Palestinian woman murdered for being pregnant with girl
From Maannews.net, May 12:
The confessed motive behind the slaying of a Nablus [Palestine] woman was the fact that the 27-year-old was carrying a female fetus, and not a male, Palestinian investigators told Ma’an on Thursday.
The woman, identified only as NB, was found dead in her home, and was later revealed to have been 3 months pregnant. She was already the mother to 3 boys and a girl….
Officers explained that they arrested the woman’s husband, identified as SB, following the discovery of defensive scratch wounds on his body, matching evidence of blood found under the young mother’s nails.
Witnesses reportedly told police that a similar attempt on NB’s life had been made during her 1st pregnancy, when the woman was carrying her eldest daughter. Relatives of the woman said SB was envious of his brother, who had 9 sons. Following the news of the gender of the fetus, family members told police the woman reported regular beatings, in what she allegedly said was an attempt to terminate the pregnancy.
Major Raed Assaf, head of the Nablus investigations, told Ma’an the murder is a result of numerous differences between the couple but he refused to reveal any more details. He said the investigations were not done yet and the murderer was transferred to the general prosecution.
The Elder of Ziyon blog noted:
By my count, this is the 11th woman murdered in the PalArab territories this year.
According to Wikipedia:
Today, the city’s population is predominantly Muslim, with small Christian and Samaritan minorities.
Hm, I wonder… not.
[HT: readers Carol, Gerard Nadal]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
That idiotic man! Blame yourself for having a daughter! Its the man’s sperm that determines a baby’s gender!
I am so sick of these egotistical men in the world beating and killing women for either not getting an abortion or daring to have daughters! SICK! SICK! SICK!
So, Marissa, was this action moral?
This is what muslims do. And yet people want freedom for all religions. If they only realized what they were asking for.
Let’s not act like this is a Muslim problem, guys. China’s war against moms and unborn girls is far worse, and even in the good old US of A, murder is the most common cause of death for pregnant women. This is a global atrocity.
Yes, Kelsey, it’s global.
But just delve a little into Koranic teaching and the immense amount of honor killings in Islamic societies, Nurse isn’t too far off the mark.
This has deeper roots than a dandelion.
Ignorance of biology is for certain. But even then, the narcissistic pride that says ‘I want what I want, PERIOD!!’ is simply all-pervasive.
These killings of women, in any culture or society, are rooted in a lack of equality between spouses, and I don’t mean that in the Western radical feminist context of identicalness in function. I’m talking about the equality between spouses that establishes an authentic communion of persons, the two becoming one. It’s the equality that respects the dignity inherent in our complementary differences of form and function, of nature and teleology.
The killings are an extension of the utilitarian view of a spouse that is all that remains absent mutual respect and mutual submission. It’s not a matter of who you are to me, so much as what you can do for me.
While Muslim men may seem more stone-age in this regard, Western feminism has done an equally good job at destroying this communion of persons, and advancing the freedom of women to kill their own offspring, saving most cavemen the trouble.
Very good point Gerard! So true!
I saw a television program where a young woman in India(I believe it was) was all alone in her hospital room with her new baby daughter. Her husband AND his family refused to visit, and refused to even SEE the baby because the mother “had brought shame on the family” (her husband’s words) by not producing a SON. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I watched it…that that was so IGNORANT that they were so uneducated about the fact that it’s the FATHER that biologically determines the gender of the child.
Pamela,
Good point, and India is a majority Hindu country.
Please, this is not a religious issue. In Brazil, a largely Catholic country, men who kill to protect their “honor”, which can vary from a wife who expresses her opinion to one involved in an affair, can get little more than a wrist slapping. “Honor” covers just about any reason a man sees fit.
The devaluing of women knows no religous or national boundaries.
And just think, if abortion had been legal in that country the husband could have just forced his wife to “choice” the pregnancy instead of having to try to beat it out of her. And then everyone would be better off. Right? …Right?
Consider the surviving children: grieving the death of their mother & little sister and having to process what their father has done.
@Kelsey, speaking of China, has anyone else been following the wave of violent attacks on young school children there? This week there were two, making the 8th and 9th in about a month. Read the motivation for the second-to-last one, his wife’s forced abortion. Every other article I’ve read cites ‘rapid social change’ as the probable root.
This article hints at deeper societal ills, but no connection’s made between the murders and the disposability of certain classes of humans thanks to government policy.
One of the perpetrators in the copy-cat attacks was a former “senior nurse in a community clinic”. Hmm. Victims have been as young as two and the adults around them haven’t been spared, either. Had these disgustingly brutal attacks been committed on these little ones (as many of their siblings no doubt experienced) just a few years prior, it would not be news, just business as usual.
Mental illness, indeed: a society which has murdered 400 million of their most defenseless balks at the innocent being chopped to death with a cleaver.
In our country women who accuse a former president of everything from exposing himself to rape are reviled and ridiculed by feminists, the media, and the president’s flunkies as bimbos, trailer trash, and psychotics.
A female politician is ridiculed about her physical appearance because she certified an election.
A rape victim is forced to flee her town. The towns peoplesided with her attackers, parading them through the streets like heroes.
Children are raped and murdered by child sexual predators released from prison with little more than a wrist slapping.
Am I talking about some backward third world country where men have stone age mentalities? No, in fact I am talking about the United States, where we are far more enlightened.(cough)
Hi Gerard 9:28PM
We have little room in this country to suggest that Muslim men are stone age in regard to the treatment of women.
Not far from me, a young woman was randomly forced off the road, dragged from her car, raped and brutally murdered. Her attacker was a rapist freed on his own recognizance because a judge did not consider him violent, even though he had raped two other women.
Look at the history of domestic violence and how rape victims have been and still are treated in this country before we talk about anyone else’s stone age mentality.
Really, Mary 10:57?? That is so disgusting…that poor woman. The judge didn’t consider him violent? What? I cannot stand judges who let these sick, evil men walk free so that they can attack more women!
Hi Mary,
Your point is well made and well taken. However, for as bad as domestic violence is here, we don’t make women wear burkahs, we don’t burn widows to death, and we don’t do honor killings because our daughters have sex (Or we would have thinned the herd considerably), or mutilate our girl’s genitalia.
It is undeniable that there is a brutishness that is so entrenched among muslim men in most quarters that these things are a socially acceptable part of daily life in most of the muslim world. It has become part of the fabric of their societies in many countries. Widow burning has only recently been made to go away.
There is definitely a pervasive problem with sexual abuse of women in our society, but we have not enshrined this into law, or accept such behavior as normative.
We actually need to focus on this Mary. We have a muslim-sympathizing President and the first Sharia court has opened in Texas. Our problems are bad, but I’d rather have to deal with them than Islam’s anthropology.
God Bless
Mary and Gerard you have brought up an interesting point.
I can’t remember exactly WHERE I read this but our society use to take a very hardline stand on rape.
Men who raped where hung. The reason of course was that society recognized the terrible injustice done to women by this crime.
In fact, many Middle Eastern countries had great respect for our approach to rape. Of course, there were many double standards still in place at that time too. For example, a woman who was raped was considered “damaged” and not fit for marriage. :(
They were impressed at how well Western countries protected their women.
Not any more. In fact, sentences for rape have been steadily decreasing for the past 35 years or so.
You forgot to mention stonings, Gerard.
And then there is their affinity to behead infidels…
Do we know of any Femi-nazi group declaring outrage over this??
Hmmm…gues not…
I’m seeing lots of bigotry towards Islam here. There are over a billion Muslims in the world today, and yet many people are willing to judge Islam as a whole based on the actions of a few, because that’s what you read and see in the news.
Pamela,
Good point, and India is a majority Hindu country.Posted by: Mary at May 13, 2010 10:15 PM
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Yes, I’m aware of that, Mary. My post didn’t have anything to do with religion, however. I was merely commenting on the sad treatment of a woman by her husband and his family.
So let me get this straight, Marissa.
You call it “bigotry” when we point out the flaws of Islam, but you have no issue painting the entire pro-life movement with more broad a brush and dismissing it out of hand.
Gotcha.
And the feminist movement is where on this??
Marissa,
When in the name of Islam entire nations of women are made to wear burkahs, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When in the name of Islam entire nations mutilate their daughter’s genitalia, removing the clitoris, sewing the labia shut, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When entire nations in the name of Islam stone their women to death for capital offenses with flimsy standards for women as opposed to men, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When the PLO in the name of Islam, as a matter of its founding charter calls for the annihilation of Israel, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When the Iranian people elect a president who drives his nation toward nuclear conflict and in the name of Islam calls for ‘wiping Israel from the face of the earth,’ it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When muslims hijack planes and in the name of Islam fly them into buildings, and are celebrated as martyrs to the faith, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
When Muslims strap bombs to their women and children and march them off to a crowded market and a “martyr’s death”, it isn’t bigotry to point that out.
Finally, it isn’t bigotry to note the sick irony of Muslim scholars on TV trying to persuade us all that “Islam” means “Peace”.
Your best bet, Marissa, is to research and listen to those who have survived Islamic cultures.
Brigitte Gabriel is sobering. So is Wafta Sultan. As is Ayan Hirsan Ali (sp?) Simon Deng, a former Sudanese slave, has a thing or two to share. And that’s just scratching the surface.
These and many others have studied the Koran, they experienced the subjugation, they speak the lingo.
Think about it for a moment: an entire nation, Saudi Arabia, forbids women to drive. To drive! Find the Christian/Buddhist/Jewish/Hindu nation that does the same.
I’m not disagreeing that men of all cultures can be colossal jerks. But I WILL point out that there is something about Islam that brings out the perpetual rage in a male.
Unless and until you understand the roots of jihad in Islamic teaching, Islamists can count on our continued dhimmitude to engage in taqquiya and impose sharia.
(Not to throw arabic words around, but I had no clue what they meant either until a year ago.)
I’m seeing lots of bigotry towards Islam here. There are over a billion Muslims in the world today, and yet many people are willing to judge Islam as a whole based on the actions of a few, because that’s what you read and see in the news.
Posted by: Marissa at May 14, 2010 9:49 AM
really.
Go live in Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Somalia, Chad, Kuwait, Sudan and Egypt.
Most of these countries treat women in a repressive way that most westerners can’t even imagine. The majority of Muslims believe and follow laws that treat women worse than dogs – and Muslims don’t even like dogs.
It’s also dangerous to live near Muslims in Indonesia, Australia, Somalia and Malayasia. Christian girls are kidnapped married and raped with absolutely NO chance of their families reclaiming these girls.
Marissa if you’d really like to see how MOST Muslims live you need only go to Dearborn Michigan to get a taste…
Hi Adair 11:10PM
I remember the case very well. The young woman was on her way to her parents’ cottage for the weekend when she was victimized by this random act of violence.
Several little girls were raped and murdered in Florida by child sexual predators that our “justice” system sees fit to treat with kid gloves.
Apparently sexual predators have to kill before their sexual crimes are taken seriously.
Hi Gerard 11:36PM,
Women wearing burkas and chadors is not necessarily dictated by Muslim men, but in fact are more cultural and tribal customs. I was surprised to read that many Afghan women prefer to wear burkas in public. Cultural tradition dictates they should not make eye contact with or be seen by men. Also, chadors were worn in Iran as a symbol of religious piety. Many pious Iranian women were enraged that women were forced to wear them.
Its like the yarmulke worn by Jewish men, a symbol of piety. Or the conservative dress worn by some Christian women and Amish women.
Genital mutilation is not sanctioned in the Koran and is practiced among non Muslim African tribes as well. Horrendous brutality against women exists in Hindu, Christian, and Muslim countries alike. Many customs we find horrendous are tribal and cultural, not religious. “Honor” killings are cross cultural and occur in the “Christian” countries of S. America.
We should keep in mind that many of these cultures are equally repelled by some of our customs.
Gerard, abuse of women was indeed enshrined in our laws. A man’s home was his “castle”. When my mother called the police concerning her rights, she was told my father would have to kill her before anything could be done. She was little more than property. How long were rape victims put on trial in this country? What about the number of known sexual predators roaming our streets after little more than a wrist slapping? Google the sex offenders in your neighborhood if you have any doubt. As far as I’m concerned, the mentality concerning rape victims in this country is still in the stone age.
Stoning women? Absolutely horrendous. What do these cultures think of our practice of partial birth abortion? Of allowing sexual predators to roam our streets?
I believe widow burning was practiced by Hindus in India, not Muslim countries.
Hi Pamela, 10:39am
I only wanted to point out that your post did an excellent job of stating that the abuse and devaluing of women knows no religious, racial, or national boundaries. I’ve heard of Indian women being brutalized and killed for various reasons by their husbands, including being set on fire, and your post reminded me of that fact.