I do not know the answer but it must be stopped.  We read and hear that domestic violence happens all over the world but we usually never see it and tend to ignore it.  It is hard to look at the pictures of teen pop star Rihanna after getting beat up by her pop celebrity boyfriend Chris Brown, but it should be a stark reminder to mature audiences that domestic violence must not be tolerated.  It took so much hate to injure someone’s face like that, let alone a woman.  Chris Brown brown deep down hates women, otherwise how could he have done this to his girlfriend’s face.

Brown says: “Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired.” What a spineless answer. Even more disturbing is that our children are watching this closely and they are absorbing it in different ways.  Chris brown must go to jail, he has to be made an example to any kids or ex fans he might have had. We can not let our children think in any way that this is OK.

Meanwhile accross the world, a story came out yesterday about Ameneh Bahrami, an Iranian woman who was an ‘acid attack’ victim of a crazy man who threw sulfuric acid on her face because she would not marry him.  She is now disfigured, blind in one eye and going blind eventually.  In Iran, victims of attacks usually recieve “blood money” in exchange for bodily damages.  She is however asking the supreme Court of Tehran to punish him with 20 drops of sulfuric acid into his eyes.  She says: “I don’t want to blind him for revenge… I’m doing this to prevent it from happening to someone else.”  The type of hate it took for someone to throw ACID in any persons face, let alone a woman who would not marry them, is evil.  Eye for an eye seems like the proper thing do within the constructs of their societies laws.

This is an opportunity to see justice served against acts of hate against women and let that echo around the world.  We can not accept this type of barbaric activity in any modern societies, it is too hateful.  May Rihanna and Ameneh  Bahrami get the justice they deserve.  Love the women in your life.