Hey Gals, Check This Out
As soon as I finally finish with school stuff, I'm need to write a rant about the pro-Jewish, pro-Zionist bloggers who unquestionably bought into the media-induced hysterics regarding Pope Benedict XVI's "religious intolerance". Not to give away the ending, but it's going to have a lot to do with how the media's new definition of "intolerant" seems eerily similar to "opposing violent, unassimilated, and primitive populations of immigrants in the heartland of Old Europe". More closely than many of the rest of us, Pope Benedict has been watching his native country descending into this for years now, and identifying the source of the problem as a religious one (rather than an ethnic, or social, or educational one) is why he's been branded intolerant:
In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity. How can such a horrific and shockingly archaic practice be flourishing in the heart of Europe?
The Turkish women's organization Papatya has documented 40 instances of honor killings in Germany since 1996. Examples include a Darmstadt girl whose two brothers pummelled her to death with a hockey stick in April 2004 after they learned she had slept with her boyfriend. In Augsburg in April, a man stabbed his wife and 7-year-old daughter because the wife was having an affair. In December 2003, a Tuebingen father strangled his 16-year-old daughter and threw her body into a lake because she had a boyfriend. Bullets, knives, even axes and gasoline are the weapons of choice... In many cases, fathers -- and sometimes even mothers -- single out their youngest son to do the killing, Boehmecke said, "because they know minors will get lighter sentences from German judges."
Even those on the far right of the political spectrum will tsk tsk about how primitive and violent this brand of Islam is. But Medieval Europe was both primitive and violent, and the idea that a father would murder his own teenage daughter with his own hands would have brought horror (and, although this is beside the point, religious sanction). This is a death cult that goes above and beyond religion to mass social psychosis (although it certainly might be mass social psychosis that has so completely taken over a religion as to make one indistinguishable from other) - and it's spreading all over Europe. Saying so is the farthest thing from intolerance.
In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity. How can such a horrific and shockingly archaic practice be flourishing in the heart of Europe?
The Turkish women's organization Papatya has documented 40 instances of honor killings in Germany since 1996. Examples include a Darmstadt girl whose two brothers pummelled her to death with a hockey stick in April 2004 after they learned she had slept with her boyfriend. In Augsburg in April, a man stabbed his wife and 7-year-old daughter because the wife was having an affair. In December 2003, a Tuebingen father strangled his 16-year-old daughter and threw her body into a lake because she had a boyfriend. Bullets, knives, even axes and gasoline are the weapons of choice... In many cases, fathers -- and sometimes even mothers -- single out their youngest son to do the killing, Boehmecke said, "because they know minors will get lighter sentences from German judges."
Even those on the far right of the political spectrum will tsk tsk about how primitive and violent this brand of Islam is. But Medieval Europe was both primitive and violent, and the idea that a father would murder his own teenage daughter with his own hands would have brought horror (and, although this is beside the point, religious sanction). This is a death cult that goes above and beyond religion to mass social psychosis (although it certainly might be mass social psychosis that has so completely taken over a religion as to make one indistinguishable from other) - and it's spreading all over Europe. Saying so is the farthest thing from intolerance.
