State of Protest

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.

-Procrustes

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Stop Stoning (dot org)

Stop Honour Killings

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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?

1. Stoning Victim “Begged for mercy”, BBC NEWS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm [<]
2. 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. [<]