A Hollywood mother burned her teenage daughter with a hot knife to punish her for talking to a boy she met online, an act that defied her parents’ wishes for her to marry a cousin, according to authorities.
The 17-year-old showed detectives three burn marks on her arms, saying they were placed there in act of “honor violence” by her mother for betraying the family’s culture and religion, according to a police report.
The mother, Sahar Thabit, 35, born in Yemen, was arrested Friday and is facing three counts of child abuse after the family learned about the Internet friendship, police said.
Victim advocates say that “honor violence,” in which a woman is victimized for having shamed or violated cultural or religious norms, particularly those of Middle Eastern countries, is gaining attention in the United States as more Middle Eastern families move here and young women immerse themselves in Western culture.
We are hearing a case like this on a weekly basis. These people are less than human, treat woman like dirt and expect to get away with this kind of thing in the United States. Turn this story around and use a Christian woman instead of a Muslim. The media would go nuts.
Quote: musiclady wrote in post #2And yet we are told to believe that Islam is just another "road to heaven" just like Christianity is......
Every time we speak the truth against the lie of Islam we could be casting seeds that will trickle into someone's consciousness and save them from a horrific fate in the future.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
Quote: musiclady wrote in post #2And yet we are told to believe that Islam is just another "road to heaven" just like Christianity is......
Every time we speak the truth against the lie of Islam we could be casting seeds that will trickle into someone's consciousness and save them from a horrific fate in the future.
I know what you are saying. but sometimes that task feels like trying to boil the ocean. I am shocked at the silence of the meda and the left concerning the horror these women endure.
Quote: musiclady wrote in post #2And yet we are told to believe that Islam is just another "road to heaven" just like Christianity is......
Every time we speak the truth against the lie of Islam we could be casting seeds that will trickle into someone's consciousness and save them from a horrific fate in the future.
I know what you are saying. but sometimes that task feels like trying to boil the ocean. I am shocked at the silence of the meda and the left concerning the horror these women endure.
I think small acts add up. If we speak truthfully to those in our circle and we do it with conviction it bolsters them. When they speak they are armed with more facts. These facts go out in a wave and others learn. Every little bit counts in the great big picture.
If we speak up against the lie when people unthinkingly say, "All faiths point to the same higher power", this matters.
It matters just as much when we speak up to the lie that the Christianity and Islam worship the same God. I have heard people say this. They say it without thinking. They say it because they heard it somewhere... but, they don't know where and they don't know why they believe it.
Just being truthful and telling them they are wrong will matter.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson