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2008-09-03 India-Pakistan

Burying women alive not part of Pashtun traditions: ANP

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "the religion Islam also did not allow such inhuman acts"

Stoning is so much more entertaining for the crowds

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-03 00:10|| 2008-09-03 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 For a time I have read the traffic in the World Pashtun Foundation forums. Since it was a forum by Pashtuns for Pashtuns there was no Takiyah there. And when it was known about judicial rapes in Punjab, everyone be it nationalists, democrat or islamist was horrified about it. Perpetrators would have had an interesting death if they had fallen in Pashtun hands.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-03 02:21|| 2008-09-03 02:21|| Front Page Top

#3 In all likelihood the custom of burying alive preceded Islam in both Baloch and Pashtun culture; however, Islam gives such great weight to the perception of female purity and such venom to the the perceived violation of purity that it gives a veneer of sanction to the custom.

Posted by mhw 2008-09-03 06:41|| 2008-09-03 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think they have a legitimate claim of anything innovative, including grotesque ways of killing people.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-03 10:19|| 2008-09-03 10:19|| Front Page Top

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