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Islam: Only Cowards Stone People to Death: An Islamic Religious Ritual August 19, 2010 - by Phyllis Chesler

Yesterday, I appeared on Fox News’ The Strategy Room to discuss a recent stoning in Afghanistan and the issue of stoning in general. Kimberly Guilfoyle interviewed me both skillfully and graciously. The subject is a very distressing and somewhat mysterious one for most westerners. What does it mean when a mob of men, numbering anywhere from 50 to 200, stone a female child to death — as happened in October of 2008 in Somalia? That poor soul was not only a 13-year-old child, she had also just been raped. Indeed, that was her sole “ crime ” and the reason for her torture-execution. She was forced into a hole and buried nearly up to her neck. She took a long time to die and kept crying out for her life. In addition to the 50 active stoners, 1000 more men cheered them on. What does this tell us? First, that barbarians are mainly cowards who do not view themselves as responsible for their actions. Everyone is the murderer and therefore, no one is the murderer. The group both absorbs and atones for any possible guilt or hesitation that even one individual might have felt. However, as we shall see, there is also another way of looking at this. For a culture presumably so concerned with “honor,” so consumed with concepts of responsibility towards the family, clan, or “ummah” (Muslim people), those who stone a living being to death utterly shrink from any individual responsibility for carrying out their bloody deeds. Entire families become conspirators in an honor killing; village and religious councils collaborate to issue a death sentence; Muslim men sexually harass women in the streets (of Egypt) — and in large mosque-inflamed mobs (in Algeria). In terms of stoning, which is primarily a contemporary Muslim-only custom, not only do cowardly men hide behind each other, clearly they lack the ability to act as individuals. That power is reserved for one man, one leader, one ruling cabal only. In Afghanistan, the Taliban hooligans threw the first stones. This tells us something else that is important. The need for a mob is, in a sense, proof that the individuals who compose it are all being held hostage to the will of the psychopathic criminals who rule them. Oppose them, and you yourself might be stoned to death. Hostage-mobs also share the “guilt,” or rather, their leaders’ point of view. The leaders cannot be held accountable for their actions either — everyone did it. In addition, sharing a so-called Muslim sinner’s blood, especially female blood, is yet another way to forge a blood-brotherhood that is based on male supremacism. Stoning is practiced in contemporary Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Nigeria. In 2006, a poll conducted in “moderate” Indonesia found that 50% of Muslims there supported stoning in cases of adultery, however it is defined. Adultery might include: a married woman who is raped by a stranger, or a woman promised in marriage to one man but who chooses another. This is precisely what happened in the recent case in Afghanistan. The Grand Torturer Khomeini brought stoning back to Iran. Uneducated mullahs in the provinces rather liked it. They also liked drugs, drug trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution and then jailing or hanging them for it; temporary “marriages”; forced veiling, etc. Although stoning is now under legal review in Iran, to date, eight men and three women await stoning execution. In Iran, one woman, accused of adultery, was sentenced to be lashed 99 times — and then sentenced to be stoned to death. Due to an international campaign and due to the hard work of Iranian dissidents, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s sentence was delayed. But she was lashed 99 times and her teenage son was forced to witness her helplessness, humiliation, and torture — and, in a sense, forced to both share these emotions, second-hand with his mother. Her son’s presence before her nakedness was meant to shame them both and challenged him to become a very hard man as a way of avoiding an eventual nervous breakdown. I am not sure whether there is any connection, but think about this. When Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca, part of their three day ritual includes stoning “The Devil.” Large groups literally throw stones at giant concrete pillars. This suggests that stoning is a Muslim religious ritual, not a tribal custom. Therefore, stoning a living human being is not only an act of human sacrifice — it is a classic religious ritual meant to glorify the stoners’ God. A little like jihad if you ask me.

Islam Somali Christian Killed, 4 Children Kidnapped Somali Christian Killed, 4 Children Kidnapped By Compass Direct News|Simba Tian NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – Another member of an underground Christian movement in Somalia has been murdered by Muslim insurgents in a continuing campaign to eliminate converts from Islam. Related Family of 17-Year-Old Somali Girl Abuses Her for Leaving Islam Somalian Militant Group Expels World Vision Somalia's Christians Plead for Prayers during Ramadan Muslim Men Attack Somali Church Leader in Ethiopia Area sources said al Shabaab militants entered the house of Osman Abdullah Fataho in Afgoi, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mogadishu in Shibis district, at 10:30 the night of July 21 and shot him dead in front of his wife and children. Fataho was a long-time Christian deeply involved in the activities of the small, secret Christian community, sources said. Area Christians said they suspected someone had informed the insurgents of Fataho’s faith. The assailants abducted his wife and children, later releasing her on the condition that she surrender the little ones to be trained as soldiers, sources said. “We know they have taken the children to brain-wash them, to change their way of life from Christian to Muslim and to teach them the Quran,” said one source. “Al Shabaab was aware that her husband was a Christian, but they were not sure of her faith.” Abducted were 5-year-old Ali Daud Fataho, 7-year-old Fatuma Safia Fataho, 10-year-old Sharif Ahmed Fataho and Nur Said Fataho, 15. A Christian leader who attended Fataho’s funeral on July 22 said that one of the slain man’s relatives noted that the insurgents had targeted him because he had left Islam. The al Shabaab militants are said to have links with al Qaeda. The incident has spread fear among the faithful in the lawless country, much of which lies in the grip of ruthless insurgents intent on rooting out any person professing Christianity. Leaders of the Christian underground movement have been forced to flee their homes to avoid being killed by the insurgents, said one leader who together with seven others has temporarily moved to an undisclosed area. The leader added that he was unable to go to his office for fear of falling into the hands of the hard-line Islamic insurgents. Al Shabaab, which controls large parts of central Somalia, recently banned radio stations from playing music and outlawed bell ringing that signals the end of school classes “because they sound like church bells.” In 2009 Islamic militants in Somalia sought out and killed at least 15 Christians, including women and children. This year, on Jan. 1 al Shabaab insurgents murdered 41-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Ali after the Christian had left his home in Hodan, on the outskirts of Mogadishu. On March 15, al Shabaab rebels shot Madobe Abdi to death on March 15 at 9:30 a.m. in Mahaday village, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Jowhar. Abdi’s death was distinctive in that he was not a convert from Islam. An orphan, Abdi was raised as a Christian On May 4, the militants shot Yusuf Ali Nur to death in Xarardheere, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jowhar. The 57-year-old Nur had been on a list of people al Shabaab suspected of being Christian, sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told Compass. The transitional government in Mogadishu fighting to retain control of the country treats Christians little better than the al Shabaab insurgents do. While proclaiming himself a moderate, President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed has embraced a version of sharia (Islamic law) that mandates the death penalty for those who leave Islam.

Last week, Israel was stunned by a crime so heinous that it shook the nation to its core. It was so barbaric that Prime Minister Netanyahu broke with the usual procedure and released crime scene photos to the world. Just hours into the Sabbath, intruders -- presumably Palestinian -- broke into the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel in the West Bank town of Itamar. They brutally murdered, by slashing and stabbing, the father, the mother, and their three-month old baby girl, Hadas, as she slept beside her father. They then entered the room of two of the Fogels' sons, Yoav, 11, and Elad, age three. As the murderers held the young boys down, they stabbed them repeatedly, then slashed their throats.

They apparently didn't realize that two more sons were asleep in another room. When the Fogels' daughter, Tamar, 12, returned home from a Sabbath youth group meeting, she found her two-year-old brother, Yishai, standing over them screaming for them to wake up.

To call this outrage a crime... to even call it a tragedy does not do it justice. It's more than either of those. This is pure, unadulterated evil incarnate. Whoever would slash, then practically behead a three-month-old baby girl, is below human. You don't have to be a theologian to realize who motivates that kind of hatred.

Yet the world has hardly taken notice. In fact, The New York Times put some effort into deflecting the blame back toward Israel and its 'settlement policies.'

But the Palestinians themselves took notice. In fact, they were so overjoyed that in Gaza, they danced in the streets and passed out sweets to celebrate.

These are the people the world wants Israel to accept as a "peace partner."

As Prime Minister Netanyahu told CNN's Piers Morgan, "What am I going to negotiate with them? The method of our decapitation?"

While all eyes are on Libya and the West's befuddled military adventure, growing numbers of demonstrators have been protesting in Syria. But unlike the Egyptians, the Syrians are responding with live ammunition! They're still protesting in Jordan, too, and even Hamas is beginning to feel the heat in Gaza. Frustrated Gazans have taken to the streets to protest the disunity between Hamas and Fatah, the party of PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

So Hamas launched 53 rockets into Israel in an effort to provoke Israel into retaliation, thus rallying the Gazans behind the Hamas government.

And the problem is?