So if you have not followed, there is a story in the news currently regarding the murder of a Middle Eastern singer and idol, of Lebanese decent by the name of Suzan Tamim.
The following link outlines her story: http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6040557&page=1
I struggle with the argument that Tamim was, "...a woman who friends say never had control of her own life, because she never freed herself from the men who controlled her." Is this supposed to be a joke? The Middle East prides itself on the fact it teaches, prescribes, and ENFORCES the idea that women cannot be independent from the men in their life. The argument she could not free herself is ludacrius! Of COURSE she couldn't free herself, she wasn't even taught to believe in that type of vocabularly, let alone allow herself to think in those terms. At what point did her "overbearing" father sit her down and outline that she would need to take charge of her own career and reach out of the societal constrains and align herself with management or a support system that did not consist ENTIRELY of men?! The premise of so much of the social and cultural guidelines of the Middle East are that women NEED to depend on men and cannot make decisions let alone, life altering changes, to their life.
I can't blame her for aligning herself with the man who ended up ordering her beheading. She saw him as a way out of the last guy, just like she did with the guy before that.
The Middle East needs to step up to the plate- their society killed this woman, not just one rich guy.
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