Fallout from girl's stoning embodies Iraq's discord-Iraq's backward slide

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this is so so so sick!!


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-stoning21may21,1,6507901.story?coll=la-middleeast&ctrack=3&cset=true

Fallout from girl's stoning embodies Iraq's discord

The anger following a 17-year-old's death points to the ethnic and religious hostility that colors virtually every issue here.

By Tina Susman, Times Staff Writer
May 21, 2007

BAGHDAD — The video is shaky, but the brutality is clear.

A slender, black-haired girl is dragged in a headlock through a braying mob of men. Within seconds, she is on the ground in a fetal position, covering her head with her arms in a futile attempt to fend off a shower of stones.

Someone slams a concrete block onto the back of her head. A river of blood oozes from beneath her long, tangled hair. The girl stops moving, but the kicks and the rocks keep coming, as do the victorious shouts of the men delivering them.

In the eyes of many in her community in northern Iraq, 17-year-old Duaa Khalil Aswad's crime was to love a boy from another religion. She was a Yazidi, a member of an insular religious sect. He was a Sunni Muslim. To Duaa's uncle and cousins, that was reason enough to put her to death last month in the village of Bashiqa.

Women's groups say the video shows Iraq's backward slide as religious and ethnic intolerance takes hold.

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1. at least 40 women had been killed for alleged "immoral conduct,"

In a report released last month, the United Nations said so-called honor killings of women were on the rise in Iraq. In January and February, according to the report, at least 40 women had been killed for alleged "immoral conduct," such as sitting in a car with a man who is not a relative or having an adulterous relationship.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Oh.

:cry:

Women are under attack in many countries.

We are barely keeping the wolves at bay here in the land of the free. MKJ

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3. K & R.

:kick: MKJ

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. There seems to be a lack of love in the Muslim religions

As practiced by these people. This is contrary to what I know of Sufi, from which they were derived. How could anyone who loves their own children stone another's child? This stuff breaks my heart and tilts at despair for humanity in that part of the world.

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6. There will be no peace until religion is irrelevant

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7. In the case of the girl that was stoned to death

she was not Islamic, her religion pre-dates Islam and is closer to Zoroastrianism. Even more sadly was the fact that it was her own family that did the stoning, her "crime" was falling in love with a Sunni Muslim boy, her family thought she had converted which she had not.
It would be more accurate to say that the Abrahamic religions are not very kind to women, they would include Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and other smaller less known sects such as Mandaeans

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5. At least there are no more of those vile Saddam rape rooms

Now, they just stone women in the streets.

WAY BETTER! :sarcasm: