husband kills afgan wife

[somerfrost]

Someday women will gain equality world-wide....someday but not today!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Someday women will gain equality world-wide....someday but not today!

Not in a world where some men like Dell and Cannon think it's a subject to use for joking.

Let alone as even the article says, "Boy babies are traditionally prized much more highly than girls in Afghanistan, where a son means a breadwinner and a daughter is seen as a drain on the family until she is married off. Even so, a murder over the gender of a baby would be rare and shocking if proved true."

Rare and shocking occurrence in Afghanistan. How about that?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Not in a world where some men like Dell and Cannon think it's a subject to use for joking.

Let alone as even the article says, "Boy babies are traditionally prized much more highly than girls in Afghanistan, where a son means a breadwinner and a daughter is seen as a drain on the family until she is married off. Even so, a murder over the gender of a baby would be rare and shocking if proved true."

Rare and shocking occurrence in Afghanistan. How about that?

Yeah Dell and I are the bad guys...us men joking about killing women...ha ha ha...

I guess you missed the bolded part. Sure in a place where boy babies are TRADITIONALLY prized more than girls it is stunning that this happens. Let's keep acting like WE are the bad guys here...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Someday women will gain equality world-wide....someday but not today!

i hope so. just seems when you read stories such as this that it's still a very long way from happening. too far. the attitudes towards the female in so many parts of the world is simply unconscionable and appalling. even here you still see too many reminders that not everyone thinks all are created equal.
bad enough that a man would think it acceptable to kill his wife for giving birth to a (gasp) girl, but to know his mother was in on it. absolutely beyond words how disgusting.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i hope so. just seems when you read stories such as this that it's still a very long way from happening. too far. the attitudes towards the female in so many parts of the world is simply unconscionable and appalling. even here you still see too many reminders that not everyone thinks all are created equal.
bad enough that a man would think it acceptable to kill his wife for giving birth to a (gasp) girl, but to know his mother was in on it. absolutely beyond words how disgusting.

As I stated in my original post, let us remember that next time some self serving, America-hating buffoon reminds us that we shouldn't impose OUR standards or morals on other cultures.

[Danzig]

stories like this always make me glad i'm where i am. i cannot imagine having to be covered head to toe, not to be able to drive, to go out...to have acid thrown on me if i dared go to school...or to be thrown on a funeral pyre with my dead husbands other 'possessions'. the actions the world over are just unbelievable. makes me wonder if we really are out of the dark ages.
so much of it has to do with trying to keep power; after all, you keep the women down, that's half the population right off the bat that people don't have to be concerned with.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Danzig

stories like this always make me glad i'm where i am. i cannot imagine having to be covered head to toe, not to be able to drive, to go out...to have acid thrown on me if i dared go to school...or to be thrown on a funeral pyre with my dead husbands other 'possessions'. the actions the world over are just unbelievable. makes me wonder if we really are out of the dark ages.
so much of it has to do with trying to keep power; after all, you keep the women down, that's half the population right off the bat that people don't have to be concerned with.

That is the key right there. Most of the things done in the name of religion (by terrorist groups) have nothing to do with religious beliefs but with gaining and maintaining power. Perhaps this specific incident has nothing to do with religion or anything but an idiotic husband spurred on by a insane mother. But there are lots of places in that region where this kind of treatment of women is tolerated, often in the name of a religious law.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

That is the key right there. Most of the things done in the name of religion (by terrorist groups) have nothing to do with religious beliefs but with gaining and maintaining power. Perhaps this specific incident has nothing to do with religion or anything but an idiotic husband spurred on by a insane mother. But there are lots of places in that region where this kind of treatment of women is tolerated, often in the name of a religious law.

oh yeah, the use of religion is another way to hold power. helps explain why the church was so against the printing of the bible in a language that the peasants could understand. why, they might just read it and try to make sense of it themselves! can't have people thinking now! lol seriously, the teaching/belief in free will used to be heresy, a punishable offense. they also used to teach that you weren't supposed to try to rise above your station...that if god wanted you to be rich, he'd have had you born to a rich man. so....rulers used religion and vice versa. all to keep things on an even keel-for the rich and powerful of course.

[DaTruth]

This is rich. Righteous has gone from trying to mislead others about the content of articles to jumping to conclusions about boating accidents (and trying to politicize them) to presenting scientific proof that she is smarter than those who disagree with her.

[Dahoss]

I'm still waiting for Chuck and Dell to apologize to the board. Come on guys. Do the right thing.