'Harry Potter' Actress' Brother Sentenced in Her 'Honor Beating'

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

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    ???

    Are you drinking tonight? That made no sense what so ever.
     
    BLAZER PROPHET, Jan 24, 2011
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    That was hardly a personal attack.

    Go ahead and enlighten me on some of the basic facts I'm refusing to face. Now that you've had time to read a Wiki article or two, I'm sure you're prepared.
     
    TradeNurkicNow, Jan 24, 2011
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    They said it was a three hour beating... How many times did you beat on your sibling for three hours? That sounds more like torture than a sibling squabble. The guy should be in prison for ten years.
     
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    jlprk is an attorney who also handles domestic violence disputes.

    "But your honour...if you stop being a sexist, you'll see that all this was was a simple squabble between husband and wife. What husband hasn't fought with his wife? Sure, when a husband throws his wife against the wall and hits her with a phone, it's 'assault.' When a wife tells her husband to shut up, that's just 'arguing.' This is the double standard we as a society have had to live with. If you'll examine paleolithic habits, you'll find that a vigorous, combative relationship where one person punches the other into submission is actually a healthy, natural relationship. Every couple goes through this, but only a few women actually whine about it. If you aren't a sexist, you'll see that..."
     
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    Those damn feminists ruined it for everyone...
     
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    "Honor beating"? I don't see much honorable in beating a woman.
     
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    It's fairly ridiculous if you think about it.
     
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    Too many family fight virgins nowadays. A 3-hour argument, interlaced with half a dozen whacks that have 5% the power of a punch in a street fight, is not a 3-hour beating.

    This country has gone soft. No fights anymore. The liberal pacifists of my generation were tougher than the conservative warmongers of this generation.
     
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    As opposed to honor in beating a man?
     
    MARIS61, Jan 27, 2011
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    Speaking of violence and religion:
    Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death

     
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    wait a second..."rallies and workshops" equals violence? In a thread about punching, choking and dragging? Seriously?
     
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    I'm sure rallies and workshops spreading lies and negative stereotypes about homosexuals in an already hostile environment for gays didn't encourage violence at all.

    I mean, it's only a violent and criminal act when Muslims do it, right? I wonder.. why.. that is..

    Hm..
    Hmm...

    Can't think of a reason!
     
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    It wasn't "rallies and workshops" that killed the man
     
    bluefrog, Jan 28, 2011
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    Exactly.
     
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    It was someone with a crowbar in a really bad part of a piss-poor city, right?

    Ed O.
     
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    I think it's fair to point out that Islam didn't punch, choke or kick the actress either.
     
    bluefrog, Jan 28, 2011
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    Completely disagree. If I, as a Christian, punched, kicked and choked a homosexual because of some BS like "the Bible told me to curb-stomp (derogatory term)s b/c they've dishonored themselves", not only would I be in jail for assault but also for a hate crime. Jlprk makes it sound like they should just get over it, because people weren't pussies in his day and could take it.

    If I stand outside an abortion clinic and say "God loves babies" while holding up a picture of what the finished product of an abortion is, most of you called that "bullying" and sympathized with the man who yelled at a couple of moms legally demonstrating something they believed in. But to a large number of you, the WTO protesters are something close to martyrs.

    I hate to break it to you, but a large portion of the world doesn't believe like Sebastian Express does that just because you have sex a certain way you get to claim minority demographic status. Holding rallies and workshops (I'm just assuming they were legally done, it didn't say in the article that they incited riots or anything, but I don't know that for a fact) that someone illegally acts on is once again is decoupling responsibility from the individual. For instance, "The Monster" Eddie Long regularly holds conferences and workshops in the Atlanta area on the same topic as the Uganda people you brought up did: "Homosexual Cure" and "Sexual Reorientation" conferences and workshops. Whether you think he should or shouldn't, that the topic is bogus or not, someone already vilified in America as a bad person is holding workshops and rallies on the exact same topic and doesn't have adherents or listeners commit crimes afterwards. (And if one did, unlike jlprk I think someone should be punished if he/she did).

    So I could understand if some of you thought something like "it's not Islam that punched, kicked and choked the girl, it's the brother. And he's being punished. So get off of Islam's case." But at what point do you start thinking..."hm, there might be a trend here?"
     
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    Agree
    If we're talking about the same incident, the guy yelled at the women because his wife was going to the clinic for a stillborn fetus and the protesters had said something insensitive to her. I get your point though.
    OK, but a large portion of that population, including Muslims AND Christian that believe in discriminating against those people. If it looks like duck...
    I'm sure there are people that live under Sharia law that don't punch, kick and choke their relatives because they date non-Muslims. Why can we make a connection in the case to OP posted and not in the case in Uganda?

    There's violence in Hindu culture, Jewish culture, Christian culture, Islam culture, etc... Why do we get label Islam as violent because of it's minority sects and not other religions? Why is Islam the "violent religion"?
     
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    "Crazy Hateful prison sentences" are keeping them from being killed or exiled for their crimes, so I'm not too worried about their feelings. Unless, of course, you feel that their behavior is justified in society and something to be admired?

    YOu know, if you weren't paying to feed and house the people on death row (and just executed them like the judge ordered and jury convicted), you could feed and house people who were legitimately trying to make a life and just need some help. Or instead of locking up child molesters for years/decades, they were allowed onto death row, and then given a one-way ticket off.

    I know this guy espoused it, but I'm not sure that hard-core conservatives like Life Sentences in general.

    Why is it ok to hit my wife/mom/sister, but not my girlfriend, jlprk? Or are you lumping them in with "family fights"?
     
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