Women's holocaust

From the Greek: "holos" (completely) and "kaustos" (burned sacrificial offering). When capitalized, the term usually refers to the Shoah, (aka Shoa and Sho'ah) the killing of five to seven million of European Jews by the Nazi government during World War II. Sometimes used to refer to the total Nazi extermination program, which included Jews, Roma (aka Gypsies), Russians, Poles, other Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. totaling ten to fourteen million humans. ...
www.religioustolerance.org/gl_h.htm
The word, Holocaust, derives from Greek words, meaning complete destruction, usually by fire. By the end of the 17th century, the word came to mean a great slaughter or massacre. It is now used to describe the genocide against the Jews in Europe by the Nazis.
http://www.bl.uk/services/learning/c...s/refglos.html
Greek, "the destruction of life by fire") — Since the 1950s the term has been applied primarily to the Nazi regime's attempted annihilation of the Jews of Europe. Six million Jews-two out of every three living at the time in Europe-were murdered as part of a systematic genocide. Millions of other people also were killed because of their ethnicity, culture, political ideas, sexual orientation, or physical or mental handicaps....

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Dead Reckoning; Holocausts vs holocausts

by Robert Fisk

The Independent (London)
August 5, 2000, Saturday

The Essay: DEAD RECKONING;
Why is it that great holocausts of the last century merits a capital 'H'? Here, robert fisk, who has spent many years researching the massacre of one and a half million Armenian Christians, argues that all acts of genocide deserve equal recognition.

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* 5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews[8]
* 1.8 –1.9 million non-Jewish Poles (includes all those killed in executions or those that died in prisons, labor, and concentration camps, as well as civilians killed in the 1939 invasion and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising)[9]
* 500,000–1.2 million Serbs killed by Croat Nazis
* 200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti
* 200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
* 80,000–200,000 Freemasons [10]
* 100,000 communists
* 10,000–25,000 homosexual men
* 2,500-5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses [11]

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Who Were the Five Million Non-Jewish Victims?

Of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians and Catholics. Most of the remaining mortal victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany.

Nevertheless, i rarely if ever hear of this period of human cruelty against women. Why?

To come back to the topic - "Da Vinci Code" explains very well, why such thing as women's holocaust happened.
Many Pagan religions, that existed before Christianity, treated sexual intercourse as something that brought people closer to Gods, and women were very strongly respected for their capacity to give birth, to bring another person into this world. To think about it, it is almost magical, this act of creation. And Christian religion treats sexual intercourse as something dirty and sinful, that leads not to being closer to Gods, but to losing your soul and to eternal damnation and burning in hell. And women, as objects of sexual desire, were considered to be dangerous, diabolical creatures. In fact, when Christianity was just getting established as an organized church, there was a very serious dispute, concerning the issue whether women have a soul. And that issue was settled favourably for women with a very slight majority, less than ten voices. Christian religion is afraid of women, of their mission and of their power. Hence the treatment.

The womans Holocaust, was based on whichcraft, Mostly in France. Much like the Which unts in salam, but to a large degree....Woman would be killed ofr eye colour, sometimes hair colour and then evryone else who looked like a witch or had other ideas about government, men, sexuality, and non-christains

Christian religion is afraid of women, of their mission and of their power. Hence the treatment.

Case Study:
The European Witch-Hunts, c. 1450-1750
and Witch-Hunts Today

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
A History of Women Healers
by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

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Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?
Convulsive ergotism may have been a physiological basis for the Salem witchcraft crisis in 1692.

Linnda R. Caporael

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How Many Witches
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I'd have to agree with "sine000" . I'm sure if it had been men it would be "text book". Also, it's not that we weren't as important then...we still aren't, I'm sure. Doesn't really bother me , I just believe there will ever be pure "equality", not that I ever wanted it anyways. I don't know who the feminists are representing but it definately wasn't me. Some things I would expect equality but other things they have gone waaaaaaaayyyyyyyy too far.

I would definately rather be pulled out of a burning building by a male firefighter than by a female firefighter who was hired strictly on the basis of gender equality. Just my opinion

The Martyr

If you understood the customs and explanations behind their ways maybe you would realize that, in fact, we could probably benefit from them. Our over-sexed society may someday be the end of respect and morality. I don't think anyone can argue that...but someone will try - they always do.

The Martyr

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But, I must say that the qualifications "physically" are modified in some cases when it comes to females.

Have you ever gone golfing???

As for the MiddleEast, I presume you are referring to the "muslim" females who could use some of our feminisms. I'd have to strongly disagree. If you understood the customs and explanations behind their ways maybe you would realize that, in fact, we could probably benefit from them. Our over-sexed society may someday be the end of respect and morality. I don't think anyone can argue that...but someone will try - they always do.