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February 7, 2009

Suicide bombers, why do women do it?

 

I found this and it made me feel sick.

We all know that the male suicide bomber is promised 72 virgins in the gardens of paradise. What, then, does a female ‘martyr’ get in return for her suicide?

From the Mail Online

 

Women are controlled by men  -  their fathers and brothers initially, and then their husband and his brothers, who monitor and supervise every aspect of their lives. A woman is the possession of the men in her family.

Rape is the deadliest assault on this honour code. But few sympathise with the victim herself.

Whatever the circumstances, rape victims are almost always blamed for bringing shame to their family by somehow provoking her attackers.

Or simply by being somewhere away from the protection of the male members of the family.

In a marriage culture that prizes virginity, a rape victim will never find a husband and never recover from the sexual shame, it is a living death.

I’m speechless. But does this mean that a woman wearing her Abaya is to be feared? Should this incite us all to hate all Muslim people?

Not at all. 

The truth is suicide bombing is a cult. It twists parts of the Koran, parts of Arab culture and genuine political grievance into an easy but deadly myth.

It’s important to remember that this is a product of a mysoginistic society, a rape culture and that certain factions within that are manipulating the extreme line to produce this. It’s twisted and hateful.

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