The family keeps insisting that this is their culture, and doesn't mention that the cultural issues involved here are rooted in Islam.
"Good women are obedient....As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them" (4:34).
Video courtesy Benedict.
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0:44 " misunderstood ".
There's that word again !
I had a feeling that it would pop up somewhere during the interview, for some strange reason.
Yes, there's so much in Islam to misunderstand. Almost all of it apparently. From what its apologists say, there is scarcely one sentence in all its "holy books" that actually means what it says.
iCal this incident with the family name. Let's hope there is no more serious honor crime down the road against these girls. This mother and the father of the girls are confronting the eldest daughter now. They apparently have three more to go... Yikes.
*Terrifying*. Even the victims defend the vile barbarism of Islam.
The brutal mother said, "Amrika (America) is not allowed to hit...we don't know anything about this".
Well, *you do now*—are you going to stop? I wouldn't count on it...
If Phoenix, Arizona sounds familiar to Jihad Watch readers, it should—this is where Iraqi immigrant Faleh Al Maliki "Honor killed" his daughter Noor for having a boyfriend.
And dear old mom? Sounds a lot like the Muslim mother quoted above:
"Mother of Arizona honor killing victim on hearing her daughter was barely alive: 'that's what she needs'"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/mother-of-arizona-honor-killing-victim-on-hearing-her-daughter-was-barely-alive-oh-okay-tell-her-tha.html
Muslim women keep getting abused because they consider abuse.."OK"... "It's our culture"....
They have discovered that the abuse gets much more severe should they stand up and complain.
Isn't it grand what the failed multi=culturalism experiment has brought to our doors..
It's time to ban Muslim immigration.
Doesn't the girl in red look a little mal=nourished as compared to her fat siblings?
Yeah? Well not chaining your kid to a bed and beating them is OUR culture. And you're (unfortunatley) here now, so just as you left "your" country behind, you can leave your "culture" behind too.
What's that expression, "you can't fix stupid?"
Seriously, if you didn't have the evidence I wouldn't really believe this. But it is a classic case of Stockholm syndrome (the girl does look anorexic) and also a chilling reminder of how honor killing is a deeply ingrained family affair.
The abused girl, recently released from hospital, is defending not only her mother but her culture. And if she had been murdered would her sisters be defending that as well? Probably. I notice they didn't interview the father and ask his opinion on the matter. Afraid he couldn't contain himself on camera?
Call this "Honor Killing 101." Step one, the beatings.
Good idea to stop it in its tracks. Good call, AZ.
The authorities didn't agree with the family. Whatever is wrong with the family or the culture, it doesn't seem that the Americans are falling for their line.
I hope they keep this family under surveillance.
The authorities didn't agree with the family. Whatever is wrong with the family or the culture, it doesn't seem that the Americans are falling for their line.
I hope they keep this family under surveillance.
"We are muslims, it is our culture"
Your "culture" is poisonous to civilized society and not acceptable here. Please pack your islamic baggage and take it back to from whence you came...
Some cultures suck, especially those infected by Islam. God, what a burden Islam is to all the world. I wouldn't mind Islam so much if the damn Muzzies were confined to their some 56 wretchedly run countries, but they spread their puke everywhere, including here in my country, America, and I take it very personally like.
Thoroughly disgusted by Islam. The wonder of it all is that most everyone isn't by now. Well, sadly, loads of folks, including many with advanced degrees, are stuck on stupid. And Islam loves stupid. Stupid is a great ally of Islam. No doubt.
exsgtbrown, I have missed the time when all of your posts ended with ban Muslim immigration.
Like the song bird who won't leave the cage even when the door is open....
Sweetie, it's still illegal to beat your children and chain them to the bed when they talk to boys. It isn't a culture, it's slavery.
This video is very disturbing.
It paints the brainwashing picture very clearly for us.
NO reasonable human, male or female, could conceivably approve of being chained up for "cultural reasons", unless their brains had been "cleansed".
This is conditioning at work. Centuries of it - taught to little girls from when they, well, began to be little girls, whatever that means in Pious Islam.
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Make no mistake.
What is in this video is proof-positive of what happens when religious control seeks to confront legal control.
It has nothing to do with culture, strictly speaking.
I'm hoping that muslims in Canada learned a valuable lesson when the honour-murdering Shafia family members (father, mother and son) were sentenced to life in prison on January 29, 2012, for killing four women for being too Westernized.
Hoping, but doubting.
it your culture, take it back from whenst it came!
This girl will either be sent back to Mohammad's Fart by the Oasis by the beastly harpy
in the burka bag to be married to a good muslim wife beater, or dead by the hands of her infamous family. The authorities should have social workers at that house every 2 weeks and demand weight readings if too much weight is lost a full medical exam and psychiatric exam. If this girl dies every member of this clan should face life in prison.
Just in case this brainwashed girl - question: IS she brainwashed, or is she speaking under compulsion, saying what the family has told her to say, on pain of worse treatment [like abducted and 'converted' Hindu and Christian girls in Pakistan, declaring to the courts that they 'converted' of their own free will, when it's abundantly plain that they did not, and that they are telling the lies that their kidnappers have terrified them into saying, by threatening them or their families) - do we have any face-readers/ body-language readers who can analyse this video frame-by-frame, using Ekman's 'Facial Action Coding System'? - comes to her senses, and can get to a computer and google around and lobs in here, here is the web-page of Hannah Shah, author of 'The Imam's Daughter'.
http://www.hannahshah.com/
'Be A Butterfly'.
http://www.hannahshah.com/helpful-links/
Hannah's links are for frightened Muslim girls in the UK, but they may be able to put her in touch with those in the USA who could help.
Our own 'Undaunted' has some advice.
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/if-youre-a-scared-muslim-.html
Once again, Islamic believes are misunderstood and they are once again the innocent victim.
They are what we thought they were.
Keep appeasing them and their culture and see what happens next.
A girl has been beaten and tied up. Their first reaction and primary concern? Protect Islam!
The US media is totally useless, if you want to interview the girl do so in private without family member(potential abusers) present. This is insanity and shows how clueless the media is. Where are the hard hitting questions? No none of that they want this to be a typical Oprah circus a confrontation, well they didn’t get it. The girl did a fine job.
Her parents are waiting to grade her performance it’s either an “A” or an “F”. “A” will get you additional life, an “F” will get you a one way ticket to Iraq to be married to 64 year old Uncle Raheem as his 4th wife, or worse.
spot on, desidude.
What you're describing is the same possibility that entered *my* mind.
BTW, update, they attacked her a *second* time and have been arrested AGAIN.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/40681
I know the muslim culture we have this in India for the last 1000 years. culture of shame, abuse, and duty to islam.
This girls and the other daughters need to be taken from these abusive parents and placed with a family that will teach them love and appreciation of our cultrue and tradition of freedom as opposed to the vile oppresive culture of islam.