Family Values In Lebanon
Laura Lee at the Wide Awake Cafe has done some excellent reporting on the family values of the Lebanese. The photography substantiates her commentary lest you think she exaggerates.
Any question that Hezbollah is winning the spin war? Ask all the mothers naming their babies Hezbollah.
I agree with Laura Lee, why not save time and just name them I.E.D. or be really creative and call them Collateral Damage.
There is a culture of death coming to a town near you. Do you want more diplomacy? The real question is do they?
Laura Lee has the answer. Read the whole thing.
Posted by Kathy
August 17th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Excellent post, Kathy and Laura Lee! I don’t know if you’ve been reading the series on Jill Carroll, but one of the things in the first or second part was a five year old boy who said he is a Jihadi. Yesterday’s installment was the story of a mother who wanted to be a suicide bomber and her husband was proud, but she was four months’ pregnant and Islam forbids suicide at that stage of pregnancy. I imagine the baby has now been born and is probably motherless if she got her wish.
She also talked of the women cooking large meals all day and feeding the men and then the plates with chewed chicken bones and left over rice were sent back and that’s what the women ate. The garbage left over from the men.
There are no family values in Iraq and I imagine in any of the Islamic states. A man can go out and shoot at someone and possibly live to do it another day but the only way for a woman to be a martyr is to blow herself up.
This is all so evil and yet I don’t know how you go about changing the mindset of these people.
August 17th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
I’ld like to point out that Lebanon has a sizable Christian community. No one knows the exact demographics today, but Christians were a majority before Syria decided to “help” their neighbor.
Of course, I doubt that there are many if any Christians in Southern Lebanon where Shia is the preferred sect of Islam and Hezbollah has control.