Honour Killing - sadly for rightwingnutz, it's not Rifqa Bary

In August we wrote about Rifqa Bary and how rightwing christian fundamentalists in the US were exploiting her.


Bene Diction Blogs On updates the story this month, with links to serious media and blogs who went digging for real information beyond the FauxNews hyperbole. Other christians express caution, with regard to the political manipulation - here, for example.


And as for the blatant "honour" killing of Julie Crocker, her throat allegedly slashed by her estranged husband, where's all the shrieeeking from 'tough on crime' rightwing neocons like Naomi Lakritz?

Chris Little tracked his former wife with a GPS device. ... He even bought a product called Check Mate from a spy store to test her clothing for semen, a jury heard. [...] the Crown painted the 37-year-old Toronto-area fibreglass salesman as a jilted, obsessed ex-husband who killed his ex-wife and a second woman, then made a clumsy attempt to portray it as a murder-suicide.

Oh wait. Chris Little isn't a moozlim, is he?

A Monstrous Regiment of Testerical Racists and Islamophobes.

Canadian Cynic: Apparently, being a vile and despicable racist is context-dependent.   And that quote from the blogger formerly known as 'Raphael Alexander': "I always want to lead the hardest pitches." 

Hardly - more facile, wobbly fromage-like and flaccid I would say.

The blogger formerly known as 'Raphael Alexander' is in good company: the likes of the odious and testerical Andrew Breitbat and the also odious and testerical Pamela Geller.

One rants at the big league media for not giving any credence to the Birthers & Teabaggers-led crusade against Van Jones.

The other shrieeeks about the 'moozlims' and a purported fatwah against Rifqa Bary, on Facebook.  Yeah, Facebook.  As Sarah Palin knows, that's the medium extraordinaire for launching rightwing conservative whacko campaigns, hateful propaganda and reactionary "Death-Panel" lying glurge.

 

They're Not Mad, They're Opportunists.

When you know fundamentalist judeo/christian conservatives and The Fetus©™ fetishists can command MASSIVE financial and legal resources to "protect" pregnant adolescents from their pro-choice parents, you wonder why they're wringing their hands and standing by passively while anticipating this particular girl will be murdered by family members.

A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.

Rifqa Bary, who hitchhiked to an Ohio bus station earlier this month and took a charter bus to Orlando, remains in protective custody with Florida's Department of Children and Families. A judge is expected to rule Friday on the jurisdiction of the case, but several legal experts contacted by FOXNews.com say the girl is bound to be sent back to Ohio. ...

"Anyone who converts from Islam is considered an apostate, and apostasy is a capital crime," Chesler wrote FOXNews.com. "If she is returned to her family, if she is lucky, they will isolate her, beat her, threaten her, and if she is not persuaded' to return to Islam, they will kill her. ... "She escaped from her family's brutal tyranny and shamed her family further through public exposure," Chesler said. "Muslim girls and women are killed for far less."

Republicans and religious conservatives are loudly lamenting Rifqu Bary's plight but will they take up her cause to the Supreme Court? Bary is far more useful to them - if she is killed as FOXNews claims she will be - because she would be a political and religious martyr that can be used to justify and fuel their rightwing attacks against all Muslims.


Much like the deaths of Zainab, Geeti and Sahar Shafia and Rona Amir Mohammed have been exploited in Canada by ReformaTories to attack feminists and progressives, Chesler and her acolytes are willing to sacrifice Bary to further their cause. I think that all this shrieeeking is bullshit rhetoric fluffed, fanned and promoted by FAUXNews. Otherwise they really are the depraved political opportunists I believe they are.