I'm tired of the insulting and Muslim-hating AmeriKan jew$media:
"Outrage grows in West Bank over ‘honor killings’ of women" by Anne-Marie O’Connor | Washington Post March 16, 2014
AQQABA, West Bank — The news spread at dawn, and people in the village made their way to the olive tree where the bruised body of a young mother of six was hanging, her veil torn off, killed in the name of honor.
‘‘For two weeks her children were incapable of sleeping, crying for their mother,’’ said Ahmad Abu Arra, a cousin of the victim. ‘‘We want justice.’’
Here in this northern West Bank mountain town of breathtaking views, the relatives of Rasha Abu Arra, 32, who was murdered in November after rumors spread that she had committed adultery, are adding their voices to an outcry against honor killings in the Palestinian territories.
Twenty-seven women are suspected of being killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last year by family members claiming reasons of ‘‘honor’’ — more than double the 13 cases documented in 2012.
I'm wondering how many women have been killed by Israeli snipers, military operations, and airstrikes.
That is not to approve of abuse of women in any form; however, I'm tired of the narrative of Zionist Jew war promoting newspapers.
The age-old rationale can serve as a cover for domestic abuse, inheritance disputes, rape, incest, or the desire to punish female independence, according to Maha Abu-Dayyeh, the general director of the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, a Palestinian human rights group that tracks the murders.
Like certain people hollering Holohoax™.
Once hidden behind a curtain of silence and shame, honor killings are beginning to generate condemnation of its perpetrators, public support for its victims, and vows to stop the practice.
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Makes 'em see red.
‘‘The entire society is incensed by the increase,’’ said Rabiha Diab, the Palestinian minister of women’s affairs. ‘‘It is a very worrying situation, not just in the occupied Palestinian territories, but all over the Arab world.’’
When they aren't dodging drone missiles or car bombs.
There is no agreement on whether the rise in the Palestinian territories reflects an increase in killings or better reporting of incidents by the media, activists, and authorities. Some suggest urbanization and technology have fueled social tensions over the clash between modernism and traditional society.
In December, the Palestinian Authority, which governs much of the West Bank, began training police and hospital staff to detect and report such abuses and threats as part of an effort to combat violence against women.
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The suspected honor killings of two teenaged girls in Gaza recently drew a rebuke from Hanan Ashrawi, a top official with the Palestine Liberation Organization, who called for immediate legal amendments that impose ‘‘maximum sentences’’ for those convicted of killing women.
‘‘The woman is not an emblem of honor for the man or her family,’’ Ashrawi said in a statement. ‘‘The categorization of such crimes under misleading labels constitutes the exploitation of women, and in turn, it safeguards the offenders and promotes more crimes of this nature.’’
In recent years, other suspected victims have included a young Gazan mother of five who was bludgeoned to death by her father because he suspected she was using her cellphone to talk to a man.
In September, a mentally handicapped 21-year-old woman in Hebron was allegedly killed by her mother after she was sexually assaulted. Another West Bank woman who had divorced an abusive husband was allegedly strangled by her father after being accused of ‘‘disgraceful’’ acts in a petition that news reports said was signed by a legislator from the Islamist militant movement Hamas.
Those damn Muslims. Word is they then drank the blood of the deceased!
Muslim clerics have become some of the most vocal critics of the murders, women’s groups say. Sheikh Yousef Ideis, the head of the Palestinian Islamic-law court, has warned that ‘‘innocent women’’ were being killed by relatives on the basis of hearsay that would be ignored if they were men, and said the killings are a discriminatory practice that violates the teachings of the Koran.
Palestinian media have begun to report more on honor killings, adding to the sense of outrage over the crimes.
Like the rapes in the AmeriKan military and at U.S. colleges.
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Related:
While
World Attention Stays Focused On Ukraine: Remembering Rachel Corrie,
Murdered 11 Years Ago Today By The Criminal State Of Israel
See: Memory Hole: Remembering Rachel
Someone worth honoring.
