BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

8th Yartzheit Ay'el malei rachamim shochayn bameromim ham'tzay menucha nechona al kanfay ha-sh'cheena be'maalot kedoshim ut'ho'rim k'zohar harakia mazhee'rim et nishmat Robert James C., Sr. sh'halach le'olamo b'Gan-Eayden tehay menuchato. Ana ba'al harachamim hastirayhu be'sayter kenafecha le'olamim ve'titzror bitz'ror hachayim et nishmato, Ado-noy Hu'nachalato ve'yaunach b'shalom al mishkavo v'nomar Amein. When you left, Dad - all the oxygen went out of the room. You filled up a place like no one else I have met, or may meet. You made mistakes just like we all do. But I am still very proud to be your daughter. Thank you for validating me, when no one else had the courage to. Thank you for understanding me or making the effort to, unconditionally, when no one else did. Until we see each other again. - Barbara

I completely agree with UppityWoman, who expresses herself better here - this slime needs to exterminated, since he thinks its o.k. to exterminate defenseless women who aren't living his screwed-up, non-American standards. from one of my all time favorite, tell-it-like-it-is bloggers, UppityWoman: The trial of the Pithecanthopus Erectus throwback — who thought his daughter was “ Too Westernized, ” so he ran her and her boyfriend’s mother down with his Jeep — begins today in Arizona. The mother lived but Noor Almaleki, the poor 20 year-old, who had the misfortune of having him as a father, died after two weeks in a coma. Somebody finally has the guts to say it. They are calling this exactly what it is: An Honor Killing. It needs to be said, because it’s here, it’s real and this Caveman culture has NO place in the United States of America. To constantly pretend that this isn’t what it Is is to destroy America with ludicrous political correctness. Thank God somebody finally is ...

(where are the feminists? why aren't we marching in the streets to stop this heinous and barbaric practice on American soil?! Isn't FEMINISM the notion that WOMEN ARE PEOPLE TOO!) by Cinnamon Stillwell Throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, young Muslim women are being targeted for violence. Lest it be thought hate crimes are to blame, it is, in fact, their own relatives who are the perpetrators. So-calledthonor killings, whereby a Muslim male family member, typically the father, murders his daughter in order to defend the family's honor, is a growing problem. While statistics are notoriously hard to come by due to the private nature of such crimes and the fact that very few are reported, the United Nations Population Fund approximates that as many as 5,000 women are murdered in this manner each year worldwide. Undoubtedly that's a low estimate, as reports from Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, among other locales, are fil...

UPDATE: This scumbag excuse for a Father? His daughter died of her injuries. Can Arizona put this POS out in the SONORAN DESERT, naked, covered in snake bait please? Or impale him on a Saguaro? Or a needle in the arm would do just fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ My question - WHY DO THESE PEOPLE MOVE TO THE U.S. IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT? from the awesome Uppity Woman: Arizona police are looking for an Iraqi man who they allege ran down his daughter and her friend because he believed his daughter had become “too Westernized.” Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon Faleh Hassan Almaleki was angry with his daughter “as she had become too ‘Westernized’ and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraq[i] values,” Peoria police said in a statement released Wednesday. Noor Faleh Almaleki is hospital...

Gordon Brown said that lessons must be learned from the case of a man who repeatedly raped his two daughters over more than two decades, fathering nine children by them. The Prime Minister said that a full case review was now under way after the 56-year-old businessman on Tuesday received 25 life sentences for rape at Sheffield Crown Court. "The whole country will be outraged by those unspeakable events that have been reported as happening in Sheffield and in other parts of the country and will be utterly appalled by the news of the systemic abuse of two sisters by their father over such a long period," he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions. "People will want to know how such abuse could go on for so long without the authorities and the wider public services discovering it and taking action. "If there is a change to be made in the system and the system has failed we will change the system." SOURCE

I have promised myself to get as many abuse awareness related articles out there as I can. I am currently dealing with a tough situation at home regarding my children's father in addition to some health issues of my own. This article speaks to that. Your prayers about it are welcomed. I hope to be blogging more soon. Thanks! When father hurts mother Hurting the mother of his children, either physically or by constantly shouting or swearing at her, regularly putting her down or trying to control where she goes and who she sees, is something very few men do. If you find yourself behaving in any of these ways, you should get help. This article is a good place to start. Your violence: what it means First, physical or verbal abuse damages your children’s mother: she can be physically injured and emotionally scarred. You know that, because you see it. This is what you are doing to the mother of the children you love. What you may not realise is that your children, too, are being badl...

Israeli Fathers Find Unique Ways to Remember Their Children Killed by Suicide Bomber Children Died March 5, 2003 in Attack on Haifa Bus (For Contact Information - Scroll Down) Wherever Yossi Zur travels, he brings back a stone to place on the grave of his teenage son Asaf. Zur, who lives in Israel's northern port city of Haifa, is one of three parents who have found unique ways of keeping alive the memories of their children who were murdered by a suicide bomber. Asaf, 16, Tal Kehrmann,17, and Yuval Mendellevich, 13, were among 17 people killed on March 5, 2003 when a suicide bomber boarded the bus they were riding and detonated an explosives belt packed with 37.4 pounds (17 kilograms) of explosives. [1] Of the dead, 12 were younger than 21. Another 53 people were wounded in the attack. [2] Were he alive today, Asaf would be celebrating his 21st birthday on April 27 and finishing his compulsory military service. And like most young Israeli men seeking a respite after three years of...