I’m sorry, I’m a very open minded person, but I will NEVER understand why this crap happens without a death penalty or life sentence, hands-down.

We truly lack respect to the value of humans.

Time to go back to my bubble

Correct me if I am wrong

The second was in Ammoun only a few weeks ago and was about a mentally disabled woman in Al-Rsayyfeh (or some similar location) who was left to roam the streets and no one in her family seemed to care until someone raped her, then “el sharaf sar ghali ya bouy”…and she was simply killed.

While I was genuinely shocked by the brutality of both crimes, I was more shocked, no…no, appalled that is, by the comments of on-line readers in both cases… over 90% of the comments saluted the “machos” who carried out both crimes as protectors of honor. Another venue for interesting research?

Maybe we (those who think these crimes are hideous) live in some ivory towers? After reading those comments, and of course getting sick to my stomach (but it’s one of those things you cannot stop yourself from doing), I think it is no little wonder that public prosecutors adopt their stance… they are after all accountable (AND BELONG) to their constituencies, who believe this is the right thing to do… we need a change in mentality, which we shouldn’t be optimistic about given how things regress rather than progress in Jordan with regards to the perception of women: a woman is either as a virgin or as a whore, and nothing in between.

What a shame… what a shame for our mother’s generation who fought their way to universities, education, and achievement without losing any aspect of their culture, and successfully fused contemporary values (not necessarily Western) with our traditions…. I see us going back not hundreds of years ago, but thousands, right to the Jahiliyyeh… and that’s when I count my blessings that I don’t have to deal with this on a daily basis, and not face to face… escapism? Maybe, but it’s too big a fight and I do pity women in my culture…

That’s like saying that a man who shot himself three times in the head had “committed suicide” (happened in my old hometown).

Like Nadine, I think it’s obvious that the man with the disability was used by the rest of the family to commit the crime, a second evil to add to the first.

1- He wanted to threaten her not kill her but what do you know? The girl ended up dead

2- He wanted to hurt her without killing her which is not very easy using 3 bullets

3- He was shooting at someone else and she was on the way

4- 3 stray bullets. It happens.

Or, was it manslaughter because he was physically disabled? I’m just curious…

and the paraplegic will get off soft for his disability, while some bro, father, dude idles away, chain smoking on a sidewalk, waiting, wanking, withering. zalameh.