WHY RISK DYING RATHER THAN SEEKING SAFETY AS A WAY TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE? BECAUSE OF ISLAMO-MISOGYNY

An Arab woman near Jericho tried to get herself killed deliberately because she was being abused by the Religion of Peace:

A Palestinian woman carrying a suspicious object was moderately wounded by IDF fire on Friday morning near the Bekaot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho.

The soldiers shot at the woman's lower body after shooting in the air and after she did not heed their calls to stop advancing towards them, the military said.

After the woman was shot, the soldiers discovered she was carrying a toy gun. She was evacuated to Haemek Hospital in Afula in moderate condition.

An officer of the Civil Administration who interrogated the wounded woman asked her why she acted in the way she did. She showed him bruise marks on her hands and said she wanted to kill herself after having been abused in her house. The woman is an 18-year-old, married with a child.

The IDF said troops at the checkpoint acted according to protocol.

Three years ago, a gunman shot and killed an IDF soldier at the same checkpoint. IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjun was killed at there in August 2006, after a Palestinian opened fire at him. Troops returned fire, killing the gunman.

Okay, now did she risk this because she didn't think she could get her child to safety, if she were to try and seek out a women's shelter? I'm not sure, but I can say that suicide in her case would be foolish. What needs to be done is arrange for women's shelter experts to be ready to take in victims like these if they ask for it. They will, of course, have to make it clear that the abuse victims will have to quit Islam if they're really to make things better for themselves.