The Median Sib

I had read about this story a couple weeks ago, and then again today. Unbelievable! From One Hand Clapping who linked to Outside the Beltway:

Where is the ACLU when you need it?
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece…. She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand. As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.
The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.It seems that under sharia law, when a woman is being raped she really is supposed to lie back and enjoy it. Then, of course, having been violated she is therefore unclean and has brought permanent dishonor to her family because her virginity can never be restored. So she must be killed by her father or brother to return honor to the family. No, this isn’t satire, and odds are that Nazanin has already been hanged.

Yeah, sure - it’s just a different culture and we should let them be. Don’t worry about all the Nazanins over there who are being murdered and hanged each day. Their “culture” is not our problem. And uh . . . the Americans that they murdered and decapitated? Well, I guess that shouldn’t bother us either. Murdering and beheading are part of that culture, and we need to respect and appreciate their cultural uniqueness.

I wrote yesterday about the difference between cowardice and courage. Today, courage was shown in the fight for freedom of speech against the militant Muslims who want to deny that freedom. Michelle Malkin writes about two men in France who went into the midst of a Muslim cartoon demonstration wearing the Danish flag and advertising their support of freedom of speech. Where else is courage being shown? Dr. Sanity has a post about Ayaan Hirsi Ali who stands up for liberty and writes:

Today I am here to defend the right to offend within the bounds of the law.

Then Blue Star Chronicles tells about Shahla Azizi at Iranian.com who declares:

I am willing to go to war to defend one Danish cartoonist.

Who else is facing the terrorist Muslims and saying “That’s it! We won’t back down”? Who else is showing courage in the face of terrorist Muslim threats? If you have other stories, please let me know. I’d like to highlight them here.

If you’re a regular reader of THE MEDIAN SIB, you know that Dr. Sanity is one of my favorite daily reads. This morning, the latest Carnival of the Insanities is posted at Dr. Sanity. It is among the best carnivals because it highlights the absurdities in our world. And, believe me, absurdities abound! Click the link above and enjoy!

(Drumroll!) The very FIRST Carnival of Blue Stars is up at Blue Star Chronicles! (applause! cheering!) What a great carnival! And what a great blogroll to be a part of!

I’ve spent a good chunk of my morning reading the posts that are listed at the carnival. It has some of the best writing in blogdom by people who have personal knowledge of the military.

The wonderful thing about reading the blogs of members of the Blue Star blogroll is that you get information that the MSM and leftwing politicians ignore or downplay. You read about some of the GOOD things that are going on because of our military. By reading Blue Star blogroll members, you learn of forums for discussing the military, how military families feel about what’s going on in the world, ways you can show support for our troops, how others honor our soldiers, what our soldiers are saying, what other people are saying, what politicians are saying and doing, and you share in proud moments. Most importantly, you know you’re getting the straight information because it comes from people who have personal knowledge of what’s going on and who don’t have a political career or agenda to further by slanting the information.

If you would like to submit a post for next week’s carnival, please send the title and URL of the post to bluestarchronicles (at) yahoo (dot) com.

And if you support our troops and our mission of freedom, if you have a son, daughter, other relative or friend in the military, head over to the Blue Star Blogroll and join!

The Carnival of Blue Stars is also mentioned at Basil’s Blog.