Amnesty: Raped Girl, 13, Killed for Adultery
Associated Press, November 1:MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.
Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.
Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.
Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday.
“This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo,” David Copeman, Amnesty International’s Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.
Somalia is among the world’s most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some 8 million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.
A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day….
This is getting so common anymore that it barely raises an eyebrow when a new scandal breaks. What is really sickening about these stories is how widespread and systematic the abuse is. They surely ignore the words of their messiah when he said
And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith [or be harmed by sin], it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck (NLT)
Matthew 18: 5-6
But they clearly couldn’t give a fuck about what their Lord says. They are too busy protecting the reputation of their precious fucking religion and leader. HELL is for Catholics and their fucked up evil church.
Experts: Bishops covered up priests’ child abuse
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press WriterDUBLIN – Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests to protect the church’s reputation, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year investigation.
Abuse victims welcomed the report on the Dublin Archdiocese’s mishandling of abuse complaints against its parish priests from 1975 to 2004. It followed a parallel report published in May into five decades of rape, beatings and other cruelty committed by Catholic orders of nuns and brothers nationwide in church-run schools, children’s workhouses and orphanages from the 1930s to mid-1990s.
The government said the Dublin investigation “shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese.”
“The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again,” the government said, also apologizing for the state’s failure to hold church authorities accountable to the law.
The 720-page report — delivered to the government in July but released Thursday after extensive legal vetting — analyzes the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940.
Eleven priests convicted of child abuse are named in the report, but 33 are referred to by aliases and two have their names blacked out because their criminal cases are about to begin in Dublin courts.
The report rejected past bishops’ key claim that they were ignorant of both the scale and criminality of priests’ abuse of children. It documented how the Dublin Archdiocese negotiated a 1987 insurance policy for future legal costs of defending lawsuits and compensation claims.At the time, bishops knew of at least 17 priests linked to abuse cases, the report said, and “the taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the archdiocese.”
Victims appealed to the government not to let bishops retain the right to decide whether to refer abuse complaints to police.
“Never again should the Catholic Church in Ireland blame others for its own decision to reassign priests (to other parishes) who were clearly a danger to children,” said one abuse victim, Marie Collins. She was raped by a Dublin priest as a 13-year-old hospital patient in 1960, but police and church officials declined to pursue her complaint.
Investigators spent three years poring over 60,000 previously secret Dublin church files. They were handed over by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat appointed to Dublin in 2004 with a brief to confront the scandal. Among the files were more than 5,500 that Martin’s predecessor, retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, had tried to keep locked in the archbishop’s private vault.
The investigators, led by a judge and two lawyers, said that while it was not their job to confirm the scale of abuse cases, they had no doubt that the 46 priests abused many more than 320 children.
“One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years,” they wrote.Three Dublin archbishops — John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) — did not tell police about clerical abuse cases, instead opting to avoid public scandals by shuttling offenders from parish to parish and even overseas to U.S. churches, the commission found.
It was not until 1995 that then-Archbishop Connell allowed police to see church files on 17 clerical abuse cases kept in a secret, locked vault, though at the time Connell had records of complaints against at least 29 priests, the report says.
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the state would renew efforts to prosecute more of the 46 priests in the report, as well as police officers that the investigation found colluded with church authorities to suppress complaints.
Ahern said, however, that the cover-ups reflected “a different era where there was deference by state agencies to the church. I don’t think that would happen today.”
The investigators lauded a handful of priests and mostly low-ranking police who pursued complaints and prosecutions, almost always unsuccessfully, from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Senior police officers “clearly regarded priests as being outside their remit” and handed “complaints to the archdiocese instead of investigating them,” the report said.
“A few (priests) were courageous and brought complaints to the attention of their superiors. The vast majority simply chose to turn a blind eye,” it said.
This is why these morons piss me off so much.
Philosophically Frank, who is as logical and philosophical as the fly I just swatted for buzzing around my computer, in reply to a post by Hally stating ‘I AM PRO-CHOICE, PRO-LIFE AND ANTI-WAR,’ in a thread entitled Life Begins At Conception, counters with the following:
How can you be both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice? Pro-Life is for Life; while Pro-choice is for both Life & Death; which makes it, essentially, an oxymoron.
However, Your initial post is right-on even scientifically. At the moment of conception a new DNA is formed and it is the DNA of a human and distinctive of it’s individuality. Most mothers will talk about how they can feel their baby kicking in their womb. A blob of “cells” doesn’t “kick”. Abortion is not only murder; but, it is a huge for profit industry that also is given hundreds of millions of our tax dollars at almost every level of Gov’t. in the guise of Women’s Reproductive Care or some variation of it.
Peace be with you, Frank
I have made the same claim as Halley numerous times on RA, but the complete imbeciles who vomit and piss stupidity and hate all over the forums with impunity are too brain dead from religious indoctrination to get that ‘being FOR THE RIGHT TO MAKE A CHOICE, which is what the term PRO-CHOICE actually means, does NOT logically entail that you are actually IN FAVOR OF THE CHOCIE THAT IS MADE.
This is apparently too difficult for morons like ol’ Frankie Boy to comprehend. As he stated, ‘Pro-Life is for Life; while Pro-choice is for both Life & Death; which makes it, essentially, an oxymoron’. Someone who REALLY understand logic and reason (i.e., philosophy) wouldn’t be this big of a fucking idiot. I guess it is really his nickname, PHILOSOPHICALLY FRANK, which is, essentially, an oxymoron.
Here is an opinion on what to do with the Fort Hood suspect from Concerned Citizen, a typical backwoods trailer trash redneck religious moron who thinks he is right about everything
Well, we do know that he shouted the words “Allah Akbar” [God is Great] which is what the Radical Muslems usually shout at the time of an intended Suicide Bombing. Plus he was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army, who requested to not go on the Deployment that he was ordered to go on.
Here is the Oath of Office for a Commissioned Army Officer: “I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
In my 10 year military opinion, he needs to be put to death immediately, in order to make an example out of him. Because what signal will that send to our troops if he does not get the Death Penalty.
Put to death immediately. eh? OK! Screw the Constitution you hypocrites keep screaming and crying about all the time. Let’s just drag him from his hospital bed without a trial, chain him to a pole, and skin him alive while Fox News covers it. Or maybe we could impale him on a stick in such a way that it will take days for him to die so that we can maximize his pain.
You think this will deter other terrorists from planning and carrying out future attacks? If you do, you are a fucking idiot.
Specter, everybody’s favorite racist T-bagger, once again littered the forums of RA with his smelly, runny pig shit.
A radical Muslim group was videotaped condoning the massacre at Fort Hood by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan because it was a military target. “America’s chickens have come home to roost,” shouted a representative of the group.
Specter is on the warpath once again because it serves his lone purpose in life of fostering HATE for those who are not like he is, CHRISTIAN in NAME and STUPID in GAME. If you’d bother to look at any of his hate mongering rants, you would soon discover that they have a pattern. When a non-white does something, spin the fuck out of it and spread the hate propaganda. When a white person does the same thing, remain strangely silent and denounce the first person who mentions anything about it as a racist. In other words, take the shit off you and fling it at the other guy.
So when a Muslim shoots up an army base, it’s a massacre and an abomination in the eyes of YHWH. But when the US army drops daisy cutters on Afghan and Iraqi children, it’s collateral damage.
This creep is like a Nazi spreading anti-semetic propaganda and standing next to the oven, waiting to open the door and start throwing them in one by one while singing campfire songs and praising the most high.