Re: Girl killed for talking to a Xtian

On May 13, 9:43 pm, Les Invalides <L...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Todal <deadmail...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> posted
>
>
>
> >It wasn't that long ago that in England a woman was considered to have
lost
> >her honour if she was in the company of a man without a chaperone and
in
> >cir***stances where she could theoretically have had ***ual relations
with
> >the man because there were no witnesses to the contrary: this is of
course
> >illustrated in David Copperfield and in the works of Jane Austen. The
> >attitude isn't that different, but women wouldn't be killed for having
lost
> >their honour. Nor, I suppose, would they normally be in Iraq, but maybe
a
> >poor household takes these things more to heart than a wealthy
household.
>
> Moreover, the daughter's boyfriend was a member of the enemy forces
> occupying Iraq. It isn't so very long ago that Frenchwomen who had
> attached themselves to German soldiers during the occupation were tarred
> and feathered (and in some cases much worse) by their own compatriots,
> many of whom had spent the war indulging in considerably less honourable
> forms of collaboration.
>
> --
> Les Invalides

so  as the saying goes all is fair in 'love and war?'  Dont think the
'love' had a fair go somehow.