PALESTINIAN FAMILY VALUES
Welcome to the 9th Century!
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Nov. 14, 2003 12:20 PM
ABU QASH, West Bank
"Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder..." Read the rest here.
The charge of barbarism needs very little more in the way of evidence to support it.
Posted by: steve on November 17, 2003 09:50 PMI can't even begin to describe what I'm feeling. I'm... stunned.
Posted by: Bernard on November 17, 2003 11:47 PMAnd these are people who call the United States a fascist nation, and its leaders monsters.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on November 18, 2003 04:55 AMBut hey, the problem is the "settlements", Tom Friedman says so!
Posted by: Joel on November 18, 2003 09:36 AM