I’ve just read an article on CNN.com all about a man who murdered his daughter because she didn’t want to be part of an arranged marriage. Well, yes, clearly that’s a capital offense.
You know, Bill Maher is a man I respect on many levels, and I agree with him far more often than not. Plus he’s funny as all get out. He once commented in one of his stand-up routines on the things that make our culture better than the medieval Islamic cultures out there.
The gist of it is that freedom is better than oppression, giving women rights is better than denying them, and if you really want to know about the difference between the two cultures, just understand that we don’t make our ladies wander around in “bee-keeper suits”.
To this I would add that won’t think it’s acceptable to murder your child just because she doesn’t want to get married to the man you want her to marry. This is entirely unacceptable and allowing it continue within your culture puts it right on the borderline of being an invalid culture (to which I would add, for example, any culture that practices human sacrifice or cannibalism as a matter of course).
I’m glad to see this jackass is going to get what he deserves and hope he spends the rest of his wretched, miserable life rotting away in an 8′ x 8′ prison cell.
