Islamic Rules Against Men Touching Women Aids Female Suicide Bombers
Monday June 23, 2008
A female suicide bomber killed 15 people and injured more than 40 yesterday near a government center in Baquba, Iraq. More and more, women are carrying out these acts. But what's particularly troubling is something the New York Times identified in an article published today, and it has everything to do with gender:
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Everyone near the government center, including women, must submit to searches, said Maj. Gen. Abdul Karim al-Rubaie, a senior security official in Diyala....[yet] Islamic rules prevent men, including security officers conducting searches, from touching women. Compounding the predicament is a scarcity of female Iraqi police and soldiers who might otherwise fill the gap. “Most of our women wear black cloaks that can hide anything,” General Rubaie said, “and we can’t prevent that.”To date, 15 other women have carried out suicide bombings in the area.
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Not surprising. Just one more reason for Islam to evolve out of the Dark Ages. Its abuse of women seems mind boggling. This is just one more way to do it. The idea that you must kill to get in good with God is appalling, wrong and doomed to failure. Not only with God but with society as well. Suicide is the worst crime committed against yourself. To kill others while doing that, just makes it more of a crime.