As for the video taker, if we give him or her the benefit of the doubt, we would say that there is some value in allowing the world to see what is going on. Perhaps people somewhere will wake up and work to put an end to this brutal form of punishment. So I wouldn’t necessarily blame the video takers, even though, truth be told, many of them shot the scene for some perverse sense of satisfaction along the lines of, “Better her than me.”

There is much evil in the world, perhaps more so than good. We have convinced ourselves of things which make no sense. We believe wholeheartedly in the nonsensical, and if we continue in our ways, we are all doomed to pay a heavy price, a price that will be exacted on a massive scale.

We owe it to ourselves to step out of who we happen to be, and to let go of some of what we believe, in favor of what makes sense. Instead of jumping to false belief and rationalizing why we’re right, why not use rationality in the first place to arrive at what is worth believing in?

There is no honor in honor killing. Instead of assuming the role of dumb-ass spectators, why don’t we do something about it, and teach our kids the stupidity of killing our own? Yes, the world has to be made aware, but to what end? Make them aware, and then make the case for us to change our ways.

I think the men looking at the girl getting stoned didn’t want to help her, but by filming it, they did raise awareness about honor killings. Let’s not give them any credit though!

Puzzling topic Esra’a!

There are lots of examples in the field of social media, bouncing around the boundry between ethical and non-ethical choice. Sometimes we should be practical. Sometimes judging the whole thing from a merely practical point makes us feel guilty.

a rather difficult question you made.

First I have to assert that both acts are equally brutal…stoning and using the stoning !!!

What is so called “honor killing” is not more that a sadistic crime against the victim while the real criminal is us, all of us !!! I just wonder how can a man, any man, not do, but also boast of having sex with women and the very next day slaughters his sister or daughter for “loosing her virginity”!! What a sadistic mentality! the hell with this mentality that puts the honor between the legs and legitimizes killing the victim twice!! When are we going to wake up and see how hypocritic and sadistic we, men, are!!! Who kills for honor is not a man but a blind beast and honorless… its a pagan habit that only paganists still believe in!!! Why we are so sadistic????

However this story reminds me of a Jerusalemite friend, a journalist, who couldnt stand Israeli soldiers battering a Palestinian girl in the second Intifada, and instead of wasting time capturing the scene, he rushed to help the girl…. but he too was battered, his camera was smashed and imprisoned for 8 months for deterring the IOF soldiers …. and as a beginner journalist, he lost his job too after spending his time in jail !!!

The journalist, any journalist, is a human in the first place…. but still who is taking shots for fun, or to capture the moment of the human suffering has no heart to know what the human suffering is…. and there are plenty of such beasts !!!

Sami, the bedouin.

I want to stop and clarify something, from my POV;

It’s one of 3;

1 – The person who was filming that was actually proud of what was happening for the Glory of Islam over the infidels, like Du’a. (Black Comedy totally welcome.)

2 – The person who was filming that was feeling as horrible as s/he can feel, even more than us, the spectators because simply they were in action, they wanted to help indeed, maybe they cried?! Maybe they suffer from a psychological disturbance until this very day which I’m making my comment in. Maybe?! But the fact, the obvious fact, that they were too scared to help her, because the outcome would be stoning of 2 victims, not 1.

3 – They were neither 1, nor 2, and they were nosing around for Channel’s subscribers, like you’ve mentioned, or maybe for money from this short movie sales to private news agencies, and websites.

Enough said