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

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. She ran to the police but they 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 are still allowed to roam the earth. One becomes claustrophobic under the burqa, until one gets used to, indeed becomes dependent upon, being seen as a ghost, a phantom, invisible, not-quite-human, as good as dead.

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