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you guys are totally missing my point. i dont think its right, but my point is that yeah we think its crazy and cruel and blah blah blah cry me a river. but there are cultures that think that the beliefs and values of the US are just as crazy as stoning a girl over something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryjaneAndHashley
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Originally Posted by higher4hockey
Don't get me wrong, obviously I think that honor killings are barbaric, but I do understand what you are saying.
To a lot of people in the Middle East, the way we dress is just shocking and barbaric. A lot of people in the Middle East value the afterlife a heck of a lot more than this life and so they view this life as a test and to see women half naked walking down the streets (i mean like Daisy Duke shorts and bikini tops, etc.) is shocking to them because to them, that is killing yourself.
Anyway my point was to show that the anti-muslim blog from which this came totally twisted the story around to make it look like muslims stoned this girl. If you click on their source and read the true article you'll see that muslims were not the ones doing the stoning.
I know it's right in the eyes of their culture, but so what? Exterminating the Jews was right in the eyes of the Nazi party, killing 50 million Russian citizens was right to the Soviets, the examples could go on forever. I'm sick of this attitude that a belief has to be respected just because it's a belief. I don't care if that's what they believe, their belief is fucked and wrong, and every human being has the right to argue against every belief out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
Honor killings are a disgusting practice and an indoctrinated mental illness, one of many imposed by religion. No natural, healthy, or sane family structure would kill their child by a torterous means like stoning just for loving someone, all in the name of religious intolerance. It's not right, it's religious fanaticism, something this world should be without.