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Islam is a Man's World Get Used To It !: Somali Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery
Barry Artiste Op/Ed
The recent story by a Islamic cleric on how to Beat your Wife incensed me to no end, as well as todays story in which a group of Somalian Islamic Whackjobs took it upon themselves to place a terrified 23 year old woman on trumped up charges neck deep in the sand and play "Boccie Ball" with her head until it turned into a bloody pulp leaving her dead, as well as an innocent child who was machine gunned down in a blaze of Islam by a Islamic Militant who felt 5 year olds were threatening.
Notice the groups of people sitting around doing nothing to prevent this, my point exactly, when those who will not lay down their lives for change, deserve what they get.
Of course these Countries have no problem whatsoever requesting our Country to Lay Down our Lives to help them now do they? Or when they plead for Western countries to give them billions in Welfare Aid, with the bulk of it going to the Regime to slaughter their own women and children! Certainly the adage "Teach a Man to Fish is lost on these Cultures"!
Saudi's on the other hand, just lop off your head, quick and painless for charges which in Western Society would not get a second glance, such as being Gay or having a wild haircut, bikini or holding hands in public. Wow, how's that for Embracing the Rich Multicultural Rainbow of Diversity?
We are so deep in this Cultural Diversity Crap, we need to get out of it, because we cannot pick and choose which Multi-Culture to integrate into our Western Society, that would be discrimination!
So best we choose one Culture! Ours! Our Country, our Laws, Our Culture! You can still maintain your Culture, this is not what this story is all about, just don't try and place your culture above ours, after all if we chose to live in your country, we certainly would never chose to replace or change your culture to suit ours.
I truly believe anyone who wishes to live among us is more than Welcome, Just know what your getting into when coming here!
It is beyond belief we as a western nation even do business let alone give monetary aid to these countries who historically never help themselves or even wish to change their brutal regimes, including trying to kill us here and abroad, leaves me to believe that perhaps their time on earth should be limited and let their own god sort out this god forsaken mess they have brought upon themselves.
Helping these countries is so well beyond comprehension that at times I am speechless, when their brutality flies in the face of our moral code and decency. Yet for the almighty buck our Politicians Kowtow and look the other way.
Our Politicians now in order to get elected, suck up for the cultural vote, regardless if they believe in the cultural ideology or not, that should tell you something, there is no whore like an old whore to borrow a phrase from Brian Mulroney. Yet we vote them into office anyway. Now how f**ked up is that?
Many state in Western Circles we should leave it alone, stop being critical of other cultures, embrace others cultures regardless if they are oppressive or against Gays, Women, or any other list of Donny Do's and Debbie Don'ts.
Many in the Politically Correct Crowd state certain cultures are misunderstood, and are an exception to the rule when brought into Western Civilization. Many say "Assimilation into Western Society is Bad", everyone should embrace another's culture's rich individuality, cause just plain is not acceptable in our politically correct society, when many lefty's state the rainbow of cultural ideology of multicultural goodness is more pleasing to the palette.
Many in the "Left Wing" state to deride another cultural ideology is racist and immoral, no matter what their good book says to the contrary.
Of course many religious ideologies brought into Western countries we are told are benevolent and righteous, with some cultural groups who wish their ideology to be brought into our Laws, as some cultures feel our current laws which were established over a century or more are just not suitable to another cultures moral code of ethics.
Does this not fly into the face of logic? Especially when it seems that these cultures fled their own countries in terror with only the clothes on their backs, seem to long for the good old terror days from the old country after settling in their new Western Country which opened it's arm and embraced them into the Western fold.
Britain for example has embraced Sharia Law, which, when understood states equality for women as well. If that is the case why have Shari Law replace British Law? British Law also stated Equality for Women as well! Sharia Law if understood word for word does state equality of the sexes, it is just some Whackjob Cleric's misinterpretation that disallows womens rights.
History has shown though that in many cases Shari Law is rarely followed when it comes to women's rights. Because after all it is a Man's world in some Cultures, when women like so many Cattle are treated more so as Breeding stock for Men, in order to have lots of sons.
One Cultures Communist Manifesto's one child policy was proof of that, as is the case of many cultures who either abort the female species, honour killings, take another wife, or dispose of that wife for another in favour of a wife who will bear them a son.
England's Henry VIII going through women, like some go through snot rags was proof of that, but then medical science was just not attuned to let men know that it is once again the MAN's Genes who determines the Sex of the child, never the woman.
Science today is discounted by many religions, including ours, even with proof positive, religions or should I say Ideology, because let's face having an imaginary friend to worship is just that Idol worship, much like Elvis.
Bottom Line is this! You are now living in a Western Culture, we did not force you to come here, you chose to, it is not like you did not know what our Western Culture was all about, unless you were living in a cave or rock! You should know all about us by now if you within the first day living in our country haven't figured it out.
I mean, I am sure you have witnessed your countrymen burning enough of our countries flags and political figures in Effigy to figure it out.
Our country is a series of laws and morals with a Constitution we implemented in stating everyone is equal, there is no misinterpretation or quaint cultural misunderstanding about it.
Granted our laws are not perfect, but then our Country has not been in a Civil War with itself for at least 120 years.
So though our laws are not perfect, they are our Laws drafted by us the people where all are equal, including you!
So one thing you really, really, really have to get through your thick head is this, Women are as smart, capable and valued as much as any Man, Women make great Teachers, Engineers, Plumbers, Policewomen, Doctors, Lawyers and Combat Soldiers, as well as valued mothers, daughters, wives and girlfriends.
To think otherwise means you are just not with the cultural human rights program, and perhaps this Western country of ours that we hold dear, is just not for you, so best leave immediately whence you came, cause changing our laws to suit your 1,500 year old cultural dark age ideologies ain't gonna fly, so get used to it.
We fought and died for our rights and for this country, you on the other hand, if just arriving to our great country, just happened to be lucky enough to ride our coat tails to Democracy. One thing you should know, our citizens of this great country, do not have military or tanks on every corner blowing us out of existence or roving bands of religious nutjobs dispensing public beheadings or hangings, so you see we would have a problem with that and never stand for such atrocities as would most moderate followers of Islam. We also have Free Elections! How is that for a Concept?
Oh yeah one more thing, we have Gay people in this country, a called North America, you know about them I am sure, as you have hung and executed enough of them in your country. YAY GOD!
Love us or leave us, the choice is yours ~ When in Rome........"Assimilate or get the hell outta Dodge"!
Below is yesterdays opinion piece I wrote on a Saudi cleric on Saudi TV espousing the best way to kick the crap out of your wife. You really, really have to watch the video and read my opinion piece on this to fully understand what this story is all about, especially when Britain now has accepted Sharia Law in that Country.
I have also posted a undated photo of a Middle Eastern Woman for clarity on what is involved in burying them neck deep in the sand, the look on her terrified face of what is to become of her is evident.
Below is the Reuters story and photos on a horrified Somali woman stoned to death in Kismayu, Somalia
http://www.france24.com/en/20081028-woman-stoned-death-adultery-somalia
Execution - Somalia Woman stoned to death for adultery Tuesday 28 October 2008
A 23-year-old woman was stoned to death by Somali Islamists in Kismayu. A child was also shot and killed when gunmen opened fire as a relative of the accused woman ran forward towards the execution.
Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery in the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.
The 23-year-old woman was executed late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August, witnesses said.
Guards opened fire when a relative ran forward, killing a child, they said. "A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning," one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.
"We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands.
A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child."
The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006.
Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.
As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.
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Barry Artiste
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (35)
at 08:14 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:41 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks Tina, much appreciated, let's see what happens by the end of the day if others feel the same or recoil in horror at my Op/Ed piece and lay over on their pale white bellies.
at 09:02 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I've actually seen a stoning, not exactly the same kind as the one you describe, but it was probably the most disturbing thing I've seen in my whole life and I was quite young, so I'll never forget it. Luckily I didn't see the whole thing, but it was for the same reason as here - adultery. I don't know who old she was however, but I think she was older than 23.
at 09:20 on October 28th, 2008
Such is something one does not wish anyone to witness. Thanks for the comments AMY, In my opinion Public killing is just plain wrong! Killing without trial is wrong. Roving bands of Religious nuts is wrong. Sharia Law is definitely wrong. Many state there is nothing wrong with implementing sharia law into our society as it treats everyone equal, but then so do our laws, and to bring religious laws into our country, yet in this country we cannot even state Merry Christmas, because of fear of offending other cultures, to me again, just plain wrong. Thanks again for the flag and comments Amy, you are one of the few who I value your opinion, you have certainly experienced enough in your young life, many do not realize, but some armchair United Nations wannabes with self inflated posturing who have never left their own country, but read lefty media stories and continue to deride and criticize Op/Ed stories with their comments on certain Cultural stories with the nonsensical babbling of they are an authourity on the subject because "some of their best friends are..yadda, yadda." Give me a friggin break!
at 09:41 on October 28th, 2008
It is just so archaic that I can't belive they are even stil allowed to practice it, but even my dad, who has spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia, said it happened all the time when he lived there, and not just for adultery and crimes of that nature, for much less petty crimes. It just surprises me that people haven't stepped in yet, but I suppose like you said, many enforcing those rules wouldn't even know where to start and most would rather not get involved I imagine.
at 10:11 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. Unfortunately acts like this are still going on today and no one seems to want to get involved to do anything about it. It's not the "in" thing to do right now. It's very disturbing.
at 12:44 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks OJT for the comments, it is unbelievable this still goes on, when war criminals from other countries are swiftly brought to justice, but a lone woman's killers are not, because let's face it, it seems not politically correct to critise one's culture, yet this culture can rob, pillage, kill and rape at will, both of their citizenry and in international waters.
at 10:18 on October 28th, 2008
you have some excellent points and they need to be heard again and again, but at the same time, your ignorance is staggering. Firstly, very few of our immigrants drag the violence with them. Most of them are people who agree with you and that is why they left. They're educated people who felt powerless to change things, so they left with their lives. Some do come here simply to continue criminal behaviour and widen the scope of their selfishness. To judge the rest because they hold some common quality with these crooks is ignorant.
To assume that your culture is necessarily wonderful is also ignorant. We have lots to be thankful for, and naturally we will enjoy and feel proud of our society. But the folks requesting change and respect have very deep beliefs. We affect their beliefs, change them, but they too should affect ours. Maybe there are things they could teach us about right living, if we listen. To assume they should simply assimilate because we feel good about our society is ignorant.
I don't see us living in portable housing on the land, hunting and gathering our needs, holding dancing circles and story telling as we hand craft all our personal tools. I'd say the immigrants to this country did not abandon their rules and ways to live as the people here were living.
Human kind is a vast and varied species and as we gradually bump up against each other and change each other, a new and more evolved society forms, for the good of us all. Screaming about change or fearing that the worst will come along with it will not help.
Lets decry the brutality of our brothers, but embrace their unique characters and help them grow into the beautiful flowers we all can learn to be.
I'm a woman. I'm a free woman. I want all women to be free, including those who want to cover themselves from head to toe and devote themselves to their lovers. Free to be herself, whether that's a bold-faced career woman or a retiring house wife or some combination thereof.
at 12:41 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks for your comments, as I say, not all cultures embrace the bad, I have no problem with a culture which is brought here to Canada, what I do take exception is a culture which looks to establish their own traditions and laws over ours. Like I said our culture is not perfect, but preferable to theirs where rioting is common as well as ethnically cleansing and religious ideology wars which have been going on for well over a thousand years with really no end in sight, historically speaking, we had learned from our mistakes to evolve into a modern society where all are to be treated equal.
Your speaking from Saskatoon and as a woman your vast wealth of knowledge on such issues knows no bounds. One Somalian is buried in the sand up to her neck, versus a Sakatoony with just your head buried in the sand. I do thank you for visiting and your insightful if misguided comments.
at 20:04 on October 28th, 2008
anarkissed,
You show your ignorance but not knowing what Muslims are bringing to the West. There are have been over 100 "honour killings" in the UK and several in the US already.
The Islamic world is not changing for the better as facts show that they are voting in terrorists groups across the Middle East. Let them stay in Islamic countries.
http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-only-fewthats-what-they-keep.html
To assume that they should not assimilate and bring the barbaric Islamic culture is here is just plain stupid.
Wishful thinking will not help, looking at the facts will. The facts show that Muslim immigration is slowly destroying European culture and the same has started here.
Burqas are a sign of oppression, not freedom and most of them are probably scared to death to take them off.
Their education means absolutely nothing, as the UK and Scotland bombers were teachers and doctors. If you knew what you were talking about you would know that millions of them are coming to the West uneducated and clueless to our laws. LOOK at Europe.
at 10:21 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:45 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks Alvarez for stopping by and flagging this story.
at 11:23 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:47 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks you Pasi from all the way from Finland who knows all true well the complications of cultural laws in europe placed on Western society
at 13:22 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:51 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. Complete report.."Teach a Man to Fish is lost on these Cultures". Unfortunately poverty converts people to islamic business, replacing communism. If someone does not join this direction, he makes no business no shop, no living. Executions or stoning are as terrible as throwing bombs and killing one million people in a strikefirst attack.
at 14:43 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks Rhonda and Solar for your visit and flagging this important story, as you say Solar replacing one doctrine for another for survival is a poor existence, but killing cause your poor based on someones ideology shows the world perhaps this belies what many to believe as a benevolent ideology when many seem to interpret it for their own gain to get followers.
at 14:52 on October 28th, 2008
Barry, you are very welcome. A difficult story, to say the least.
at 17:38 on October 28th, 2008
Discriminating against every adherent of Islam as a group of people who believe in gruesome capital punishment for religious crimes (especially of females) is disgustingly untrue, and that is the feeling which emanates from your title. The title is obviously very important and I think it gave your piece a starting point which destroyed your arguments because of the initial blatant ignorance and discrimination towards the faith of Islam and all its followers. You do speak about proper interpretations of Islamic texts in the peice but this does not excuse the generalization made in your unjust and at the very least misleading title.
at 19:20 on October 28th, 2008
But then that is your learned opinion I suppose. I did not blanket everyone, including islam , what I take exception to is Cleric's misinterpretation of Islam, when the written word states all are equal. How is that pink white belly working out for ya Ian?
at 19:06 on October 29th, 2008
To claim that your title does not blanket all adherents of Islam is just brazenly false. Your reply to my comment was very reminiscent of a Bill O'Reilly approach, where you made a weak counter argument to my simple objection and then you decided to call me names. This seems rather childish and does not represent responsible journalism. Are you actually contributing to Now Public so you can thank those who agree with you and attempt to reprimand those who dont? I think Now Public offers the capability of readers to comment so that there can be criticism which not only adds to discussion on the topic but also allows for writers to hear opinions on their approach which they can use to become better journalists. I'm not a better journalist then you and dont claim to be, but I think it is important for Now Public to be a productive media centre.
at 20:03 on October 28th, 2008
Here come the ususal excuses. The Koran has properly been translated by Islamic scholars and it clearly preaches hate towards non-Muslims.
at 17:55 on October 28th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Very very cruel!
at 19:22 on October 28th, 2008
Thanks Eustaquio for visiting and flagging this story, in this day and age, cruelty as per an ideology boggles the mind that it is still practiced today.
at 19:48 on October 28th, 2008
Great story, it is foolish to think that this is not want they want to bring to the West. We need to stand up to those that want Sharia law. Sharia law and our laws cannot coexist within the same country.
Interesting stuff Amy.
at 20:08 on October 28th, 2008
The Koran states that non-Muslims are to be extorted and dominated.
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YUSUFALI: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
PICKTHAL: Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.
SHAKIR: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
at 02:25 on October 29th, 2008
The verse states that , those that dont fear judgment by God and follow the rules (those of all the scripture) will be treated badly and not given power within society. Think gluttonous CEO hypocrits that go to church on sunday and walk past the homeless on the way. The verse speaks of those that claim to follow the scripture, but change it or ignore parts of it in order to live by the rules they choose as opposed to the rules of God. I am happy to use the word God when speaking to christians despite the fact that Jesus preyed to Allah, the aramaic word for God is Allah, the language Jesus spoke was aramaic
at 23:13 on October 28th, 2008
Sorry to disappoint you, Barry, but you are misinformed about sharia law in Britain. There are many ways of resolving civil and family disputes: sharia law may be one such approach. But family/civil law in Britain can not be superceded by other Laws. we have one Law for all, but many approaches to resolving issues.
You seem really angry about cultures other than western/american. Yet many of the cultures you rail against were far more enlightened and gave the west all sorts of scientific discoveries well before we had developed such thinking for ourselves. OK; many cultures - such as our own - have been rooted in male chauvinism but, as women have challenged these power structures, they are being modified. The same elsewhere. I can think of many strong women in West Africa who would soon give you short shrift!
at 01:30 on October 29th, 2008
This story makes me sick.
at 02:46 on October 29th, 2008
I feel compelled to comment on the barbarity of the story as well as the bigotry of certain comments. This woman's treatment is obscene, it is old testament. Pride is a sin, her husband was more worried about what his friends would say about him if he forgave or divorced her than the life of this beautiful woman. Stories often come up in various media about husbands and wives murdering for the betrayal of adultery. Stories from all over the world, from every religion. Adultery is the hardest betrayal to forgive, but we must. It says in the Quran the greatest gift it is possible for a believer to give is to forgive one that has wronged you, and this is in the same chapter that deals with adultery. There are many cultural aspects of certain people that call themselves muslim that I hate. God loves women, we are all equal under God.