Disturbed

Women are to be loved. Women are to be respected. However, in some cases in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are totally abused to the max. I myself would hate seeing videos of women being battered by their husbands, getting hit with stones, and sometimes even being raped by their own husbands when they come from work. In the behind the veil, they say that the safest way for women to get protection is getting married. But, isn’t it ironic too how being married too could be the worst way for women to be protected because they also might also be abused and trapped in their own homes?

            “Any man can take advantage of any women in Iraq’s day” is what they said from the news that totally caught my attention. This gives no respect for women at all. We must remember that they are human beings just like any other men and not objects. There is this what they call honor killing and I really find nothing honorable about what they are doing when stoning women to death. It is very, very disturbing and it’s so freaky to be able to watch women even at their teen years being stoned to death as if they were pigs, as if they were stray dogs, or as if they were big rats being stoned to death. It’s really unhappy. It’s totally disturbing to see this video in youtube how the 17 year old girl is being kicked then later being stoned to death. At an early age like that, it still has a life to be lived. Men of that place are of total use of abusing. Even securities dressed in security uniforms are the ones securing the men that no one would stop them from stoning women to death. After a minute or two of the video, the woman’s blood from the head started to pour. I can never think of anything to best describe this happening but all I know is that it is totally disturbing, totally unjust, immoral, and they show no respect at all by treating women not just as lowest of slaves, but as animals and objects.

            This would not just wound them or kill many of women’s lives but it would also forever leave a traumatic experience for women living in Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t these men have such conscience or respect at all? Again, women are to be loved. They are to be respected. Women are also human beings just like any other man. Men and women are supposed to be equal. It's really a sad thing and we together justice must indeed do something about this. 

-Julius Lagman