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 Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: Yazidi Iraqi girl stoned by her people for becoming Muslim |
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Video of Iraqi girl's stoning shown on Internet by Abdulhamid Zebari
Sat May 5, 8:32 AM ET
ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - Cellphone videos have appeared on the Internet showing an Iraqi mob stoning and kicking to death a 17-year-old girl after she offended her minority community by eloping with a Muslim man.
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Doaa Khalil Aswad was a member of northern Iraq's Yazidi religious sect but, according to local officials, she was murdered on April 7 by her brothers and uncles after she allegedly converted to Islam.
In the video -- on the Kurdish website Jebar.Info and rapidly spreading on the Internet -- Aswad is shown lying in the road as men kick her and throw a large lump of rock or concrete at her head.
Her face is drenched in blood but uniformed and armed officers of the [u]Iraqi police stand by and do nothing to prevent the attack.[/u
While we condemn this crime, we demand that it be not used in arousing sedition among the components of the Kurdish people.
Yazidis -- who number some 500,000, mainly in northern Iraq -- speak a dialect of Kurdish but follow a pre-Islamic religion and have their own cultural traditions.
They believe in God the creator and respect the Biblical and Koranic prophets, especially Abraham, but their main focus of worship is Malak Taus, the chief of the archangels, often represented by a peacock.
Followers of other religions know this angel as Lucifer or Satan, leading to popular prejudice that the secretive Yazidis are devil-worshippers.
Nevertheless, the community has survived for centuries alongside its Muslim and Christian neighbours. Now, however, with sectarian war gripping much of Iraq, Sunni Muslim extremists have begun to threaten them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070505/wl_mideast_afp/iraqwomenyazidi |
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Alyallen
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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When will Women be treated as human beings in every sense of the word?
That is truly sad. |
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mithridates
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Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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In response to this:
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.427161894&par=0
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IRAQ: KURDISTAN PM PROMISES TOUGH LINE ON HONOUR KILLINGS
Erbil, 19 June (AKI) - The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Neghervan Barzani has vowed that tough measures will be taken against those guilty of so-called honour killings. Barzani was talking at a meeting with some of his ministers and leaders of human rights and womens groups. "The government authorities will take the toughest legal measures" he promised. In a press conference following the meeting, Barzani said that "recently there have been horrendous crimes commited against women in some areas of [the autonomous region of] Kurdistan".
"While we condemn these crimes, we also rebuke the government ministers and other bodies for not having applied suitable solutions to prevent such episodes reoccurring".
The regional premier then proposed to change the definition of these crimes, called "honour crimes" in the penal code, to "murder".
According to Barzani, these acts "indicate a deterioration within society and a backwardness in its values and culture." He appealed to clerics, to teachers and university prforessors to help people become aware of the problem, stressing that the battle against such brutality was a collective duty.
Kurdish regional MP and womens' activist Susan Shihab told Adnkronos International (AKI) that "the Kurdish parliament had already carried our the amendments to the Iraqi penal code regarding honour crimes, cancelling the extenuating factors. But it is the government's responsibility not having applied the law and for not having mobilies to put an end to these horrendous crimes".
In April the stoning to death of a 17-year-old girl belonging to the minority non-Muslim Yezidi sect - for allegedly having brought shame and dishonour on her family by having a relationship with a Muslim boy - triggered a wave of reprisals towards members of this minority across Kurdistan, including the killing of 21 Yezidi workers on a bus in Mosul. Even now many Yezidi students in the schools and universities have decided not to undertake their final exams for fear of reprisals by Muslims.
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Changing the wording from honour killing to murder is a step in the right direction.
As oppose to another post where a judge in Nebraska banned the use of the terms "rape" in a rape trial.
One step forward, two steps back.... 
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In response to this:
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.427161894&par=0
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IRAQ: KURDISTAN PM PROMISES TOUGH LINE ON HONOUR KILLINGS
Erbil, 19 June (AKI) - The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Neghervan Barzani has vowed that tough measures will be taken against those guilty of so-called honour killings. Barzani was talking at a meeting with some of his ministers and leaders of human rights and womens groups. "The government authorities will take the toughest legal measures" he promised. In a press conference following the meeting, Barzani said that "recently there have been horrendous crimes commited against women in some areas of [the autonomous region of] Kurdistan".
"While we condemn these crimes, we also rebuke the government ministers and other bodies for not having applied suitable solutions to prevent such episodes reoccurring".
The regional premier then proposed to change the definition of these crimes, called "honour crimes" in the penal code, to "murder".
According to Barzani, these acts "indicate a deterioration within society and a backwardness in its values and culture." He appealed to clerics, to teachers and university prforessors to help people become aware of the problem, stressing that the battle against such brutality was a collective duty.
Kurdish regional MP and womens' activist Susan Shihab told Adnkronos International (AKI) that "the Kurdish parliament had already carried our the amendments to the Iraqi penal code regarding honour crimes, cancelling the extenuating factors. But it is the government's responsibility not having applied the law and for not having mobilies to put an end to these horrendous crimes".
In April the stoning to death of a 17-year-old girl belonging to the minority non-Muslim Yezidi sect - for allegedly having brought shame and dishonour on her family by having a relationship with a Muslim boy - triggered a wave of reprisals towards members of this minority across Kurdistan, including the killing of 21 Yezidi workers on a bus in Mosul. Even now many Yezidi students in the schools and universities have decided not to undertake their final exams for fear of reprisals by Muslims.
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| That is definitely good news that they are working on cracking down on dishonourable killings, as I prefer to call them. Killing someone over religion or any reason makes no sense. |
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