Momentum is gaining in a blogger-based initiative to put an end to daughter slaughter.
But with the exception of Qwaider and Observer, IT’S ALL WOMEN posting.
I hope some of you wrote letters to JT and Arabic language publications I am not aware of. But I am not seeing you blog about it. Maybe you are busy, but I see puh-lenty of posts about other things on QP/JP/itoot/FB.
Yella, ya shabaab. Are you not willing to help us lady bloggers cover the backs (literally) of the thirteen women who will most likely be dead by the end of the year.
Care enough to post. Care enough to write, at a VERY MINIMUM. This isn’t some little fluffy female coffee klatsch. This is about women’s lives.
You all rose well when it was Gaza. This time, the evil is within our own land, perpetuated by our own laws, executed by Jordanian hands. Don’t you care as much for your fellow female citizens as you do for innocent Gazan women?
You don’t even have to get up. Just post. Just write. Be men. You shouldn’t be following this initiative, you should be LEADING it.
Khalto says your honor is at stake.
Kinzi the issue here, just like the Gaza issue, is not a new one. The reason you saw such a commotion over Gaza was because people all over Jordan were faking patriotism to a nation they had long forgot about. Do you see anything going on now ? Is anyone else talking about Gaza or trying to remember the God-forsaken day that 1400 people died in vain ?
The sad truth is Kinzi, we are sick of Jordan’s laws and regulations. I bitched about something I disliked about Jordan : “the fact that anything that includes the king is considered holy”, and very few people responded or even cared and it comes to show that things in Jordan are a far cry from change. Honor crimes have been in Jordan ever since God knows when, it’s always “honor” with Jordanians, whether it’s the king or daughters or the flag. Those same brothers who run around beating their sisters in the name of honor, run around abusing the honor of other women, other people’s daughters, and it’s applauded as masculinity.
Those people who commit honor crimes are the same people who I talked about, that think everything that has the picture of the king is considered holy. They are ignorant savages of which our country is full of. Passing a law to protect women’s rights in Jordan is like attempting to have clean elections, it’s impossible. There are too many corrupt people, in too high positions of power that just don’t give a shit as long as their Porsche Cayenne is clean and full of gas.
It’s disgusting seeing women’s rights abused and it’s a fact all over the world, women are constantly abused and taken advantage of. In Jordan it’s the savage nature of it’s ignorant people that causes it to go this far, as to kill their own flesh and blood because she chose to wear lipgloss. I have said it 100 times and I will say it again, we are an ignorant race of people who refuse to progress in the name of “honor” and “tradition”. Our women die while our men smoke their hookahs and drink their tea up on the roof tops.
I’m going to write a post as soon as I take a break today, I promise you that Kinzi.
Shmal, I knew you would.
I hope you use some of the wording from your comment. Thx, soooooooooooooooooo much for adding your male voice.
I agree with Shmal, and I always say “it takes two people to fornicate”, but of course the blame is always on the helpless woman who allowed the man to take advantage of her.
If it were up to me I would have killed the guy (metaphorically) for deflowering my daughter, not the other way around.
I have some acquaintances here who are like Shmal said just fake patriotism. They go clubbing and drinking (which is fine) and have sex with prostitutes (which isn’t), then act very holy and righteous when someone even looks at their sister or an honor crime happens and they say “shame on her!”.
Quite honorable don’t you think?
I bet there are families who thrive on this business. They probably take money from someone who wants to hurt another person, and they send in one of their kids to fornicate or talk with that man’s daughter who gets beheaded on the spot. It’s the new era of Assassins.
Thank you Kinzi for your outcry and pushing this forward. Keep it up
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@ Mastoo7a, no, I don’t. You can save opinions like that for your own blog
Fine, I will share my post with everyone on the Jordanian blogosphere as an example of your intellectual dishonesty. I am starting to believe that there is more to you than an innocent American who happens to take interest in Jordanian issues. Your views are perfectly aligned with neocon views. Since I utterly despise neoconservatives I will be damned if I will let your intellectual dishonesty goes unchallenged. So let us roll our sleeves and may the best argument wins.
KJ, wow, that Assasin concept is scary, I would hate to believe it could be real. I hope you will mention the hypocrisy you see to those in your life. I appreciate your comment!
Observer, thank you for your post too. Lots going on behind the scenes right now.
Shmall, I glanced when I got your comment and will go back and read it thoroughly now. THANK YOU!!!!!!
Tha2ir. it was a great post!
Mastoo7a, everyone in the Jordanian blogosphere knows that I am NOT a neo-con, but, shudder, gasp, a full-on CONSERVATIVE. Nothing ‘neo’ about it. Card-carrying Republican, social and fiscal conservative with liberal leanings on foreign policy. It doesn’t seem to bother people. Next?
Intellectually, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I am honest. And, I am much more than an ‘innocent American who happens to take an interest in Jordanian issues’. Didn’t you get that I live here? Do you think I am CIA or something? HA, at least I would have commissary privileges at the Embassy. Next?
Please don’t be damned. I’ll share the gospel of Jesus Christ with you if you challenge me with such spiritual proclamations, you seem to forget I am an Evangelical!!! Next?
Why not pour all this rolled up sleeve energy into stopping dis-honor killings? If you are looking for a challenge, why not join the work instead of making comments about me? If you are nice, I may even invite you to one of our famous cookie parties.
Mastoo7a from what.
Why not pour all this rolled up sleeve energy into your blog we like to see it, will you.
Hamede, good on ya, ya akhi.
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