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on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:27AM
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One of the sisters who has been sentenced to be repeatedly raped because her brother eloped with a woman from a higher caste has said she cannot return home because she fears village elders will want to take revenge on her.
An illegal jury, composed of male upper caste Baghpat village elders, reportedly ordered the gang rape of Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister after their brother Ravi eloped with a married woman, known only as Krishna, from a higher caste.
Ms Kumari, fearing for their lives, petitioned India's Supreme Court for protection. The case brought international attention after an Amnesty International petition to save the two girls from the punishment garnered more than 200,000 signatures.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday September 03 2015, @06:54AM
Never have I seen anti-semitism condensed to its purest genocidal form.
Yes, if we wipe them all out . . . .
Of course, the alternate solution is that they wipe us all out. . . .
The real question is: Who is us? We may not be who you think we are, or even who we think we are. Those people may by our brothers and sisteren, or at least cousins. He would judge the infidel, has already proven to be the infidel. Right there in the Quran, sura something or another. Look it up. Until then, the Prophet/God named Jesus said: let he who is without sin throw the first stone. Got that, ISIS?
(And with chagrin, I look up and realize I am responding to Ethanol! Could there be a more pointless exercise? Does the depth of irony know no bounds? How much longer are we to be burdened with this and the Gamergate posts of Mighty Buzzard? No, seriously, I am asking. Does anyone know? )
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:06AM
There are plenty of Jews in the world besides those who reside in Israel. And I did also advocate wiping out a shitload of Muzzies and seculars who didn't have the balls to properly stand up to Erdogan.
If I am advocating genocide, I am advocating it to the entire Middle-East.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:18AM
Who are Muzzies? I thought it meant mosquitos. Some people don't live in your world.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 3, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:43PM
Found one! [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:26AM
Oh, that makes it alright? Indiscriminate genocide is better that the more specific versions? No, Eth, what you said was just wrong. Wrong on many levels. This is what makes you such a poor troll! If you want to provoke Soylentils, you will have to use a much finer brush. Not genocide, but patricide? What if we just took out all the males of the age of majority in your target area? Not like it hasn't been done before with first born sons! Or if we just take out the Wahabists! Now there is an idea! We can refute a religious ideology with targeted killings. Oh, I forget, you are ex-Navy, currently military contractor, or as we in civilian life call them, mercenary. So I would guess that you are incapable of imagining any resolution to a disaggrement that did not involve firepower, and the final solution of firepower, which is genocide.
I want to say, that in spite of my initial and continuing desire to see you banned from SoylentNews, I do in fact hold out hope that you could actually become a cogent and rational contributor to our discussions. I hold the same hope for The Mighty Buzzard, and even jmorris and khallow. You should not draw any conclusions from the inclusion in this list. But the point is, once you get beyond your own ideological blinders, there is a whole world of people who think, and thinking can be influenced by, for the most part, better thinking. You are not contributing to the better thinking here with anti-semetic genocidal rants. So, please, stop.
Yours, Aristarchus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:18AM
>I want to say, that in spite of my initial and continuing desire to see you
>banned from SoylentNews, I do in fact hold out hope that you could actually
>become a cogent and rational contributor to our discussions. I hold the same
>hope for The Mighty Buzzard, and even jmorris and khallow.
Yes, I find it most curious. I read posts by them and they will
say intelligent, thoughtful things but then, in the next breath, they come out
with the most vile and appalling stuff. I dont get it, I dont understand
the cognitive dissonance they so often display.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @11:16AM
It is common to have multiple accounts and even anonymous posts attacking certain users.
They don't hope to get anyone banned, but put the idea in the mind of the hapless reader that these certain users are a nuisance, might be insane, are an old problem and are to be ignored. Even when E-Fueled's comment calls for genocide (in jest, of course) of the whole middle east. And you call it anti-semitic. Do you also think that 99 non-jews and 1 jew dying makes it a holocaust? Doesn't that make it "genocide"? Isn't a a non-jew life just as important as a jew life?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:53AM
Erm...how is it anti-Semitism if he's saying wipe out both Saudi Arabia and Israel?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by eof on Thursday September 03 2015, @01:44PM
Semite |ˈsemīt|
noun
a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 03 2015, @02:28PM
Jews and Arabs are both Semitic. I thought everyone knew that. I think that Persians (Iran, primarily) are not Semitic, and Sumerians are not Semitic, but pretty much everyone else in the mideast can lay claim to kinship with the Jews. If they want to, that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people [wikipedia.org]
https://www.quora.com/Do-both-Jews-and-Arabs-belong-to-the-Semitic-race-Why-is-that-most-Jews-seem-to-resemble-Europeans-rather-than-Arabs-in-terms-of-appearance-then [quora.com]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:20PM
Huh. I feel like I've only ever heard the term "anti-Semitic" used to mean "you hate Jews." Interesting.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:22PM
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
Oh, right. This is a linguistic problem related to what we mean when we say "Jewish."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:36PM
> Huh. I feel like I've only ever heard the term "anti-Semitic" used to mean "you hate Jews." Interesting.
Everytime I've heard someone go dictionary pedant about semites being arabs too it turned out that they were anti-jewish and looking to fuzz up the converation.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 04 2015, @12:34AM
Either that - or maybe you should be reminded that the bloodiest wars are usually those fought between family members. Or, maybe the term "antisemitic" has no real meaning.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday September 04 2015, @05:10PM
Indeed. The only time I hear the term is when someone is hating on jews. Of course, it's in vogue to hate on "those damn terrorists" these days, so perhaps the meaning has skewed in the popular lexicon.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 03 2015, @06:26PM
I guess it would not make sense if you did not know what "semite" means.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 03 2015, @02:18PM
You're from Ohio, then?
http://chagrin-falls.org/ [chagrin-falls.org]
I've got a story about going through that town - but it's a rather long one . . . .