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ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT CLEANSES TROUBLED NEIGHBOURHOOD
Old-fashioned family values reign over the Gaza Strip:
Hamas has begun operating a “vice and virtue commando” in the Gaza Strip to safeguard Islamic values, Palestinian security officials and residents told The Jerusalem Post.
The new force, called the Anti-Corruption Unit, is believed to be behind the gruesome murder over the weekend of Yusra al-Azzami, a 22-year-old university student from the northern Gaza Strip.
Her “crime” was that she was seen in public with her fiance.
Hamas’s “morality” patrolmen first spotted the young couple strolling along the beach in Gaza City, together with Azzami’s younger sister. After enjoying the spectacular sunset over the sea, they got into the future husband’s car and started driving towards Azzami’s home.
According to eyewitness accounts, five masked gunmen who were in another car gave chase, opening fire at Azzami, who was sitting in the front seat next to her fiance. She died instantly.
The fiance and sister were later brutally beaten and moderately injured by the attackers.
The incident took place at a busy intersection in Gaza City.
What happened immediately afterwards left many passersby traumatized.
The assailants dragged the young woman’s body out of the car, pouncing upon it mercilessly with clubs and iron bars.
Consider the centuries of struggle, error, triumph and progress that have led to modern civilization. Hamas represents the opposite of this.
Tragic and barbaric—my condolences to the family and fiance of Yusra al-Azzami.
If Hamas will do this to the people that they “defend”, no wonder the IDF defends Isreal so zealously. In fact, it sounds like the IDF does a better job of protecting Palestinians every time they launch another Hellfire missile at the terrorist leadership.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 12 at 07:06 AM • permalinkOT, but how long has Senator Byrd had a frickin’ statue of himself?
Isn’t that the sort of thing tin-pot dictators from the Middle East engage in?
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 12 at 07:42 AM • permalinktim, the link doesn’t work.
Folks, cut and paste this into your browser:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113186250438
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 12 at 08:04 AM • permalinkAnd where are the cries of outrage from the liberated women of the American left? Those staunch defenders of everything feminine and free? HAH! Thought so.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2005 04 12 at 08:43 AM • permalinktree hugging sister, the fems are too blind with rage at GWB to see what’s right in front of them: women being shot and beaten to death, in 2005, for being women!
What will it take to shake them out of it? A Rodney King video?
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2005 04 12 at 09:23 AM • permalinkA lesson from the Vietnam War:
Lose the youth and you lose the war.
I can’t think of a better way to lose the youth than to punish them for simply being young and wanting to do what the young yearn to do.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 12 at 09:39 AM • permalinkNope, that’s pretty much as good as Islam gets, unless Muslims are willing to stand up and hold their own accountable.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 12 at 10:07 AM • permalinkOff Topic: Your Kyoto poll has expired, tim.
On Topic: It’s all Hallibusheichman’s fault.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2005 04 12 at 10:16 AM • permalinkThis is a very disturbing story. I note that the original report was made in the Jerusalem Post yesterday. I ran the details through a search in newsnow.com but could find no other media running the story. Similarly a search through the Jerusalem News Wire and Isranews.com indicates no other reporting of the incident. I am not saying that the incident did not occur as reported in the Jerusalem Post but I would be very keen to see the story confirmed in other media reports.
Maybe the incident is just too shocking for me to accept at face value.
Posted by Peter Hoysted on 2005 04 12 at 08:13 PM • permalinkHamas has apologised saying it was done by rogue members http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563729.html
Posted by SheikYerbouti on 2005 04 12 at 09:00 PM • permalinkThis is not as unusual as some might think.
The morality police in Iran run around in white Toyotas terrorizing young women for things such as wearing make up, laughing in public, allowing hair to show from under their veils and other nefarious deeds.
They are safeguarding the purity of Islam by stoning women to death, shooting women and hanging women. In fact they have decided that a woman is worth exactly one half of what a man is worth. It is said to be easier for an Iranian woman to marry and divorce than it is to date.
Gotta be careful, do not want to offend the delicate sensibilities of child abusers that send teenagers off to kill themselves and others.
At least the PA arrested these people. I hope they punish this. I am not so sure that most Palestinians are really into this kind of thing.
At least I hope they are not.
Hamas has apologized? Why? Does this mean there is a line beyond which certain behavior is considered as unacceptable, even to Hamas?
I find that very hard to believe. This is the same group who thinks nothing of sending teenage boys into school buses, crowded pizza places, and any other places where innocents are assembled to commit mass acts of murder. There is no such line to this type of people.
Personally, I had considerable fear that Hamas or some other Palestinian or Islamist organization would send suicide bombers into the line of mourners assembled to pay last respects to the Pope. Hey, why not? I can almost guarantee they would have had their share of Michael Moores and Ward Churchills to justify their actions.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 12 at 09:24 PM • permalinkThis is tragic. I cannot understand how people can live like this - oh, hang on, they aren’t living are they?
Tribalism is the word for it. Backward.
For example, whenever I see Afghan people in their little doctoral bonnets I can’t help but think “These were part of the common clothing in the 1500s in England - they are stuck in a time-warp.”
Other people have moved on, but these have not.“Does this mean there is a line beyond which certain behavior is considered as unacceptable, even to Hamas? I find that very hard to believe. This is the same group who thinks nothing of sending teenage boys into school buses, crowded pizza places, and any other places where innocents are assembled to commit mass acts of murder.”
Yes, but that is killing jews. That’s fine. Killing your own muslims appears to be less desirable.
Posted by SheikYerbouti on 2005 04 12 at 11:09 PM • permalinkI don’t recall killing anyone lately.
Tree_hugging_sister, I found a north American Lefty site mostly devoted to exposing honour killings. I’m pressuming that you want to join?
Posted by mushtaq_omar on 2005 04 13 at 07:29 AM • permalinkI don’t recall killing anyone lately.
I don’t recall anyone accusing you of killing anyone, mushtaq. If you feel that these comments are lumping all Muslims together (i.e., “stereotyping”), please say so. You would make your point better, and people would have less reason to accuse you of baiting.
Tree_hugging_sister, I found a north American Lefty site mostly devoted to exposing honour killings. I’m pressuming that you want to join?
If we rewind to my “stereotyping” comment, I might ask when you plan on joining Hamas’s “Anti-Corruption Unit”. But I won’t; I’ll simply point out that tree hugging sister displays concern for the victm without stereotyping.
Stereotyping will do that, y’know.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 13 at 08:22 AM • permalinkOK Jeffs, I’ll give you that one.
I do however feel that Mr. Blair tends to press the negative stereotype button a little too often.
Incidentally, Myself, and every other Arab I know are repulsed by honour killing, and similar fanatic behaviour.
Posted by mushtaq_omar on 2005 04 13 at 08:42 AM • permalinkIt’s one thing for a Muslim/Arab to become repulsed by an honor killing. Repulsion is a passive response.
It’s a completely different thing altogether for a Muslim/Arab to take a stand and DO SOMETHING about it. That is the whole point about the War Against Terrorism. The Coalition has found itself forced to do something because the Muslims and Arabs have refused to do anything.
When the Middle East can clean up its own act, maybe the US can finally close down its military and use the trillions to pay for things in dire need such as health care and better education. And mark my words, it will be the right wing that leads in the closing.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 13 at 09:33 AM • permalinkOK Jeffs, I’ll give you that one
Thank you, mushtaq. That’s an honest response, and I appreciate that.
I do however feel that Mr. Blair tends to press the negative stereotype button a little too often.
Perhaps so…..but I generally see it as being pretty focused. Not always, but fairly consistently. For example, the original post in this thread (by tim) said nothing negative about Arabs. The post was only negative about Hamas. With which I agree wholeheartedly.
Incidentally, Myself, and every other Arab I know are repulsed by honour killing, and similar fanatic behaviour
I hope that this isn’t “incidental” to you; it sure isn’t to the family of Yusra al-Azzami.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 13 at 10:12 AM • permalinkThey get stoned when they commit adultery, whereas we commit adultery when we get stoned.
Posted by harry hutton on 2005 04 13 at 05:40 PM • permalink
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