Woman facing death by stoning ..

[Plus2]

he Israelis would have wiped the Palestinians off the face of the earth

Have the israeli's left Palestine??

 

[marley2580]

No, but international attention is helping to slow them down. Personally I think if the USA joined the condemnation of Israel, then they would have to slow down even more or even stop. Imagine what it would be like if no one cared what was happening there, in fact in places like the Sudan or Rwanda you can see what happens when no one cares.

 

[Blah11]

this is soo odd ... from what I'm gathering from reading this .. the majority of you think we should leave other countries to just get on with it ...? i suppose we should let all those starving africans die also then ? and next time there is a natural disaster we can leave them to clean up there own bodies ?! and feed there own starving country... i know a bit off topic but I'm just making a point! you can't just butt out when it suits you... well apparently you can ... x

Totaly different IMO. That isnt part of their culture or religion and they dont choose that way of life in their country. Natural disasters are no fault of man.

 

[Blah11]

+ TBH I'd rather our country got involved with African villages. They kill and burn children to death if they think they're witches I watched a docu on them and it was SO sad.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3008630

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

OMG Blah11 that is disgusting
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[rubixcyoob.]

Blah11 that is the same thing as this case though. Their cultures do it differently. In Iran it is their culture to stone people to death for adultry and we shouldn't get involved. In these African cultures they disown, hurt and even kill these 'witch children' because that's their beliefs too.

How can anyone say we should not inolve ourself in one matter of culture and belief but not in another? That's not fair. If you are going to get involved in beliefs and cultures you don't agree with you cannot pick and choose. It should be all or nothing.

Personally I feel we should involved ourself in all cases like this. Political pressure etc. goes a long way without ever having to result in violence. By following the belief that women are less than equal to men and deserve the punishments they do and can go on trial without ever hearing evidence to be condemed, I disagree with this belief and culture completely. It's barabaric, goes against any human rights etc. It is the same with the 'witch children'. Both these children and women are treated unfairly, unjustly punished for things based on feeling rather than fact, and have no one to speak up for them.

I've watched that documentray too and the only difference is that now hurting of children for believing them to be witches is illegal now. However, it shows how through pressure on the government without violence or any threats of war etc. something can be done. People just need to speak up and no accept it because it's another culture or belief that simply because we do not share we shouldn't get involved in. We should lend our voices to people who do not have one in their own country to stop these things happening.

 

[Blah11]

:\ blaming innocent children on famines is ridiculous and its not even part of their religion, it's just stupid. They don't even get a trial or a sentence, they get taken from their parents, tortured, starved and killed. That's not that countrys law, thats uneducated tribes taking matters into their own hands.

 

[Blue_bumpkin]

Blah11 that is the same thing as this case though. Their cultures do it differently. In Iran it is their culture to stone people to death for adultry and we shouldn't get involved. In these African cultures they disown, hurt and even kill these 'witch children' because that's their beliefs too.

How can anyone say we should not inolve ourself in one matter of culture and belief but not in another? That's not fair. If you are going to get involved in beliefs and cultures you don't agree with you cannot pick and choose. It should be all or nothing.

Personally I feel we should involved ourself in all cases like this. Political pressure etc. goes a long way without ever having to result in violence. By following the belief that women are less than equal to men and deserve the punishments they do and can go on trial without ever hearing evidence to be condemed, I disagree with this belief and culture completely. It's barabaric, goes against any human rights etc. It is the same with the 'witch children'. Both these children and women are treated unfairly, unjustly punished for things based on feeling rather than fact, and have no one to speak up for them.

I've watched that documentray too and the only difference is that now hurting of children for believing them to be witches is illegal now. However, it shows how through pressure on the government without violence or any threats of war etc. something can be done. People just need to speak up and no accept it because it's another culture or belief that simply because we do not share we shouldn't get involved in. We should lend our voices to people who do not have one in their own country to stop these things happening.

we cant get involved in everything - we dont rule the world (as much as we act like it sometimes) and it would simply be impossible to do this and take care of our country as well.

 

[rubixcyoob.]

The woman in the story got taken and didn't have a 'trial' she got judged based on someones feelings, which is like the tribes 'feelings' about these children imo. Both are unjust, no evidence, lack an educated anything in the decision and severely destroy a person's life for nothing.

I know our country is not the rulers of everything, but if individuals were to get involved. Who cares from where? Australia, America, Canada, UK, France, Spain - wherever - and to stand up to these cultural idiocracies, then maybe it can make a difference. We have a voice and we should use it.

 

[Blah11]

She did get a trial albeit maybe not a fair one.

 

[JASMAK]

I did a bit of research and it is mostly women who are stoned, and many of these cultures, it is in their LAW to treat women badly. As women, we should come to their aid...if we lived there, it could very well be one of us.

 

[caz81]

I think the point of this to me, is she did not get a fair trial, therefore international pressure should be used.
It always amazed me, as a History teacher, when pupils would ask me 'why did people not want to go to war in 1939 & stop Hitler', I did not really understand, yet so many people on this forum do not think our country should get involved to protect women from being murdered in a brutal way for crimes they did not commit, I just dont understand it?

It could be any one of us that this happened to, if we had just been born in a different country, if you were about to die in this way would you not want people to at least try to save you?

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

My history teacher had a poster on her wall and I will never forget it " He who ignores history is doomed to repeat his mistakes"

That has stuck with me and I truly believe it
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