- You hadn't heard that? Hmmm... I wonder why not? Could it be that the American Press, like the European press, tries to downplay anything negative about Islam? To read more about the Buffalo crime and the murder of Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37 read Michelle Malkin's article, "The barbaric Muslim beheading in Buffalo." Read also Pamela Geller's coverage. Read also Robert Spencer's response to the brief February 13th, Buffalo News article. Spencer also says:
The courageous warrior Pamela Geller has just posted at Atlas Shrugs a harrowing collection of photographs of honor killing victims. Scroll and scroll, and it just keeps going -- so many victims, and still these photographs represent only the tiniest fraction of honor killing victims worldwide. I've posted three here; there are many, many more.
Note that the vast majority of the victims pictured were living in America or elsewhere in the West. Yet the West, with all its humane values, did not save them -- it was too busy sacrificing at the altar of multiculturalism to waste its time with a few murdered women.
Question: as Pamela continues to collect photographs of honor killing victims in the West, if she were to update her post in this future, how much longer will it be in five years? Ten years? And will anything, anything at all, be done in the interim to call the Islamic communities in the West to account and demand that they repudiate traditional Islamic laws exempting from punishment a parent who kills a child, and work against the shame/honor culture that perpetuates these honor murders?
What do you think?
To keep up with things related to Islam worldwide, it's wise to be aware of Robert Spencer's blog, Jihad Watch.
- Update 2/16/09 - For those who might be interested, see Phyllis Chesler's comment on this story plus her essay in the current Middle East Quarterly, "Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?"