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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Religion Today in Depressing News

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:43 PM

An Iraqi woman had 80 other women raped and then recruited them as suicide bombers by claiming that "martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame" of rape.

Who wants a drink?

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I don't judge other's cultural nuances.

Posted by HeidiFleissIsMyMom on February 5, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Supposedly the same tactic is used against young male recruits as well. Terrible.

Posted by boxofbirds on February 5, 2009 at 3:52 PM

For people that are 100% evil, is it OK to say that they are stunningly ugly, and look exactly how you would imagine that they would look?

Posted by Big Sven on February 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM

Um, actually, that was yesterday's depressing news. Where have you been?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on February 5, 2009 at 4:01 PM

God that's fucked up.

:/

Posted by Robin Sparkles on February 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Between this and the article I read today stating that the number of vets who killed themselves last month was higher than the number of soldiers killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan last month....yes, I need a drink or seven.

Posted by snargent pepper on February 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Are they accepting applications to be the rapist?

Posted by Chris on February 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Can't judge, CAN'T JUDGE!

Posted by laterite on February 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Samira Jassam is one serious bad-ass motherfucker. I'm equally impressed by her utter ruthlessness and disgusted by her cruelty. It's a damn shame that the hell she no doubt believes in doesn't exist, since she's the poster child for going there.

Posted by Westside forever on February 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM

I can sure judge the Iraqi police, though. They're always in trouble with Human Rights Watch for failing to swear off torturing and raping people in custody. Makes me wonder how accurate the details of this woman's confession may be.

Posted by tomasyalba on February 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM

Ugh. And I just ran out of my antidepressants, too.

I'm going back to bed.

Posted by Miss Foxtrot on February 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM

Well, she's creative. You've got to give her that. Evil as all hell, but creative.

Posted by wench on February 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM

nytimes ran the story. the, they were raped version, was not confirmed. the times also mentioned other stories put forth by us military that turned out to be flat out lies. chances are this one is a lie as well, but i agree, if true is beyond depressing.

Posted by SeMe on February 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Drinks are on me, kids. Cheers.

Posted by snark on February 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM

exactly who did the actual raping? seems like that should be in the story too.

Posted by it was men on February 5, 2009 at 5:55 PM

how can someone be so fucked up so evil and cause so much destruction? and people wonder why i can't stand most people. this is so disgusting it makes me want to vomit. seriously.

Posted by xina on February 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM

Celebrate Divershitty!

Posted by Divershitty is our greatest strength on February 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM

HeidiFleissIsMyMom you are an idiot. You SHOULD judge other people's cultural nuances if they are plain disgraceful to civilisation, as most of islam's "nuances" are. Not judging them and being politically correct is how the world got into this mess in the first place.

Posted by ReligionisaBoilontheArseofHumanity on February 6, 2009 at 12:45 AM

@18 - there is this thing called "sarcasm" you ought to learn about.... sheesh!

Posted by Don't take everything at face value on a blog either on February 6, 2009 at 6:15 AM

Wow - within one 24 hour news cycle I stumble upon a post about women being raped into a life of terror at SLOG and a post about men being raped into a life of terror at Bilerico:

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/islamic_…

What should scare me more - rape being used to create terrorists or manipulative news stories being used to create fear of non-Christian darkies?

I think the latter has more potential for terror....

Posted by patrick on February 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM

Stupid monkeys.

Posted by D. Zaius on February 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM

This is as heinous a war-crime as any I have heard of. The power of self-justification and rationalization never ceases to amaze.

Posted by Inkweary on February 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM