I never cease to be amazed at the depth of difference between the culture of Islamic nations and Western civilization.I worry about the safety of our men and women in uniform who serve in these countries when, as in Iraq, the Iraqi government wants them to be subject to Iraqi law. Any one in our government who agrees to this should be hung and quartered. That's just about what Islamic law would demand should they be found guilty of a crime like rape or adultery! Well, actually, they'd be stoned.
I had thought that women bore the brunt of their 14th century mentality but it seems not. According to Radio Free Europe , an Iranian man has been stoned to death for adultery. In this case, the woman went unpunished because she repented. Wow. If that's all it takes!
I found a couple of things interesting while I was searching for information with which to flesh out this post. One being I could not find one single photo of a man being stoned, but as you can see, women could.
The expression on the woman's face says all that needs to be said. I guess if you're lucky, the first stone stuns you enough so you don't feel the pelting until it's ended with your death.
Here's how it goes. Women are buried up to their chests, men to their waists. The stones are not to be so large that they would kill you immediately. Next time a criminal in this country who has committed a heinous crime pleads that execution by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment might be given the choice of an Islamic execution! For far less than the grisly, inhumane murders that bring about such penalties in this country!
Do you think Western influence will stop punishments such as this? I doubt it. Iran ordered a moratorium on stoning in 2002. This, of which I write, happened this year. This March. 2009. Two more happened in February. Some moratorium.
I guess the reason the we speak of Western civilization is because we are civilized. Culture is not a synonym!
6 comments:
Gosh this is just awful. Women still are the second class . Again tonight I will say my prayers and thank God that I live in this flawed but wonderful country. We may not be perfect but holy cow!
My opinion of the Muslim dogma (I refuse to call it a religion) is well known. This behavior is an obscenity in the extreme. Will anything ever change...absolutely not. In this male dominated society, there can be no change because no change is wanted. And Muslim men must be the most insecure creatures on earth. Why else keep women in such cruel bondage. An American presence could remain in Iraq until the passage of two more milleniums and the customs and behavior will have changed not one whit. Nor will the blanket hatred Muslims feel for Americans (the great Satan). Left up to me, they could all rot away and the world would be a better place. CU
I can hardly bear to look at that! I find the most frightening aspect of the whole thing the fact that many women, either willingly or unwillingly, support it!I'm sure there are many millions of Muslims who feel exactly as we do.
Just remember that women had very few rights until 1925 in this country.
These things take time and work.
I saw a utube video about the changing demographics of the world. It claims the world will be predominately muslim by 2026. I wonder if these rituals will come with them?I hope i'm not around when this all comes down.
Women were not being buried up to their chests and stoned in 1925, although we did have the awful witch burnings. And we were hanging and mutilating African-American males well into the 1930s.
Stonings are horrible, just horrible.
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