more on "honor killing"

Well it seems as though I have been again at the start of something I had no chance of keeping up with. A statement that is gong to keep very few people coming back from this point on if I do not make some commitment to keep up with the blog more often then once every two months. I was/am glad that anyone had anything to say about what I has written last time concerning “honor killings” But I have to both agree that “honor killings” do pre date Islam as a religion but do not stop when it starts, in fact through out the history of Islamic nations particularly those in the Middle East they still continue and often the Koran is sited for the reason they’re necessary. A mis-guided and false use of the religion perhaps but traditional and on going all the same. And no matter what any Islamic scholar wants to say about this whole insanity the fact remains the same now as it did in pre-Islamic days, that it is ALWAYS the wife, daughter, sister or some woman in the family that is killed. Not the brother that raped her which, yes happens it seems often, it is not the boy friend or other male family member that got her pregnant that is killed, the stain on the “family honor” that needs to be cleansed with blood needs to be done with the woman’s life ending in violence and public announcement of the act.
I am a Baptized Catholic and know all too well the death that sits at the door of my church, know all too well the harm it has done in the name of family and “honor” And God as he is expressed in our belief system. I know all the Hitler’s and Serbian Slobodan Milosevic's who have used the Christian “faith” or belief system to excuse their actions but their insane too.
I believe in God, I believe that there is one God, I do not believe, that my one God is very likely to be different then the one God that you believe in. And that if you or anyone for that matter feels the need to kill anyone in the name of or for the sake of God. Their not only delusional but dangerous to the world at large and need to be given a serious time out some where far, far away from the rest of us.
I also think that in the year 2007 if any one believes that actually killing a young girl with rocks is in any way definable, defensible, or that I or any one else on the planet should understand it? And go, … “ oh that is just a cultural thing” And not judge that action harshly, try to do our best to put a stop to it forever, is insane and just as dangerous as the fucker who threw the first stone and his crazy brother or her uncle who just stood there and watched. We have to got to stop killing women now. We have to stop killing in general but men who think it is OK to kill women because they’re different or represent something that only men can define for them/women has got to stop and now. If it cannot then the world will not ever come to any peace at all.

It is almost 2008 and I wish I had some thing better to say about how I see the world today, I wish I had some grand idea that things have gotten better in general other then we have nicer cars to drive, China is getting richer and Mexico has more phones in every home, the Thais seem to have a greater access to the web and Peru is reporting less child deaths this year then last. I suppose on a grand scale things are always getting better, the fact that we’re all still here.
Well those of us who are anyway!
Must mean something I guess.

I have a new child who was born in this year and that is a good thing though I doubt it is going to do much for the other 30, 000 that died today most of them in a less then grandiose or warm ways. Most of them starving or being killed in some war torn country that seems never on the verge of any thing different.

Well that is enough, I have been told over and over that too much writing is too much to read and no one wants that.. So for now good night, I promise to write more often and I do know as jaded as I am. That everything in the world today is just as it is supposed to be and that I am not in control of any of it And that people, places and things will always let me down. but God as I understand him never will. So I hope you’re merry and bright this day and your family is well.
Good Night