There are people on this earth that deserve not only to die, but also to suffer greatly prior to their deaths. The process by which their lives will end needs to begin soon, and it needs to be thorough enough to eliminate everyone who believes what they believe and acts upon those beliefs.
The targets of my deep-seated, unrelenting, merciless hatred?
The men and women who condone the stoning to death of a 13-year-old girl.
For being the victim of rape.1
No one on this planet should ever sit back and relax comfortably with thoughts of how pleasant this world is (for them) until everyone even remotely considering such a heinous act are utterly wiped from the face of this earth. I’m not advocating genocide. I’m advocating justice, and an end to fatal sexism, fatal racism, and any other type of discrimination founded on religion or prejudice that ends in pain, suffering, death, or other injury.
She begged for mercy.
As she was taken to the place to be stoned, she asked what they wanted from her.
“We will do,” they replied, “what Allah has instructed us.”
She pleaded for her life. “Don’t kill me,” she pleaded, “Don’t kill me.”
In a football field, the men forced her into a hole and buried up to her neck.
A thousand witnesses stood by, watching.
Then, over 50 men hurled stones at the 13-year-old Somali rape victim.
They hurled stones until they thought she was dead.
There was some confusion. Nurses went over to her to determine whether she was still alive.
Yes, she was still alive.
So, they re-buried her and the men continued to stone her.
To death.
She died because three men raped her.
This is Shar’iah law.2
This is religion manifest in law.
We consider ourselves icons of worldwide justice. We rescue small countries like Kuwait from oppressive dictator invaders like Saddam Hussein. We later oust him and advocate for his death for his crimes against humanity. We stick our aquiline nose into whatever business around the world seems to favor our own interests, but we ignore these little religious sacrifices because, well, we can’t be intolerant, can we?
We do need to be intolerant. We do need to protect one’s right to think and speak freely, but we do not need to protect one’s right to act, especially when that action results in injury to another, and even more especially if that act has somehow been justified by the actor based on religious belief. Religion itself may be untouchable — it’s a concept. But the religious are not, should not be untouchable. Why aren’t we sending in forces to stop this? What happened to the sanctity of life? Is it void because she’s Somalian? Has she somehow waived her right to life because she was forcibly penetrated by the men who likely participated in her stoning? Is it because she’s not white? How about because Somalia doesn’t have a lot of oil? Or that because last time we went there, we got our asses kicked — by the people we went in to “protect”?
We are hypocrites.
Our leaders are hypocrites.
Our religious neighbors are hypocrites.
If we have the ability to do something to help people like this poor girl, why the fuck aren’t we doing something about it?
I’m getting fucking sick of this planet.
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The Whited Sepulchre: Shar’iah Law
UPDATE / Related News: Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for committing adultery (found via Deep Thoughts)
A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night.
The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man.
He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night.
A judge in the Saudi city of Jeddah, pictured, ruled that the woman was guilty of adultery and should be jailed for a year
She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces.
According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually ‘confessed’ to having ‘forced intercourse’ with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah.
He ruled she had committed adultery – despite not even being married – and handed down a year’s prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city.
She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.
The Saudi Arabian legal system practices a strict form of medieval law. Women have very few rights and are not even allowed to drive.
They are also banned from going out in public in the company of men other than male relatives.
Isn’t Saudi Arabia a U.S. ally? Isn’t what the judge there did (and thus the government) equivalent to terrorism? Why aren’t we attacking Saudi Arabia? We went to war with Iraq because we alleged that 9/11 attackers had support from Iraq. Most of those attackers were from where? Saudi Arabia. The last eight years were a terrible joke, and we’ve paid a terrible price, and made women pay an even worse price. Can’t we please fix this?
- Stoning Victim “Begged for mercy”, BBC NEWS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm [<]
- Or “Sharia law” or “Šarīʿah law” or “Islamic law” or whatever you want to call it – it’s disgusting that anyone would want or allow people to be punished in accordance with the Islamic faith (or, more specifically, an interpretation of that faith). It’s akin to Americans stoning people to death who claim to believe in Buddha, or Allah, for that matter, or for not believing in the Christian god. I mean, that’s biblical law, right? If we practiced that (and it resulted in death), others would be justified in criticizing us, if not ending the practice by killing those of us who perpetuate it. [<]
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That’s the question, Pro. “If we have the ability”… If you’d ever been a devout theist, you could have gotten around the feeling of helplessness by praying, and imagining that you were helping in some way. But that’s not a luxury afforded you or any of us who believe only in the forces of the natural world and the human will.
This is why faith in Jesus is so seductive. Those who believe no longer have to feel responsible in any way for the state of the world in which they live, and can mess it up in various ways while preparing for the afterlife. Once you’re out of that mental bubble, you start seeing the world for what it is. And it’s daunting. We are so, so tiny.
Yes, I want you to make the most positive contribution to the planet possible. I mean it. But for your own sanity, at some point you’ll have to realize that your ability to save the world is limited. Frighteningly limited. As is everyone’s. I don’t think you or I could have done a damned thing about this particular tragic event, nor can we do much about even worse atrocities in the past and to come. Just do the best you can for your cause (even if, at the time being, it’s blogging out your frustrations) and let the rest go. Your anger can be a very positive force… unless you allow it to consume you rather than its intended target. Keep it aimed properly.
Sorry for sounding like a bad therapist.
What in the name of Allah fucking, doggy style Mohammad is wrong with these people?!
Thank you, Ony. That’s good advice.
Why can’t they all be Christians? If they read the word and trusted in Jesus Christ they would see the truth and the light of his teachings. These muslims wouldn’t do such hideous things. Stoning is wrong and it’s not the way Christ taught.
A lot of those responsible for the stoning know what they were doing was wrong and evil, even going to the point of lying about the victim wanting to be handled under Sharia law (at least under some accounts). I don’t know which is worse: knowingly doing evil because their religion says it’s good, or blindingly doing evil because the religion says to do so …
This is truly saddening. I don’t have the words to express how I feel about this story.
Actually if you study the dynamics of Shar’iah Law you will see that actually many aspects of it are decent and humane. You cannot see for a second why kind of karmic debts that girl had. Try not to be so judgmental about these things. Just because a gang of murderers who have a grip on the village, who have the power to kill anyone in that village, thus they become the law in their own right. Just because these people do these atrocities doesnt make Shar’iah Law wrong. It is a different culture, respect it. They are murderers, let their people handle it, they have caused the hate of that girl’s family to stir. Please do not think there will be no retribution. Now lets talk about Shar’iah Law one of the things of Shar’iah Law is usury which our western banks are all too good at. Yes mate, Shar’iah Law forbids usury and so does Christianity, but sadly the followers seem to frolic in this evil device. Why dont you learn about Shar’iah Law before you start condemning it?
San,
I learned that people use Shar’iah law to justify stoning a 13-year-old girl to death. This isn’t, by far, the first girl to die this way, and, if things keep going this way, she won’t be the last.
I agree that we should focus on the people who perpetrate the acts instead of the concepts that are the foundations of the acts. Which is why I said exactly that in my article.
Are you saying that you think someone could be justified in killing a girl because she was raped, and that we should just turn away? When you say “let their people handle it,” perhaps you’re ignoring the fact that the perpetrators of this heinous act ARE the people that handle what is handled there. The act, itself, is the handling of what they perceived, through a combination of scripture and religious law, as a divine insult, and they carried out their version of justice accordingly. The result is the painful suffering and death of a girl who did nothing wrong, and who wouldn’t have deserved such a fate if it weren’t for the religious influence over the people who killed her.
It’s a very simple sine qua non analysis. Were it not for Shar’iah law (or their unhindered interpretation and application of it), that girl would not have been stoned to death.
You seriously want to invoke “karmic debts”? That’s fantasy, superstition, unsupported bullshit, and the very reason people in my country verbally condemn others to hell, and people in other countries send victims prematurely to their graves.
You can’t judge based on what the media tells you. No matter how good or bad the media sounds, it is biased. They make their money from advertising dollars. If this really happened it is a travesty. But before you go off your rocker with judgment and hate, you have to visit for yourself the people involved. Hatred and getting sick of fucking planets helps no one.
Gar, you could be right. This could just be hype. It could just be the media making money on our emotions. I agree that the media would probably do such a thing.
However, if it’s the truth, and I can also see it as that, then how can I not be angry? Perhaps my anger doesn’t do anything, but, then again, perhaps someone will pick up on that anger and be in a position to investigate and stop this from happening.
I’d much rather be wrong about all this, but I don’t think my anger is wasted if it helps someone determine the truth.
To Anita Brain, the woman with the ironic name:
Yes, let’s make them all Christians, so they will have verses like Deuteronomy 22: 23-24 at their disposal:
“If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.”
You know what’s really stupid?
The fact that I’m called to defend my hatred of a practice that kills rape victims in order for the victim’s family to save face before Allah, but, because it’s religion, those killers are not put on the defensive. Why am I having to justify my call to end their practice? Why is there a wall of protection around them because it’s “culture” and “religion”?
Even if I’m completely wrong about the connection between religion and Shar’iah law, I am still justified in being horrified at the behavior of people who take part in and perpetuate such honor killings.
When are we going to realize that only Dexterism can save us from these terrible crimes??
You are VERY right Pro, about what you said about the wall of protection. I come from such a culture/religion and I wish I didn’t. It makes me sick that even in my liberal family, their viewpoints have undertones of racism and prejudice. Yes, not all ‘Muslims’ are like that, but what we see is what they show.
The media is not wrong about this, it happened, and it happens a lot.
I don’t see how ANYBODY could justify the actions of a state, or a group of individuals with lots of power, who live in accordance to Shar’iah law. It’s a vile, disgusting and barbaric law.
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