30.5.07

Dua

Who cries for Dua Khalil Aswad?
She was a 17 year old Iraqi Yazidi girl (pre-Islamic) who was stoned to death in an honour killing. In love with a Sunni boy (Islamic) she sought refuge from her family who saw this love story as an abomination. Her family finally persuaded her that she had been forgiven and could return home, only to let a mob ambush and kill her with repeated kicks and crushing stones on April 7.
How do we know all this? A video of her murder was recorded by the cellphones of some of the men and partially shown on CNN.
Joss Whedon cried and wrote a desperate post about the prevalence of misogyny, today, everywhere.
I have never had any faith in humanity. But I will give us props on this: if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior, we’re pretty amazing. Let our next sleight of hand be to make that myth disappear.
Diana Mukkaled also cried. Here are the last paragraphs of her article:
Dua is among the dozens of women killed in Iraqi Kurdistan in the name of "honor" using the most horrifying methods including being burned alive.
This is an act of mass-murder that has become a frequent occurrence against many females, which is well documented.
Some regard the practice of honor killings as a ritual that paves way to manhood by reaffirming the tribe's masculine identity at the expense of a life, in this case Dua's.
Nobody tried to help Dua or alleviate her pain, but as she was being stoned and kicked, a man came and threw a jacket over the lower half of her body to cover her legs. For them, it is not shameful to cruelly kill a young girl, but it is shameful if her legs are revealed while she suffers unbearable agony.

This has to stop! Events like these show how nonsensical moral relativism is according to it moral propositions do not reflect universal truths, instead making claims relative to social, cultural, historical or personal circumstances. In contrast, moral pluralism accepts moral differences, but draws limits to these differences so that we don't have to tolerate the intolerable. This is happening here, in the UK, where some groups assert the "right" to have their own laws outside of British Law.
I refrained from including a link to the complete video, but you can always google it. I couldn't bare watching it until the end. I couldn't stand watching these fucking weak and cowardly men do that to Dua.
We all should cry for her.

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