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Déjà Lu - Dr. Phyllis Chesler On The Ottawa Honor Killing Trial

With Dr. Chesler's permission, posted below is a translation into French of her recently published remarks on the "honor killing" trial of Hasibullah Sadiqi now underway in Ottawa, Canada. For several years, she has applied her expertise in feminism and psychology to help explicate the intractable problems which Muslim immigration, and Islam generally, pose to liberal Western societies. More on Phyllis Chesler here. As a reference, some of her previous remarks on "Le Massacreur de Montréal" -- subject of the recent film Polytechnique -- are attached at the end (in English).

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Le Massacreur de Montréal et Hasibullah Sadiqi ont en commun un certain genre de père

(paru le 11 mai 2009 sous la rubrique "Chesler Chronicles" sur Pajamas Media) 

Écoutez, je m'entends bien avec un frère et une sœur afghans trentenaires qui me sont très chers. Ce frère préférerait  trancher sa propre main droite au lieu de faire de mal à sa soeur. Ils sont complétement occidentalisés, raffinés, charmants -- et pourtant, de plusieurs façons ils restent des Afghans. Ils sont dévoués à leurs parents, fréquentent souvent leur famille, les petits et les grands, mais aussi ils vont en boîte avec des non-musulmans de leur âge. D'habitude, ils font du souci chaque fois que les musulmans sont critiqués, blâmés, craints -- et pourtant ils sont avant tout citoyens du monde.

Ce frère et sœur très unis ont grandi dans l'Occident depuis qu'ils avaient cinq ans. Hasibullah Sadiqi, qui a assassiné sans pitié sa sœur Khatera et son fiancé, est venu au Canada quand il avait cinq mois. Pourquoi Hasibullah ne s'est-il pas intégré?

D'après une lecture de toutes les couvertages médiatiques, il existe un fait qui domine tous les autres. M. Sadiqi, a été tyrannique, un mari violent: il maltraitait des filles aussi. Cet homme (dont le nom et le sort j'ignore) a été tellement mauvais que sa femme, Nasima Fayez, a dû s'enfuir pour sauver sa peau.

Devant la cour, elle s'est décrite comme quelqu'un "à l'esprit plus ouvert" que son mari.

Mais le monstre à l'esprit-fermé s'acharnait à sa "propriété", à ses enfants. Il ne leur a pas permis de voir leur mère pendant six longues années. La maltraitance paternelle (non-spécifiée) "s'est aggravée". Dans le cas de la pauvre Khatera, son pére l'a poussée au moins une fois à tenter à sa vie et l'a causée finalement de s'enfuir chez sa mère à Vancouver. Fayez a envoyé des billets à ses trois enfants pour qu'ils la rejoignent. Ses deux filles sont venues. Hasibullah ne l'a pas fait. En fait, Hasibullah a essayé d'obliger Khatera de revenir auprès de leur père violent.

On ne peut que spéculer sur pourquoi Hasibullah n'a pas rompu avec son père. Peut-être il le traitait autrement, mieux, parce qu'il était un garçon, pas juste une fille. Peut-être M. Sadiqi l'humiliait et le battait également, l'a asservi. Mais en tout cas il est devenu le modèle masculin de Hasibullah.

Concernant les meurtres d'honneur à Dallas, Texas de Sarah et d'Amina Said, leur frère Islam restait fidèle à son père. Il était d'accord avec lui et persécuté ses deux soeurs au nom de son père et de l'"honneur" de la famille.

Aussi Hasibullah est devenu pour son père l'exécuteur et le vengeur. Il a démenti la version de la réalité de sa mère: "Ne me parle pas de mon papa ainsi." Sa mère a pleuré.

Souvenez-vous, s'il vous plaît, de Marc Lépine qui en 1989 a massacré quatorze étudiantes en ingénerie à l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Lui aussi avait un pére (dans son cas Algérien) qui était un mari violent. Ce fait, que j'ai trouvé capital à l'époque, a été ignoré par la police et tous ceux qui ont écrit sur ce désastre. La police percevait cela comme un acte isolé d'un fou.

Lépine a été né "Gamile Rodrigue Gharbi" d'un père algérien et musulman et d'une mère franco-canadienne qui autrefois avait été bonne sœur. Le père de Lépine, Liess Gharbi, a brutalisé sa femme et son fils. Probablement il a appris à son fils que les femmes sont des esclaves qui méritent d'être battues même quand elles obéissent. Si elles n'obéissent pas, elles puissent être tuées. Peut-être Gharbi/Lépine a designé les femmes comme bouc émissaire pour les crimes graves de son père.

Si nous permettons aux hommes violents d'élever des enfants, nous récolteront ce même vieux tourbillon. Les filles de tyrans et de maris violents épouseront des hommes violents. Donc elles auront un sort semblable; elles sont "expérimentées", préparées à le faire. Les fils d'hommes violents - fils humiliés par leurs pères - deviendront des hommes violents eux aussi: mari violents et brutals avec les enfants, verbalement et physiquement et peut-être sexuellement.

C'est vrai pour n'importe quelle famille dans le monde. En Occident, nous avons certainement des pères violents. Et pourtant nous n'avons considéré les pères arabes, maghrébins et musulmans ni comme "malades" ni comme "criminels", s'ils battent regulièrement ou s'ils violent leurs femmes ou s'ils tyrannisent cruellement leurs enfants.

D'une certaine façon, ça doit changer. Sinon, rien ne changera.
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(traduit de l'américain par Jeremayakovka)

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From "Psychological Roots of Islamic Rage" (Nancy Kobrin, Ph.D., co-author), The Jewish Press, August 9, 2006; (see also "Open Season on Jewish Women", FrontPage Magazine):

What is important to note is that Gharbi/Lepine blamed women for the considerable crimes of his father, whose culture was Islamic and Algerian.

As Dr. Chesler recounts in her book, The Death of Feminism, in 2001 an angry mob of 300 Algerian men conducted a three-day pogrom against Algerian women in which they tortured, stabbed, mutilated, gang-raped, buried alive and murdered women in Hassi Messaoud.

In Dr. Chesler's 1978 book, About Men, she posited that the paternal abandonment of, and cruelty toward, sons may be a crucial component in mother- and woman-hating. Dr. Nancy Kobrin, in her forthcoming book The Sheik's New Clothers: The Naked Truth About Islamic Suicide Terrorism, suggests that the absolute degradation of Arab and Muslim women by a shame- and honor-society means that sons must perpetually rid themselves of the "contamination" that contact with women represents; and that sons must psychologically abandon their mothers even as they experience abandonment by their mothers. Many such sons are trained to mistrust, police, routinely batter, and sometimes even murder their female relatives.

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Paris Syndrome, Once Removed

Every new generation constitutes a wave of savages who must be civilized by their families, schools, and churches. 

-- "The Vertical Invasion of the Barbarians," from Robert Bork's
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

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Earlier this month Gates of Vienna posted video footage of the vicious assault of an unsuspecting white man by a mixed-race group of teenage boys on a Paris public bus. Gates also blogged a Figaro interview with the victim [French only], venturing to title it “Paris Syndrome” [with translation]. The man's attempt to explain away the incident and to defuse its media attention recalled to Gates the “Stockholm Syndrome” whereby hostages identify with their keepers. Here are related remarks based on a disturbing experience I had recently on a Montreal public bus.

It was between 10:00 and 11:00 P.M. on a very dark, very cold, but otherwise calm mid-winter Saturday night on the French-speaking, east side of town. The bus was about three-fourths full. As a group, we were tranquil, a bit subdued even, owing to the hour and the cold and our proper manners. At one stop six to eight teenage boys, aged 14-17, boarded in a tight group. Based on their visible traits, I guessed that they (or their parents) had been born in North Africa, in Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia (also known as the Maghreb). My Algerian-born companion confirmed this based on her recognition of their accents.

From start to finish, these boys' presence was a complete nuisance, perhaps a criminal one. They clustered at the front, just behind the driver's seat, verbally one-upping each other with cackles, shouts, and taunts. At one point, they belted out quasi-military chants, to the tune ofI ain't sure, but I been told/Navy wings are made of gold...., in Maghrebi-Jouale (Jouale: Quebec French). I don't dispute that teenage boys the world over have a real need to “strut their stuff,” including in groups and, as appropriate, in public. When I was their age, I too did nearly the same thing with male friends, including light-hearted variations on the same refrain from An Officer and a Gentleman (albeit within a track team's workout discipline).

But it got worse. Some boys accosted each other with pokes and slaps on the head. Most aggravatingly, one pounded on the wheel casing as if it were a drum. Another opened a window to stick his arm and head out (uncovered and in deep-freeze temperature, with no regard whatsoever for nearby passengers). One even separated himself from the group to take a seat, surprisingly capable of embarrassment. Or maybe just fatigue. After the longest 15 minutes in my recent memory, they tumbled, as one, off the bus at some stop.

Had their conduct been criminal? Possibly. If so, they had disturbed the peace and, perhaps, interfered with the driver's safe operation of the bus. I have no problem with letting “boys be boys." What I have a problem with is boys being boys in a way that will never lead them to becoming responsible men. One of these ways is when boys are a nuisance, a disturbance, and an endangerment to public transport – to the vehicle, the operator, the passengers, and of course to themselves.

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May all of the above be a point of departure, not some hand-wringing, irresponsible “conclusion.”

The point of departure is that for a quarter of an hour this Maghrebi mini-mob entirely dominated the environment of the bus, and no one made a peep or lifted a finger to intervene. Remarkably, sadly, the one with the most authority to do so – the driver – did nothing. In Oakland, California I have seen (African-American) drivers of public buses – men and women who know better than to tolerate such behavior – pull over, halt the bus, and announce that they won't budge until disrupting (African-American) teens either stop or get off. Guess what? It works. Oh, and did I say that the Montreal bus driver was white? If you had guessed that, you were right (not necessarily white, and certainly not racist).

As far as I could tell, none of these North African teens were drunk or high. Their deliberate behavior was as self-conscious as it was anti-social. “Root causes” are a total failure of family, school, civic, peer (and, if applicable, mosque or church) pressure on the boys to conduct themselves decently in public. I have to wonder, however, whether there is a solution? Because from the driver and the passengers (myself included) none was forthcoming.

Sitting at arm's length, I kept my eyes on them the whole time, prepared to stand up and encourage others to do so, should they have picked on anyone outside their group. (Half the passengers were middle-aged or older.) Admittedly, I shrank from doing what I believed, still believe, was right: to push past them and demand that the driver assert his authority (as some of his Oakland colleagues do). The fact is, these boys were intimidating. As we saw recently in Paris, anything can happen in such a situation. Or rather, as we saw recently reported in Paris – because this stuff goes on every day in European and North American cities that host North African immigrant populations.

The issue is one of authority, in its abstract sense and its real manifestations. Specifically, it is the failure by everyone concerned to instill, to assert, to abide by authority. That the situation didn't further break down or escalate this time was due to the whimsy of those teens only, not to any demonstrated capacity or virtue on the part of the mostly native-born, mostly-ethnically-white Montrealers. It is a situation of neglect and impotence on many levels that – for lack of unshakable assertions of authority – invites aggravation and aggression with no end in sight.

It's Paris Syndrome, once removed. And it's ongoing in a city near you.

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Related: "Is Paris Praying?"

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(This post has been revised since its first appearance.)

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