Canadian Woman, Amanda Lindhout, Sexually Abused By Muslims, Told It Is Permitted By The Krayon

Amanda Lindhout tell(s) her story of being kidnapped and held for seventeen months by Somali militants. 

Since being freed and returning to Canada in November of 2009, Amanda has co-authored a memoir of her experiences, A House in the Sky, begun a foundation to empower women and girls in Somalia, and travels the world telling her story. 

It was strange to watch a poised, sophisticated, and well-dressed young woman stand on the stage of a beautiful Toronto concert hall and, in a clear although at times quivery voice, describe getting kidnapped at gunpoint by militants, being locked in darkness for months at a time, and raped, day after day, by those she referred to as Somali “boys.” It must have struck Amanda, too, because she mentioned it several times with awe in her voice. 

'Her captors had informed her that their sexual abuse of her was sanctioned by Islamic law, due to the verse in the Qu’ran that permitted Muslim men to use “those whom your right hand possesses” as they saw fit. Amanda wanted to ask some Canadian Muslim leaders if that was, in fact, the right interpretation of those words. She stunned the Toronto audience into silence when she admitted that, “at both [Calgary] they told me that what had happened to me was unfortunate, but that it was in fact permissible under Islamic law.”'

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

Forgiveness of one's enemies is an individual decision, made within the spiritual recesses of a person, in the Hiding Place where the person dwells with God.

It is not a political decision.

Governments exist to administrate a society, and to protect their people's. And they are granted that authority by the people themselves.

Government's do not have the right to take away the individual's choice of whether or not to forgive. To do so is a mockery of Justice.