Tomorrow is Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. A day set aside to be grateful for all that we have. Not that we can’t be grateful on any other day, but we really need to be reminded of what we take for granted.

We take our lives for granted.

We take our freedoms for granted.

We take our loved ones for granted.

>Warning – about to delve into Brenda’s mind – this ain’t going to be a Hallmark Thanksgiving Blog<

There is a song called ‘Who Says’ by John Mayer. The first line goes “Who says I can’t get stoned?” When I heard it for the first time, I thought, “When did the term ‘get stoned’ go from being stoned to death to getting high?”

A quick Google search of stoned to death reveals the following:

Nov. 17, 2009 Islamist rebels publicly stoned a woman, Haliimo Ibraahim Abdurrahman, 29, to death and flogged a man 100 times for alleged adultery in southern Somalia.

November 6, 2009 Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.

Oct. 27, 2008 Mogadishu, Somalia - A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said. Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo.

Note the dates.

This is happening in our world.

This is happening now.

Tomorrow, when you are feasting, take a moment to remember Haliimo Ibraahim Abdurrahman, Abas Hussein Abdirahman, and Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow.

Don’t take your life for granted.

Don’t take your freedoms for granted.

Don’t take your loved ones for granted.

Go to http://www.stop-stoning.org/node/7 and see what you can do to stop this human rights abuse.

"As long as anyone is deprived of their human rights, none of us can be free." - Harriet Wacks