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“Laws of the Land…not the Qu’ran”…Digg Reacts to Facebook Fatality

The Telegraph is quoting a Saudi clerick, Ali al-Maliki, critical of Facebook:

Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food.

He says that like it’s a bad thing - I mean, afterall, we wouldn’t want the Saudi teens to get fat, and start resembling “ugly Americans,” now, would we?

Facebook has become quite a divisive issue in Saudi Arabial, according to Arab Media and Society, with the young women arguing that, it “to express their feelings and build friendships with young women from all around the world. They continued that it granted them the opportunity to learn about different customs and traditions…”

Unfortunately, there is a very sad side to this story. Maliki’s attitude represents that of many other Saudi’s, and one of these men took it to the extreme by murdering his daughter after he caught her communicating with a man on Facebook, in what is commonly called an “honour killing.”

A friend who brought this story to my attention pointed out that there is a third perpsective on this issue, which is the west’s observation and commentary on the events. On the U.S. based social news site, Digg.com, a user posted the story from ValleyWag, to Digg.com. His comment (thanks, Tim!) was, “You should keep an eye on not the article itself, but the Digg-no-crati’s response…already the first couple of comments are out of this world!”

He was right. The story had made the front page of the site, and received over a thousand Diggs, and over 350 comments. While the submitter’s story description was simply neutral and factual, the comments were very empassioned. Some of the comments expressed the expected shock and sadness over the death of the young woman.

Many of the comments, however, were attacking those who dared to insinuate that this “honour killing” might reflect negatively on Islam. Some commenters attacked the submitter, simply for posting the story. Others pointed out that Christians and Jews do bad things, too. Some were attacking the institution of religion altogether.

Here’s an interesting comment, by omegaredIX, basically blaming the west for the problem (***** indicates words deleted by the profanity filter):

Well dumbass Radicals on both sides ***** things up for moderates on both sides as well. Does the westboro baptist church define all baptists? I condemn violent acts on both sides but i also condemn ignorant tools saying “religion of peace” like they know what the ***** they are talking about. Extremist ruin things for everyone. We should also understand why people kill in the name of Allah and why they are blowing themselves up etc. All you have to do is look at the Wests impact on the Muslim world. Throughout Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war. This research will also take days seeing as you actually have to open a ***** book and study thousands of years of history to really grasp and know what the ***** you are talking about.

ralphthemagi defended the Saudi culture:

It’s their country. Their a sovereign nation. It is, like it or not, their right.

One Digger named slyzxx bemoans:

what is digg turning into anti islam ?…

And this pseudo-intellectual, Stryder81, assumes that the young woman apparently deserved to be killed, because if she didn’t want to follow the rules where she lived, she should have simply moved. This one even includes a catchy phrase at the end [emphasis mine]:

I swear if one isn’t careful on digg, they can catch a heart attack.

How so many give such Naive & ignorant comments to this day on a social news site is incredible to me.

First off, This is in ” Saudi Arabia ” done by an ” Arabian Individual ” it has NOTHING to do with Religion.

# 2, Whether you or I like it, that is the way they operate over there. Knowing that, You should not play with fire unless it is justified one way or another, unless you are a female.

Those of you bashing on Religion so quickly just because of a story or 2 then taking out verses that are meant for one thing and not the other to try and justify your own personal disagreement shows nothing more than pure ignorance at it’s finest.

Bottom Line, This girl was going on there looking for a guy, not to socialize with friends. You people who look at this as ” wow thats crazy, all she did was talk to a guy ” are the same ones who look at 14 year olds on Maury Povich with 10 kids and say ” Damn, society today has really changed ” and flip the channel.

If you live somewhere where you can’t wear a red shirt, don’t wear it or move. What is so complicated.

I don’t condone murder, I don’t care what it’s for, but don’t try to push the buttons of the hand that feeds you especially in a country that has had these laws for many many years.

Laws of the LAND ( Saudi Arabia ) not ” The Qu’ran “

I find the number of people on this social “news” site willing to defend and excuse something as brutal as killing one’s own child shocking. I can think of only two reasons for this happening: Either Digg.com has become the go-to place for the a heartless, mindless subset of the internet generation, or there is an element operating on the site, systematically spreading disinformation.

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