Visit to male friend spurs brutal attack (Istanbul)

ISTANBUL - Yet another tragedy of domestic violence occurred in Turkey this weekend when a young girl in the southeastern town of Siirt was stabbed by family members after she visited a male friend, according to a report by the Doğan News Agency. Seriously wounded, 17-year-old N.E.’s fight for life continued yesterday in intensive care.

Visit to male friend spurs brutal attack The incident took place Friday night. N.E. went to see her male friend, a D.J. working at a local radio station. Followed by her father and brothers, N.E was attacked in the office of the radio station where her friend works. The father and brothers first beat the D.J. Ö.M.E and then N.E. tried to escape by jumping from the sixth floor. After receiving first aid, she was then taken to the hospital but she could not avoid being attacked again by family members. Waiting for her to come to the hospital, family members attacked her as she was being carried from the ambulance into the hospital.

She was stabbed in five places.Hurt seriously, she was transferred to a hospital in Diyarbakır. Five family members were taken into custody. One was later released.

Three of the remaining four were released to be tried without custody. The girl’s brother Abdurrahim E., 23, was arrested ...

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11865035.asp?scr=1

I hope they are feeling good that they have their "honor" restored.

Handjobs.

Read Countryman's Dirt, Greed, and Sex. Most sexual proscriptions, which get written into religious tenets, were originally pragmatic rules for upholding the social order -- most often, the notion of family "houses" and the maintenance of their property. Girls had to be kept virginal before marriage, and separated from other males both before and after marriage, to help guarantee that the children they bore were fathered by their husband, thus assuring that the family property would not pass to the child of a man from outside the family. As so often happens, the accepted social order gets "blessed" by the dominant religion -- but any sense of those rules obtaining a "religious" meaning (in the sense of "if you disobey this law, you are rebelling against God") is secondary at best.

Lastly, I would point out that neither Judaism, nor Christianity, nor Islam speaks of a family's "honor" as a major concern of the religion. That sort of thing is cultural, and probably dates back to the time when the regions now considered as "belonging" to those religions were all practicing one form or another of local pantheism.

Patriarchal Religion turns men into monsters and women must be made to suffer to appease them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=229x11638

Because, you know, there's never been a crazy religious nut on a killing mission here in the "forward" USofA.