[FoRK] 16 year old girl "Peace and Love"d to Death over Hijab

[Tom Higgins]

On Dec 16, 2007 7:03 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
<drernie at radicalcentrism.org> wrote:
> Tut, tut, Aaron.
..
> Yeah, that's the real tragedy.  I fear we both (religious and secular
> alike) are so busy blaming each other for the problems of the world we
> don't have any time left to solve them...

You got a dead girl on your hands and your still looking to make
excuses for things like killing in the name of gods fashion edicts?
Fucking amazing. Rather than looking at the uncomfortable facts that
religion makes a fertile ground for institutionalized violence  you
want to spread the blame thin enough to make the problem seem to go
away from your pet behavioral foible. Again, fucking amazing.

And to put forth that the real problem here is that some folks are
pointing out these completely and utterly indefensible behaviors  done
int he name of religions or religious practices ...to put that forth
as the real problem here is not only disingenuous it shames the very
idea that we are all brothers and sister under the bad ideologies and
failed behavioral regimes.

Shame is good word to ponder today. Shame that while there is one dead
girl, battered and broken over what appears to be the strict beliefs
of her family to a religion of peace and love, there remains the
institutions, justifications and practitioners who will sadly deliver
to our attention a never ending stream of dead girls, boy, men and
women.

How many more must die because of clothing issues? How many more rape
victims will be lashed becuase their god's law demands it? How many
more young women walking into an abortion clinic will be looking about
for another pipe bomb put there in the name of Jesus? How many
clerics, presidents and leaders will sit back drawing up the plans of
war and death because their god whispered words of encouragement into
their ears?

Of course some would rather prattle on excuses, justification and
linguist divergences rather than look into the inconvenient truth of
their behavior's ripplings.

-tom(no comment)higgins.