The psychosis of the media: UPDATED
Following up on the Hassan murder,
In the Mumbai massacre, Muslim terrorists tortured and mutilated living beings and perhaps corpses as well. Perhaps they wanted to render their hated victims “deader than dead” as has been suggested in a recent Symposium in Frontpage in which I participated. Simple death was not enough to render their victims powerless. A beheading suggests that the murderer wants to separate his victim’s mind from her body, he does not want to hear what she has to say, he wants her mute, beyond what duct tape can do and he wants her completely severed, disassociated from her ability to flee.But this honor killing in Buffalo is very important for another reason.
Go read the rest.
UPDATE
You must read Phyllis’s excellent article at Middle East Quarterly, Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?
Particularly relevant: the case-by-case comparison.
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February 17th, 2009 at 12:45 am
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” — General Napier addressing Hindu complaints over the prohibition of Sati, the Indian practice of widow immolation.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:17 am
[...] Saturday, but don’t look for root causes of the actual murder in the MSM. However, found via Fausta’s Blog, Phyllis Chesler explains why “honor killings” are different from domestic violence: [...]