Change of Pace: Women and War Against Terror
I am not going to do the last Darwin piece right now. I believe I have made the central point, that Darwin decided idealogically what he wanted to conclude first before making the attempt to piece together evidence to prove it. I would maintain that Darwin-leaning scientists have been doing so ever since.
So a one day break from science. First, Amy says, look at the numbers!
"I took a trip to our local military museum here on post a few days ago. I came across a newspaper article dated August 15, 1945. During World War II on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea. 300 men went down with the ship and almost 580 drowned or were eaten by sharks in the shark infested waters. After 4 days, only 316 men survived. It is known as the worst Naval disaster in US history.
Obviously initial reports that reported a 100% casualty rate in this disaster were wrong, but we now know that out of a total of 1,196 men, 880 were killed. The USS Indianapolis suffered almost a 75% loss of life.
This was in one incident. One day of war. Compare that one disaster with Operation Iraqi Freedom:
2,458 over 3 years
The total US military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom (March 19, 2003-May 26, 2006) is now at 2,458.
These are other wars involving the United States:
WARS:
Revolutionary War (1775-1783): 25,324
Civil War, North (1861-1865): 363,020
Civil War, South (1861-1865): 199,110
Spanish American War (1898 ): 2,893
World War I (1917-1918 ) : 116,708
World War II (1941-1945): 408,306
Korean War (1950-1953): 54,246
Vietnam War (1957-1975): 58,219
Gulf War (1990-1991): 363
SHORT BATTLES & TERRORIST ATTACKS:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 1941): 2,388 (1 Day)
D-Day (June 6, 1944): 2,000-2500 (1 Day)
Battle of the Bulge (12/1944-1/45) 81,000 (5 & 1/2 weeks)
Iwo Jima (Feb.19,1945-March 25 ‘45): 6,503 (36 Days)
World Trade Center (Feb. 26, 1993): 6 (1 Day)
Oklahoma City Bombing (1995): 168 (1 Day)
USS Cole, Yemen (2000): 17 (1 Day)
September 11 (2001): (approx.) 3,000 (1 Day)
-American War Library.
-Department of Veterans Affairs
Reality makes the mantra “2245 Dead—How Many More?” look pretty ignorant and uninformed."
There are some brilliant women out there! Pam, for instance, first takes us to 1948.
"Not that it's about truth, history or right and wrong. It's about Jew hatred plain and simple. Even so, know the truth.
Who Caused the Arab Refugee Problem? Refugee: Arab Leaders Told Us to Flee in 1948 - Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
In another corroboration by an Arab refugee that it was Arab leaders who were responsible for the flight of Arabs from the new State of Israel in 1948, an elderly woman, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah Um Hasan, told the PA newspaper Al-Ayyam on May 16, 2006, that it was Arab leaders and not Israel who told her and her neighbors to flee, for tactical military reasons. "They told us: 'The Jews attacked our region and it is better to evacuate the village and return after the battle is over.'"
This confirms earlier statements that have appeared in the PA press. On April 30, 1999, an Arab viewer called PA TV and quoted his father and grandfather, complaining that in 1948 the Arab District Officer ordered all Arabs to leave Palestine or be labeled traitors. On March 19, 2001, columnist Fuad Abu Higla wrote in the official PA daily Al Hayat Al Jadida of Arab leaders "in the year of 1948, who forced us to leave, on the pretext of clearing the battlefields of civilians." It is well-known among Palestinians that Arab leaders bear responsibility for the mass flight of Arabs from Israel in 1948, and were the cause of the "refugee" problem. (Palestinian Media Watch)"
Pam then sheds light on the terrorist states that are Syria & Iran:
"Verbal fisticuffs as the forces of good and evil went at it at the United Nations yesterday. The groundwork is being laid for the coming bloodshed. If the papers and networks ignore it, it won't make it go away. This is war;
New York Sun (Paid Only):A verbal brawl erupted at the Security Council yesterday as it debated the subject of terrorism. During the skirmish, Syria accused Israel of starting World Wars I and II, as well as “contemplating” a third world war.
The anti-Semitic outburst by the Syrian representative, Ahmad Alhariri, as well as allegations by his Iranian colleague, Ahmad Sadeghi, countered comments from Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Dan Gillerman, who said both Syria and Iran are part of an “axis of terror” that would pit them against a group of anti-terrorism “allies” in a “World War III.”
Secretary-General Annan released a statement on the exchange after Lebanon requested a cease-fire. Diplomats considered the statement even-handed, but it failed to mention a Security Council resolution that called on all Lebanese militias, including the most well-organized, Hezbollah, to be disarmed by the Lebanese government.
Spineless Annan
“Iran uses Hezbollah to fight its war by proxy,” Mr. Gillerman told the council yesterday, speaking during a speech at a periodic session evaluating international counterterrorism efforts. “We hold not only the government of Lebanon fully responsible for all terrorist activity initiated from its territory,but also hold responsible the governments of Iran and Syria for harboring and supporting Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.”
truth teller
The “axis of terror is alive and active,” Mr. Gillerman said. “Leaders of Hamas meet regularly with, and have been offered financial assistance by, the president of Iran. The very same president who calls for the annihilation of another member state denies the Holocaust and is attempting to develop the nuclear capabilities to perpetrate the next one.”
The world “is no longer divided between rich and poor and north and south,” Mr. Gillerman added. “It is divided between those who join in this fight and those who do not.”
Mr. Gillerman [...] said, the council was able to “hear lectures about terrorism from two of the greatest experts on that subject.”
UPDATE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing the Holocaust with Der Spiegel, a German news magazine.;
"One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems. Under the pretext of the Holocaust, a very strong polarization has taken place in the world and fronts have been formed. It would therefore be very good if an international and impartial group looked into the matter in order to clarify it once and for all. Normally, governments promote and support the work of researchers on historical events and do not put them in prison"
There's more on the whole vile interview here.
The Jerusalem Post has an excellent piece on the UN dogfight (actually, make that man-fights-dogfight) here."
One more Atlas Shrugs piece: Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women
"Do you think the jihadi organ, The New York Times, had rape and torture in mind in their Sunday puff piece where they repeatedly trumpeted Ahmadinejad as “a proponent of women’s rights,” and claimed Ahmadinejad “challenged high-ranking clerics on the treatment of women,”or that he has “defended women in a way that put him outside the mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse.” Of course, the “mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse” takes a rather dim view of “women’s rights.”
The jihadi New York Times painted Ahmadinejad as an “ideologically flexible” leader who seeks a “dialogue.” and also described Ahmadinejad’s “consistent theme” as “the concept of seeking justice.” More here
Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women From the Telegraph:
A leading Iranian pro-democracy and women's activist, who was jailed on trumped-up charges last year, has revealed how the clerical regime cynically deploys systemic sexual violence against female dissidents in the name of Islam.
Roya Tolouee, 40, was beaten up by Iranian intelligence agents and subjected to a horrific sexual assault when she refused to sign forced confessions. It was only when they threatened to burn her two children to death in front of her that she agreed to put her name to the documents.
Perhaps just as shocking as the physical abuse were the chilling words of the man who led the attack. "When I asked how he could do this to me, he said that he believed in only two things - Islam and the rule of the clerics," Miss Tolouee told The Sunday Telegraph last week in an interview in Washington after she fled Iran.
"But I know of no religious morality that can justify what they did to me, or other women. For these people, religion is only a tool for dictatorship and abuse. It is a regime of prejudice against women, against other regimes, against other ethnic groups, against anybody who thinks differently from them."
Miss Tolouee's account of her ordeal confirms recent reports from opposition groups that Iranian intelligence officials use sexual abuse against female prisoners as an interrogation technique and even rape young women before execution so that they cannot reach heaven as virgins.
Few women from the Islamic world are willing to discuss such matters, even with each other, but Miss Tolouee said that the regime routinely committed sexual attacks against female detainees....
"Four armed men and three armed women barged into my house at night and took me away," she said. "My kids were terrified and crying. I was questioned all night by different interrogators and then thrown alone into a cell."
She was held in solitary confinement in the prison of the feared internal intelligence service, with only a blanket and a cup that often had to serve as a lavatory.
For the first six nights, she was taken to a basement where interrogators demanded that she admit to organising the protests, and also that she identify co-conspirators on a list of names they put to her.
"When I wouldn't do what they wanted, they slapped me. But after the sixth night, the routine changed. I was left alone in a small dark room with two men. One was the assistant prosecutor and called himself Amiri. The other had a filthy mouth and said terrible things. They started slapping me again. For the rest of the night they did to me what no woman should ever experience. Amiri said, 'I'm going to hang you, but before I hang you, I will make an example of you so that no woman will dare to open her mouth here again'." He then sexually assaulted her.
When she asked Amiri how he could act like that, he told her that only Islam and clerical rule were important to him. The attack left her badly bruised and bleeding internally, but she refused to sign the papers they put before her. To her assailants' fury, she demanded to see a lawyer and cited international treaties on human rights.
The following night they did not sexually molest her again as she was still bleeding - and hence "unclean". Instead, they told her that they would kill her children by setting them on fire before her eyes.
Meanwhile, the world may be saved from a nuclear holocaust by a popular uprising now occuring across Iran and essentially unreported in the mainstream news media. More over at The IRIS blog
These women, these heros, take their life in their own hands when they dissent by speaking out, by marching, by talking to other women but they do it anyway. During a conversation I had with Phyllis Chesler, she told me of the phone calls she had gotten back in March from women in the international community and from Iran asking what Phyllis thought should they go to the annual march -- Women of Iran for the commemoration of International Women's Day in Tehran to fight for our freedom from under the rule of the misogynist Mullahs Date: March 8th, 2006 Time: 16:30 p.m. Place: Laleh Park, Tehran -- Phyllis said NO, they shouldn't go. And while Chesler is a huge proponent of freeing women of the brutality of Islamic life, she advised them not to go because she feared for their lives. And Phyllis is a warrior in the a war on Islam - she is in the pantheon of truth tellers, along with Bat Ye'or, Nidra Poller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Melanie Phillips, Brigitte Gabriel ......
Despite the danger, despite the threats, the women in Iran went. . They went and got beaten, stomped, harassed. "We have reached a level where women on the streets are being killed," Amiri said. That story here."
Angel reveals that Islamofascism is alive and well in Pakistan, too! Once again, women bear the brunt.
"Pakistani Torture of Women
“KARACHI, Pakistan - Ayesha Baloch was dragged to a field, her brother-in-law held the 18-year-old down, her husband sat astride her legs and slit her upper lip and nostril with a knife.
They call such assaults on women a matter of “honor” in some Pakistani communities, but for the majority it is a source of national shame.
Married less than two months ago in Pakistan’s central district of Dera Ghazi Khan, Baloch was accused of having sexual relations with another man before marriage.
“First they tortured me and beat me. I started screaming. Akbar then caught my hands and pulled me to the ground. Essa sat on my legs and cut my nose and lips,” Baloch mumbled through her bandages at hospital in the city of Multan.
“I was bleeding and started screaming after they fled on a motorcycle. People heard me and rescued me and took me to my mother’s home.”
At least she wasn’t killed.
More than 1,000 women are slain by their husbands or relatives, and that is just the reported, not actual, number of “honor killings” in Pakistan each year.
Pakistanis try confronting shame of honor killing continues…
Many killings are planned rather than done in rage, and the motive often has more to do with money or settling scores..
Honor killings are known as “karo-kari” killings.
A woman is deemed a “black woman,” a “kari,” once she is accused of having sex outside of marriage and is liable to be killed..
The custom is rooted in tribalism, although a strict interpretation of Is-lam’s hudood penal code also rules that adulterers should be stoned to death.
Wer’e talking about Family killing their girls and women.
Did you get that?
Family.
Fathers, brothers, son-in-laws, uncles, cousins, brother-in-laws…torturing , mutilating and killing their female daughters, wives, daughters, sister- in laws and sisters.
Kicking, cutting flesh, biting, choking, strangling, hitting, pushing,and assaults with weapons are behaviors most often associated with hard core criminals, not with ones father or brother.
Torture is used to hurt, degrade, dominate, humiliate and gain power over the victim. Are all women thus viewed by their own flesh and blood as potential victims?
The causes and roots of this familial violence are embedded in attitudes toward women which have existed for thousands of years.
In Muzlim societies, women are treated as the property of their husbands and he is seen, according to some, as having the right to use physical force in relating to her, if necessary.
I guess in the case of 18 year old Ayesha Baloch ..the male sadists “deemed it necessary.”
Does the “PC Machine” acknowledge this horror publicly or is that part of Izlam just another form of cultural “expression”?
The torture and murder of women has, for far too long, gone unnoticed, been tolerated, or been given attention sporadically if at all.
Why haven’t we put an end to this barbarism?
Is it due to:
a lack of understanding?
a lack of recognition?
Denial of the severity of the problem with many still believing it is a private religious matter within the Muzlim faith instead of a violent, criminal issue and, therefore, best left alone?
To those whom this does not matter…….
I have four words.
What About the Victim?"
Thank you ladies, I couldn't have said it better myself! Those who wish to withdraw from the region of Islamofascists are short-sighted in the least. This kind of behavior is "coming to a country near you" unless you get behind those of us who understand the danger and support the efforts to 1) Help Afghanistan get settled, 2) Allow Iraq time to get their act together, 3) Support Israel against the sea of surrounding enemies and, 4)Come against outlaw nations like Iran and Syria at every turn. The John Murthas are willing to be safe at home now and let the wolf come right to the door twenty years from now. Why should he care, he'll be dead? But I care and if you have any sense and/or any children, you should too!
So a one day break from science. First, Amy says, look at the numbers!
"I took a trip to our local military museum here on post a few days ago. I came across a newspaper article dated August 15, 1945. During World War II on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea. 300 men went down with the ship and almost 580 drowned or were eaten by sharks in the shark infested waters. After 4 days, only 316 men survived. It is known as the worst Naval disaster in US history.
Obviously initial reports that reported a 100% casualty rate in this disaster were wrong, but we now know that out of a total of 1,196 men, 880 were killed. The USS Indianapolis suffered almost a 75% loss of life.
This was in one incident. One day of war. Compare that one disaster with Operation Iraqi Freedom:
2,458 over 3 years
The total US military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom (March 19, 2003-May 26, 2006) is now at 2,458.
These are other wars involving the United States:
WARS:
Revolutionary War (1775-1783): 25,324
Civil War, North (1861-1865): 363,020
Civil War, South (1861-1865): 199,110
Spanish American War (1898 ): 2,893
World War I (1917-1918 ) : 116,708
World War II (1941-1945): 408,306
Korean War (1950-1953): 54,246
Vietnam War (1957-1975): 58,219
Gulf War (1990-1991): 363
SHORT BATTLES & TERRORIST ATTACKS:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 1941): 2,388 (1 Day)
D-Day (June 6, 1944): 2,000-2500 (1 Day)
Battle of the Bulge (12/1944-1/45) 81,000 (5 & 1/2 weeks)
Iwo Jima (Feb.19,1945-March 25 ‘45): 6,503 (36 Days)
World Trade Center (Feb. 26, 1993): 6 (1 Day)
Oklahoma City Bombing (1995): 168 (1 Day)
USS Cole, Yemen (2000): 17 (1 Day)
September 11 (2001): (approx.) 3,000 (1 Day)
-American War Library.
-Department of Veterans Affairs
Reality makes the mantra “2245 Dead—How Many More?” look pretty ignorant and uninformed."
There are some brilliant women out there! Pam, for instance, first takes us to 1948.
"Not that it's about truth, history or right and wrong. It's about Jew hatred plain and simple. Even so, know the truth.
Who Caused the Arab Refugee Problem? Refugee: Arab Leaders Told Us to Flee in 1948 - Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
In another corroboration by an Arab refugee that it was Arab leaders who were responsible for the flight of Arabs from the new State of Israel in 1948, an elderly woman, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah Um Hasan, told the PA newspaper Al-Ayyam on May 16, 2006, that it was Arab leaders and not Israel who told her and her neighbors to flee, for tactical military reasons. "They told us: 'The Jews attacked our region and it is better to evacuate the village and return after the battle is over.'"
This confirms earlier statements that have appeared in the PA press. On April 30, 1999, an Arab viewer called PA TV and quoted his father and grandfather, complaining that in 1948 the Arab District Officer ordered all Arabs to leave Palestine or be labeled traitors. On March 19, 2001, columnist Fuad Abu Higla wrote in the official PA daily Al Hayat Al Jadida of Arab leaders "in the year of 1948, who forced us to leave, on the pretext of clearing the battlefields of civilians." It is well-known among Palestinians that Arab leaders bear responsibility for the mass flight of Arabs from Israel in 1948, and were the cause of the "refugee" problem. (Palestinian Media Watch)"
Pam then sheds light on the terrorist states that are Syria & Iran:
"Verbal fisticuffs as the forces of good and evil went at it at the United Nations yesterday. The groundwork is being laid for the coming bloodshed. If the papers and networks ignore it, it won't make it go away. This is war;
New York Sun (Paid Only):A verbal brawl erupted at the Security Council yesterday as it debated the subject of terrorism. During the skirmish, Syria accused Israel of starting World Wars I and II, as well as “contemplating” a third world war.
The anti-Semitic outburst by the Syrian representative, Ahmad Alhariri, as well as allegations by his Iranian colleague, Ahmad Sadeghi, countered comments from Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Dan Gillerman, who said both Syria and Iran are part of an “axis of terror” that would pit them against a group of anti-terrorism “allies” in a “World War III.”
Secretary-General Annan released a statement on the exchange after Lebanon requested a cease-fire. Diplomats considered the statement even-handed, but it failed to mention a Security Council resolution that called on all Lebanese militias, including the most well-organized, Hezbollah, to be disarmed by the Lebanese government.
Spineless Annan
“Iran uses Hezbollah to fight its war by proxy,” Mr. Gillerman told the council yesterday, speaking during a speech at a periodic session evaluating international counterterrorism efforts. “We hold not only the government of Lebanon fully responsible for all terrorist activity initiated from its territory,but also hold responsible the governments of Iran and Syria for harboring and supporting Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.”
truth teller
The “axis of terror is alive and active,” Mr. Gillerman said. “Leaders of Hamas meet regularly with, and have been offered financial assistance by, the president of Iran. The very same president who calls for the annihilation of another member state denies the Holocaust and is attempting to develop the nuclear capabilities to perpetrate the next one.”
The world “is no longer divided between rich and poor and north and south,” Mr. Gillerman added. “It is divided between those who join in this fight and those who do not.”
Mr. Gillerman [...] said, the council was able to “hear lectures about terrorism from two of the greatest experts on that subject.”
UPDATE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing the Holocaust with Der Spiegel, a German news magazine.;
"One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems. Under the pretext of the Holocaust, a very strong polarization has taken place in the world and fronts have been formed. It would therefore be very good if an international and impartial group looked into the matter in order to clarify it once and for all. Normally, governments promote and support the work of researchers on historical events and do not put them in prison"
There's more on the whole vile interview here.
The Jerusalem Post has an excellent piece on the UN dogfight (actually, make that man-fights-dogfight) here."
One more Atlas Shrugs piece: Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women
"Do you think the jihadi organ, The New York Times, had rape and torture in mind in their Sunday puff piece where they repeatedly trumpeted Ahmadinejad as “a proponent of women’s rights,” and claimed Ahmadinejad “challenged high-ranking clerics on the treatment of women,”or that he has “defended women in a way that put him outside the mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse.” Of course, the “mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse” takes a rather dim view of “women’s rights.”
The jihadi New York Times painted Ahmadinejad as an “ideologically flexible” leader who seeks a “dialogue.” and also described Ahmadinejad’s “consistent theme” as “the concept of seeking justice.” More here
Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women From the Telegraph:
A leading Iranian pro-democracy and women's activist, who was jailed on trumped-up charges last year, has revealed how the clerical regime cynically deploys systemic sexual violence against female dissidents in the name of Islam.
Roya Tolouee, 40, was beaten up by Iranian intelligence agents and subjected to a horrific sexual assault when she refused to sign forced confessions. It was only when they threatened to burn her two children to death in front of her that she agreed to put her name to the documents.
Perhaps just as shocking as the physical abuse were the chilling words of the man who led the attack. "When I asked how he could do this to me, he said that he believed in only two things - Islam and the rule of the clerics," Miss Tolouee told The Sunday Telegraph last week in an interview in Washington after she fled Iran.
"But I know of no religious morality that can justify what they did to me, or other women. For these people, religion is only a tool for dictatorship and abuse. It is a regime of prejudice against women, against other regimes, against other ethnic groups, against anybody who thinks differently from them."
Miss Tolouee's account of her ordeal confirms recent reports from opposition groups that Iranian intelligence officials use sexual abuse against female prisoners as an interrogation technique and even rape young women before execution so that they cannot reach heaven as virgins.
Few women from the Islamic world are willing to discuss such matters, even with each other, but Miss Tolouee said that the regime routinely committed sexual attacks against female detainees....
"Four armed men and three armed women barged into my house at night and took me away," she said. "My kids were terrified and crying. I was questioned all night by different interrogators and then thrown alone into a cell."
She was held in solitary confinement in the prison of the feared internal intelligence service, with only a blanket and a cup that often had to serve as a lavatory.
For the first six nights, she was taken to a basement where interrogators demanded that she admit to organising the protests, and also that she identify co-conspirators on a list of names they put to her.
"When I wouldn't do what they wanted, they slapped me. But after the sixth night, the routine changed. I was left alone in a small dark room with two men. One was the assistant prosecutor and called himself Amiri. The other had a filthy mouth and said terrible things. They started slapping me again. For the rest of the night they did to me what no woman should ever experience. Amiri said, 'I'm going to hang you, but before I hang you, I will make an example of you so that no woman will dare to open her mouth here again'." He then sexually assaulted her.
When she asked Amiri how he could act like that, he told her that only Islam and clerical rule were important to him. The attack left her badly bruised and bleeding internally, but she refused to sign the papers they put before her. To her assailants' fury, she demanded to see a lawyer and cited international treaties on human rights.
The following night they did not sexually molest her again as she was still bleeding - and hence "unclean". Instead, they told her that they would kill her children by setting them on fire before her eyes.
Meanwhile, the world may be saved from a nuclear holocaust by a popular uprising now occuring across Iran and essentially unreported in the mainstream news media. More over at The IRIS blog
These women, these heros, take their life in their own hands when they dissent by speaking out, by marching, by talking to other women but they do it anyway. During a conversation I had with Phyllis Chesler, she told me of the phone calls she had gotten back in March from women in the international community and from Iran asking what Phyllis thought should they go to the annual march -- Women of Iran for the commemoration of International Women's Day in Tehran to fight for our freedom from under the rule of the misogynist Mullahs Date: March 8th, 2006 Time: 16:30 p.m. Place: Laleh Park, Tehran -- Phyllis said NO, they shouldn't go. And while Chesler is a huge proponent of freeing women of the brutality of Islamic life, she advised them not to go because she feared for their lives. And Phyllis is a warrior in the a war on Islam - she is in the pantheon of truth tellers, along with Bat Ye'or, Nidra Poller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Melanie Phillips, Brigitte Gabriel ......
Despite the danger, despite the threats, the women in Iran went. . They went and got beaten, stomped, harassed. "We have reached a level where women on the streets are being killed," Amiri said. That story here."
Angel reveals that Islamofascism is alive and well in Pakistan, too! Once again, women bear the brunt.
"Pakistani Torture of Women
“KARACHI, Pakistan - Ayesha Baloch was dragged to a field, her brother-in-law held the 18-year-old down, her husband sat astride her legs and slit her upper lip and nostril with a knife.
They call such assaults on women a matter of “honor” in some Pakistani communities, but for the majority it is a source of national shame.
Married less than two months ago in Pakistan’s central district of Dera Ghazi Khan, Baloch was accused of having sexual relations with another man before marriage.
“First they tortured me and beat me. I started screaming. Akbar then caught my hands and pulled me to the ground. Essa sat on my legs and cut my nose and lips,” Baloch mumbled through her bandages at hospital in the city of Multan.
“I was bleeding and started screaming after they fled on a motorcycle. People heard me and rescued me and took me to my mother’s home.”
At least she wasn’t killed.
More than 1,000 women are slain by their husbands or relatives, and that is just the reported, not actual, number of “honor killings” in Pakistan each year.
Pakistanis try confronting shame of honor killing continues…
Many killings are planned rather than done in rage, and the motive often has more to do with money or settling scores..
Honor killings are known as “karo-kari” killings.
A woman is deemed a “black woman,” a “kari,” once she is accused of having sex outside of marriage and is liable to be killed..
The custom is rooted in tribalism, although a strict interpretation of Is-lam’s hudood penal code also rules that adulterers should be stoned to death.
Wer’e talking about Family killing their girls and women.
Did you get that?
Family.
Fathers, brothers, son-in-laws, uncles, cousins, brother-in-laws…torturing , mutilating and killing their female daughters, wives, daughters, sister- in laws and sisters.
Kicking, cutting flesh, biting, choking, strangling, hitting, pushing,and assaults with weapons are behaviors most often associated with hard core criminals, not with ones father or brother.
Torture is used to hurt, degrade, dominate, humiliate and gain power over the victim. Are all women thus viewed by their own flesh and blood as potential victims?
The causes and roots of this familial violence are embedded in attitudes toward women which have existed for thousands of years.
In Muzlim societies, women are treated as the property of their husbands and he is seen, according to some, as having the right to use physical force in relating to her, if necessary.
I guess in the case of 18 year old Ayesha Baloch ..the male sadists “deemed it necessary.”
Does the “PC Machine” acknowledge this horror publicly or is that part of Izlam just another form of cultural “expression”?
The torture and murder of women has, for far too long, gone unnoticed, been tolerated, or been given attention sporadically if at all.
Why haven’t we put an end to this barbarism?
Is it due to:
a lack of understanding?
a lack of recognition?
Denial of the severity of the problem with many still believing it is a private religious matter within the Muzlim faith instead of a violent, criminal issue and, therefore, best left alone?
To those whom this does not matter…….
I have four words.
What About the Victim?"
Thank you ladies, I couldn't have said it better myself! Those who wish to withdraw from the region of Islamofascists are short-sighted in the least. This kind of behavior is "coming to a country near you" unless you get behind those of us who understand the danger and support the efforts to 1) Help Afghanistan get settled, 2) Allow Iraq time to get their act together, 3) Support Israel against the sea of surrounding enemies and, 4)Come against outlaw nations like Iran and Syria at every turn. The John Murthas are willing to be safe at home now and let the wolf come right to the door twenty years from now. Why should he care, he'll be dead? But I care and if you have any sense and/or any children, you should too!