Root Cause of Terrorism ?
Bob
AYHAN SURUCU was so angry when his sister started to wear make-up and
date German men that he put a gun to her head at a bus stop and killed
her.
The 18-year-old Turk fired three bullets into her brain and calmly
walked away.
Boys at a nearby school, attended mainly by the children of immigrant
Muslim families, cheered and applauded when news of the murder reached
them.
The so-called "honour killing" of Hatun Surucu, 23, last year
shocked Germany and sparked intense debate about a conservative Muslim
immigrant community at odds with a secular society.
That anger was rekindled yesterday when Surucu, a minor when the murder
took place, was sentenced to nine years and three months by a Berlin
court, considered lenient by many Germans.
His brothers, Alpaslan, 25, and Mutlu, 26, were acquitted because of
lack of evidence, at which friends and family in the courtroom cheered.
The prosecution had sought life sentences for their part in the murder
of their sister.
Passing judgment, Michael Degrif said: "It is inconceivable that
someone can be killed for living a Western lifestyle."
Although she was brought up in Germany, Hatun was forced into a
marriage with her Turkish cousin in east Anatolia. The marriage broke
up and she returned to Berlin with her five-year-old child to live the
life of a young German woman: going to discos, renting a small
apartment, taking lovers and starting an apprenticeship as an
electrician. She abandoned the traditional headscarf and wore
fashionable jeans. Her three brothers were upset, as was her father.
The state prosecutor had demanded that all three brothers be convicted.
Ayhan, the youngest, had confessed to pulling the trigger but according
to the prosecutor the two others had stood guard and obtained the
murder weapon. They denied any involvement.
The evidence of a crown witness, a Turkish girl who wore a bullet-proof
vest when she stood in the witness stand, was deemed yesterday to be
too flimsy for a conviction. Only Ayhan, 19, was jailed after admitting
that he wanted to "wipe the stain from our family".
There are 40 "honour killings" a year in Germany and most of them
result from the failure of an arranged marriage, which are illegal in
the country.
Matt Menge
All Bad
subsequent confusion.
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Finnegan's Wake
"Matt Menge" <mspm...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1145055949....@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> Shouldn't we be looking for something a little more widespread?
>
What about butter!?!
All Bad
Finnegan's Wake wrote:
Mayonaise would be more whitely spread.
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Matt Menge
Best Regards,
Matt
PaulHammond
Bob wrote:
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C13509-2133632%2C00.html
>
But, Turks aren't Arabs, Bob - and I thought your "they're different
from us so we ought to kill them all" arguments had Arabs as
the "dangerous other".
There are 18 year old red-necks in your country that join the KKK
and go out killing blacks and gays - does that mean I should
decide that the whole USA is uncivilised and deserves bombing
back to the stone age?
oh, and what does this have to do with the Baha'is?
Paul
Finnegan's Wake
> Maybe if they were associated with pornography.
What!?! Butter and mayonaise .....!?!
What sort of PREVERT are you ... a pederophile or a rapper?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Matt
>
Alexander
The cure for it is education in areas of social differences and religious
differences and social similarities and religious similarities. A bully who
sets in the unrealistic and realistic fears in to the hearts of societies is
backing the other into a corner. This happens when countries, which are far
more powerful and far more advanced, try to interfere with the natural
development of the lesser-developed countries; the results end up in great
disaster and conflict. The road to hell is paved with good intentions; but
who is going to take heed to this warning? Obviously only a few gets the
message, but many are still wandering astray on this issue at hand. One way
to solve this kind of problem is for the people of the world, strong and
weak, bound and free to gather together hand in hand as one voice and one
force to put a stop at terrorism before it starts. Cutting its roots and
cause of its roots and its supply before this weed takes root and affects
the whole human race.
Alexander
(Unitarian Universalist Pantheist)
Alexander
The cure for it is education in areas of social differences and religious
side of what causes terrorism is when a bully sets in the unrealistic and
rwi...@dodo.com.au
No no no Dermod! You have the wrong end of the butter stick.
Matt has recently advocated a medical solution for the homosexual
problem...
"a pill like Viagra"
(Still trying to work out if he means "widespread" like Viagra or if he
means a pill that
makes gays so horny they spontaneously combust ;-)
In this instance Matt is no doubt seeking similar "wdespread" solution
to the Terrorist
problem....something in the drinking water perhaps...or an additive to
the swiming pools...
kinda like a massive anti terrorist sheep dip.(Steve could help him
there)
Matt is big on chemistry....I'm sure he'll come up with something.
Roche is working on a 6x4 suppository to solve the Baha'i Taliban
Fundamentalist Frootloop problem.....perhaps there the cry "What about
butter!?!" might be more applicable?
How's your mothers chooks?