After all this, she is STILL a Muslim. Dumb.
Posted on 10/22/2005 11:11:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman who won international fame for speaking out against her gang rape ordered by a village council in her country, is in the US to receive an award for courage from American fashion magazine Glamour, which has chosen her the 'Woman of the Year 2005'.
Mai, who arrived in Chicago on Saturday and would attend several function there to raise funds for the earthquake victims in Pakistan, would be presented the award at a star-studded function in New York on November 2.
The magazine has selected her 'Woman of the Year 2005', an honour bestowed in earlier years to, among others, former first lady and now Senator Hillary Clinton and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Thirty six-year-old Mai had angered Pakistani government for her outspokenness and decision to visit the US and at one stage authorities in her country had taken away her passport, which was returned after international hue and cry and sharp criticism from human and women rights groups.
The gang rape was ordered by the council of village in Pakistan in June 2002 in retaliation for alleged affair of her brother with a woman from a higher caste.
Braving social stigma, she lodged a police complaint and spoke out against the council. Legal proceedings against her alleged rapists are still going on in Pakistan's Supreme Court.
Tell this story to the leftists who cry and moan that the U.S. is such a horrid country.
After all this, she is STILL a Muslim. Dumb.
Conversion by a Muslim, in Pakistan, to any other religion is a crime punishable by death.
Sometimes, people aren't really dumb.
Caste? Muslims have castes??
Does anyone know for sure the families are Muslim?
Ping.
Mai’s family says the allegations were fabricated to cover up a sexual assault against the boy by several men.
Gang rape trial hears sodomy charge
I don't know what occured in that trial.
(Thanks rawhide)
Speaking out against them buys you the same sentence.
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