This is what major news stations should be talking about. Not sports, not the weather, and not our partisan politics, but the fact that there are people in the world who think it is right to lash a 14 year old to death after she was raped, calling it “adultery”.
This girl was harassed and raped by a man three times her age. He was sentenced to lashes as well, but escaped early into the beating. She wasn’t so lucky – she collapsed after 70 lashes and died in the hospital. What’s worse is that doctors tried to claim her death was a SUICIDE. Is this the 21st century?
We, and I, are far too comfortable in our society where abortion and illegal immigrants are the worst of our cultural disagreeances. Our country has its problems, and many of them are horrible, but to think that this happens on a regular basis makes me feel overjoyed to live here -and sickened that this is a regular occurrance in other parts of the world. People need to be made aware of this.
An estimated 5000+ women are the victims of honor killings annually.
