Reply #3: They are bayonetting babies in the streets.

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Every war starts with propaganda about dead children or dead women. The enemy is always so horrible that they rape virgins and slaughter babies, and therefore the other side is justified for invading.

Remember the human shredder machine of the Iraq invasion? The incubators in Kuwait in the previous war? Hitler claimed the Austrians were murdering kids. Before every medieval pogram against the Jews they were accused of sacrificing babies in evil rituals. The Christians themselves were accused by the Romans of sacrificing and eating the illegitimate children procreated during sex rituals (Yeah, the Romans went all out when they came up with shit!).

I hadn't even thought that the story could be false. Thanks for making me wonder. :thumbsup:

A couple of things, though. Muslim names are complex strings of identifiers, including family names, personal names, formal names, origin, various titles. That could cause confusion in reporting her name, as different sources try to make her unfamiliar name conform to reporting conventions. Also, confusion isn't unusual. We're used to an "official" way of thinking, where everyone has an official name and facts can be verified by documents and testimony. It isn't that way everywhere. So it's possible there is just confusion over what happened and who the victim was.

But it does seem fishy. With all the lies told over the last decade to justify these wars, I'm ashamed I didn't doubt it as my first reaction.