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| Burn the bitch: muslims at their finest |
| 2005-06-20 |
| Wife dies in 'honour killing' June 20, 2005 A PAKISTANI poured kerosene over his sleeping wife and daughter and burned them to death in the country's latest example of so-called honour killings, police said today. The 45-year-old man, named as Jalil Ahmed, snapped after his brother caught his daughter having sex with a neighbour in the remote town of Samasatta, about 105 km south of the central city of Multan, police said. He rushed back from his workplace in the southern city of Karachi and with the help of his brother tied the 20-year-old girl, named as Shomaila, and her mother to wooden beds as they slept, local police officer Arif Nawaz said. They then set light to the two women - the girl for having an affair and the 40-year-old mother Azeem Mai for "not discouraging her daughter", the police officer said. Police have arrested the girl's father and uncle and efforts were under way to arrest their neighbour, who fled the town after the incident. "We have registered a case against three persons and arrested two of them, who have confessed the crime," the policeman said. "They said they had killed them for honour." Officials say about 4000 people, mostly women, have died as a result of brutal "honour punishments" in rural areas of Pakistan over the past four years. Last week a Pakistani widow and her two daughters were beaten and forced to parade naked through a market after her son allegedly had an affair with another man's wife in Qabula, 175 kilometres east of Multan. Mukhtaran Mai, 33, became the victim of a notorious gang rape in June 2002, in Meerwala village, which is in the same area. She was raped for more than an hour on the orders of a tribal council to atone for her brother's alleged affair with a woman of a powerful rival clan. President Pervez Musharraf early this year signed into law a bill introducing the death penalty for honour killings. I await with bated breath the Amnesty International condemnation.... |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #8 But only if they threaten the |
| Posted by: Gloria Steinem, NOW, & friends 2005-06-20 15:50 |
| #7 I misspoke - we ignore white girls too on occasion - Monica, Paula Jones, et al. It's not like they will contribute or anything. |
| Posted by: Gloria S. and fiends 2005-06-20 14:34 |
| #6 But Desert Blondie..... They are only mud people! Its not as if they will ever contribute or anything... |
| Posted by: Gloria Steinem, NOW, & friends 2005-06-20 14:14 |
| #5 Why just the other day the walas down at the bazaar were worked up in a frenzy on how Osama's woman was seen patting the hand and comforting Mullah Omar behind Slahp Salahmi's hut last week. Worse yet was the shepherd boy who recognized her not wearing her burqa veil. This had been the second time the boy had seen her face and barely lived thru thye last event last summer. Osama's private lessons with the boy had been interrupted by her delivery of hot howels for the two when her veil slipped and Osama got so unholy angry. That was how the little shepherd boy recognized the uncovered woman with Mullah Omar. This was not the fault of Mullah Omar since his blind eye faced her facial nakedness. But both eyes of the innocent shepherd boy were filled with her facial nakedness and thus caused him shame and even blush. The walas down at the bazaar are already arriving at a punishment to be reecommended to the oldest, smelliest and nastiest bearded wala who is honarable enough to convene a sharia shing ding in the valley. Mullah Omar is exempt due to his exemption tax and being such the loveable old perv that he is. He is a victim as well as the shepherd boy. "Osam's woman is really gonna get it good!", said one old wala red and wrinkled in furious anger. "Yeah!" seconded a second old grizzled bearded one with pita stuck in his beard. |
| Posted by: Flavins Flineque6690 2005-06-20 14:06 |
| #4 And of course, the "womens' rights" groups do nothing. There's been a lot of criticism that those groups (Yes, Gloria Steinem & friends, I'm talking to you!) don't care about women who happen to be various shades of brown. I see that criticism is well earned. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-06-20 13:32 |
| #3 The way to end Islamofascism is to tell everyone of the braindead terrorists either: - their mother is looking at another man, - their wife/girlfriend is looking at another man, - their daughter is looking at another man. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-06-20 13:19 |
| #2 You know, I wonder how far back this custom goes. The idea that innocent female relatives are appropriate targets for retribution for the sexual misdeeds of males is a curious one. This is not an Arab thing that I know of - among the Arabs its a matter for family to kill the misbehaving woman to preserve their "honor". And this is not peculiar to the Arabs either, though they are the only ones backward enough to be still at it today, but there are echoes of it in obsolete customs from around the Mediterranean. But that is not the case with the Paki thing. So that Pakistani custom is most likely a folk holdover from pre-Islamic times, and maybe something unique to the Punjab. It would be interesting to see whether any British records from the days of the Raj had something to say about it. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2005-06-20 12:43 |
| #1 MSM and leftest seething in 5..4..3..2........ *crickets chirping* |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-20 12:01 |