Turkish grandmother "honor kills" 2-day old granddaughter

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Got to leave it to Danno and his special brand of numbnuttedness to try to politicise this story and bring in a completely irrelevant tangent.

[Pooky 3,786]

Sure, we agree on that point, what are your feelings for that same fully formed fetus a few months prior?

If fingernails and hair don't make it a baby..... I'm not sure what would.

My opinion is that bringing abortion of any sort into this discussion is a .....

A 2 year old baby is dead, murdered by their grandmother, with the consent of the rest of the family and with the complicity of the doctor who delivered the baby. That is vile, despicable and deserving of nothing less than outrage that this kind of thing goes on in the native population of a country that would like to consider itself civilised.

[Danno 1,228]

Got to leave it to Danno and his special brand of numbnuttedness to try to politicise this story and bring in a completely irrelevant tangent.

.... you call that "politics"?

WOW

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Politicize is a verb, Danno.

Politics is a noun.

WOW - words sure are complex things aren't they?

Edited April 17, 2010 by Its a MADHOUSE

[dalegg 143]

You guys need to stop judging other cultures.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The fact that there is a police investigation into this killing would suggest that this isn't "cultural".

[Pooky 3,786]

The fact that there is a police investigation into this killing would suggest that this isn't "cultural".

^^^ What he said ^^^

[Nagishkaw 510]

You guys need to stop judging other cultures.

Do not dictate policy to me and tell me what I need. You've not a clue what I need. How about..stop YOUR judging of other posters. If the shoe fits.....

Edited April 17, 2010 by Nagishkaw

[Calypso 464]

You guys need to stop judging other cultures.

Have you read the article at all?

When did honor killing become a culture or when did crime turn into a culture? Would you have participated in the act of killing a two-day-old infant if you were a part of the clan? If you were the mother of that infant, would you have tolerated the killing because of "culture"?

[LaL 418]

I am pretty sure Dale was being sarcastic. I cant imagine anyone defending this.

Edited April 17, 2010 by LaL

[Pooky 3,786]

I am pretty sure Dale was being sarcastic. I cant imagine anyone defending this.

You might be. I'm not.

[LaL 418]

nm

Edited April 17, 2010 by LaL

[Jenn! 918]

I am pretty sure Dale was being sarcastic.

Agreed.

This story is so heinous. The whole "honor" thing is mind-boggling.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Savages!!!

[scandal 951]

So I guess this is not the appropriate thread for dead-baby jokes, huh?

Ok, I'll saunter off then....