Rape Victim Executed in Somalia

[polimicks]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/world/africa/29briefs-RAPEVICTIMEX_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=africa&oref=slogin

The woman was raped. But because in many Fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, unless another man says he witnessed it and that HE thinks she was raped, it's adultery.

This is where victim-blaming goes. I suppose women in the US should be grateful the stones here are (mostly) only metaphorical.

Comments

[polimicks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen people try and use Biblical reasoning for shit like that, too.

And I know the concept of killing the woman as well did NOT originate with these sects of Islam, as there are precedents for that in ancient Hebrew law as well. No citations now, but I'll try to track them down later.

People tend to forget that Islam, Judaism and Christianity pretty much all spring from the same well. Maybe that's what makes them so angry at each other.

[mahsati-janan.livejournal.com]

Probably - *sigh* I wish people could sift the good part of religions and just keep those. All of the parts that boil down to "bring love and understanding - do no harm" I like those parts.

[polimicks.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

[zabieru.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's desert nomad bullshit, not Abrahamic monodeity bullshit. You can bet the polytheist desert nomads on the next dune over, as well as the competing monotheist nomads and those guys with the golden calf that Moses was so pissed at, they all had the same laws.