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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Religion of misogyny
"The 15-year-old girl, who is a Madison Heights Lamphere High junior, suffered a broken back in the beating, according to court documents. The trial to determine whether parental custody rights should be terminated is set for Thursday before Oakland Circuit Judge Joan Young.The girl's brother, Ahmad Abdelmomen, 21, is charged with aggravated assault in the April 29 incident at their home in Madison Heights. Abdelmomen is free on bond pending a July 13 preliminary hearing before Madison Heights 43rd District Judge Robert J. Turner.
"She complained of the injury to her parents, but they didn't take her to a doctor because they condoned the punishment her brother gave her," said Robert Zivian, an assistant Oakland County prosecuting attorney assigned to the neglect case."
Now you'll forgive me, I ain't no fancy city boy. Just a backward hick from the sticks. I don't rightly understand words like 'postmodern'. How can you be postmodern unless you live in the future? It might be a bit simple-minded of me to see a single truth, but that's the way my world works. I can't quite see what possesses parents to allow their child to be beaten because the guy she dated was the wrong religion.
I was taught to respect women, to treat them with dignity, not as some second-class ovary maintenance system, so you'll forgive me for failing to be happy with this religion's extremist sects making their way to my country. If you can find a more misogynistic religion claiming to be modern, please, oh please enlighten me with your high-faluting cultural relativist bullshit.
