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“Honor killings” of Middle Eastern women leave them fighting for rights

Published: 10 April, 2010, 09:41
Edited: 11 April, 2010, 23:53


Every year, over 5000 women are killed in "honor killings" in the Middle East, according to UN estimates. The extreme tradition is practiced in some Muslim societies if a woman is accused of bringing shame to her family.

 
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Roger Bascom April 11, 2010, 23:08 quote
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Every day millions of cells are killed within the human body to ensure its efficient functioning. Failure to do so results in diseases such as cancer and sure death. A gene pool, the next in order of increasing complexity, operates in a similar manner removing deviant individuals whose behaviour pose a threat to its existence. The importance of the gene pool is evidenced by the fact that it is the gene pool that evolves and not the individual (all die). Women’s behaviour is crucial to the survival of a gene pool – women give birth (sexual dimorphism and division of labour). In the west promiscuous behaviour by women is often promoted by corrupt men who wish for free intercourse. As a result a flippant attitude towards women’s behaviour has developed (e.g. negative assortive mating with men of other races) which in turn has led to deep social discontent as evidenced by increased homosexuality, higher divorce rates and lower birth rates. The discontent has in turn had a deep negative impact on their productivity and caused their leaders to act with rage on the world stage, harassing other advancing countries like China (racially homogenous).

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