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Mike Burke

Jul 20, 06 - 1:41 PM

They Kill Their Own Too, and the World Expects Peace?

As a Universalist I don't believe that hell is endless--but I don't deny the reality of hell either. As a universalist I believe that good will triumph over evil in the end--but I can recognize evil when I see it.

The United States and Israel face a common enemy today. I personally have no doubt that that enemy is evil, and I took this week's message from "The Jewish World Review" (from an article by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson) because I believe it does a good job of expossing the face of our common enemy.

What follows is a short exerpt.

[They kill their own, too. And the world expects "peace"?]
Rofayda Qaoud — raped by her brothers and impregnated — refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder.

Armed with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan. 27. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before wrapping the bag tightly around her head. Next, Qaoud sliced Rofayda's wrists, ignoring her muffled pleas of "No, mother, no!" After her daughter went limp, Qaoud struck her in the head with the stick...Qaoud's confessed crime, for which she must appear before a three-judge panel on Dec. 3, is one repeated almost weekly among Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel. Female virtue and virginity define a family's reputation in Arab cultures, so it's women who are punished if that reputation is perceived as sullied.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1103/honor_killing.php3

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