Bride gang-raped after wedding

Islamabad - A bride was gang-raped by her groom's friends on the first night of their marriage with her in-laws' consent in the southern part of Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on Monday.

The daily Times said Mujahid Hussain and his family allowed the bride, Kaneez Kubra, to be dishonoured in revenge for her brother's crime of having sexual relations with their daughter.

The bride's father, Ghulam Hussain, said four persons sexually assaulted his daughter in front of his son-in-law in his house in Punjab.

But her ordeal did not end there. Ghulam Hussain said on the following day she was taken to the residence of another friend and assaulted again.

"They are cruel. Hussain's grandfather and mother plainly told my daughter the wedding was just an excuse to (inflict) revenge on your brother for having sexual relations with our girl," he said.

Kubra was married to Mujahid last month on the directives of Panchayat (local jury) after it found her brother guilty of having illicit relations with Mujahid's sister.

In Pakistan's tribal and rural Punjab, women are married without their consent in compensation for the crime committed by their male family members to settle the dispute under "Swara" and "Vani" customs.

Human rights activists and Muslim scholars have opposed these customs and asked the government to take action against them.

"Islam provided for pardon, killing for killing or blood money as three options to settle murder," said Anis Ahmed, a scholar at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, adding "there is no other way and swara or any other such practice has no basis in Islam".

In 2002, eight young women, including two sisters aged two and four, escaped vani marriages near the Punjab city of Mianwali after the Supreme Court of Pakistan said the practice violated the law and norms of civilised society. - Sapa-dpa

Fear is almost always present, when one is engaged the fight against ANY threat or enemy

You know what? I am so grateful and proud that the U.S. military is composed of people like you. Thank you so much for your service.

It makes me mad, how so many don't appreciate what you and others have done just so the rest of us have freedom. Last year, I went to a wilderness survival class last year and there was a man there with a t-shirt with something about Operation Iraqi Freedom (I'm not sure of the exact phrase, or what branch of the military he was in).

So I went up to him and said, "Were you in Iraq?

Sadly, his first instinct was to be wary of me, like I was about to launch into a Michael Moore-like tirade against the U.S. military. He hesitantly said yes, and I think he was very surprised when I shook his hand and said, "Thank you."

Now that's pathetic, that people who have put their lives on the line for others expect hostility for it.

Anyway... I love your profile page. Did I say how relieved I am that you're one of the good guys? ;)

I think the liberals (Democrats) pretend to care about the abuse of women in the world, but hypoctitically care more about it as a propaganda weapon they use to destroy men right here in America. i.e.Amensty International and National Organization for Women

Expect to see liberals playing this card (the plight of women in the world) against Republicans "BIG TIME" in the next Presidential election. Amnesty International has become a front for the liberal, gender feminists pushing their agenda. What will the liberals be saying? Ans., The same thing they are saying now, "The plight of women in the world is worse and it's the fault of the Republican Patriarchy." They will use stuff like this to push the "Hillary ticket." They will want more power in the United Nations to deal with "the plight of women in the world" and Hillary will push for passage of CEDAW. Hillary is a big proponent of CEDAW. Here is part of what the Concerned Women for America have to say about CEDAW.

"...its Neo-Marxist agenda." "Today's feminists find themselves with vast storehouses of surplus political goods and bankrupt ideologies that they want to dump on the Third World. " "CEDAW’s implementation is through judicial imperialism; a committee of 23 UN-Appointed women determines whether a nation is in compliance with the treaty – including whether the laws of the country align with the treaty. What the United Nations hasn’t been able to accomplish through democratic processes, they hope to force by judicial fiat."

"Many proponents of the treaty advocate prostitution as a career option for women, and the oversight committee has repeatedly told signatory nations that restricting abortion or prostitution is a violation of its provisions. Further, the committee gave the following directive to Sri Lanka: Be sure women can abort babies with "congenital abnormalities.'"

"The treaty is a leftist utopian wish list: comparable worth, paid maternity leave, a national network of child care, free maternity-related health care, gender-blind military service, and quota-determined political parity for women. These are all specific requirements in the treaty itself."

I certainly think we should work for the human rights of all people as our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan show we are doing, but when it comes to gender feminist propaganda about violence against women we should start right here in America with the hate crimes that the liberal gender feminists (commie femi-crats) are committing under their man-hating agenda, VAWA - One of the Biggest Taxpayer Fleecings in the History of America

"...the problem of domestic violence in our society. Billions and billions of dollars have been spent to create a fat, bloated bureaucracy that appears at times to have done as much to harm to the lives of women as it has done to help, and soon that bureaucracy will be asking for more money."

It is my opinion that Commie femi-crats are working overtime to intentionally destroy: 1. traditional families, 2. heterosexual men, 3. heterosexual women, 4. children.

Lastly, I was listening to Hannity and Colmes tonight and heard Dick Morris refer to Hilary as a "communist," then factually defend that contention against Colmes attempt to white wash her commie agenda.

Personally friends, I believe the Commie femi-crat party is so far off the deep end, that for the foreseeable future, we cannot stand to lose National Offices to Commie femi-crats if America is to survive.

God Bless America

...and then there's this: Sen. Clinton Allegedly Intimidated Husband's Sexual Accusers "'The Clintons have really gotten away with a political reputation of being defenders of women's rights and women's issues," Jackson said. "To me that really says a lot about the state of feminism in this country. It seems like it doesn't even matter whether women are brutally mistreated as long as politicians support abortion rights,'" she added."
"Jackson, who describes herself as a "libertarian feminist," hopes her book will open the eyes of feminists in the U.S. to the "importance of not allowing the Clintons to escape with a reputation for being pro-woman when they have truly destroyed women along the way."

"Hillary Clinton is "either as misogynistic as her husband or she is simply willing to conspire to mistreat women if that's what it takes to preserve their political careers," Jackson added."

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