Kurdish Teenager Stoned To Death Near Mosul

Italian translation (traduzione in Italiano).

Original video here. Thanks to Not Ready For My Burqa for this one.

This video of a Kurdish Yezidi woman being stoned to death by her relatives for running away with a Muslim man and converting to Islam is one of the most disturbing videos making the rounds these days.

This incident occurred around April 10 in the Yezidi village Ba'shiqa, near Mosul, not in Mosul itself as many news reports are saying. Doa Khalil Aswad, 17, a Yezidi student from Ba'shiqa, had fallen in love with her neighbor, a Muslim Kurdish shopkeeper. Then she ran away from home to marry him and converted to Islam.

This is shameful and forbidden, according to the Yezidi religion, an ancient religion that combines aspects of Gnosticism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mithraism and Judaism, but likely predates all of the above.

It is thought to be one of the oldest religions on Earth, possibly dating back 10,000 years or more.

The girl was apparently sheltered in the home of a Muslim cleric for several months to keep her away from enraged townspeople. In early April, her family encouraged her to return home on the promise that her relatives had forgiven her for her mistake. But it was all a ruse.

This video shows what happened when she came home. A group of up to 1000 Yezidi men ambushed her on her way home, grabbed her and threw her to the ground. A small group of the men, about a dozen or so, all members of Doa's extended family, then partially disrobed her and stoned her to death, while cellphone videocameras recorded the sordid deed for all time.

In the video, she is partially disrobed, attacked with stones, then taunted and kicked until a man finishes her off with a rock to the head. If you look at the video closely, you can see she is still in pretty good shape up until between 41-44 seconds into video, when a man steps up and bashes her over the head with a large concrete block. After that, she is bleeding badly from the head and never moves again.

A couple of photo grabs are here and here. Another set of five of the videos, which adds some footage not seen here, can be seen here.

The stoning went on for 30 minutes until the girl finally died. She was probably partially stripped to symbolize how she had dishonored her family and her religion by marrying a Muslim and converting to Islam. At the end of the video, you can see one of the men covering her legs with a jacket.

It is interesting that they think it is shameful to have a girl's bare legs showing in public, but it is not shameful at all to brutally murder a girl in public.

After she was killed, her body was taken outside of town, burned, and buried with the bones of a dog, to show how worthless she was. An autopsy showed she died of a fractured skull and spine.

This is not the first time the Yezidis have killed one of their women for such an offense. A few months ago, another Yezidi woman converted to Islam and her family killed her with a single bullet to the head.

Note the Kurdish police at the scene who apparently went along with the whole outrage. After a while, Kurdish Army soldiers came by and refused anyone entry to the scene of the crime. There was a significant blowback from this barbaric incident.

Many local Yezidi religious figures, to their credit, condemned this bit of depravity. Unfortunately, local Muslims went nuts afterward, attacking Yezidis and their institutions in response to "the killing of a Muslim woman". Never mind that these same Muslims would gleefully kill any Muslim who dared to convert out of Islam...

The Muslims of Kurdistan are incredible hypocrites about this stuff, as usual for Islam, a religion that oozes hypocrisy from its very essence. Four months ago, a Muslim girl and a Yezidi man eloped . Local Muslims set fire to Yezidi homes in the village where this took place. They also found the girl, brought her home, beheaded her.

So...let's see now...non-Muslim women get to run off and marry Muslim men and convert to Islam - no problem. But a Muslim woman goes off with a non-Muslim man and marries him, they get to kill her and then burn down the non-Muslims' villages? WTF? You call that a religion? Is this the Islam of Kurdistan? Are Kurdish Muslims proud of the behavior of the Muslims of Kurdistan?

Iraqi Al Qaeda stopped a bus full of Yezidi workers in Mosul, separated the Yezidis from the others, drove the bus to (Kurdish) Eastern Mosul and executed 23 Yezidis in broad daylight. Attackers shouted "God curse your Devil!" a reference to the fact that many Muslims think that Yezidis are devil worshipers.

The Islamic State of Iraq, which is just a fake name for Iraqi Al Qaeda, took credit for the attack in this statement, where they threatened "the worshipers of Satan" (read: Yezidis) in general. Nice people. Kurdish Muslims and local Sunni Takfiris have been issuing threats to the Yezidis of Kurdistan.

On April 26, a Yezidi baker and three of his Yezidi workers were murdered in Mosul. Two days later, two Yezidi policemen were murdered. The Takfiri group the Mujahedin Army ordered all Yezidis in Mosul to either convert to Islam, or be killed if they wish to stay in Mosul. Otherwise, they need to leave the city.

Over 800 Yezidis fled Mosul University after local Muslim animals issued the typical Muslim "convert or die" orders. Yezidi workers also fled Mosul. In addition, Yezidis were attacked at their workplaces and dormitories in Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah, inside the Kurdish Autonomous Zone. Most are fleeing back to their Yezidi villages. In Bashiqa, Yezidis were ordering Muslim residents of the town to leave.

"Convert or die", of course, is an ancient Muslim tradition that most other religions do not engage in in recent years. In recent weeks, the fundamentalist jihadis in Baghdad's Dora District have told the local Christians to pay the jizya tax and become dhimmis, convert to Islam, or be killed. Consequently, many Christians have fled.

Since the killing of Doa, honor killings have exploded in Kurdistan, and men seem to think they have the license now to kill women for any reason they want. Even previously, honor killings and female self-immolations were occurring at a rate of about one a day in Kurdistan.

Female self-immolations are often actually murders by men disguised as suicides. In other cases, the women are pressured to kill themselves for having violated the family's honor.

The Yezidis do worship Malak Taus, a blue peacock archangel, whom the Muslims mistake for the devil. In the Abrahamic religions, the archangel, of king of the angels, was condemned by God and sent to Hell, where he now rules as the Devil. Since the Yezidis worship the archangel, Muslims conclude they must be worshiping the Devil. However, the Yezidis vociferously disagree that Malak Taus is the Devil.

Yezidi cosmology is mostly secret and highly complex, but upon analysis, it appears that they may be right in that they do not worship the Devil at all. The holy books are only accessible by a tiny elite, are guarded, and outsiders are not allowed to access them.

However, recently, a copy of the Yezidi Holy Book was captured and translated and attempts were made to analyze the religion. The book and the analyses of it can be read on the web. I have read them but I still don't understand the religion. Most Yezidis are only told part of their religion and the secrets of the religion are kept from them.

The situation with the Alawi, the sect that rules Syria, is similar. There are also parallels with the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, when services were done in Latin in part because the commoners could hardly understand the language. The idea was that keeping the common folks ignorant of even their religion was a good idea, as they lacked the skills necessary to properly understand it.

Yezidi culture and religion is derived from the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism. Like the Zoroastrians, the Yezidis still have a backwards caste system. I believe they have seven castes. Marriage to non-Yezidis is strictly forbidden, as is marriage across castes.

An excellent progressive analysis of this killing and why the Yezidis stoned this woman can be found here. Dr. Showan Khurshid, a Ph.D student of political theory at Cardiff University in Wales, takes on Muslim, Kurdish and Yezidi culture and gives them all the appropriate lashings that any progressive ought to mete out to these backwards societies. Khurshid is a Kurdish intellectual from Kirkuk (biography).

He has some interesting views - the thinks that Turkomen, Yezidis and Assyrians should all have their own ethnic cantons inside Kurdistan. He has unleashed some superb attacks on Islam from a progressive point of view (most anti-Islam polemics suffer from a pro-imperialist, pro-neoconservative, pro-colonialist or pro-Zionist mindset). Kurdistan needs more thinkers like Khurshid.

Two more Yezidis were killed and Yezidi buildings were set on fire in the unrest that followed the stoning. To their discredit, a number of Kurdish Muslim clerics issues fatwas sanctioning attacks against Yezidis for the stoning. Yezidis then rioted at the local KDP Headquarters, destroying furniture, throwing stones and setting cars on fire.

Not counting the 24 Yezidis killed in Mosul in the bus incident, another 192 Yezidis have been killed since the invasion, mostly by Islamists who have issued the usual charming "convert or die, infidels" orders to Yezidis in general.

Since Yezidis tend not to convert, they are being killed. Excuse me? Is there any other religion on Earth that issues demands that non-practitioners of the religion either convert to the religion or be killed? You call that a religion? For how long have Muslims been ordering non-Muslims to "convert or die"? From the start of Islam. When will they stop? Can Islam be reformed?

Honor killings are very common in Iraq. In the Sunni Muslim areas, one woman a day was being killed in honor killings recently. They have gotten much worse as Islamists have taken over Iraqi society. In the Kurdish north, they are also very common, even though the Kurds are supposedly more secular.

The outrageous crime of female genital mutilation is epidemic (60%) in Kurdistan, while being uncommon in much of the Arab World. It is widely practiced in Egypt (70%) and Yemen (20%) but these areas have strong African influence. Outside of Africa, FGM is uncommon, despite attempts of anti-Arab propagandists to smear Arabs with this practice.

There is a bit of FGM amongst Bedouin tribes in Palestine, Israel (in the Levant it tends to take less more trivial forms) and Saudi Arabia and there is some amongst the Bedouin in Southern Libya, although Qaddafi has tried to quash it. Other than that, FGM is mostly confined to Sub-Saharan Africa, where it tends to be associated with Islam, with a locus on the Horn of Africa for some reason.

Propagandists screaming about FGM and Islam are being disingenuous. FGM, while associated with Islamic Africa, is best seen as an Africanism. Hence the FGM epidemic in Kurdistan is both curious and outrageous.

Although this killing was done by tribal Yezidis, honor killings tend to be associated with Islam. They are common in Morocco but not in the rest of North Africa - they are rare in Libya, Tunisia (there has not been an honor killing in 16 years in Tunisia) and Algeria. They are unheard of in all of Muslim West Africa, Bangladesh and Indonesia, for some odd reason.

They are very common in Israel, Palestine, Syria , Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq. They are common in the Kurdish areas of Turkey and in Iran. They are also very common in Afghanistan, Somalia and Pakistan (there is a veritable honor killing epidemic in Pakistan).

Although the Kurdish government has supposedly introduced reforms to try to crack down on the insane barbarism of honor killings, the crimes are almost never investigated, much less prosecuted.

Muslims say that honor killings have nothing to do with Islam. That may be true, but why have they persisted mainly in Muslim areas, and why is it the Islamists who always defend them so much?

If you, like me, regard honor killings as the nadir of barbarism and beastliness, you might want to check out the Stop Honor Killings webpage.

Predictably, this crime is being used by the Muslim-haters to bash Muslims, as if Muslims did it, when in fact it was done by Yezidis.

Spogliata e Lapidata: Delitto D'Onore

This is the Italian translation of my post Kurdish Teenager Stoned to Death Near Iraq, which deals with the tragic and outrageous stoning to death of Dua Khalil Aswad, a Yezidi girl who was killed by her fellow Yezidis for eloping with a Muslim man, as intermarriage is forbidden in their religion. The title, translated to English, is Stripped and Stoned: An Honor Killing.

Viewer discretion is advised - watch at your own risk.

Chiunque volesse avere maggiori informazioni sugli Yazidi, può leggere (in inglese, per il momento) i miei articoli: Do Yezidis Worship the Devil? e Yezidis, a Mysterious Kurdish Religious Sect. Quest'ultimo è molto antecedente al fatto che vado a descrivere.

Come purtroppo avete già capito, il filmato è impressionante, non fatelo vedere ai minori o alle persone sensibili, per favore.

In effetti, la lapidazione della ragazza Curdo-Yazida accusata dai propri familiari di essersi innamorata di un Mussulmano (ed addirittura di aver abbracciato l'Islam), ha destato molta impressione, sconcerto, rabbia e tristezza.

L'epilogo della vicenda si è svolto nell'aprile del 2007, nel villaggio Ba'shiqa, vicino a Mosul (e non in Mosul come erroneamente riportato da certa stampa). Nel 2006, Doa Khalil Aswad, una studentessa di 17 anni natìa di Ba'shiqa, si era innamorata di un vicino di casa, un Curdo-Mussulmano, di professione negoziante. Dopo essere scappata da casa, Doa si è sposata e convertita all'Islam.

Purtroppo Doa ha commesso dei 'peccato' estremamente gravi: non solo ha disonorato la propria famiglia non obbedendo ai loro voleri, ma si è anche convertita all' Islam. Queste religioni continuano a considerare la donna un 'essere' sottomesso che non può decidere della propria vita.

Povera Doa, una storia d'amore finita tragicamente!

Nota:

La religione Yazidi è una delle più vecchie del pianeta, sembra che le origini siano risalenti a più di 10.000 anni fà. Nel loro culto ci sono elementi propri di Gnosticismo (v. Manicheismo), Giudaismo, Islam, Mazdeismo (v. Zoroastro), Cristianesimo, Buddismo, Induismo, Mitraismo.

Leggete il mio vecchio articolo The Yezidis, a Mysterious Kurdish Religious Sect, ci sono informazioni molte interessanti.

Ritorniamo a Doa. Dopo aver trascorso alcuni mesi in casa di un religioso Mussulmano, ben protetta dalla rabbia dei propri familiari e concittadini, la povera ragazza ha commesso lo sbaglio di credere al perdono offertogli dalla famiglia.

Sì, la famiglia gli ha offerto il perdono come trappola per topi, per farla uscire dal suo nascondiglio. Che Bastardi!

Il video ci mostra la Via Crucis di una povera ragazza di 17 anni!

Ad attenderla sulla via del ritorno a casa c'era una folla di un migliaio di uomini imbestialiti, ululanti, schiumanti di rabbia. Viene lasciata in balìa dei suoi parenti (una dozzina di uomini). Accerchiata, percossa e gettata a terra come una bambola di pezza, Doa viene così UMILIATA e SPOGLIATA!!!

Vediamo poi solo alcuni momenti dell'intera lapidazione: la 'Cerimonia è durata almeno 30 minuti!

L'atroce tortura finisce con il colpo di grazia alla testa di Doa. Un bastardo gliela spacca con un blocco di cemento...però alla fine le coprono le gambe con una giacca! Bisogna sempre salvare 'il comune senso del pudore', eh?

Quanti di loro si saranno eccitato a vedere le gambe nude e gli slip neri della ragazza? Tanti, sicuramente.

Come posso definire esseri umani coloro che si 'stracciano le vesti' se una donna osa mostrare le gambe o un lembo di carne in pubblico e non esitano a denudare e uccidere selvaggiamente una ragazzina (hai peccato di 'sesso' e sei diventata Mussulmana: ora ti lapidiamo nuda...)??

Mi ha colpito un fatto: il contrasto tra un atto così incredibilmente barbaro e arcaico e la feroce, morbosa presenza di molte persone che cercavano in tutti i modi di registrare 'l'evento' con i propri videofonini.

Ma non sta succedendo così anche nella nostra cosidetta società 'civile'? La progressiva scomparsa del sentimento umano di pietà, di soccorso; prevale l'insensibilità, l'egoismo.

In definitiva è questa la malattia del mondo moderno: non solo non lottiamo (o lo facciamo blandamente) contro i soprusi, ma siamo anche dei 'guardoni', meri osservatori che registrano e godono delle disgrazie altrui (ehi, lo metto anch'io su Youtube questo filmatino, andate avanti ragazzi...un sorriso alla camera...ok...spostatevi, idioti che non riesco a riprendere bene, ah, ok, così va meglio).

Se volete vedere alcune istantanee del video cliccate qui e qui. Per gli 'amanti' delle foto inedite, ce ne sono altre cinque qui...

Dopo l'assassinio, il corpo straziato di Doa è stato bruciato e seppellito assieme alle ossa di un cane, come segno di massimo disprezzo.

Non è la prima volta che i Yazidi giustiziano una delle loro donne per fatti del genere. Ad una di loro, convertitasi all'Islam, la sorte è stata 'migliore': una pallottola al cuore dal Capofamiglia.

La vicenda di Doa ha sollevato alcuni punti interrogativi.

Perchè la polizia Curda non è intervenuta al momento della lapidazone? Erano complici? Cosa ha significato il successivo intervento di reparti dell'esercito Curdo, che ha transennato e proibito l'ingresso alla 'scena del crimine'?

Sebbene influenti personalità religiose della comunità Yazidi abbiano condannato la barbara uccisione di Doa, i Mussulmani hanno reagito violentemente, attaccando sia persone che istituzioni Yazidi. Una donna Mussulmana è stata uccisa!!! Già, Mussulmana...peccato che quando devono giudicare un ex-Mussulmano, la sentenza è una sola: morte!!

I Mussulmani curdi si sono dimostrati incredibilmente ipocriti in questo caso, ma d'altra parte è tutta l'essenza della religione Mussulmana che è impregnata di ipocrisia. Quattro mesi fa c'è stato il caso di una donna Mussulmana ed uno Yazidi. La 'scappatella' è finita tragicamente sia per la donna (decapitata) che per la Comunità Yazidi del villaggio (tutte le case sono state bruciate).

Allora, se una donna non Mussulmana si sposa con un Mussulmano e si converte all'Islam, và tutto bene.

Ma se una donna Mussulmana si sposa con un non Mussulmano allora si deve ucciderla e bruciare tutte le case dei non Mussulmani? Ma che cazzo?

E la chiamate religione? E' questo l'Islam del Kurdistan?

I Curdi Mussulmani sono orgogliosi del comportamento dei Mussulmani del Kurdistan?

Un altro clamoroso esempio: tempo fà, un gruppo di terroristi Iracheni di Al Qaeda ha bloccato un autobus di lavoratori a Mosul. Dopo aver selezionato gli Yazidi, l'autobus si è diretto in una zona est di Mosul. 23 persone sono state giustiziate al grido: "Dio maledica il vostro diavolo!" In effetti molti Mussulmani pensano che gli Yazidi siano adoratori del Demonio.

Lo Stato Islamico Iracheno, ovvero Al Qaeda in Iraq, ha rivendicato questa azione ed allo stesso tempo ha 'graziosamente' minacciato tutti 'gli Adoratori di Satana' (gli Yazidi).

Ma che bella gente!

Sia i Mussulmani Curdi che i Sunniti Takfiris locali hanno inviato minacciosi messaggi di morte agli Yazidi del Kurdistan.

Lo scorso 26 aprile, un fornaio e tre lavoranti Yazidi sono stati uccisi a Mosul. Due giorni dopo anche due poliziotti Yazidi sono stati assassinati. L'Armata dei Mujahedin di Mosul (di etnia Takfiri) ha lanciato un chiaro messaggio a tutti gli Yazidi: o vi convertite all'Islam o dovete lasciare immediatamente la città.

A queste minaccie, Il panico si è diffuso tra gli Yazidi. Sia studenti universitari (più di 800 giovani) che comuni lavoratori hanno fatto i bagagli e sono scappati nei villaggi di origine. La paura ha preso il sopravvento.

In altre città della Regione Autonoma del Kurdistan, come Erbil, Dohuk e Sulaimaniyah, ci sono stati diversi attacchi Mussulmani a vari siti frequentati dagli Yazidi (dormitori, negozi, fabbriche, etc.). A Bashiqa, gli Yezidi hanno intimato ai Mussulmani di abbandonare la città.

Covertiti o muori è un'antica tradizione Mussulmana ritornata di attualità. Tranne alcuni casi (ex-Jugoslavia, Filippine, Libano) le altre religioni hanno abbandonato da tempo questa forma di pulizia etnica...

Nel quartiere Dora, a Baghdad, un solito gruppo Jihadista ha intimato ai Cristiani di pagare la tassa di 'protezione' e diventare dhimmis, ovvero: convertiti all' Islam o muori!

La fuga di molti Cristiani è stata l'ovvia conseguenza a queste serie minaccie.

Un altro effetto del casino provocato dall'uccisione di Doa: non si contano più i 'delitti d'onore' in Kurdistan. Il delitto d'onore e il sacrificio volontario di donne non sono una novità. Una tragedia al giorno era un evento abituale in Kurdistan.

Ma ora sembra che tutti gli uomini si arroghino il diritto di uccidere le donne come e quando vogliono. Bravi...

Certo è che molti omicidi vengono archiviati come 'suicidi' e che molte donne sono costrette ad uccidersi per salvare l'onore della famiglia.

Gli Yazidi venerano Malak Taus, un arcangelo dalle fattezze di un di pavone. E' un angelo caduto che si è pentito ed ha ricostruito il mondo.

Per i Mussulmani quell'angelo non si è affatto pentito, anzi, è il Diavolo in persona. Gli Yazidi sono dunque adoratori del Demonio. Differenze di interpretazione religiose? Mah, a me sembra la solita lotta tra etnie tribali, dove il proprio Dio è quello giusto e il Dio del nemico è il Diavolo.

La cosmologia religiosa Yazidi è criptica, complessa, ma non mi sembra che adorino una Divinità maligna. Il loro libro sacro è segreto e solo una piccola èlite religiosa può custodire e tramandare i suoi segreti. Tentare di accedere alla visione di una copia di quel testo significare rischiare la morte.

Eppure, poco tempo fà, qualcuno è riuscito ad impadronirsi di una copia del Libro sacro degli Yazidi ed a diffonderne in rete una traduzione ed anche una puntale analisi religiosa. Ho letto tutto quello che era possibile leggere ma continuo a non capirci granchè. E' inutile sperare di avere qualche forma di collaborazione da qualche Yazidi, non hanno alcuna voglia di svelare i loro segreti al mondo.

Non sono i soli. Pensiamo alla setta degli Alawi in Siria; possiamo paragonarli alla Chiesa Cattolica del Medioevo, dove tutti i riti religiosi si svolgevano in latino, lingua praticamente incomprensibile al popolino.

Si veniva così a creare quell'aurea di misticismo e superiorità della quale la Chiesa Cattolica ha goduto per secoli al fine di imporre il proprio dominio temporale.

La religione e la cultura Yazidi ha molti punti in comune con il Mazdaismo (o Zoroastrismo). La suddivisione della società in caste (7 livelli) è simile, i matrimoni con appartenenti ad altre religioni sono vietati e puniti severamente. Non è possibile contrarre matrimoni tra membri di caste diverse.

Un'ottima analisi delle ragioni della lapidazione della povera Doa è stata fatta dal Dr. Showan Khurshid, ricercatore di scienze politiche presso l'Università di Cardiff, in Galles.

Khurshid è un intellettuale moderno, ha analizzato crudemente e senza peli sulla lingua le barbare usanze e le retrograde tradizioni dei Curdi, Yazidi e Mussulmani.

Khurshid, natìo di Kirkuk e quindi Curdo, sostiene delle affascinanti tesi Turkmeni, gli Yazidi e Assiri fossero divisi nell'antichità in comunità etniche nella regione Curda.

L'attacco all'Islam di Khurshid è veramente efficace e scevro dai soliti luoghi comuni. Nessuna teoria conservatrice, sionista, imperialista, teodem o neodem comune ai soliti nemici dell'Islam, quindi. Il Kurdistan avrebbe veramente bisogno di altri intellettuali come Khurshid...

Nei disordini seguìti alla lapidazione, altri due Yazidi sono stati uccisi e diversi edifici sono stati bruciati. A condanna di tali fatti, alcuni religiosi Mussulmani hanno emesso delle Fatwa contro i responsabili. La reazione degli Yezidi è stata parimenti dura, hanno attaccato la sede del KDP distruggendo a sassate tutti i mobili ed hanno poi bruciato le automobili dei funzionari Mussulmani.

Senza contare i 24 Yazidi uccisi a Mosul, altri 192 Yazidi hanno perso la vita a seguito dell'Invasione. La maggior parte di loro si era rifiutata di obbedire all'ultimatum 'convertiti o muori' intimatogli dai Mussulmani.

Visto che gli Yazidi non hanno alcuna voglia di convertirsi, devono forse essere sterminati? C'è qualche altra religione in questa terra che prevede lo sterminio dei non-convertiti? La possiamo chiamare religione? I Mussulmani hanno da sempre considerato gli infedeli degni solo di morire, non sono mai cambiati. Ci potrà mai essere un'evoluzione pacifica della loro religione?

I delitti d'onore sono molto diffusi in Iraq. Nell'area Sunnita a maggioranza Mussulmana ogni giorno viene uccisa una donna. Nemmeno a seguito di un'ipotetica presa di potere dei Mussulmani in Iraq si avrebbe potuto pensare ad un tale deterioramento della situazione. Neanche nel Kurdistan del Nord, regione in apparenza laica e secolarizzata, i delitti d'onore si sono ridotti, anzi...

L'oltraggio dell'infibulazione è praticato al 60% delle donne Curde. E' un'epidemia che non colpisce la maggior parte dei paesi Arabi. In Stati come Egitto (70%) e Yemen (20%), l'alto numero di mutilazioni è causato dalla notevole influenza di usi e costumi Africani.

Al di fuori della sfera di influenza Africana, l'infibulazione non viene praticamente praticata. Gli Arabi possono essere colpevoli di altri delitti, ma attribuire la paternità di questa barbara usanza sulla donna è un atto propagandistico ed un puro falso ideologico.

Ci sono dei casi di infibulazione all'interno di Tribù di Beduini presenti in Palestina, Israele (ad Oriente si hanno usanze meno tribali) ed Arabia Saudita. Nonostante la dura repressione di Gheddaf, nel Sud della Libia ci sono altri Beduini che praticano questa mutilazione femminile...

(Ndt. e qui una nota per quella merda di Gheddafi, vero terrorista ed assassino spietato, divenuto dopo l'11 Settembre un campione della libertà e delle lotta ai terroristi Mussulmani! Grazie, George W. e S.B., affanculo anche a voi! Doveva essere giustiziato Gheddafi e non Saddam!)

L'infibulazione viene praticata anche nell'Africa Sub-Sahariana, dove viene associata all'Islam, e nell'intero Corno d'Africa.

Non possiamo unirci ad una parziale propaganda anti-Mussulmana, la pratica dell'infibulazione è sopratutto un'usanza tribale Africana e non può essere associata solo all'Africa Mussulmana. Per questo mi sembra incredibile, oltraggioso ed anche strano quello che stà succedendo in Kurdistan.

Ritorniamo ai delitti d'onore. Anche se il 'fattaccio' è stato compiuto da barbari Yazidi, il delitto d'onore è diventato sinonimo di pratica Islamica. E' comune in Marocco, ma nel resto del Nord Africa ci sono stati pochi casi in Libia, Tunisia (nessun delitto d'onore da 16 anni a questa parte) e Algeria. Non si hanno notizie di tali delitti ne' in tutta l'Africa Occidentale, ne' in Bangladesh ed Indonesia (per particolari ragioni).

Sono molto comuni in Israele, Palestina, Siria, Giordania, Libano, Yemen ed Iran. Aggiungiamo alla 'lista nera' anche l'Afghanistan, la Somalia ed il Pakistan (si parla addiritura di epidemia di uccisioni di donne in Pakistan...)

Sebbene il Governo del Kurdistan abbia già introdotto alcune leggi contro i delitti d'onore, la realtà è che gli organi di polizia se ne fregano ed i tribunali non condannano gli assassini.

I Mussulmai dicono che il delitto d'onore non ha nulla a che fare con l'Islam. Bah, ipocrisia. Perchè continua ad essere un 'biglietto da visita' riservato soprattutto agli uomini dei paesi Mussulmani? Perchè tanti esimi Islamisti continuano a difendere il principio del delitto d'onore?

Io penso che il delito d'onore sia l'apice dell'abbruttimento del maschio, l'atto più disgustoso che si possa fare contro una donna. Se la pensate come me, visitate il sito: Stop Honour Killings .

E' comunque deprecabile che la notizia sia stata usata in chiave Anti-Mussulmana (vero seguaci della defunta profetessa dell'odio, Oriana Fallaci?). Gli assassini della povera Dea sono stati proprio i suoi familiari e la folla loro complice, gli Yazidi!!

Hispanic Scholarship Fund is Racist!

So says the illegal alien students at UCLA.

Why, you may ask? They discriminate against Whites? They can't stand Blacks? Nothing so mundane.

So what diabolical crime did they commit?

If you're an illegal alien, you don't get a damned scholarship!

Oh, boo hoo!

Well, good for them.

As of today, I am on record as supporting the Hispanic Scholarship Fund 100%. Surely there are many legal Hispanic immigrants and Hispanic citizens who come from modest means, yet show great promise as potential university students. An organization like this helps poor, bright students to achieve their dreams and be an asset to society in spite of our criminally expensive post-secondary system.

Organized Vs. Unorganized Violence (Crime Vs. War)

A commenter, Perry, questions whether or not the Japanese of the 1930's or the ancient Vikings had criminogenic genes, given their high rates of wartime plunder. Unstated but assumed, he seems to be ridiculing the notion because both Scandinavians and Japanese now have very low levels of crime and pathology in general.

To this, I say that regarding the Vikings and Japanese, see the difference between organized violence (war, imperial plunder, colonialism, etc.) and unorganized violence (crime, etc.) from Arthur Hu's very un-PC page. This is a post from Steve Sailer's ill-fated Human Biodiversity mailing list, and the post is written by Louis R. Andrews of the Stalking the Wild Taboo website.

Andrews is a racist ass, but he's also very smart, and he makes some good points here. Here the Sierra Club condemns Andrews, on admittedly silly grounds, in a horrible editorial attempting to justify the Club's unjustifiable and totally insane stance refusing to condemn mass or illegal immigration.

Andrews refers to this as legitimate versus illegitimate violence. Cultures can continue to exist and even thrive while waging regular warfare, while mass crime seems to be destructive to the glue of any civilization.

In my opinion, organized violence, even extreme organized violence, can unfold in any society, even very highly civilized ones with little crime or pathology within their own culture. In fact, these societies may be more prone to mass organized violence based on the premise of supremacy (Nazis, Japanese).

Hu's page is a gem on crime and race, and I will deal with it more in depth shortly.

Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, Hero

Goodwin, a psychiatrist, was head of something called the Violence Initiative, intended to reduce the insane violence in our, ahem, (Black and Hispanic, but mostly Black) inner cities. He made the following extremely controversial comment, which I heartily endorse:

If you look, for example, at male monkeys, especially in the wild, roughly half of them survive to adulthood. The other half die by violence. That is the natural way it is for males, to knock each other off and in fact, there are some interesting evolutionary implications of that because the same hyperaggressive monkeys who kill each other are also hypersexual, so they copulate more to offset the fact that more of them are dying.

Now, one could say that if some of the loss of social structure in this society, and particularly within the high impact inner-city areas, has removed some of the civilizing evolutionary things that we have built up and that may be it isn't just the careless use of the word when people call certain areas of certain cities jungles, that we may have gone back to what might be more natural, without all the social controls that we have imposed upon ourselves as a civilization over thousands of years in our evolution.

Goodwin screwed up by using the monkey - jungle metaphor. That implies that Blacks are monkeys who live in the jungle. There's no place in civilized discussion to call Blacks monkeys. They aren't monkeys. They're human beings. US Blacks have been out of the jungle for 200 years. And around the world, plenty of well-behaved folks live in jungles, so living in a jungle doesn't automatically make you act like an animal.

Goodwin was condemned as racist and a Nazi for saying that. If believing that makes you racist and a Nazi, I guess I'm a racist Nazi then. The best way to answer this abuse from the Cultural Left is to simply agree with them.

First, rephrase the comment that upset them. Ask, for example, "Really, so saying that Black IQ's are 13 points lower than White IQ's is racism?" The idiot will usually say, "Yes, it is." Then calmly nod your head and say, "OK, well, if saying that means I'm a racist, I guess I'm a racist." Say it with complete aplomb, as if one were commenting on the weather.

We really need to take the sting out of some of these abusive words the Cultural Left is throwing at the sane people. Sure there's plenty of racism around, but there's less and less all the time. Most of the time anymore, "racist" is a just a term of abuse leveled against Whites. It's just hate speech against Whites, like calling Blacks niggers.

Goodwin's comment was outrageous, but it does seem to make a lot of sense, does it not?

The only alternative theories for the insane violence in our Black ghettos are bullshit notions like poverty, bad schools, bad neighborhoods, lack of education, lack of hope, lack of jobs, White racism, discrimination, oppression, on and on the bullshit piles.

The only thing bad about our ghettos is the humans who live in them. The neighborhoods, schools, etc. are lousy because the humans in the ghetto have destroyed them. There's no jobs because the horrible behavior and mass crime of the humans in the ghetto has driven all the employers away.

The humans in the ghetto are poorly educated because they don't want to get educated. There's no hope in the ghetto because the humans who destroyed the neighborhoods also have to live in them, and that's pretty hopeless.

About racism, discrimination and oppression, about the only racism, discrimination and oppression in our ghettos is against any non-Black person stupid enough to venture into them. The residents of the ghettos aren't experiencing any real oppression or discrimination at all. Who's oppressing them, beside the criminals they live with?

Who's discriminating against them? Whites? They aren't any White people in the ghetto to discriminate against anyone. Residents of the ghetto probably experience little racism too. They hardly see any Whites, and the only ones they do see are liberal do-gooder types. Blacks in suburbs live much better than ghetto Blacks and surely experience far more racism.

Yet this is what passes for sane discussion of one of the most important issues in our nation - utter nonsense.

Recent efforts to ameliorate the mess in our ghettos have involved tearing down or shuttering public housing and giving ghetto residents vouchers to go live anywhere they want.

As a socialist, I support these efforts. Ghetto residents ought to be able to live anywhere they can afford to, and packing lots of ghetto Blacks together tightly can't possibly be a good idea. Blacks have moved out of the projects and into better neighboring areas.

The results have been mixed at best. The former ghetto residents act somewhat better, but not dramatically so. Crucially, they continue to have serious pathologies. This reinforces my view that the problem in the ghetto was always the humans who live there, not the buildings, the streets, the schools, or whatever.

Benefits of An Obama Election: No More Excuses

The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here.

One great thing about the coming election of Obama as POTUS is that hopefully Blacks, other minorities and Leftist Whites will finally have to STFU about White racism (to some extent) and quit screaming racist at White people all the time. Heck, I'm a Leftist anti-racist, and these idiots call me racist incessantly. This has gone way overboard for many years and it's time to call the dogs off.

It's hard to believe that a virulently racist and White Supremacist US, dripping with White Privilege and other nonsense, would voluntarily choose to elect the antidote to its racism, supremacism and privileges.

Also, hopefully, Blacks and Leftists won't have any more excuses for the problems of Blacks and other minorities. If these problems continue under a Black President, just how much of it was due to racism anyway?

I'm probably dreaming here. The Left, Blacks and other minorities are hooked on the crack of screaming racist at Whitey and blaming us for everything. The habit feels so good and has so many excellent psychological benefits (Why do you think fools go through so much of their lives blaming other people?) that there's really no reason for them to stop it and face the harsh music.

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No Hate Crimes?

On the more mainstream and moderate White nationalist sites such as American Renaissance, the general tone of the pieces and in the comments is that there really is no such thing as White racism in the US anymore.

There are only a pitiful few incidents here and there, and it's all a big joke.

Hanging nooses is just a silly gag. Blacks and Hispanics need to quit being so hypersensitive about everything, and just let it go. Racism, when it refers to Whites, is always in quotes, implying it does not even exist, while other races are constantly accused of racism against Whites that is actually real. So it is as if the only real racism problem in the US is against White people.

The usual response is to say that these people are just a bunch of lying racists.

I will, however, say that there is a bit of truth to these accusations. Racism by Whites is dramatically exaggerated in the US, and every little comment or scribble is inspected for the horrible crime. Hispanics and Blacks in particular are far too wont to yell racism over every little thing, in many cases over mostly or completely innocent comments.

Entire subjects that do not necessarily have anything to do with racism are walled off and forbidden from discussion. On the other hand, non-Whites get to bash away at Whites for all of their racial crimes, past, present and future, while Whites are supposed to sit there and take it, groveling, like guilty supplicants. There is a presumption that non-Whites are incapable of racism and that Whites are automatically filled with it.

This is all nonsense, but it's a product of the Left in the US and the West that started this crazy conversation about 40 years ago. They've been quite successful selling this silliness to the public.

On the other hand, there surely is racism in the US. I don't think much of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), but they do have an interesting list of racist incidents in the US for the first three months of 2008. It seems pretty incredible the amount of this stuff that is going on, or is it?

One thing for sure - you rarely hear about it in your own town. Considering what a multicultural society we are, it is amazing that there is not much more of this going on in every reasonable-sized city just about every day. Right? Or am I wrong?

You will note that simple name-calling is apparently not listed, and is not a crime. Some of the stuff on that list seem a bit of a reach. In the course of a fight, or altercation, racial slurs are uttered. Now we have a hate crime.

Auburn, California (Legal Developments)
Published on 03-06-2008
"Lance Clements, 37, was arrested on hate crime related charges after he allegedly made racial slurs against a black student and a Hispanic student during an altercation."

This strikes me as an excess. There was an altercation. A fight? A verbal fight, or a physical one? In the course of the altercation, some slurs got uttered. This is a crime? I'd like to know some more facts about this case.

Unfortunately, in a free society people get to call each other names, and in the course of fights, people will just call each other any slur that comes to their minds that seems to apply to the person they are fighting.

For instance, in the past ten years, I did call a Black man a nigger once. On the other hand, I'm going to say I'm not a racist.

He ran a recycling place and I used to take my bottles up there. He got mad at me when I did not separate my browns from my greens from my clears. I forget what happened, but a shouting match ensued. This is not normal behavior for me - I'm a quiet guy and I don't get into it much with people. In the course of this argument, I called him a nigger. Not once, but a few times.

Not because I'm a raving racist; I'll say I'm not, and you're welcome to disagree. More because at that moment I hated him, he was Black, and fishing in my bag of tricks for insults, it seemed appropriate. If he was fat or ugly, I would have insulted him on those bases.

I've since talked to a Black woman I know, and she was quite upset that I did that. I'm going to think about whether I want to do that again.

I wonder how often this sort of thing goes on? In the course of fights and shouting matches, angry people will say stuff they would not ordinarily say. Not out of racism or bigotry, but because in a fight, you use any ammo you've got.

Most of the other stuff on that list is pretty clear-cut and straightforward. I was shocked by the amount of anti-Semitism in the US. I don't like the ADL, and I think they go nuts about anti-Semitism, but you can see quite a few cases on that list of anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish institutions, vandalism of Jewish graveyards, actual assaults on and threats against Jews, etc.

I was appalled by that, and surprised. For the first time in a while, I will throw a shout out to the Jewish groups who are publicizing this, while deploring their efforts to code as anti-Semitic a wide variety of comments and writings that are generally not. The ADL types go overboard, but there's clearly an anti-Semitism problem. Things are complicated.

On the White Nationalist boards, there is a lot of talk about how most assaults by Blacks against Whites are accompanied by racial slurs. Typically, the police deny that a hate crime occurred. The White Nationalists have an interesting point, and if White assaults combined with slurs get hate crime attachments, it's about time to start slamming a lot of Blacks with the same stuff.

I guess the assumption is that the Black criminal victimized the person just to be a criminal, and that racism was secondary, and therefore the attack was not primarily bias-motivated, instead it was primarily dirty criminal-motivated. Perhaps that is so, but fair is fair, and there appears to be a double-standard here.

There were 104 incidents over a 93 day period in the first three months of 2008. That's a little over one a day, and most all of these incidents are pretty serious.

A 2005 report by the US government found that there were 191,000 hate crimes in that year. That's 600 a day! That's 24 an hour. One every two or three minutes. Does that seem credible?

I wonder what standard they were using to judge what is a hate crime? The same as in the SPLC list? If so, there's still a big problem here in the US. But if they are using everything down to my little argument above, the report is pretty meaningless. Someone might want to get ahold of that report and see what's really in it.

White nationalists say that in a multicultural society, these sort of incidents are to be expected and are in fact normal. Why? Because a certain amount of racial hostility is to be expected in such a society. Are they right? If not, why not?

The appropriate response to this issue is the Middle Way, as the Taoists say. Not to overemphasize racism and exaggerate it out of all sanity, and not, on the other hand, to say that it barely even exists anymore.

For the record, SPLC does list several anti-immigrant groups that do not strike me as racist in any way, shape or form. SPLC says:

These groups generally attack immigrants as individuals, rather than merely disagreeing with immigration policy. Some have close ties to white supremacist ideas, groups and individuals.

That statement is just wrong about several of those groups. The groups listed are:

• American Border Patrol


• California Coalition for Immigration Reform


• Save Our State


• American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together


• Rescue Without Borders


• Federation for American Immigration Reform


• Social Contract Press


• Emigration Party of Nevada


• Border Guardians


• American Immigration Control Foundation/Americans for Immigration Control

Of those, Save Our State, American Patrol and the Federation for American Immigration Reform are surely not racist at all. I can't speak of the rest, but I imagine they are the same. True, Social Contract Press is racist, but they are on the moderate end of White nationalism.

It seems like any group screaming about the illegal alien invasion of the US is going to get tagged with a racist label. That's where SPLC is so wrong and does a lot of damage.

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Francis Galton's Insight

Link.

From American Renaissance, a very problematic website due to its racism, but one that I nevertheless check out regularly. Why? It's the only place anywhere you can see frank talk about race. About the Black and Hispanic underclass, about the illegal alien invasion, and about all sorts of un-PC stuff.

I can't say one word against these 12 million Mesoamerican illegals who have ruined my state and are going to run my whole country. I can't say one word against these nightmarish Black and Hispanic Underclasses in our cities.

One of the worst problems with living in a heavily Hispanic area is that you can't say the slightest thing against them, their gangs, graffiti, crime, illegals, massive school failure and dropout rates, out of control illegitimacy rates, wild teenage pregnancy rates - no one can say one word about any of this stuff. If I do, I am immediately shouted down with accusations of racism.

The Hispanics have learned to wield the race card like every other liar and huckster in our society. I'm almost sorry we campaigned against racism 40 years ago because we created this horrible Racism Club that every reactionary ethnic activist and nationalist on Earth is using to beat up anyone critical of their petty little group.

It's almost an honor to be called a racist nowadays in PC America. All too often, it just means anyone speaking frankly about race in any way whatsoever. I assume that the insane PC hate speech laws come next, and I get threatened with jail.

The piece, among other things, quotes Francis Galton as saying that after observing various races for a long time, he concluded that they had the following personality characteristics:

• Amerindians display taciturn reserve


• Blacks have a talkative impulsiveness


• E Asians are placid

That strikes me as just about right, and it's interesting that those personality traits are observable in the youngest babies. I am not trying to draw any conclusions from that, but only to note that on average, Blacks are more extroverted and Asians are more introverted. American Indians are somewhat different, but seem to be more toward the Asians.

It's also interesting to note that Asians are the latest to mature and Blacks are the earliest to mature. How maturation rate fits into introversion/extroversion, I am not sure.

I am convinced that some the pathologies attributed to Blacks are due to their simply being more extroverted. Even in Whites, the more extroverted folks are much more criminal, hate school because it's no fun, are more sexually active and even promiscuous, are more emotionally volatile, have more problems with drugs and alcohol, and in my opinion, tend to be a lot less responsible and more manipulative.

They are less responsible and more manipulative because they just don't care about others' feelings the way that we introverts do, and they are self-centered and feel entitled to use others to get what they want.

Most introverts are horrified by the idea of openly using or manipulating a human being in a grotesque way to get something for yourself and leave the other person high and dry. Extroverts seem to regard this as a normal part of life like eating and sleeping.

That Indians are display a taciturn reserve is well-known to those who spend a lot of time around them, and fits in with the old stereotypes about Amerindians. Indian babies are said to be like rocks. It's not uncommon to wonder if they are alive or dead, and they often don't cry much.

However, they are said to be quite alert. Alert and silent - this is the stereotypical Indian baby. It's interesting how this fits in well with the stereotype of the silent yet alert Indian hunter, waiting in the woods for hours with his bow and arrow for the game to come into view.

Fine, so races have different temperaments, ok.

Now.

What about this?

I'm not sure I'm even going to there for now, but I will say that different ethnicities do seem to have different levels of morality. Comparing poor Hispanics, poor Blacks and poor Whites, the poor Blacks and Hispanics tend to behave vastly worse.

In the Hispanics' case, it's mostly the young males, who are an absolute disaster and a menace to our very nation such that we really need to consider importing fewer Hispanics until we can figure out which ones are going to do all right and which are going to degenerate into this Hispanic Underclass catastrophe.

In this neighborhood, it is the little things that you notice. Poor Blacks and Hispanics do seem much less cultivated and civilized, and you notice it with the little stuff. As soon as I step outside, they will badger me for "loans". You're insane if you ever loan most of them one dime for anything. They never pay back any loans, and then they have the nerve to still come around!

They come into your house and immediately start demanding things like wine, changing the radio station, this or that. They point at nice things in my house and ask me to get the thing to them! Many of them are will just try to openly use you and manipulate you in any way they can do get whatever they can out of you. That boils down to an all take and no give relationship.

They also engage in petty theft if they get into your place as soon as you turn your back on them. They also tend to be rather disrespectful of your property. They just more or less act like animals. Now, I can't see myself as engaging in any behaviors like that. I would never go to someone's place just to see what I can get out of them.

I would never demand anything on entry to someone's house, much less suggest that they should give me some of their property for free. I don't owe anyone outside my family one nickel, and I'm 50. If I never paid back a loan, I would be ashamed forever. I never ask anyone for money, and I would be humiliated if I did.

Now, the worst actors for all of this are young Hispanics who are enamored of the gangsta thing. Most are not employed or in school, and I am starting to wonder if they will ever work one day ever again. Many spend every nickel they get on marijuana. Most live off their stupid girlfriends, who give these worthless idiots money every day.

Since most of the Hispanics grow out of this a ways into their 20's, one wonders if it's really genetic. We are creating vast armies of sociopaths in our cities, and I am convinced that much of it is due the males being raised by single females. The male children of single Moms all too often are just criminals.

With the Blacks, they don't necessarily grow out of this ghetto mindset at all. I know Blacks in their 50's who still act this way. I am convinced that it is so because many Blacks seem to have a lower level of morality, even on the "little stuff", like throwing trash on the ground or strolling across a crosswalk after the light has already turned, that so many Whites have a problem with Blacks.

Most Whites just have a revulsion to little stuff like that, whereas many Blacks may very well think it's perfectly normal.

Now I know quite a few Blacks who are assimilated to mainstream society and don't act "ghetto" at all.

Blacks are really split into two different groups:

• An Underclass of varying degrees that shows varying degrees of "ghetto" and more or less uncivilized behavior.


• An assimilated group that has left the ghetto behind or never joined it to start with, and whose behavior is in general commendable.

The second group is increasingly washing its hands of the problems of the first group, but the honest to God truth is that nowadays, there is substantial overlap between the two groups. There are Blacks who have crawled halfway out of the ghetto but are not quite assimilated yet. Nevertheless, the distinction should be made, and it's one that almost all racists never make.

I see Hispanics as increasingly splitting into an Underclass and an assimilated group in the future also.

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The Validity of Race as a Biological Construct

It's clear that race in humans is a warranted concept. The fear of it is only a fear that acknowledgment of the existence of race = racism. The project is to lie and deny that race exists for the greater good of a game called, "If you deny that race exists, racism will vanish."

That this project with noble intentions is doomed is probable. We are what we are, and that is cavemen and cavewomen with suits and matching outfits.

Anyway, strictly biologically speaking, race is a valid concept.

Let us take for example a snake. I am a snake-o-phile, or whatever they are called. I love snakes. I love them in part because they are evil and everyone hates them. I search for snakes everywhere when I have the free time and I am out in open and wild-type areas. You hardly ever find one, but once in a while you can. When you do, you reach down and pick it up!

It's a garter snake or a gopher snake or ringtailed snake and it won't hurt you. I like to grab them, catch them and then go over to some macho guy's place with a live snake. I know these macho dudes who are all badass, but they have a secret, in that they are terrified of harmless little snakes.

I like to go visit these guys, snake in hands, and then shove the writhing snake in front of their faces and watch them freak out. Now is that funny or what? Big tough guy: "Um, nice, now do you think you could take that thing...outside?!" Nervous laugh. Hard man, sure.

Here in California there is a critter called the California kingsnake. I have not captured a live one yet, but I have captured an almost dead one hit by a car. I took it home and gave it to my cats to play with outside until it died. After that, I wanted to gut it and cook it on the stove in some manner and eat the damn thing, but everyone insisted that I not do that, and they could not even give me a damn reason.

What is interesting about the CA kingsnake is that it lacks subspecies. Now, most snakes and many mammals and birds have subspecies.

But the CA kingsnake has things called "races" that are even below the level of the subspecies. They can look dramatically different from a regular kingsnake, but there is apparently not enough genetic variation there to cut them into subspecies, so they are just called races.

The notion of whether or not human races divide sufficiently to be called subspecies is not yet sorted out, with White Nationalists coming down on the side that the races really are subspecies, and everyone else not even wanting to touch the subject.

At any rate, to call the races races, below the level of subspecies, in a California kingsnake kind of way, is hardly going to be the end of the world. It's not even a radical concept. Biologically speaking, it's utterly banal.

Amazing that careers are destroyed over this bullshit, huh? How dumb can you get? Hurry up, we are having a contest.

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