Today's news: "Fourteen pages of the commission's report are dedicated to brief descriptions by family members of reasons these women committed suicide. Most are because of rape, beatings and accusations against their honor. None of the dead women or their relatives are named in the report. The mother of a victim in Badghis is quoted saying that her daughter committed self-immolation because her fiance accused her of getting pregnant by another man and would not accept the child as his own. The mother of another victim said that her daughter was actually a victim of domestic violence although it was portrayed by others as a suicide. "They beat my daughter a lot, then they poured fuel on her and said that she committed self-immolation," the mother says. She did not give details of the attackers.
And she's got time, in between shopping on Rodeo Drive to ask AMERICANs what WE are doing for "women's empowerment" on Yahoo.. when Arabic women are devasted to incredible degrees by Islam?
2007-03-15
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