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Democracy at work: Video Captures Stoning of Kurdish Teenage Girl
Well, this is just swell: a girl is stoned to death by a crowd of 1000 people while the cops stand by and watch. And I thought that Kurdistan was the success story of the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, right? Ain’t that the part of Iraq which has full US and Israel support and where US forces are not constantly attacked by insurgents? Well then - where were these forces when all this happened?
Totally sickening
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Bush’s idea of imposing democracy on people who have literally thousands of years of tradition and culture that is diametrically opposed to the concept is nonsense. American suits dream of being able set up McFalafel’s all over the Middle East but unless they staff them with Blackwater employees I doubt that they would remain open for very long.
There was a story from the days of Cinton’s liberation of Serbia that I recall. A reporter that was covering the event went to a Serb watering hole one evening and was chatting with the locals. Some Serb soldiers were there and they got to talking about some old confrontation with the Croats. The conversation grew increasingly more animated until the Serbs stormed out of the bar and wnet over to a local Croat cemetery. They proceeded to dig up a grave and unrinated into it… At this point the reporter thought to himself: “there is nothing that we (America) are going to do here that is going to change the way these people think…”
What sickos. It’s the diffusion of responsibility working well on the side of evil there.
I carried that news several days ago when friends in the UK sent me the information. We were trying to spread the information as widely as possible.
Fortunately, today, I noticed that the KRG has condemned the act. Unfortunately, there is not much else the KRG can do, since this occured outside of KRG territory.
There are those who are working under very difficult circumstances to change old behaviors, such as Houzan Mahmoud and the women gerilas and political activists of the PKK. There are also many women politicians in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan in the DTP or IHD that hold power and are working for change, such as Aysel Tugluk, Mukaddes Kubilay, Eren Keskin–a legend–or Yurdusev Ozsokmenler, and ethnic Turk whose husband is a PKK shehid.
And these women not only battle against the old, patriarchal traditions, they are also battling the repressive Turkish state, with all of them having had, or currently facing, prosecutions for things like signing letters to Danish PM Rasmussen or speaking outside of Turkey on the problem of rape of women prisoners.
They are more than capable of changing the way others in The Region think.
Aren’t these the guys Christopher Hitchens is in love with?
This has what to do with Democracy? I love how you lefties always try and spin anything you can to justify your hatred for bush and the US. This is a bunch of crazy people who still live in the 10th century. If Iraqi police did nothing then it would be on them not us.. but of course not.. its all bushs fault right.
This has what to do with Democracy?
Did you watch the video? Looks like majority rule to me.
I love how you lefties always try and spin anything you can to justify your hatred for bush and the US.
No, we hate Bush and You, not the US.
This is a bunch of crazy people who still live in the 10th century.
How do you Bush-worshipers justify all this violence if you can’t even point to the “success” in Kurdistan?
If Iraqi police did nothing then it would be on them not us.. but of course not.. its all bushs fault right.[?]
Right. Asshole. The Yezedi have been nearly wiped out by Bush’s war. These extreme measures are their desperate attempt to keep their ethnicity in existence.
little tim.
Are you compensating for something?
Stoning criminals is a time honored cultural practice,please leave your selfrightous opinions to your self.
Uh… That’s sarcasm, right?