Sarah Chayes Quotes
In countries like Afghanistan, the corruption is in your face. In Nigeria, I heard of judges making sex the bargaining chip rather than money. Now let's put that in the context of an honor-based society. Imagine that you're the brother of a woman who got raped by a judge to have her case heard in court. What do you want to do? You want to kill the judge. So here is an insurgent movement that hands you a gun. You have rage, and they give you an outlet for your rage.
Chayes, Sarah. "A System of Plunder: Sarah Chayes on How Corruption Feeds Extremism." The Sun, no. 484, Apr. 2016.
He was outraged at what he perceived to the coverage of him that he felt attacked his honor and character.
At Tippecanoe, General Harrison defeated the Indians but suffered over 60 of his men killed and many more wounded. Newly supplied modern English weapons were found on captured Indians. There was a call for war with England:
Attila the Hun
Enemy captives were sometimes adopted by Indian families to replace a lost loved one.
This proverb doesn’t mean quite what it would appear to—that women will never be attacked in an act of revenge. It does mean that when relatives are selected for vengeance killing, or other acts of vengeance, women will not be selected. However in one tragic Pakistani case in 2003, a Muslim man had purportedly had an affair with a woman from another clan. That clan’s male relatives took revenge. A group of them gang raped a sister of the man who purportedly had committed the offense. The “logic” was that by raping the woman, they were destroying the honor of the brother’s family as they in their perception had had their family’s honor destroyed. The fact that it was the innocent woman who was brutalized didn’t enter into the equation—there was no direct intent to take vengeance on her; it was taken on her male relatives. Worse was the fact that a local “tribal court” had authorized the action as a “legal” act of “blood” or vengeance. The national government, embarrassed before the world, provided minor punishments to the rapists (death might have been a rapists penalty) and then honored the woman by naming a school after her. Unfortunately the family’s honor was destroyed and marriage for the woman was unlikely in that society. In addition to the great improvements and benefits brought to half the known world by the Islamic expansion out of Arabia, many of the less desirable Arab traditions went with them informally and formally as Sharia—Islamic Law.
Sudan openly used Islamic terrorists to attack, rape and murder animist and Christian civilians in Darfur. The leaders were wanted for war crimes and openly admitted to many. See {641655}.
Sarah Chayes is a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, leaving in order to pursue a new writing project. A former award-winning reporter for National Public Radio, she also served as special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
