Week 11 post

Moroccan teenager forced to marry for rapist, commits suicide.  Amina Filali killed herself last Wednesday in order to escape the marriage.  The forcing for the rapist to marry Amina is set in law from the Bible itself.  In this passage, depending on the translation used, says that the man must marry the woman and he may never divorce her.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/morocco/9146082/Moroccan-teenagers-suicide-after-she-was-forced-to-marry-her-rapist.html

In my opinion I think that this law in Morocco is very stupid.  It is seriously a common sense issue, people it seems are just really dumb in that part of the world. No government in their right mind should follow this law, this could be compared to having a pedifil marry a child that he/she was found having relationships with.  So bad idea that would be terrible. To quote one of my favorite youtube commetors Philp DeFranco "Some parts of the world still scary, some of the parts still stupid, and we just watch the back-asswordness from Disney Land." By the way sorry for the language but still a good quote. That video below has the story in it as well as some others. Careful there is some stronger language in it, not for young children!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01g9n7h17tw&feature=g-all-u&context=G20cdd1eFAAAAAAAAGAA

Week 10 post

This article details the latest in the Afgan situation.  What happened was a military solider (no name given) walked off the army base and proceeded to kill 16 villigers.  the article is also talking about how we should deal with his problem.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-us-soldier-reported-shooting-rampage-afghanistan-tragic

This is a deeply saddening subject.  We have high expectations on what how our military should act.  This news story tells us differently, there are many problems that we have in our military and this seems to be an example of this.  This is a learning point we must use to better ourmilitary and to protect everyone world-wide