Just damn.
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Posted on 07/13/2005 11:24:32 AM PDT by phoenix_004
A Pakistani man and some of his relatives chopped off his wife's feet after accusing her of being promiscuous, police said yesterday. The woman survived the gruesome attack, the latest in a wave of assaults that have raised international concern about the plight of women in rural Pakistan.
'It is a shameful act of cruelty against a woman,' said Talat Ali, a senior police official in Punjab.'
The 32-year-old woman told police her feet were chopped off on 24 June by her husband, her father-in-law, a brother-in-law and two others after they accused her of being 'of bad character', a euphemism for promiscuous.
Violence against women is common in rural Pakistan where tribal and feudal customs hold sway.
The latest incident occurred in central Punjab province where the 2002 gang-rape of a woman, Mukhtaran Mai, on the orders of a village council, triggered an international outcry.
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who is trying to project his country as a moderate Muslim nation, has condemned violence against women.
The woman in the latest incident had separated from her husband but had gone to his family's house to see her daughter, police said.
Her father-in-law chained her up and that night he and the others took her to the edge of their village and cut off her feet.
Two days later her parents reported her missing and police raided the house, found her and took her to hospital, where she remains.
'There is no evidence that she was of bad character,' Ali said.
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Ranting.....
What drives me absolutely up a wall as that the MSM insists on comparing Jews with Muslims. Both semites, right? How racist is that? Two faiths, belief systems and cultures could not be farther apart.
The worst thing a Jewish man would do to a wife who was stepping out on him would be to tell her she looks fat.
The Dark Ages are alive and well in the Middle East.
Golly, I would have never guessed this happened in a Muslim nation.
To the ROP, it is NOW the TWENTYFIRST CENTURY! Time to wake up and join it. And not a moment too soon, I might add. You need to give up some of those practices. Normal religions don't do that. Leave those acts of barbarism behind and join the rest of us on THIS side of the date line.
I can remember, years ago, seeing women on the Navajo Reservation with their noses cut off for the same offense.
Don't you mean The religion of PIECES?
I guess she won't be stepping out anymore
Obviously, now she won't be running around on him.
"I've come to the conclusion that if I was a middle eastern woman I would be single....'
If you were pakistani they wont let you to remain single for long!!!!they will marry you off to some guy in his late 30's when you are 14 yrs or so old!!!
ping
So she won't be able to run around on him anymore.
Barbaric animals.
MM
Looking for biblical similarities - in vain.
>>The woman survived the gruesome attack, the latest in a wave of assaults that have raised international concern about the plight of women in rural Pakistan<<
Hmmm. . . .
"The woman survived the gruesome attack, the latest in a wave of assaults that have raised international concern about the plight of women in ISLAM"
Much better. . .
Surprise....Surprise..... (NOT)
I wonder what the plans are for this eventuality. There would be a good chance for a nuclear war. Would the PTB think it worth offending 'world opinion' to prevent it?
Brian Williams will soon be saying that it's nothing worse than what was done in the name of freedom by George Washington
Don't Muslin women know about poisons? Serve up a "special" meal and invite all the in-laws. Males get to eat first (out of respect, ya know). Repeat as necessary.
It's a banner month so far for Pakistanis in Britain.
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