The Murder Of Du’a Khalil Aswad

I sent links to a video of the stoning of a 17 year old Kurdish girl in email to a few bloggers yesterday, Charles may have already been aware of it, he comments here:

Here’s an example of an “honor killing” (a horrible term for an evil practice) that is not linked to Islam or perpetrated by Muslims. In this case the Dark Ages barbarism was committed by members of the Yazidi religion, a pre-Islamic, pre-Christian pagan faith, and the girl was murdered because she had a relationship with a Muslim boy.

Polipundit commented on the item, as well.

If the Iraqi people can muster the “courage” to stone a 17 year old girl because she “loved the wrong boy” surely the Iraqi people can stone their own terrorists? Or maybe not.

I'd hardly expect these particular non-Muslims to rise up against terrorists. That's foolish, they are terrorists themselves. The story is in The Daily Mail, if you scroll down, the link contains graphic images from the video.

It is shaky cell phone video, still all too clear. No content warning can adequately prepare you for the video, or especially for the cheers of the crowd as they bash the life from this young girl, smashing concrete blocks, not stones, into her head. There is much blood. Bizarrely, and due to some misguided notion of piety, I guess, at one point someone moves to cover her bottom after it is exposed. But no one attempts to stop or hide the violent carnage these non-Muslims perpetuate. I did not watch the entire video and re-visited it when the topic came up at Memeorandum. I saw more of it but not all and not straight through without turning away in disgust. I doubt I'll re-visit it, again. However, I will not pretend that evil doesn't exist.

Along with those same images from above, again, scrolling down, you will find the video here. Whether or not you view this particular non-Muslim face of evil from the Middle East yourself is up to you.

Comments

[Cindi]

Viewed the pictures and some of the video. I keep going back to the article trying to comprehend such a thing, asking why? There are times all one can do is cry in the face of pure evil.

"Lookin’ down through a tide of no return
Is a field where the crops no longer grow
Parched is the land, strangled an’ be damned
There for the Grace Of God Go I"

[Phoenix]

And there with praises to Allah went she.

[chris]

I have not been able to get this out of my mind since I read about it on Thursday night in the Daily Mail. I logged on and found out more - sadly decided to watch the videos. Thankfully they are grainy and unclear, but its all to clear the fright and terror and pain that young girl must have felt. Sadly she is not the only one to suffer, and probably wont be the last. I have signed the petition against stoning. These people are savages, I dont know what can be done to 'humanize' them. Looking back during our history we did some pretty unspeakable things, but I think that we learnt that they are not nice things to do. I can only hope and pray that their culture also comes to this conclusion - but sadly it will always be too late for Miss Du'a Khalil. Those man who stood there, who threw blocks at her and kicked her when she was dead, are beyond my understanding. If it were not so horrible it would be almost laughable that someone kept having to cover her bottom with a coat or jacket or something, so its ok to lob bricks and things at her, its ok, to stand round her like a baying mob kicking at her, ignoring her cries (and I did not have the sound on, I imagine he would have made some noise, but I could not have been able to listen) but not ok to see her legs. These men are not men in the sense that I know men. Did they go home to their wives (god help their poor wives) did they ruffle their daughters hair and sit her on their lap - after trying to wash the blood off their trainers. I dont care if their culture, I dont care if they are not suposed to know any better. I think each and everyone of them are accountable for that girls MURDER as that was what it was. Actually, it was more than murder, it was a lynching. I am never going to forget her, and I will be for ever gratefull that I was born in a country where I could have boyfriends, wear makeup, go out on my own, drive, go to school, wear what ever I want in more or less relative safety.
If there is a Heaven, and I to be honest sometimes doubt the existance of a God, any God, but if there is a place to go after this, then she should be there.

[Rich]

Yes Chris, I agree, this was barbaric, evil, and so very very wrong. I am also struggling to get those images out of my head.
Poor little Du'a may she rest in peace now.

[chris]

I am relieved that I saw this final clip, as horrible as it was, I was glad to see that she was 'released' from pain by her actual death. By trying to defile her body after death, they managed only to defile them selves. I have woken this morning to find that 4 men have been arrested, and the police at the start of it are to be investigated. I wont hold my breath for anything to come of it. I am going out with 3 friends for a meal and drink and to see a band playing afterwards. Usually I would not think how lucky I am to do this, this time I am more than aware that for countless women on this world of ours, it is something that they can only dream about. I realise that this 'event' is one of thousands, happening anywhere at any time, and that if we thought of them all, we would be driven insane with the horror of it all. I don't think that we will go to either Heaven or Hell, as I think we are in Hell already.

[Toni]

I'm not going to watch the videos - the pictures are horrible enough. I just cannot comprehend what makes people behave in this way - in the name of religion. These men are inhumane. I am saddened by what this will do in communities around the world where people from such countries and cultures are trying to make a new life for themselves. How can we ever live in harmoney knowing what goes on in such places and the awful views some of these people hold. This month my husband & i decided to try for a baby - but i wonder just what sort of world we are living in now and whether its right to bring a person into a place full of so much hate. I am very very sad at what i have read today.

[marfow]

This is sick- Those men that did nothing are nothing- This is why they will always be backwards and not progress forward- that poor girl did nothing to deserve the hatred towards her- have a 17 year old daughter and it makes me sick to think that another 17 year old was murdered because of who she loved- No wonder this culture will never be anything but backwards-

[John R Brodie. Justice of the Peace.]

The male of no other species of animal in history has wilfully beaten up on the female of its own species. Man's inhumanity to woman is the worst attrocity in the whole of history. The value of womanhood is also the greatest wasted resource in the whole of history.

[John R Brodie. Justice of the Peace.]

The male of no other species of animal in history has wilfully beaten up on the female of its own species. Man's inhumanity to woman is the worst attrocity in the whole of history. The value of womanhood is also the greatest wasted resource in the whole of history.