Sometimes I think that people like Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs have a need to be running around all the time. I do not diminish her charity work, and it takes a lot of energy to perform such acts. But has Geller really thought about what she's doing with her vocal and active support of Muslim victims of honor killings?
The West is now being inundated with such honor killings, where a young girl will stray from her Muslim culture and family either through a non-approved boyfriend or her style of dress and behavior, and the father or brother (or both) will hunt her down and kill her.
There are many points to these types of stories.
* Would such a girl behave this way if she had lived in a Muslim country, where such straying into a foreign culture would have been impossible?
* Are the behaviors that some (many?) of these girls adopt - slutty clothing, heavy make-up, late nights out, and the general narcissistic behavior of many Western girls - really something we as Westerners should condone and support?
* Do these girls really become Westernized and truly Christianized, or is this just a way to escape the undeniable restraints their families put on them?
One solution is for Geller to advocate dramatic reductions in Muslim immigration to America (in her case), so that Muslim girls will be Muslim girls in their own Muslim countries, and not be tempted by some of the less desirable fruits of Western society. Even we are trying to get rid of these unpleasant temptations. That way, there will be less futile departures by these girls from their families and their ways of life, and no one will emerge dead.
Below is a photo of Aqsa Parvez who was killed by her father and brother in Mississauga, Ontario. I wonder where she got the idea for cornrows - usually done by girls who have been on a hedonistic Spring Break trip to one of the beaches in Mexico?
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Here are some comments from her friends (via the National Post):
"She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her parents wanted her to."
"She just wanted to be herself, honestly she just wanted to show her beauty, and not be pushed around by her parents telling her what she has to be like, what she has to do. Nobody would want to do that."
"She just wanted to dress like we do...She just wanted to look like everyone else. And I guess her dad had a problem with that."
