GET AWAY WITH MURDER!

 Kardashian Khaos Manager Amber dressed head-to-toe in Kardashian Kollection at her rehearsal dinner

As the world of high fashion and gossip turns around and around in small minds turmoil outside of those perimeters are terrifying women in other parts of the world. Yesterday in a Black suburban Missouri community a grandmother saw her 18 year old grandson running down the street. Not long afterwards he was lying dead on the pavement two blocks away from the relative safety of her home with two cartridges in his body. The police shot him. Within minutes a crowd of 600 had gathered shocked, angered and shouting, "Kill the Police!" To date there is no explanation of the boy's death, or the policemen's probable cause. The questions asked will lead them to the answers.

In Syria a woman was stoned to death for adultery in front of a crowd. I cannot tell this story without being overwhelmed by grief. I couldn't tell this story better than Bassem Mroue, the Associate Press reporter who wrote:


"A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.

None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.

"Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move," said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium and the Bajaa garden in the city of Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group.

The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by Islamic State fighters. Both were accused of having sex outside marriage.

The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from the Islamic State group have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands of thieves. The jihadis recently tied a 14-year-old boy to a cross-like structure and left him for several hours in the scorching summer sun before bringing him down -- punishment for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan..." [the Story]


The way judgment functions in the extremities of rigid social and religious structures kills the nature and spirit of youth and femininity. Youth and the feminine energies are two fundamental elements of the creative process of continuing life on Earth, and sustaining Creation as a form as matter that came from the invisible worlds. The unseen makes us and within the fabric of women's sensuality their wombs bring life into the regions of the universe that give us the children who continue the species and promise us the futures. Kill them, or stomp the vibrancy of their life-forces by rigid laws that see no lights in souls and death will replace vibrant participation and whole cultures will die in their souls. Perhaps the rigid conservatism of Islamic states are the reason the creative spark the Arab world once knew no longer vibrates and shines in the world!

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.10.14