The Hilarious and the Despicable

Went to see Hot Fuzz tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed it and strongly recommend it.



On another note, I don't watch TV much and the news even less so. Got no time or inclination to read the papers and figure out who's left and who's right and who's colouring the news and how and why, so head-in-the-sand me hadn't seen the CNN clip of  a seventeen year old Yezidi girl getting stoned to death until 

mercscilla

posted it on her LJ. 

Actually, it never occured to me that CNN would sink that low and broadcast the thing for ratings' sake. Hell, I never thought anyone would be making a video of it on their damn phone instead of trying to stop those men and save that girl. I watched it and it affected me a lot more than I thought it would. I guess I'm not as desensitised to violence and disconnected as I feared. It's disturbing and it's wrong and makes me want to go Rambo on all those fuckers.

I wanted to speak out, say something, but I found myself subdued and unable to verbalised what I felt. It's

rhapsody11

's post that shook me out of my funk enough to at least pass the info on.

Of course I realise that since it all happened, Du’a Khalil Aswad's murder (cleverly labelled as 'honour crime' - like it explains everything and makes it right) has been mentioned and discussed here and there on LJ,  but I had yet to actually go and read what Joss Whedon had to say about it. Not that I'm a big Whedon fan and what he says has to be accepted as gospel (though gotta love him for Firefly), but I kind of agree with his rant...

Last month seventeen year old Dua Khalil was pulled into a crowd of young men, some of them (the instigators) family, who then kicked and stoned her to death. This is an example of the breath-taking oxymoron “honor killing”, in which a family member (almost always female) is murdered for some religious or ethical transgression. Dua Khalil, who was of the Yazidi faith, had been seen in the company of a Sunni Muslim, and possibly suspected of having married him or converted. That she was torturously murdered for this is not, in fact, a particularly uncommon story. But now you can watch the action up close on CNN. Because as the girl was on the ground trying to get up, her face nothing but red, the few in the group of more than twenty men who were not busy kicking her and hurling stones at her were filming the event with their camera-phones.

The rest: Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death