Al
Nahar, Lebanon, has reported that an eight year old child bride died in Yemen
on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma.
Human rights organizations are calling for the arrest of her husband who was
five times her age.
The death occurred in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern
Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. This brings even more attention to the
already existing issue of forced child marriages in the Middle Eastern region.
My heart aches so much for this child and others like
her. I didn’t sleep well last night
because I kept thinking about this story and found myself growing more and more
angry, and more and more hurt. Who am I
angry with: Islam, Muslims, the Middle East, pedophiles, this girl’s parents, or
the bastard husband, God, the devil?
I understand men make their own laws. I don’t blame Islam or even Muslims for this
travesty, because I have seen first-hand how men twist and pervert the words of
their religion and their laws to justify or excuse their behaviors. What this bastard did to an 8-year old child
had NOTHING to do with his faith, his religion, his country, his politics or
his laws. Anyone who tries to blames
these things alone serves an injustice to this child. When this bastard looked down on the face of that
child and then committed the despicable and deplorable acts of evil, he did so
by his own evil choice. I don’t give a
damn his religion, his politics or his culture… he is a human being capable of
making a rational decision, and he CHOSE to violate, mutilate and murder this
precious child because he’s a selfish evil bastard. NO ONE in their right mind could do such a
thing and EVER think ANY part of it was okay, justified, or their God-given right.
When that child screamed in pain, while that infidel
satisfied his perverted sexual desires, it identified him as an evil
monster. I’m so angry that such evil
exists in this world. Yes, I know of
other travesties such as starvation, cruelty, imprisonment, human trafficking,
slavery, disease and neglect. I’m not
blind to the other acts of evil in this world.
I just sometimes don’t understand how we humans can treat each other. We are the cruelest race, yet also the most
loving and kind and understanding.
I hope that bastard gets raped, mutilated and
tortured. Will he? I doubt it.
I hope the parents who thought it okay to sell their child to such a man
are tormented with nightmares for the rest of their lives. I hope the lawmakers who turn their backs and
refuse to protect their own children suffer unimaginable pain and
disappointment. It is my faith and
belief that all of those who have this girl’s blood on their hands will face
the God they hid behind, and will find no manner of twisting will save them
from the justice that waits for them.
As long as evil men have free will, stories like this
will continue to be conducted in this world.
We, humans (regardless of race, color or creed), are not who we claim to
be with our mouths, our proclamations, our clothes, our appearance, our
governments, or politics, or our confessions – we are who we truly are in every
decision we make, in every response to every situation and circumstance in our
lives. How we respond and act is the
true testament to our character. Some of
us are just plain evil.
Till next time,
~T.L. Gray
How sad. I can't even read these things. I get very depressed.
ReplyDeleteBut it's good that you shared it on your blog
ReplyDeleteI have no words
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