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Buried Alive In Turkey - and Under the Burqa by Phyllis Chesler Pajamas Media February 6, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/693/buried-alive-in-turkey-and-under-the-burqa Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: In Turkey—a country which was nearly accepted as a member by the European Union—a father and grandfather recently buried Medine Memi, a sixteen-year-old girl, alive—and all because she was seen talking to boys. Medine was repeatedly beaten. The police did not help her. When the men buried her she was "alive and fully conscious." This savage, heartless, primitive act is the ultimate, logical consequence of burying women alive—shrouding them–while they still roam the earth. One becomes claustrophobic under the burqa, until one gets used to being seen as a ghost, invisible, non-human, dead. All this past week, I received news of this atrocity in Turkey. I refrained from writing about it. What can one say? There is nothing to say. There is everything to do. No one is doing anything. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Islamic Gender and Religious Apartheid
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