit to you it's not self-explanatory. Your asserting so is a cop-out. So, explain it to all of us who think you're the deficient one but whom you have maintained are lesser thinkers than yourself-----if you can that is, which I say you can't.
You lumped Judaism and Christianity together with Islam as religions which are essentially worthy of equal condemnation. I find this asssessment as dumb-ass an analysis as an analysis can be, partially demonstrated by the fact that Methodist suicide bombers, Catholics taking hostages, Jews hijacking airplanes, Lutherans sawing off heads and Baptists threatening death to those who dare deny Jesus's divinity are all pretty damn rare events. Contra the Muslim world of course which goes into lethal hysterics even over cartoons and which has perpetrated over 16,000 documented terrorist attacks just since 9/11 alone. Only the ignorant or mendacious would aver that Judaism and Christianity are as roughly guilty as Islam is of being inimical to liberty and other good things which people with sense should cherish.
So, go ahead, explain why I'm wrong and you're neither an ignoramus or a liar. Dare ya'. As I said before, give it a shot. Bet you can't. So far you've demonstrated you're good for insults and superficial thinking and nothing else. Prove me wrong.
Excuse me my brother,
That comment above was obviously not directed towards you.
I 2nd what undaunted said.
Yeah thank you for your comment tonight brother.
We are waiting anxiously for thereisnobrain, I mean t-i-n-g, to amaze us with his brilliant critical thinking capacity to reaspond to the simple questions he is being asked.
Come on t-i-n-g, bedazzle us. I cant wait.
Well I'm Glad that I'm "neither an ignoramus or a liar" according to you. Jews in fact completely committed Genocide on the religion of Baahl. Thought to have been Pagen Devil Worshipers but turning out to be worshippers of the fertility God Baahl, but this didn't stop the Jews from killing every last one of them.
"genoside on the religion of Baahl" uncontrolled LOL's
The worship of the god baahl required human sacrifice, the live burning of people including babies, I say kill them all, it's called ending barbarism.
This idiot sounds like the ones who are decring the suffering of afghans beacuse of American "occupation". it's called you attack us you pay bastards.
"...yet Mahmoud says she made the unforgivable mistake of sleeping with another man, a Christian, and brought enormous shame on the family." --from the article
Yet another case where the reason cited for the "honor" killing happens to match sharia law exactly, i.e., the classical sharia penalty for a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man having sexual relations is death.
I seem to be at a loss for your misguided information. Here's a link to a site that explains Baal.
http://www.baal.com/baal/about/index_about.shtml
It doesn't appear to be what you sling at all but actuall if you've read a son of Noah that Jews in fact killed as well. Jews killing themselves I suppose. Though shall not kill, what was that I can't hear you?
even when t-i-n-g desperately goes back 3000 years in an attempt to find something almost forgotten he winds up hopelessly unable to even come close to refuting any of Wellington or even my own question I posed for him earlier. He loses by a knock out I say, first second of the first round. Applause to Wellington, laughter and ridicule to therisnogod, aka therisnobrain. LOL
...though not quite exactly sharia, since only the woman was killed; under classical sharia, both the Christian man and the Muslim woman would be killed, if the man did not convert to Islam in order to marry the Muslim woman.
Much earlier in response to the first comment you made I posetd the following questions which you first need to answer me before I indulge your last remark.
So tell us therisnogod , on your non-Judean/Christian utopia what kind of specific customs, laws and ways for conducting ordinary, everyday business do you envision which will make this a better place for everyone? Have you thought it out all the way or are you just fixated on some surely repugnant antisocial behavior you would like to engage in without much opposition?
Well it appears that there is a way to do this in the U.S Constituition, so I suggest no change and that we skip through the loophole.
There is one other direct bow to religion in the original Constitution, and it is a bit obtuse. The Presidential Oath of Office is codified in the Constitution in this way:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
You really have no idea whom you are insulting when insulting undaunted. I mean you're totally clueless. In fact, it's better that you are. In your case, ignorance is indeed bliss.
As for violence in the Old Testament, would you please try to comprehend that any such violence was for a specific time and for a very limited place. It was not meant as a prescriptive for conquest of all the earth and as a model for action through the ages. By contrast, the Koran is exactly what the Old Testament is not---a manual forever to take over the world and the employment of violence through all the centuries and millennia until such is accomplished. Difference between day and night here, even assuming one is not enthralled by the Old Testament. Man, your tu quoque reasoning is on display for all to see and you are clueless about this too.
You are not answering any of the questions posed, you are mentally either diminished because of a chemical influence or a neurological deficiency.
I will nonetheless honor my word and provide a little education for you. In regards to the god baal, the bible is replete with accounts of the savagery of the followers of baal and amongst their cherished cultural traits you find the sacrifice of the young, not much distinct than what the hamas people do this day. You can find about 133 references in the old testament and one in the NT.
Ex. Molach.AV and 2\chronicles 28:3 along, Jeremiah 9:13, 7:31, 19:2 , 32:3
I love Islam.
Islam is the perfect way of life.
Saleemsmith hang in there, sanity awaits you.
Thereisonlynogod,
To get back on topic (and how far things have strayed), would you kill your sister like Khaled Mahmoud did in the same circumstances?
Ya sorry there FAKING WEST but I don't think that we have accepted the Old Testement Written by Jews as a piece of Non-Fiction yet.
Good try though!
Also why would the Jews who annihilated a culture paint them in a good light?
Saleem,
If islam is the perfect way of life, why did Khaled Mahmoud kill his sister because of honor? Is killing the perfect way of life?
Yeahhh, thanks you too bud.
you probably consider Nazism a culture, I for one am thankful my father and many of my uncles put their lives at risk committing "genocide" against it.
You are a waste and probably wasted, you had a chance of proving yourself and have failed miserably at it. for the rest of your life read and reread your postings for proof of your idiocy,
Nazi Baalists, way to stray off the topic imbecile.
"Whining about Muslims in fact is not the solution,"
Who's whining? Only mostly(on a global scale) muslims whine.. What you perceive as our whining is rather telling as to your loyalties..Am I now "whining" at you?
Most muslims most imperatively need to read this..mostly..
http://childparenting.about.com/cs/behaviorproblems/a/whining.htm
Of course any decent human being would not do what Khaled Mahmoud has done. This is also a psychological issue as well, not just isolated to Islam, Sihks, Punjabs, even Americans themselves do stupid stuff like this everyday.
Yep, sounds like your scholarship is right on par with the rest of the ignorant Moslem world.
You children are just a dime a dozen.
Sikhs and Punjabs ARE Americans..You idiote..(sic)
Wow that was educational. You might be better off on this site.
http://www.43things.com/things/view/85263/stop-being-gay
They are actually Indians from India, once again I direct you to the STOP BEING GAY SITE.
Thereisonlynogod,
So Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans kill their sisters because of honor? Where is your proof of honor killings by Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans?
BTW, you didn't answer my question - would you kill your sister like Khaled Mahmoud did in the same circumstances?
Sharia (Allah law as applied by Islamic scholars based on Mohammed's claim that Mohammed was repeating Angel Gabriel's recitation which Angle Gabriel had said to be from a book that is in the 7th Heaven)
Page 583-584 of The Reliance of the Traveller/Umdat Al-Salik (section 01.1-2):
1.1.2 The following are not subject to retaliation:
1. a child or insane person, under any circumstances...
2. a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim;
3. a Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam...
4. a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring;
Even if this law was made by men when we would classify such men as deranged! What to say of an all knowing God!!
Additonally this law also highlights the fudamental fault with Sharia and that is a law that first recognises the religion of a person by extension denies humanity!
How sad...
Ariana called. You're late. Time to go home:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Please explain,in detail,how you differentiate between Sikhs,Punjabs and Americans..
Waking West
Saleem Smith is a publicly-declared apostate. He was being sarcastic and forgetting that sarc marks do need to be used online, especially in a forum where some people know your posting history but others don't.
When Muslim talk of "Honor" it makes me sick! What Honor is there in murdering your child, sister, brother, wife, or anyone? It is the Most DisHonorable thing a person could do. It is just more proof that their sick Allah is SATAN! Only a Demon would do something like this. Muslims should not be allowed to leave their caves, never allowed to go into a Decent, Civilized Society! They are Animals, more closely related to wild Pigs than Humanity!
Here read your Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
>>Ariana called. You're late. Time to go home.
Wow, how come I have a feeling that you ripped that off from somewhere. Well I guess well have to do with your lack of originality.
Thereisonlynogod,
Repost... are you mentally unable to answer or just not man enough?
So Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans kill their sisters because of honor? Where is your proof of honor killings by Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans?
BTW, you didn't answer my question - would you kill your sister like Khaled Mahmoud did in the same circumstances?
Thanka for proving my point..ta ta..
Is it a tingling kind of feeling up your leg?
But you're right, I've used that too much, gotta lay off it awhile.
Speaking of lack of originality, would you consider trying something different than Islamic Empire, Channe, Zinedine, Rob, DOI, and the others who've regualarly been thru here peddling their worn out whores?
I'm starting to think you're all just the same guy with different handles.
I wouldn't kill anyone, my sister, mother daughter or even you for being the Jacka$$ you truly are.
Read about honor killings and you will discover them in other parts of the non Islamic world as well. JW is not the end all be all of news by the way.
Someone needs to show you the door. You've taken this thread way off topic, troll.
..and your son?..mohammed?
"I am really sorry for what happened, but I think even if I'm in the same situation now after this experience and she does the same thing, I would kill her again."
The son is the one that brought shame to his family, not the sister that slept with a Christian. What a backwards belief system.
Islam is the absolute king of honor killings, world wide. Nothing else comes close.
Your answer is quite interesting: "I wouldn't kill anyone, my sister, mother daughter...". You don't mention brother, father or son - is that because they are male and islam doesn't allow honor killings of males?
Trap door..preferably,.with a stalagmitically profusive profusion of a pool of kuffar spelunk-shite awaiting..yeah,bat shit too..
"JW is not the end all be all of news by the way."
No, but it is at the forefront of reporting JIHAD-related news, just as it was always intended to be. JihadWatch, get it? Jihad. Muslim. Islamic Jihad related news.
It even says JIHADWATCH up top, did you see it??
This is not AmericanWatch, or BaaliWatch or SikhWatch or PunjabWatch or even EverybodyElseDoesItTooWatch.
It's JIHADWATCH. As bright as you seem to think you are, I'm surprised you didn't realize that.
Honor killings are not considered Jihads stupid.
The Site is not called Muslim Watch, get it. Apparently off topic news is allowed.
By the way I'm an Atheist that's just amazed at how sensitive everyone is about their own religions, I didn't realize how religious everyone is on this site and find you kind of hypocritical. It's hard to take you very seriously when your focused on how much better your own religions are.
Mar?
Somebody?
If one is going to be insulting and use ad hominem, it's a losing proposition unless one has the power to stop one's opponent, either by banning him (we don't have that power) or by being so clever as to somehow silence him (very difficult to silence opponents with mere cleverness.) Since it is not in our power to stop an opponent, it makes no sense to attack and get personal. The opponent will just get personal right back at us, and we'll all be stained with the mud, as we descend into a hell of mutual debasement. Ganging up on someone with ad hominem doesn't really help either.
Here's my 2 cents on the history of this long dogfight with thereisonlynogod in this comments thread. Maybe I'm wrong. We see that thereisonlynogod's first comment claimed that all the "Abrahamic" religions, by which he meant Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, are bad, and then in response someone here who means well but got impatient told thereisonlynogod to "get out" and that he had nothing to offer, was not wanted. In response, thereisonlynogod, not surprisingly, got mad and called that person a retard, and it all went downhill from there. We then had about twenty comments in which ad hominem featured prominently, with various people insulting thereisonlynogod, and thereisonlynogod blithely insulting them back.
While I disagree with thereisonlynogod's views about religion, I didn't take his views about religion personally or think it to any purpose to attack him personally. I think the weakness of his position would have shown itself more clearly if we simply debated him in a patient and polite way. I think the record shows that he did not strike the first personal ad hominem blow, though he was hardly restrained in returning blows. Then, seeing him in an insult-squabble with someone, other people here also started in on the ad hominem against him. I think that by our descending into a spate of ad hominems, we let him lead us to corrupt the thread. Look how it took over the whole thread. I think that shows the mistake of letting differences of opinion become personal. It short-circuits good debate. Even if he never would have listened to a substantive thing we said, others here could have read our opposing comments, or contributed comments, and perhaps been persuaded of how wrong he was.
Best for us all if we keep debate to facts and logic as to why the other person's statement is mistaken. Don't take it personally. Calm and patient emotions often seem to leave people with less egg on their faces.
I admit though, if the other person starts the ad hominem and persists with it maliciously despite one's efforts to meet rudeness with calm patience and forbearance, then that's different, and maybe sometimes there is no help for it but to fight back, descend a little ways into the mud with him, and hope one gets the better of it by unheralded superlative wit or cleverness, the only way to come out of such dogfights smelling good.
In that regard, many will perhaps recall the public argument Winston Churchill had with some lady of power in Britain. The lady said, "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd give you poison to drink." Replied Mr. Churchill, "Lady, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"
If you can produce comebacks like that, then getting into an insult match might make sense. But if you are not Winston Churchill, it seems ill-advised.
I know I might be wrong about this, but I think we handled thereisonlynogod the wrong way, and brought the thread down.
Well said Eleanor...
Thereisonlynogod is, I believe, bent on twisting the comments thread this way or that with the goal of distracting us from the topic at hand. I call it blog-jihad. Zinedine is another blog-jihadist, well versed in changing the subject into something he's got ready answers for but has nothing to do with the thread. This is becoming more common and lets watch out for it.
I'd like to suggest we start over, and either talk to him politely, or ignore him.
I am as polite as the company I keep.
Traeh, you are too kind... I only asked a few questions of Thereisonlynogod and he called me a jackass without answering my questions. Maybe he needs an anger management class (or a Jihad management class?).
I think you are a really awful troll. Nothing you say has anything to do with the topic at hand.
Here, if you want to criticize these people, start with this post:
"Bloodhound | September 22, 2010 12:00 AM | Reply "
"Muslims should not be allowed to leave their caves, never allowed to go into a Decent, Civilized Society! They are Animals, more closely related to wild Pigs than Humanity!"
And stop just being disruptive to no end.
Okay, I'll respond to the new and improved "I am as polite as the company I keep" Thereisonlynogod. For the third time -
According to you, Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans kill their sisters because of honor. Where is your proof of Sikhs, Punjab's and Americans honor killing their sisters? (Of course, if they are muslim Sikhs, or muslim Punjab's or muslim Americans, I will completely understand - that would make perfect sense)...
I think you are being a really awful troll. Nothing you say has much to do with the topic at hand.
Here, if you want to criticize these people, start with this post:
"Bloodhound | September 22, 2010 12:00 AM | Reply "
"Muslims should not be allowed to leave their caves, never allowed to go into a Decent, Civilized Society! They are Animals, more closely related to wild Pigs than Humanity!"
If you want them to be insulted or annoyed, do not worry. Just start making some calm, rational points. They will still call you a child-rapist fart. They hate Muslims and Muslim supporters that make good points. They will still call you a "blog-jihadist" and Super Secret Western Jihadist.
They love people like you though. You are easy to dismiss and serve a easy focus point to their anger. Do not troll any more.
I think "ignore him" is the way I'd like to go, just as I've stated publicly that I will never acknowledge "Zinedine" again after the way he brutalized Wellington for no reason. This new guy says he's an athiest, but I don't buy it. As an athiest, I could never defend "anything" Islam, from faith to lifestyle to social structure to law, it's all rotten. If you leave a "god" out of it and just look at the philosphy of Islam, it's utterly indefensible on every level. I don't defend the other religions much either, except where unfair and idiotic "parallels" have been drawn against them compared with Islam. And, I do defend the State of Israel, not because it's a Jewish State, but because it's a democratic state with the right to exist, in so many ways, by so many standards.
Muslim Sikhs, Muslim Punjabs ?
Is that like Christian Jews or Buddhist Hindus?
Thanks bford. Passions do rise when "cyber-jihadists" appear.
It's a good sign that they do show up, though, because that means the anti-jihad movement is getting under their skin -- which indicates that more and more people on our side are doing something right.
It's odd that you think that I'm on your side when in fact I think your religion sucks. Muhammeds a homicidal maniac bent on his self serving interests. The Quran is so obviously a rip off of the two religions that proceeded it, his wife was Christian by the way so don't give me any bull about him not knowing anything about Christianity or Judaism. When someone comes out of a cave after a month of starving himself I would chalk that down to hallucinations.
It would be sad if your stupid religion was able to get any larger than it already has. And by the way your great 15 story monument of stupidity is just going to be overshadowed by the new One World Trade Center, symbol of our Capitalistic non concerned with your religious idiocy.
"Muslim Sikhs, Muslim Punjabs ?
Is that like Christian Jews or Buddhist Hindus?"
'Muslim Sikhs' is an internal contradiction, especially considering the fact that Sikhism was created within Hinduism in order to fight islam. Of 'Muslim Punjabs' (the correct term is 'Panjabis') on the other hand, there are many millions -too many in my opinion-, most of them in Pakistan.
Whether 'Christian Jews' exist, I cannot tell, but 'Buddhist Hindus' are no doubt a reality, for instance in Nepal or Sri Lanka. Buddhism and Hinduism are not mutually exclusive in any way.
Very informative. Buddhist Hindus, you would think one religion was enough.
Christian Jews do exist. I think I might even be one of them.
Well I guess that's it I've heard it all, can I be Jedi Atheist?
By that theory shouldn't Muslims be Jewish Christian Muslims.
PERCENTAGE OF HONOR KILLINGS DONE BY MUSLIMS
According to the article "Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings," published in the Middle East Forum, Muslims do 91 percent of honor killings worldwide and 96 percent of honor killings in Europe. If you click on the link, those percentages can be found five paragraphs below the heading "Methodology."
According to Encylopedia Brittanica, Al-Azhar University is the "chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world..." Robert Spencer wrote that
See pp. 583-584 of Reliance of the Traveller, the English translation of Umdat al-Salik.
That may be why 91% of honor killings worldwide, and 96% of European honor killings, are done by Muslims.
Are you guys mad?
Do you also bark back at a dog that barks at you? Have you ever "outbarked" it?
That "thereisnodogbutme" thing may be the card carrying member of the "cretins of the world" movement, but if winning is understood as accomplishing one's goals he is the uncontested winner here. How in the world could you not see after his first appearance in JW that his only goal is to have his moniker appearing as many times as possible in a blog? Any blog.
It is true he is a raving imbecile, but clever enough to pick up the site where his idiocies are sure to trigger a torrent of indignant, never ending, reactions thus assuring his dominance (in terms of number of appearance and reference to it)in about 80 percent of a 130 comment long thread.
Yes, he is an idiot, but a triumphant idiot. You may be the wisest and best informed, but you were unable to see that his game was to collect maximum possible responses.
Therefore he won and you were the suckers who presented him with the victory.
Thomas-h, I respectfully see all this in a different perspective.
This is dialoque-time in mankinds history. There really is a huge controversy between Muslims and infidels.
It can be resolved in 2 ways; the violent one, with war a very real possibility, or somehow, in the long run, the peaceful one, with non-violent (but at times disrespectful) discussion. That well could even in the end in my opinion make the world a much better place than before this controversy started raging.
It is primarily our opponents that use arguments to shut this beneficial, non-violent dialoque down. Often with tu quoque-reasoning, with lamentations about hate-speech, hurting feelings, mental cruelty, "do-not-polarise-or-generalise" arguments. Thereisonlynogod in my opinion is also essentially a dialogue-shut-downer in this Muslims-infidels-controversy.
Now, we would all love to go to our opponents 'websites" and be the winners in numbers of moniker-showing there. But we very probably would be censored. And this is also the reason why Jihad Watch is much more popular than the sites of their opponents. Partly precisely because Jihad Watch does not censure opposing opinions.
And so the emphasis should be on the potential readers, many of whom may well be doubting Muslims, or honest truthseekers. And impress them with our responses to those who really want our dialoque, debate, our critical analysis, exposure of and protest against Islam, our holding Muslims accountable, to shut down.
Ours is the peaceful, if sometimes disrespectful way forward. Our opponents try to stop us. Let the interested "judges and juries" out there decide.
He'll most likely get time for drinking. After all, in islam it is a greater sin to drink than to kill some lowly woman whose only purpose on this planet is to service the men in her life and become a bomber factory.
Thomas_h: Do you also bark back at a dog that barks at you? Have you ever "outbarked" it?
I get a mental image of myself, trying to outbark my dog, and it makes me laugh. Thanks for the chuckle.
Muslims believe in an eye for an eye. I would volunteer to bash this bastard's brains out against a wall!
Loren: "the Frankfort School; what sort of people taught there, how their vile ideology came to be, what and how they hope to achieve their goals."
I read about that. They gave rise to Modern Art!.. seems the students couldn't do the human body or anything of Nature, so they put down all kinds of weirf things.
And today, we make fools of ourselves, standing in front of those paintings, trying to make sense of them.
Saqme with architecture, etc.
Give me Greek Temples or Roman style houses, please!
The Japanese, copycats tht they are, weren't taken in by the Frankfurts.
"Sikhs and Punjabs ARE Americans..You idiote..(sic)"
Hey, anybody seen this?
main veya nahi krawnRa [i don't want to marry] ........little cute child very hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hYLWodzRWw&p=F82D1949D2215F29&playnext=1&index=69
( dont understand a word, but I think it wnet on too long.)
Sorry, this one doesn't have the bubble at the top:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZwODNotc9I&feature=related
It seems it's a little boy, with his top knot and bracelets and all!
"Read about honor killings and you will discover them in other parts of the non Islamic world as well"
IMBECILE! WHO are you trying to fool?
Killings in other parts of the world, are called ""MURDERS".
The Civil Law System does NOT accept it. The murderers are brought to trial.
It's only in islamic coutnries that the slaughter of girls and women are casually shrugged off.
Saleem; "You know nothing about me or what I have done with Muslim men in the larger world so your comment is rather amusing to me."
Everything seems to amuse you.
But in picking islamic women to harrass, you do know that you're going to get the woman in trouble with her men folk, don't you?
THe innocent victim of your little games, may be slaughtered because of you.
It's that serious.
Saleem: If you want to play games with women, pick on Western women who can fight back. You may get your ears burned or your face slapped, one or the other.
But you're too chicken to try that, eh? So you harrass the most vulnerable, right?
“Therefore he won and you were the suckers who presented him with the victory.”
Respectfully I disagree with the generalized conclusion you are drawing regarding tings triumph.
You are making the mistake of considering the number of posts he made as a measure of his skill or effectiveness and not considering the caliber and weight of his argumentation or lack thereof.
For an example read my initial reasoned response to his first entry or even better read Wellingtons customary to the point line of inquires he addresses to ting, I'm hard pressed to find any measurable sign of intelligence on any of his responses in fact they where mostly evasive if not totally irrelevant.
Instead what I see is as a result of the little engagement is that before all ting's misguided aganda was exposed and as were the weakness of his points and the idiocy of his insults thereby proving unequivocally he is all bluster and no substance.
If on the other hand you have a problem with all faiths then I can see how at some level he may have led you along.
Thanks for the link.
Even his moniker "thereisonlynogod" screams of, I'm a troll "onlylookingforafight". And the only fight hes won deserves a booby prize, since there is nothing of substance which might persuade us towards his wacky way of thinking. Nothing to see here, folks, so please move along ...
Wakingwest,
You are making the mistake of considering the number of posts he made as a measure of his skill or effectiveness and not considering the caliber and weight of his argumentation or lack thereof.
Well, you don’t give me much credit.
I have been very careful to state clearly at the beginning of my post that ”if winning is understood as accomplishing one's goals he is the uncontested winner here”. I claim so because I thought his goal, like goal of any troll “is to have his moniker appearing as many times as possible.” and, what follows directly from this, regardless of how idiotic his argumentation is.
You don’t need to make me aware of the immeasurable difference in intellectual level of Wellington’s (and your own) argumentation and the garbage presented by the troll. If I had a iota of respect for his drivel would I refer to him as idiot?
You are, of course, free to question the correctness of my identification of his motives and goals. If you are right thinking he debated in order to demonstrate the truth of his ideas then indeed the only thing he succeeded demonstrating is his stupidity and vulgarity. Or he lost most miserably.
But if I am correct maintaining he is nothing, but a most crude troll, then it is he who won because he was able to hijack the whole thread and waste your time.
If on the other hand you have a problem with all faiths then I can see how at some level he may have led you along.
I can assure you I have no problem with my faith.
Best regards,
Thomas
150+ comments, and mostly because of the vacuously bankrupt comments of the Anti-West/Islam apologist "Thereisonlynogod".
While the hijacking of this thread may not be as disastrous -- and certainly not as literally destructive -- as the hijacking of the 911 planes, there is some comparison, perhaps with the plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania missing its intended mark many miles away: One can almost visualize, in all the stalwart Jihad Watch commenters above rallying in their different ways together to wrest control from this troll, passengers on a hijacked airliner revolting and scuffling with the terrorists, perhaps involving fisticuffs, wrestling, and hand-to-hand combat amid the rows of seats and amongst the passage-ways and cubicles aboard the flight.
This bloated thread, as with others in the past that have been similarly hijacked by one or another Muslim or non-Muslim sympathizer, hasn't necessariy crashed -- nor, certainly, has it attained the target site intended by its hijacker: but one senses it is nearing the runway for a ragged, nerve-rattling, exhausting, and not entirely productive landing.
"But Palestinian human rights groups have recently drafted their own amendments to have them treated as murderers."
Palestinian human rights groups? Sounds like an oxymoron but I suppose there are human rights advocates everywhere. Wonder where they stand on the two state solution and with their Hamas brothers.
“Therefore he won and you were the suckers who presented him with the victory.”
Nope. "Thereis" won the victory of Stupidity. Total garbage by the troll.
I like how even though you don't agree with me you can't stop talking about me as a topic. I also like how the one Muslim idiot on this site actually believes I'm on his side, if he only knew, run Muslim, run. Ask yourselves if you hate Muslims and their apologists more since vie been on here.
I don't know how many times of read an article with some Muslim Country leader or some evil cleric saying they plan to conquer the world. Apparently conquering is still alright with them, it's an open ticket to conquer the Muslim world. End this conflict, end the cold war, conquer the mothers and divide up the booty as they would say with the Western and Communist world.
No Mosque near 9/11, how about no Mosques any where. The Muslim world has attacked and is now hiding behind human shields in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To: Yusefyk
If you think that they hate you now wait until I'm done with them, I will use your own retarded strategies to drive them bananas.
Ps. I still think that you guys are a bunch of religious dingbats.
By far the most extensive and oldest accounts that I'm aware of regarding tribes who worshiped the god baal mention their practice of human sacrifice, children being their most fond predilection for such tribute, charred alive that is. Whether you attribute the impetus for the Hebrews to attack this barbarous and unjust monstrosity to Moses command or to an act of conscience or political nation building, the ancient Israelis did the right thing trying to eradicate anything to do with baal by the standards of 3000 years ago and by the standards of today.
Being able to bring up this seldom mentioned piece of information for me was worth what otherwise was a futile attempt to wage a productive debate with ting.
Some words of wisdom on the management of Trolls, whether Mohammedan or non-Mohammedan (and in *this* forum, in particular, it is perfectly possible that things which loudly claim not to be Mohammedan may in fact be Mohammedans in masks)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754284.htm
'Starving trolls is key to internet harmony'.
The article I have linked is quite good - I commend it to new readers and also to our regulars.
Now, an additional word to any new reader at this site who has persevered thus far.
All internet forums, especially those that deal with hot-button topics such as religion and politics, attract Trolls. This forum is no exception.
This forum, however, attracts not only the Troll Simple (who is most likely a non-Muslim and mostly couldn't care less about whatever is being discussed in whatever forum he infests, being merely engaged in stirring up sh!t in order to derive malicious fun from people's responses) but the Troll Sinister: Mohammedans and their janissaries, persons engaged in furthering the Cause of Islam by keeping people - at all costs - from examining critically the behaviour of Muslims and its relationship to Muslim texts and sharia law. If the attention of posters and readers can be drawn away at all costs from a particularly telling report out of dar al Islam, then that serves the Cause of Islam.
Whether thereisonlynogod is a Troll Simple or a Troll Sinister, the objective effect of his activity has been to deflect and to draw the discussion away from the posted article and its unwittingly devastating exposure of the nature of the Mind of Islam...which MInd is NOT the same as that shaped by other faiths or philosophies.
I therefore offer this further piece of advice.
As well as the old Internet wisdom ' Do Not Feed The Trolls', which applies at all internet forums, here at Jihadwatch an additional rule applies: *whenever* a discussion thread experiences a massive explosion of Troll activity, whether the Troll be an openly declared Mohammedan or not, you should - on seeing showers of sand and sh!t start flying in all directions - immediately scroll all the way back up to the posted article (which is what the discussion is *supposed* to be about) and *re-read it* slowly and carefully, along with any comments/ analysis there offered by Mr Spencer or by Marisol. Because it is highly likely that there is something in that particular article which the Mohammedans would not like you to spend time thinking about.
If you have the time, then and then only, after re-reading the posted article, do you revisit the discussion, resolutely ignoring the to and fro between the identified Troll and others, and concentrating only on such comments as are not 'replies' but which directly and specifically address the content of the posted article.
The muslims and their head-in-the-muslim-behind apologists are ALWAYS bringing up moral relativism as their first line of defense. There can be no defense to the ONE religion that dictates honor killings along with a myriad of its other crimes, so the first lie is always - some other religions "do" it to. It's like clockwork. These Muslim butt burrowers need to be ignored.
Muslimity was ripe to take off at the time it began because the Arabs on the Saudi peninsula was ALWAYS killing each other, and it was just out of control. The tribal bonds, the only brake against killings with the threat of guarateed reprisal killings, wasn't preventing total chaos in the partioning out very limited resources. Muslimity brought about broad cohesion on the Saudi peninsula, and a redirection of the killing outward - whih continues to this day.
Muslimity was okay for a specific time and location. Although killing is the heart of this religion, it represented an improved set of morals for the primordidal savages living in the Arabian desert at the time.
Too bad the plague didn't stop then and there.
A statement of the House Rules, by Mr Robert Spencer, made in 2005 at a time when he had seriously considered not having Comments at all:
"Why do I allow comments on this site?
"Sometimes I wonder, but ultimately it is to allow reasonable people to discuss aspects of the issue at hand, strategize about what to do about it, and make related observations.
"From time to time this has been notably successful — particularly thanks to our own Hugh Fitzgerald and those who have engaged him in discussion.
"Comments continue to be almost completely un-moderated. My staff and I are overtaxed as it is, and I only read comment threads very occasionally.
"However, I did look in on one last night and ended up deleting quite a few comments (which does not mean that I endorse those that remain).
"If you wonder why, remember: threats are unwelcome.
"Insulting and racist messages are unwelcome.
"Foul language is unwelcome.
"Calls to genocide or nuclear action against holy sites are unwelcome. Etc.
"I didn't create Jihad Watch to be a hate group, as we are often accused of being.
" Of course, jihadists have co-opted the language of "hate" and "racism" from legitimate civil rights movements because they know how effective it is in discrediting their critics in America -- and such claims directed against Jihad Watch are specious and inaccurate.
"In reality, Jihad Watch is a vanguard organization in the defense of universal human rights.
"What is the best way to defeat the global jihad that threatens those rights? Not by venting and cursing and threatening.
"**This plays into the hands of those who would destroy us, and that is a stupid and suicidal thing to do.** {my emphasis - dda}.
"I have requested it before: think strategically when you post.
"Don't write something that works to the advantage of those who want to discredit the genuine information that this site provides.
"Comments that are boorish, aggressive, etc., **or tangled into knots answering some obvious provocateur** {my emphasis - dda} will only discourage thoughtful people who are actually in a position to influence policy from using this site as a resource.
"Since the anti-jihad struggle is a struggle for the equality of dignity and rights of all people, it would be nice if the anti-jihad commenters who posted here behaved as if they believed in those things too, and took the moral high ground, in contradistinction to the jihadists.
"One more time: this site is dedicated to raising awareness of the nature of the foe that faces the Western world and all free people.
"This is necessary because most policymakers and analysts in the West so far continue to ignore or deny outright the true nature of that foe.
"Until that changes, the jihadists have the advantage, even if it is not one of military might; there are other ways to win wars.
"Don't let your comment be one that helps them increase that advantage."
- Posted by Robert at May 19, 2005 8:31 AM
Wow I'm impressed and will give you the win on this one, well done wakingwest. In fact for that I will not only give you the win on that issue but will give you the win on the Jewish argument over all. Looks like you won't hear about Jews from me anymore, but Christians who ruined the constitution and Muslims who in general just suck are still a go.
Well it appears that the "dumb" in your moniker is just too suiting for someone like yourself. This website wants to show up in search engine rankings, what we in the Internet world call "search engine optimization" (SEO). 158 comment threads really help this phenomena on articles that might otherwise be lost in the murky world we call the Internet. As long as I'm not Racist, which I'm not and all the other jumbo jumbo you accuse me of but which I'm not it appears I'm ok. Hating a religion or fake ideology doesn't cut it, but you knew that right?
Thereisonlynogod:
"I like how even though you don't agree with me you can't stop talking about me as a topic."
Zinedine:
"This is a lot of fun and I am enjoying the super star status you have given me. I mean who else in this website sees the words they've written days ago and in different posts still get cited by rabid fans?"
Is Thereisonlynogod also Zinedine?
I'd lay $$ we got a doppleganger.
Only one difference though, I believe we should eliminate Islam as a whole and while were at it the Christian belief system that sold us out to these guys as well. Notice how I didn't mention Jews. Jews seem to be the smartest religious group on this site and I'm guessing Robert Spencer might be more Jewish than the joke we call Christianity. Thank you by the way for eliminating retards like Jesus who if he lived any longer would have just became like Muhammed anyways.
Oh help me the Christians are sword rattling, their precious religion is being insulted. You sound like a Muslim, all sensitive about your blessed religion.
Hey folks the village people is missing a member.
My comment was made in response to your shitty insult to Dumbles; a bright, erudite woman I count as a friend.
You're not amusing. You are a sad, foolish, petulant clown.
I have always believed that the Bible is a book of stories of man's struggle with his faith. Even with the violence, the romance, the insurmountable daily tasks, Man has learned to love thy neighbour, turn the other cheek. We have learned to coexist, prosper, leave a legacy. What do he teaching of Muhammad say in the Koran. Certainly none of the above. For a brother, a sibling, to kill his sister, a follow human being, for the sack of family honor, I can not image how twisted he could become just for following someone else's beliefs. Shame on you, and those who vouchsafe these beliefs.
.
ON TOPIC.
The commonest form of family murder in the Islamic world is the killing of young women on the grounds of actual or suspected sexual misconduct, or because of an erroneous - or even deliberately, maliciously fabricated - rumour or claim of same.
The killing is often performed by fathers but also by brothers, cousins and uncles. Female kin, even mothers, sometimes assist. These murders, usually ultra-violent and ritualistic (after a manner that, in the West, is seen in the murder of female strangers or of prostitutes, by psychopath serial killers), are usually pre-planned.
An excellent article by Phyllis Chesler on the subject:
http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence
Excerpt, on the *type* of killing employed:
"In both North America and Europe, family members conducted honor killings with excessive violence—repeatedly stabbing, raping, setting aflame, and bludgeoning—in more than half the cases.
"**Only in serial-killing-type scenarios are Western women targeted with similar violence; in these cases, the perpetrators are seldom family members, and their victims are often strangers** {my emphasis added - dda}.
The Sunday Mirror in April 2010 told the story of a young woman, the daughter of a Saudi father and British mother, who was taken to Saudi Arabia by her father as a girl, after her parents divorced.
"When I turned 11 I was made to start wearing a head scarf and couldn't leave the house without my father's permission. I had no friends and wasn't allowed to play outside. Dad was very controlling and verbally abusive and expected me to do all the housekeeping.”
By 2002 when Hana was 14 she was so desperate she went to the Saudi police for help... but was sent back to her father.
She says: "I told them he was keeping me there against my will and all they said was, 'He's your father, if he wants he can kill you'.
'He’s your father, he can kill you if he wants to'. Just as it says in the 'Reliance of the Traveller' - there is no penalty for a parent who kills their offspring.
In the case that Anne Barker reports upon, of course, it was the girl's brother rather than the father who did the actual killing; but perhaps Khaled Mahmoud should be viewed as the family hit-man or appointed executioner, carrying out the will of the clan which is synonymous with the will of whoever is 'alpha male'.
A further point.
Nonie Darwish, apostate from Islam, in her book on sharia, 'Cruel and Usual Punishment', observes that in all the thirty years she lived in Islamic Egypt, she never once heard any Islamic cleric condemn ‘honor’ killing of women.
“They say Islam has nothing to do with honor killing, but I have never heard a Friday sermon prohibiting it and quoting scriptures that condemn it. Men who commit that crime are rarely punished, and even then the punishment is very light”.
And she also states,
‘If honor killing was truly a crime unacceptable to Islam, Sharia Law cold have certainly frightened men away from committing it.
"But honor killing falls into perfect harmony with the Muslim view of women and their sexual oppression. From the least to the most educated, from the least to the most religious, the reaction is the same; no one makes a public stand and no-one reports it, not even the religious leaders”.
And Nonie, in her book, tells the story of an Egyptian Muslim maid, only a teenager, who came to work in Nonie's parents' house, after having been raped and impregnated by her boss in her previous place of employment, and then sacked. Nonie's mother was trying to arrange for the girl to be given shelter somewhere; but the girl's family tracked her down and ...murdered her. Nobody did anything to punish them for it. Nor did anyone do anything whatsoever to shame or punish the rapist who had so grossly abused his position of power. Instead, **they murdered the little girl who had been raped.. to punish her for having been raped**. Blaming the victim: that's Islam.
And your the one I've been warned about, crappy comments, crappy blog by the way.
An article that exposes the attitudes toward women in another part of dar al Islam, Islamic Iraq.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7E8E98D9-E148-4F9C-BAFF-40E9E4974AEE
Excerpt:
FP: 'One dark phenomenon you encountered in Iraq was the barbaric treatment of women by a culture controlled by tribal Islam. Tell us a bit about the suffering of women that you witnessed.
Vincent [author of a book called 'In the Red Zone']:
'My experiences in Iraq, together with what I witnessed in Iran in 2000, led me to wonder why the civilized world doesn’t rise up en masse and say Enough! We will no longer tolerate the way that Muslim nations in the Middle East treat women! Alas, in today’s multicultural world, such outrage is impossible.
'Meanwhile, in Iraq the compass of women’s lives—their legal and social rights, hopes and dreams and image of themselves—slowly constricts.
'Criminals prey on females, forcing them to remain indoors after dark. Islamic clerics pressure them to don black abiyas—even when the heat tops 140 degrees.
'Tribal leaders and Shia imams agitate for shari’a—misogynistic Islamic law—to regulate every aspect of a woman’s existence.
'Polygamy, honor killings, divorce by repudiation, temporary marriages (essentially religiously-sanctioned adultery) have returned, at least as matters of serious discussion.
'What I learned from Nour—and what I discuss in much of In the Red Zone--is the psychic claustrophobia of Iraqi society.
'Reputation and virginity are everything—should a woman lose the first, she is ostracized from “good” society; lose the second before marriage and she risks being murdered by her “shamed” family.
'On the street, in restaurants, taxi cabs, mosques, and public place, men (and women) stare at females, waiting—hoping—they will do something that will disgrace themselves and fuel invidious gossip.
“The relationships between Iraqi men and women are sadomasochistic,” Nour told me. From what I saw, she is right."
Frankly, the more I see of what goes on in every part of dar al Islam, the more I begin to wonder whether what sharia tends to produce is a state of affairs not unlike a vast S & M brothel - the illegal kind, into which are dragged kidnapped slaves, and out of which come only dead bodies.
Another excerpt from the same interview:
FP:' I loved the question you asked of one Iraqi who was styling himself as a democrat in front of an audience and saying that political Islam was compatible with democracy.
After he said there could be freedom of speech in political Islam, you asked if, under such a system, people could say in public that the Koran was not the word of God and whether women could have premarital sex without fearing for their physical safety. {and he might have added, 'whether women could marry whomever they liked, Muslim or non-Muslim, as and when they chose' - dda}.
'All logical and rational thought in this individual ended after your question.
'I have asked precisely these questions of many Muslims who have boasted to me that political Islam can offer peace and freedom.
'After their great boasts, I ask if, under their systems, women can engage in casual sex with whomever they desire and to live without fear. And whatever we might morally think of such women, it is their business and not ours. That is what a free society is about.
'In any case, I usually become the victim of a violent tirade after asking this question".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA&NR=1
It is so hard to keep to the topic
When egos become macroscopic.
But only a turd
Needs to get the last word
In and prove to the crowd he's myopic.
Brava, DDS.
Dumbledore's Army wrote:
In the case that Anne Barker reports upon, of course, it was the girl's brother rather than the father who did the actual killing; but perhaps Khaled Mahmoud should be viewed as the family hit-man or appointed executioner, carrying out the will of the clan which is synonymous with the will of whoever is 'alpha male'.
......................
Ye, DDA—this is so markedly common that it must be seen a regular feature of "honor" killing.
Sometimes, I believe, it is done for "practical" reasons—because a boy will likely receive a lighter sentence than a grown man—in places where "honor" killings are prosecuted at all.
I no longer believe this is the main reason, though. As boys, Muslims are raised by their mothers, in company with their sisters. In later childhood, Muslim society leads these boys to regard their female relatives with increasing contempt.
I believe enlisting victim's brothers as "honor" killers is the extreme edge of this process. It is part of ensuring that these boys will not identify with their female relatives or attempt to protect them, but will—out of shame, disgust, or an eagerness to "be a man"—join in harming them.
For anyone who has watched the wrenching film, "The Stoning of Soraya M.", one of the most disturbing scenes is where Soraya's two school-age sons are urged to join in stoning their own mother. The younger boy is quite sensitive and will not be part of it.
The older boy—more aggressive, harder, and more eager for his brutal father's approval—*does* stone his mother. He is shocked and horrified at the injury he does her, and runs away.
Later, the two boys meet up—and, in a reversal of their usual roles, the younger boy tries to console his older brother as he sobs uncontrollably in his arms.
There is no doubt that this scene is deeply affecting. I had to wonder, though, how long it would last—once their mother was dead and buried, and the boy was struck by how he had "embarrassed" himself in front of his younger brother, I would not be surprised if his identification with his murderous father would be stronger than ever.
As horrific as it was for the victim's young daughters, losing their mother in such a savage way, they were never expected to become her executioners as were their brothers—nor to look up to their father as a model of conduct in the same manner.
Islam is like any savage creed—where it does terrible damage to its victims, and terrible damage to its most rabid adherents, as well.
DDA, While the wisdom of "don't feed the trolls" has its points, I would bet that if everyone who feels they must respond to what the troll-du-jour says were to respond obliquely, only referring to the troll in the 3rd person, it would have roughly the same effect of dampening the troll's activity (since the troll feeds on direct response) -- and it would have, at the same time, the advantage of providing the non-troll commenters a way to set various records and facts straight. It's worth a try. I've never yet seen it done in large numbers.
Whenever there's a troll in any thread on JW, the vast majority of responses are in the first person, and often confrontational and sometimes tit-for-tattishly insulting: the maturely worded first person responses are like nice fresh steaks for a rabid dog, while the confrontational insults are like prodding it with a stick. Combine the two approaches, as we see above, and it's no surprise we see such an outcome. I've seen it a hundred times over the years on Jihad Watch.
Honor Killings are imposed by the Koran to keep the women the slaves of the family's men.
The Koran also urges Muslims to kill jews,christians,infidels,apostates from Islam.It is a barbaric,cruel,misogynistic book that must be sued and declared illegal to be preached in ANY MOSQUE around the world.Then islam will collapse and the world will be saved .
Honor Killings are imposed by the Koran to keep the women the slaves of the family's men.
The Koran also urges Muslims to kill jews,christians,infidels,apostates from Islam.It is a barbaric,cruel,misogynistic book that must be sued and declared illegal to be preached in ANY MOSQUE around the world.Then islam will collapse and the world will be saved .
Re: my last post: of course, I meant "second person", not "first person".
Troll: banned.
Thank you.