“Without God … everything is permitted.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
“Windows” by Tatiana Nazarenko, 1944, Russia — from the series “A Thin Veneer of Civilization”
Has the world gone mad?
Is the veneer of human civilization thinner than we’d like to think — and cracking?
First, it was the Japanese “artist” who fed his cooked genitals to diners each paying $250.
Then it was that naked man eating the face of a homeless man in Miami.
Now it’s a professor from Iran who cut off and ate his wife’s lips because she had insulted his “honor” by allegedly having an affair.
Richard Orange reports for the UK’s Daily Mail, May 31, 2012, that a former associate professor at Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska medical institute is being held in police custody for cutting off his wife’s lips with a knife and then eating them in Stockholm. The man is from Iran and was doing post-doctoral research at the institute in 2010.
According to Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper, the 52-year-old man flew into a jealous rage over suspicions that his much younger wife had been having an affair. In a closed court hearing, the man admitted to cutting off his wife’s lips, saying it was retaliation. A source with knowledge of the matter told Aftonbladet, “It was honour related. He doesn’t seem to regret a thing. He believes she insulted him.”
The assault was so brutal that the prosecutor tried to have him charged for attempted murder. But the court downgraded the charge to aggravated assault.
Ingela Hessius Ekman, who represents the victim, said her client may have suffered irreparable damage. “She has very serious injuries, doctors can not yet determine whether she can be healed or not. She’s in a lot of pain.”
The trial is due to start at the beginning of July. In the meantime, the cannibal attacker is employed by a university in Tehran, but still lived partly in Stockholm, where he collaborated with his old research group at the university and used its library and email services.
According to Sweden’s English-language news source The Local, the unnamed attacker reportedly has several children from a previous marriage, but a few weeks after divorcing his first wife he married a much younger woman — the victim of his vicious assault.
A former colleague called news of the attack “a shock” and recalled the researcher as “friendly” when they worked together.
The man is scheduled to undergo a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation before the expected filing of a formal indictment by June 7th.
~Eowyn
I think that this kind of behavior is a direct result of the general attitude of indifference to high moral standards. Think of it as God’s payback; garbage in, garbage out. Everyone has a hand in it because they ignore the commandments. Evil affects the whole land, no matter who does it. Most religions make it even worse and they disarm people in a false sense of security when in fact they are allowing the people to proceed in life with no real direction.
Pagan Christianity, Protestantism, Hindu, Islam, Jews, and Buddaists, whatever, all are set up to cause failure in a persons life.
http://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2012/05/defenseless-population.html
There was also a woman just recently who beheaded her baby and ate parts of him. The police said other details were too horrific to mention! More horrific than beheading your baby?!?! Doesn’t the Bible mention all this cannibalism in the end days??
I can’t imagine the mindset of hurting your wife and feeling nothing, it’s got to be a form of schizophrenia, you can’t just separate yourself from your actions.
We are taught that God is Love. I’m getting the sense lately that a whole other being is hate. Any religion that teaches, promotes, fosters, and condones hateful acts over and over is following that other “thing”, somewhere I don’t want to go.
Disposable wives treated like property, plus insanity… I’m guessing he’s not Amish.
I stayed up late last night reading about Crislam…the first I had heard of it. (Where have I been??!!) This story just brought it all back to me.
No it’s not just you. This outbreak of cannibalism is out of the ordinary mundane evil. It’s super evil, demonic in nature and source, which seeks to take the humanity out of humans.
I have used the word, “demonic,” to comment about the evil actions as set forth within the posts very frequently lately. Yes, I completely agree that great sin, great evil is on the rise, by and through the devil and his demons, and the instruments they influence, namely, human beings. Nevertheless, human beings make the choice to sin. This post, once again, is about the great sin of Lucifer, pride, malignant narcissism. I suspect that these horrific acts are just the tip of the iceburg. This brings to my mind the “Apocalypse of St. Peter,” wherein St. Peter had a vision of hell. Clearly, it will “scare the sin out of you,” as one of the professors said on the History Channel. Remember, that the demons do not wish to stay in hell, they want to live on earth and take residence here. However, I also feel the great battle now against evil as taking great strides. We must fast, we must pray and we must continue to fight, asking for the help of the Church Triumphant led by the Triune God!
And then there was another case yesterday or the day before?? A guy killed and ate some of his college roommate, his heart and other parts. Boy finals must be so much tougher than when I was in school!