Posted on 02/07/2007 4:27:56 PM PST by blam
'We feel no shame' - the brothers who killed their sister for honour
Tragic tale highlights scale of beatings and murder of women in countryside
Declan Walsh in Donga Bonga, Pakistan
Wednesday February 7, 2007
The Guardian (UK)
Maqbool Ahmed and Muhammad Aslam, who beat their sister to death. Photograph: Declan Walsh
Shackled together at the wrist, the two brothers awaited their fate at the lonely jail in Donga Bonga, a cotton-farming backwater near Pakistan's sealed border with India.
They were poor men, barefoot farm labourers with pinched cheeks and calloused hands. But when they spoke, their bloodshot eyes flashed with cold steel.
Four days earlier Muhammad Aslam, 35, and Maqbool Ahmed, 40, had killed their younger sister and her lover. It was a crude, gruesome death: the pair were battered with a brick and strangled with an old rope. But the killers expressed not an ounce of remorse.
"We feel no shame. They had been warned," said Aslam, a slightly built father of eight. "We did it for honour," said Ahmed defiantly. "In our society a man without honour is nothing."
A man's pride exacts a high price in hidebound rural Pakistan. Almost every day a woman is beaten, clubbed or shot to death for what is euphemistically termed "adultery" - sex outside marriage. In most cases the killer is a father, brother or uncle.
"There's an increased brutalisation of society," said Kamila Hyat of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which recorded about 300 so-called honour killings in 2006 - about the same number as the previous year.
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I would side with them over an oversexed goon and a whore. But frankly, I wouldn't piss on ANY of them if they were on fire.
How do you do this to your sister? Coming to a neighborhood near you?
Dispatch them to hell.
Which is the reason I asked my ex the other day if he had any reloads to spare.
What? In any case, in India it tends to have more to do with someone dating outside their caste. Then there are the 5000 or so killed (usually doused in cooking oil and set on fire) because their dowries aren't big enough.
That was outlawed by the BRITISH. Another example of how the dirty colonialists imposed their values upon a native peoples.
I like your 2Cents.
"I would side with them over an oversexed goon and a whore."
Wait a minute. Sister and boyfriend have sex. Brothers warn them, they don't break up so brothers beat and strangle them to death. You approve of that?
Yay Religion Of Peace!!
And yet they do nothing...the "honor killings" go on.
You have a severely twisted sense of justice. You see unsanctioned sex as worse than pre-meditated murder? What's your punishment when you catch your kid whacking off in the barn, amputation of his right hand?
The "boyfriend" and sister were not high school kids nuzzling in the back seat of Dad's Rambler. The boyfriend was a bully, a crook, probably a murderer, and a thief. The sister had dumped her husband and was screwing this thug right in the next room. The Bonga Bros had told their sister about the repercussions of her relationship with this goon, but she snuck him in like some kind of schoolgirl sneaking cigarettes.
No, I don't "approve" of this. But I can't have a whole lot of pity for Sis and Goonga Din either.
Are you saying that adultery and criminal mayhem are okay?
--- Typical Leftist Multi-Culti Diversity Moonbat Freak
Anyone who kills a relative especially a sister has no honor. The title should be "Muslims have no honor to family".
When civilization was invented, somehow this culture was left out.
I read the headline which did not mention anyone's religion, and I immediately knew what the religion was.
Is there anyone left who doesn't think that the practicioners of the most intolerant, violent, vicious ideology in the world should be expelled?
It was a crude, gruesome death: the pair were battered with a brick and strangled with an old rope. But the killers expressed not an ounce of remorse. "We feel no shame. They had been warned,"
I suppose, you think, all marriages should be arranged?
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