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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:44 PM Original message |
Report: Bride, 13, dies of bleeding(Yemen) |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Damn. |
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Gman2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It reminds me, of a bible story. the villagers wanted to sample the foreighners. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. well, not that it matters but the story was about |
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bighart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Here is the passage from the contemporary english translation |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
34. There is another passage that is being intermixed in his description |
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Gwendolyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #34 |
48. You have your bible stories all mixed up. Lot's daughters didn't die. |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 06:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
46. So Lot offered to let the crowd rape his daughters? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. "...strong opposition from some of Yemen's most influential Islamic leaders." |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. All belief systems are corrupt |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
32. agreed. nt |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. ?? As far as I know, Islam doesn't have female leaders at this time. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:48 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Well that's my point. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. I say we bomb Yemen. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The bombs would indiscriminately kill the women and girls as well, you know |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 09:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. If I were a woman in that culture, |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 10:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
35. Sorry, I forgot the indicate the extraordinary sarcasm intended. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. TY for the clarification. I actually have a (now more distant) friend who snarled that we... |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 12:54 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I don't know...would this be so much of a worse reason to bomb the middle east |
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yava (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. yes the bastard young husband... |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 01:42 AM Response to Reply #6 |
40. And there you are wrong. Short of absolute subjugation, there is virtually... |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 04:21 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. Two things will: schools for girls, and making it advantageous for their parents to send them |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 07:43 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. I'd say that's internal, rather than external, despite the bribe. |
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secondwind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. this is so heartbreaking and disgusting...and a 12 yr old dies giving birth? WTF? |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. ... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. There are no words... |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. So sad. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. I'll bet dollars to donuts she was a victim of FGM |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. That's what I was thinking too. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. You missed a step. The FGM was probably healed, which means |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. True if it was an infibulation. |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 08:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
42. Isn't that what Fatty Arbuckle was accused of doing? |
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Maeve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Actually, her death was most likely accidental and not at all his fault |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-11-10 09:03 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. This girl's death will most likely be ruled accidental too |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Exactly. The kind where they stitch the girl up after cutting off her labia |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. OK, here's a weird but true story |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. probably Perforated her Vagina, tore a hole in her.. maybe dislodged her Uterus.. |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 02:34 AM Response to Reply #27 |
41. Well that's a wonderful display of near total ignorance. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-10-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. i didnt say he did it.. ad you are right about dowry being relative to culture.. read >Link> |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. When Americans quote the Bible against their neighbors |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Amina, American Citizen, in Yemen with her father, now |
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Christa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. K & R nt |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
22. here is some info on the subject .... >>Links>> |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. So why are we defending Islamic republics in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, etc....????? |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:34 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. oil... we need to get free of the sob's, what ever the cost..NOW.!!! |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
25. Genital mulilation and child bride. Poor child, and poor girls this practice is happening on EVERY |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
26. It is ALWAYS the women who suffer in these barbaric cultures. |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. Do they have any kind of sex ed over there? |
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demigoddess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. what good is a dead bride?? Don't these men get it? There is a reason that |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
36. In socialist south Yemen, this practice was actively opposed. |
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allicat (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-11-10 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
49. you cant judge an entire nation by a number of incidents. |
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