Sara Ege was convicted of murdering 7-year-old Yaseen and burning his body to destroy the evidence.
A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after he failed to memorize passages from the Quran.
Dear Fred,
This family’s story – along with the judge’s evaluation of the killer as a "loving mother" and the first “Reader Comment" revealing the same blindness that poked out Mom's eyes – illuminate the ease with which “Impossibly Pure Principles” (particularly absolute fidelity to "scripture") morph from “A Quest for Perfection” to "Manifest Evil."
When we “fail to give the devil his due” (a practice much like "rendering unto Caesar") the satanic impulse becomes an irrepressible force that makes “good” people do abominable things.
Bad Religion (a deep current in both Islam and Christianity) is bad to the extent that non-reflectively "devout" people think it good.
”We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”
Thomas Merton
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.” "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Thomas Merton http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html
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Judge Wyn Williams said Ege beat Yaseen repeatedly with a stick over several months, causing internal injuries. He said that, on the day he died in 2010, Yaseen had been kept home from school to memorize verses from the Muslim holy book, and that his failure "was the trigger for the beating" that killed him. The judge agreed with defense arguments about India-born Ege's state of mind, saying she was "a devoted and loving mother" who suffered from depression and had been a victim of domestic violence. Still, he said, she subjected her son to "prolonged cruelty." Ege admitted killing her son in a confession taped by police, but later retracted it and blamed her husband, Yousef. He was tried and acquitted on a charge of failing to prevent his son's death. Ege sobbed as the judge passed sentence. Williams said the 2 1/2 years she had spent in secure psychiatric units since her arrest would count toward her 17-year minimum sentence. |
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