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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (2926)	11/14/2006 8:17:52 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

The more I learn about islam, the more distasteful it becomes......muta'a marriages are also known as "pleasure marriages", whereby a man can have a 20 minute "marriage" with a hooker...... 'Pleasure marriages' regain popularity in Iraq usatoday.com Al-Zaidi hopes to soon finalize his third muta'a, or "pleasure marriage," with a green-eyed neighbor. This time, he talks about it openly and with obvious relish. Even so, he says, he probably still won't tell his wife. The 1,400-year-old practice of muta'a— "ecstasy" in Arabic — is as old as Islam itself. It was permitted by the prophet Mohammed as a way to ensure a respectable means of income for widowed women. Pleasure marriages were outlawed under Saddam Hussein but have begun to flourish again. The contracts, lasting anywhere from one hour to 10 years, generally stipulate that the man will pay the woman in exchange for sexual intimacy. Now some Iraqi clerics and women's rights activists are complaining that the contracts have become less a mechanism for taking care of widows than an outlet for male sexual desires.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (2926)	11/14/2006 12:08:02 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

E. J'lem woman gets 15 years jail for role in daughters' murders By Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondent haaretz.com Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday sentenced an East Jerusalem woman to 15 years in prison for assisting in the "honor killing" of two of her daughters, and in the attempted murder of a third. Sara Shakirat's son, 29-year-old Maher Shakirat, committed the two killings and was also carried out the attempted murder. As part of a plea bargain, Shakirat admitted her role in the crimes, in return for escaping an 18-year prison sentence. Amani Shakirat, 20, and her pregnant 28-year-old sister Rudeina were found dead at their home in the village of Jabel Mukaber in May 2005. Police couldn't say whether the women had swallowed acid, or had been strangled. Their sister Leila, 24, was found in serious condition. Relatives said that she had swallowed acid in a suicide attempt. The incident began when the parents suspected that Rudeina had damaged the family's honor by being unfaithful with her husband's uncle. Rudeina, who was in the ninth month of her pregnancy when she was killed, did not know who the father was. Maher Shakirat asked his parents' permission to kill all three sisters, on the grounds that the pther two were party to Rudeina's secret affair. On May 2, the father sent most of the family members out of the house, and Maher asked Rudeina and Amani to drink the acid that he had bought, so that he would not have to kill them himself. The two women drank the acid, but did not die, after which Maher strangled them both with a cord. At this time, Sara Shakirat was in the house, and backed up her son. She even called the third daughter, Leila, and invited her to the house so that Maher could kill her too. When Leila arrived, Maher tried to strangle her and threw acid over her, but she survived and even acted as a witness for her mother during sentencing. Sara Shakirat's attorney, Leah Tzemel, asked the court to reduce her sentence as she had acted in accordance with Arab tradition, which states that she is responsible for her daughters' moral behavior. But judges Moshe Ravid, Orit Efal-Gabay and Aharon Farkash, rejected this request, saying rather that punishment in such cases should be more severe, "in order to thwart and eradicate such shocking acts that harm defenseless women on the grounds of desecration of family honor."