The Status of Women

Jul 27, 2007 17:08

I came across something last night that made me feel hollow and desperate inside. It tore at my heart in a way that I had never experienced before. I was watching a silly link Liz had posted with an Afghani making armpit noises, when a video on the stoning execution of a Kurdish girl popped up on the sidebar. I should have known not to watch it, ( Read more... )

iraq, honor killing, kurds, status of women

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Speachless graycub July 28 2007, 15:48:46 UTC
I knew it went on. I know the horrible circumstances. One would have to be even less involved with the media than I to avoid that knowledge. The sight of it, though ...

*shudder*

The dark ages are now.

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Re: Speachless inkspotz July 28 2007, 23:06:24 UTC
Yeah...I too knew it went on, but seeing it brought it to such a stinging sense of reality. This is what happens when religious zealots follow the bible too closely.

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