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To: puborectalis who wrote (7854)	5/28/2007 11:40:01 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Re: must be difficult living in fear every day I agree 100% Teen stoned in 'honor killing' 17-year-old Yazidi girl in northern Iraq community put to death for her love of a Sunni Muslim boy BY TINA SUSMAN Los Angeles Times newsday.com BAGHDAD - The video is shaky, but the brutality is clear. A slender, black-haired, 17- year-old girl is dragged through a braying mob of men. In seconds, she is curled on the ground, trying to fend off a shower of stones to her head. Someone slams a concrete block onto the back of her head. The girl stops moving, but the kicks and rocks keep coming, as do victorious shouts from the men delivering them. In the eyes of many in her northern Iraq community, Duaa Khalil Aswad's crime was to love a boy from another religion. She was a Yazidi, a member of an insular religious sect. He is a Sunni Muslim. To Duaa's uncle and cousins, that was reason enough to put her to death last month in the village of Bashiqa. Women's groups say the video shows Iraq's backward slide as religious and ethnic intolerance takes hold. "There is a new Taliban controlling the lives of women in Iraq," said Hana Edwar, leader of the Amal Organization for Women, a nongovernmental group in Baghdad. But the case has far broader dimensions in Iraq, where anger arising from it points to the ethnic, religious and sectarian discord that colors virtually every issue here - even the slaying of a teenager. That anger was fueled by release of the video images, made with someone's cellular phone, that appeared on the Internet during the weekend and was the focus of a CNN report. Kurds, who include Yazidis, suspect Sunni Arabs of circulating the gruesome images to fuel anger against Yazidis and undermine the Kurdish community, which exercises a degree of autonomy in northern Iraq. "It seems they are trying to make it big for political purposes," said Mohsen Gargari, a Kurdish member of parliament. He condemned Duaa's killing, but noted that in February a Sunni woman was killed by relatives for having a relationship with a Yazidi man and "nobody ... turned it into a big issue." UN: 'Honor killings' on rise The United Nations said in a report last month that so-called "honor killings" of women were on the rise in Iraq: In January and February, at least 40 women were killed for alleged "immoral conduct," which can range from sitting in a car with a man who is not a relative to committing adultery. Unlike Duaa's death, none was known to have caused revenge attacks, much less political sniping. Two weeks after her April 7 stoning, gunmen dragged more than 20 Yazidi men off a bus in Mosul and gunned them down. The next day, an al-Qaida-linked Sunni insurgent group claimed responsibility for a car bombing at the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq - to avenge the death of Duaa. "We are expecting more violence, but we already have paid the price," said Mahama Shangali, a Yazidi member of parliament. Members of the sect reportedly have been warned by Arabs to leave the city. Discord over video circulation Shangali and many other Yazidis, as well as non-Yazidi Kurds, say the circulating of the video is part of a plot to drive a wedge in northern Iraq's Kurdish community. They say that would hamper the ability of Kurds to pass a referendum later this year on autonomy for some northern areas, including the city of Kirkuk and disputed lands bordering the Kurdistan region. The Yazidis say they have been persecuted for their religious beliefs for generations. Neither Christian nor Muslim, they number between an estimated 350,000 and 500,000 and worship a blue peacock known as Malak Taus. They are fiercely insular, making it virtually impossible for non-Yazidis to convert to their religion - part of their effort to preserve the tiny minority's purity, not to shut anyone out, Shangali says. A family member who did not want to be identified said Duaa's father, Khaleel Aswad, tried to prevent her killing and accused his brother, Saleem Aswad, of orchestrating it. So far, no arrests have been made.

To: puborectalis who wrote (7854)	5/28/2007 1:38:32 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Now you have a good metaphor for Islam -- "a neoplastic disease" -- carrying your analogy a bit further and guess what, it's metastasizing and if left un-checked it will kill it's host. If you are actually a practicing physician, you would realize that the initial diagnosis of CA is commonly made on the basis of a distal metastatic lesion not the primary lesion. Additionally, the primary site often remains unidentified. So within Islam, what is the primary site of the obscene malignancy spreading so rapidly within it's ranks?