Suicide Sisterhood in Gaza
This is a discussion on Suicide Sisterhood in Gaza within the Priority News forums, part of the Important category; Dateline: England, UK 13th October 2008 By: Bubbly Ian From: BBC UK news pages Via: The Honor Network SUICIDE SISTERHOOD ...
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Dateline: England, UK 13th October 2008 By: Bubbly Ian From: BBC UK news pages Via: The Honor Network SUICIDE SISTERHOOD IN GAZA The media as usual have got it all wrong. They have assumed that all men are or will be criminals and that women are sweet and innocent and need protecting. There have been many examples of this sexual apartheid prejudice throughout the media. Women are treated in a different and superior category by the media. For example, you will have seen a headline like “six people killed including 3 women and children’. What were the rest? Monkeys? Following on from this has been the prejudiced treatment by the Police using so-called ‘profiling’. In other words, when the Police are patrolling, they have a basic assumption that it is men that are causing crimes and hence 95% of those stopped and searched by the Police are male. You are twenty times more likely than a woman to be stopped and searched. Theoretically, the Police need a reason to stop and search, but are you realistically going to challenge their decision to stop you? Yeah right! The criminal justice system is also prejudiced against men. There are 80,000 men in prison and only 4000 women. For every comparable crime, men get a custodial sentence where women get a community sentence, or if both receive a custodial sentence then men get a longer sentence. My other articles have highlighted differential treatment of men and women in various cases. Of course, with terrorism, you do not know someone is a terrorist until they pull out the trigger for their bomb or otherwise after the event. Hence the Police are petrified of every man they are dealing with and likely to shoot on sight just in case (remember Jean Charles de Menezes shot at Stockwell tube station in July 2005). It would not happen to a woman. Not surprisingly, the terrorists have realised this western weakness of preferential treatment for women and are now beginning to train women as suicide bombers. So what will the patronised and prejudiced police do now? Surely they cannot treat everyone equally at last? Perhaps that should be equally badly? I doubt it. As a result more policemen will be killed because they were prejudiced into believing that the woman could not be a terrorist. A dangerous presumption. Bubbly's Blog: http://mrausa.net/blog.php?u=9 For more click: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7667031.stm  The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively - Benjamin Franklin None of us is smart as all of us- Old Japanese Proverb   | ||||
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