WE’VE said it in the past, and we’ll say it again: Islam is rotten to its very core. It is a despicable, barbaric religion that revels in cruelty and degradation, and the world would be a far, far better place without it.
A still photograph from a 32-minute Dutch film called The Stone which was made to dramatise the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries such as Iran.
Yes, we are angry. VERY, very angry! So angry, in fact, that when the story first broke a few days ago of a 13-year-old girl being stoned to death in that benighted basket-case of an Islamic country called Somalia, we were just too damn furious to write about it.
But today, further details of the atrocity came to light in a BBC report, and we felt that we could no longer pretend that the barbarous incident never happened.
You can hear the report here:
In this horrifying broadcast, an eye-witness to the murder of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, said the girl had begged for mercy, saying “don’t kill me, don’t kill me”.
Her crime? Well, there was no crime. She had, if fact, been the VICTIM of a gang rape – and when her family tried to report the incident, the authorities accused her of adultery, and it was ordered that she be stoned to death.
Ophelia Benson, over at Butterflies and Wheels, was beside herself with fury:
Bastards, bastard, bastards!
And she added:
So. A child of 13 and her father try to tell the authorities that she was raped by three men, and the authorities in response arrest her, order up a truckload of stones, bury her in the ground up to her neck, gather a crowd of a thousand people, and throw the truckload of stones at her head.
It’s hard to figure out what’s going on in the heads of people like that. It’s not just violent lashing out – it’s religious legal official punishment – carried out in cold blood and the pure odor of sanctity.
It’s hard to figure that out. What kind of monster do they think they worship, that wants children smashed to death with rocks for being raped? What kind of hideous, loathsome, savage, bloodthirsty, tyrannical, cruel monster do they imagine wants them to act like that? What kind of nightmare world do they live in? How do they look on their work and approve it?
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November 4th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
There are not enough expletives in my vocabulary to express my outrage at these barbarians. It looks like a woman is actually assisting in this murder – unbelievable! Morons and bastards every one of them.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
This story can not be true. Islam is a peaceful, loving, tolerant and modern religion………………….;)
November 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Cunts every fucking cunting one of them cunts!
November 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Those who are responsible for this barbarity are the real enemy of Islam,this could never happen where the real Islam flourishes, please read the followingbefore you wrongly blame Islam.
http://www.mostmerciful.com/stoning-is-shirk.htm
November 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Makes me sick. What kind of insanity is taught to childeren so they grow up capable of so much backward-savagery. It truly is the Satanic Verses’
November 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
“This could never happen where the real Islam flourishes”. Care to tell us, Akhter, where on this planet this “real Islam” flourishes?
November 4th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
This is genuine religion, stripped of its wishy-washy Western disguises. Like any unreasoning ideology, it makes its followers less than human. The ignorant, cowardly people who did this vile thing must have known, at some level, that they were behaving monstrously. But they did it anyway, because their holy book and their holy men told them it was right.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Valdemar, well said. I agree with every word you wrote, exactly as you wrote it.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:57 am
This really breaks my heart, the absolute absence of feeling by the perpetrators of this so called justice because of their barbaric religious ideals. I am just at a loss for words to describe the anger and grief for this loss of an innocent life and I know it is one amongst many.
Loving Gods my arse.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am
In passing, this type of report is unusual for the BBC. They would normally suppress this kind of report as it does not fit in with their pro-islam agenda. I confess that I couldn’t listen to more than a minute of the BBC report (too harrowing for me) but I didn’t hear the ‘M’ word once. I expect the blog to disappear before its existance is too widely circulated.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am
There seems to be something about human nature. When religion or politics sanctions barbarous behaviour towards fellow humans, there are those who are only too ready to do what otherwise would be regarded as horrifying – witnes treatment of the Jews by the Germans under Nazi sanction.
April 1st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
islam is a true religion.but some peolple are underestimating it for their own interests.it is the only religion that defended the rights of women in the history of the world for the first time.
July 8th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
It's true that the koran doesn't impose the death penalty even for adult voluntary adulterers but Islam acts as if it does. The Old Testament does call for rape victims to be stoned to death.I don't understand how human beings can behave like this. I was devastated to read of it and incredibly frustrated that it's too late to prevent it. It's impossible to understand how human beings can behave like this, but evidence shows that religion corrupts.
February 24th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
i am a mousilem ,,, actually what happened is tottaly against the norms and rules of islam ,,i cant imagine how could those people assume that killing a rapped 13 years old girl is something encouraged by islam ,, ,,, it can’t be islamic judge … please guys dont beleive these leies ,