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.
(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.
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