Where's the Honor?
Du'a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year old girl Kurdish girl, was stoned to death in an honor killing in Mosul, Iraq last month.
She was murdered for dishonoring her family and the Yezidi religion because she ran away and married a Muslim man, then converted to the Muslim religion. For that, she had to die. About 1,000 men gathered together to kill one teenaged girl and many videotaped it with their cell phones. Then, they put them on the internet. Here's a link to Amnesty UK's article about it.
This is a link to a website with the videos. They are disturbing and graphic, but I think people should see them. Reading about it doesn't have quite the effect as actually seeing it. I was shocked by it and it's stuck with me since I first saw it about four days ago. If people watch this and it helps to get some interested in Human Rights issues, then it will serve its purpose.
Resources:
- Amnesty International has a campaign to Stop Violence Against Women.
I don't know anything about the Yezidi religion, but if there's honor in a thousand men ambushing a young girl and killing her, I hope their God, who apparently is pro-murder, is pleased with them. If I could speak to these men, I would tell them that they're not men at all, they're cockroaches. They're the lowest form of of human beings on the face of this earth. They did not earn honor for doing this and I hope the rest of the world looks down on them as not honorable men, but brutal killers who are cowardly pieces of shit. They deserve shame, not honor, and I hope they are soon brought to justice.
