Posted on 12/28/2005 10:31:12 AM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions
MULTAN, Pakistan - Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" — a crime that shocked Pakistan.
The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to prison, confessed to just one regret — that he didn't murder the stepsister's alleged lover too.
Hundreds of girls and women are murdered by male relatives each year in this conservative Islamic nation, and rights groups said Wednesday such "honor killings" will only stop when authorities get serious about punishing perpetrators.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in more than half of such cases that make it to court, most end with cash settlements paid by relatives to the victims' families, although under a law passed last year, the minimum penalty is 10 years, the maximum death by hanging.
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My apologies to all peaceful animals.
Germaine Greer and like-minded feminists have a lot to answer for. Greer gets a bad press here as is evident from the following extract from "The Australian":
I raped her, Sir, but my culture made me do it
November 09, 2005
EACH time Germaine Greer visits Australia - such as last week when she turned up at the University of Sydney to receive her honorary doctorate - one is reminded how Western feminists have dropped the ball on what really matters on the feminist front.
Greer's feminism is the worst example of Western indulgence.
It's not so much what she says that matters - for it's all rather farcical these days - but what she and other so-called feminists do not say that betrays how feminism has lost its way.
On Friday Greer told her audience: "The intellect is a little bit like sexual ability: use it or you lose it." True enough and nice work if you can get it. But hardly cutting-edge feminism at work there.
Back in late 2002, Greer was back on the soapbox in Australia lambasting the medical profession for imposing unnecessary medical tests on women, such as pap smears and mammograms.
When asked about the impending war in Iraq, Greer suggested that women protest by dressing up in burkas. Go girl! Don the preferred garb of Islamic oppression to protest against what exactly? The continued oppression of women in countries such as Iraq?
Last Friday while Greer was preaching about the importance of knowledge for knowledge's sake, in New York another feminist was delivering a more sobering message. Last week Mukhtaran Mai, a 33-year-old Pakistani woman, collected an award for "her incredible courage and optimism in the face of terrible violence".
Mai was gang-raped by five men on the order of a Pakistani tribal council in 2002 as punishment for her brother's alleged love affair with a woman from another tribe. This illiterate and working-class young woman then did the unthinkable. She took her grievance to court.
Sounds like she has a hell of a lot more sense than Germaine Greer!
Alternatively, Saddam's now inoperational meat grinders could be put to use. They might need some lubrication to get them grinding again. And then just follow Saddam's operational manual :
Day 1. Put the father in feet first, like its always done and do only upto the ankles.
Day 2. Go up to the knees and lower thighs.
Day 3. Upper thighs, stop just below the groin. Ask him if he wants to father any more children. If he says yes, use the same machette he used to slit his daughters' throats , to partially sever his male organ.
Day 4. Arms.
Day 5. If he has lived to this point, bury his torso allowing the head to stick out. At this point I will let other FReepers to exercise their imagination.
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