Quick! Someone tell the owners of the Toronto Women's Bookstore that Palestinian culture is not in the vanguard of fighting for women's rights.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 12, 2005 8:37 AM

Consider it Done, Waterdragon. And now I am off...

Posted by: Gary at April 12, 2005 9:03 AM

More utter depravity in the name of the religion of “peace”.

I’m amazed that this can happen and that we don’t hear anything about in any mainstream media. Why do we always hear about the big bad Israelis and their occupation of the poor Palestinians but nothing when a heinous crime like this is committed in the name of Allah? What would happen if some "Jewish" commando squad brutally murdered a young girl and then beat her corpse to a pulp just because she was not following Judaism to their strict interpretation? I just have this funny feeling that we would hear about it from every major media organisation in the world within hours of it happening.

Posted by: Earthling at April 12, 2005 9:34 AM

"What they did to the body while it was lying on the ground was barbaric. This does not represent Islam."

Nor, of course, was Islam being represented when the two Israeli army reservists took a wrong turn, were seized by a mob, had their eyes gouged out, and so on -- with the delirious crowd delighting in the murderers who appeared at the window of the secod-story building where the murders took place, showing their blood-stained hans.

Nor was Islam being represented when two Israeli boys were being beated to death beyond recognition in a cave.

Nor was Islam being represented when a killer murdered Wasfi al-Tal, the Jordanian Prime Minister, and bent down to drink his blood.

Nor was Islam being represented when 68 tourists were massacred at Luxor -- and their Islamic killers killing them in the name of Islam and uttering Islamic quotations did not, this time, bend down but simply licked the blood from their hands.

Nor was Islam being represented when Iranian women were stoned to death, or Afghani women trampled to death not in secret, but by the Taliban in large stadiums, with crowds assembled to cheer.

Nor was Islam being represented when elderly writers were decapitated in Iran by enforcers of the Islamic Republic, or when Ali Dashti, author of "Twenty-Six Years," was tortured in prison, and then released to die.

Nor was Islam being represented when in the Sudan, even though the Shari'a was not then in full force, it was used to "fill in the lacunae" (in Ibn Warraq's phrase) of the Sudanese legal code, the aged famously peaceful Mahmoud Mohammed Taha (who in his own writings never could quite recognize the full effect of Islam, and indeed wished to spread it "peacefully") was executed for apostasy.

Nor was Islma being represented when throughout the Islamic world there were celebrations, raucous laughter in Beirut, sheep and goats being slaughtered for festive gatherings in Saudi Arabia, car horns being tooted in Cairo, and delirious dances of delight all over Gaza and the West Bank, when the fantastic news, the truly wonderful news, about 9/11 was reported all over the Muslim world. The protectors of the Muslim "image" could do nothing to keep the reporters from the Wall Street Journal (on Hamra Street, in cosmopolitan Beirut), or the BBC's Frank Gardner (in Cairo), or other reports from everywhere in the Muslim world (which Muslim world has tried to erase the memory of those celebrtations, those feasts, that car-honking, those dances). The only place, tellingly, in a Muslim country where there was any expression of sympathy was in Iran, and that came from those who had suffered from Islamic rule, from the Islamic Republic itself, and were disinclined to celebrate this heroic "victory" of Islam over the Great Satan, or at least some of the workers, in an office building, in the major metropolis located in that Great Satan.

"Nor was Islam being represented...."

No, you fill it in yourself. The mother and her four little girls executed at point-blank range, the murder of Sadat, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the attempted murder of Pope John Paul II (as leader of the Infidels), the beating to death of Hindus who make the mistake of passing by a mosque as Friday Prayers let out in Bangladesh, the murder of Christians in the Moluccas or East Timor --- fill it in yourself, with as much as you can remember. But of course, we only began to pay attention to these things in the last few years. And how much must have gone on, in the years, the decades, the centuries before, that no one paid attention to, no one televised, no one reported on. So it never happened.

Posted by: Hugh at April 12, 2005 10:45 AM

Hugh:

The answer to your rhetorical "why" -- not that you need to be told -- in part, is that there are few restraints if any on the media in Israel, and, on the other side of the ledger, not only are there strict controls, but much of the "international" media are either biased beyond belief or, in the case of Arab/Muslim "journalists", paid outright by their government masters to promulgate the worst, most baseless lies.

Add to the above the relentless international campaign, led by the Arab/Muslim states, to make Israel the pariah state of the world although its record on human rights and freedoms while existing in a continual state of emergency would put many western democracies to shame, let alone those same Arab/Muslim states that denegrate Israel in particular and Jews in general.

If all the rancour was really only about the displacement of "Palestinians" because of the creation of the State of Israel, they would confine their harping to that. Instead, because Judeophobia is endemic to Islam, they deny the Holocaust and disseminate old frauds like the Protocols and produce 21st century equivalents like "Zarah's Blue Eyes" and use Israel as the bogeyman that keeps them from internal reform.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 12, 2005 11:21 AM

Now, if some rabbis were doing this, marching miltantly through the streets of Haifa, every news opganization on Earth would be camped out there, the BBC and PBS would be doing month long exposes through all of their 'magazine' shows, the U.N. would be issuing 'fatwas' against this clear example of 'Zionist' tyranny, neo-Nazi websites would be melting down in their infra-orgasmic outrage, and Bush would be apologizing ---for no particular reason.

But, thankfully, it is being done by those perfectly invisible people, the (please look the other way, members of the Press) Palestinians.

Anyone hear of any protests breaking out on college campuses throughout the world to voice their disgust with this flagrant human rights violation?

(Sound of crickets.....)

Posted by: BigSleep at April 12, 2005 11:33 AM

As Hugh so clearly points out at a adnauseam pace in his comment above about those never ending murders in the name of Islam that are not always directed at infidels,non muslims, Christians,Jews ETC. but honor Killings,apostacy, and blasphemy of other muslims as well. Its as if the teachings of Islam are promoting killing fields for these murderous deviants. Hugh could of course go on for pages and pages of these killings in the name of Islam. Unfortunately the biggest question is; when will the western world wake up to this evil scourge, most of what does not even get reported? ---What will it take?

Posted by: Mackie at April 12, 2005 11:36 AM

Islamic values?

Such as?

Posted by: DCWatson at April 12, 2005 12:49 PM

All of that slaughter, murder, outrages and dhimmitude going back to the acts of Mohammed himself that are depicted in the Koran then must not be representative of Islam. The university student is either ignorant of Islam, in denial, or guilty of taqiyya.

Posted by: epg at April 12, 2005 1:19 PM

Waterdragon. I think that the international media is not necessarily biased (what is their motivation) but ignorant beyond belief, ignorant and bought out by Saudi and Muslim oil money.

Any Journalist who wishes to travel in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon or any Muslim country who is critical of Islam and reports honestly has a short shelf life. He/she ain't going to be around long.

Them is facts.

In Iraq, journalism is a joke, foreign journalists don't dare leave the security of the Green Zone or Hotels, they rely on Arab sources, Arab reporters, Arab photographers.

There maybe, and probably is, anti Israeli bias in the media, but a lot of that bias also comes from Jewish reporters like Amira Hass who lives in Palestine and writes for Ha'aretz.

I've read quite a bit of Robert Fisk's stuff, and there are hints in his writings that are not favorable to Islam, but Fisk travels and works in the mid east, especially Lebanon and if he were critical you would see his head being placed on his back in a beheading video.

Frankly I fault the Bush Administration, Tony Blair, Jacque Chirac, and the rest of the European politico's who are business partners, friends of, or dependent on Arab and Iranian oil.

And I fault Americans who fight tooth and nail against alternative energy sources, conservation and environmental measures (which would free up our dependency on Islamic oil).

So long as we are dependent on Muslim oil, we are slaves of the Muslims and our oil payments are nothing more than jizyah.

Think about that the next time you start up your gas guzzling SUV, sports car or drive your lazy kid to school, instead of making him or her walk as I use to do. Think about that the next time you believe you just must have the latest and hottest consumer product or cell phone made of plastic.

If you are part of the problem, you have no business complaining.

"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave."
King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993

Posted by: Giaour at April 12, 2005 4:37 PM

I just saw a report on this on FOX news a few minutes ago.

Hamas denounced the killing and FOX news is reporting it as a robbery.

They only mention that a 22 year old student was killed.

No mention that she was female or that her body was desecrated.No mention of the others being beaten either.

JLP

Posted by: John Lee Pedimore at April 12, 2005 7:01 PM

I forgot,it was Brit Hume that reported it on his show "Special Report with Brit Hume".

JLP

Posted by: John Lee Pedimore at April 12, 2005 7:04 PM

Giaour:

Journalists in general have as their creed exposing injustice etc., and sympathize with the underdog. Ignorance of history aside, they are well disposed toward viewing the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims as weak victims (despite their incredible wealth and numeric strength) and Jews/Israelis/Americans as powerful, oppressive bullies.

See MelaniePhillips.com for references to the BBC's well-deserved rep as the Baghdad Broadcast Corp. She recently noted an instance where the Beeb identified the perps of some misdeed as Jews, but when it came to describing a would-be bomber, they mentioned only the creep's [Muslim/Arab]name , but not his religion. And then there's the French network that helped promulgate the Mohammed Al-Durrah story and has yet to truly apologize for that one although the allegation that IDF forces shot and killed a 12 year old boy huddled in his father's arm as a physical impossibility given where the IDF was stationed relative to the Al-Durrahs and the fact that the dead child in the hospital was half the age of Al-Durrah the younger. Or the grotesque misrepresentations of the circumstances around Rachel Corrie's death courtesy of AP. I could go on, but it's late and I'm tired.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 12, 2005 8:46 PM