Posted on 05/30/2005 6:18:38 AM PDT by Cornpone
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
Just a tile in the rich mosaic of cultural diversity.
Boy oh boy , this makes good sense to me ...(sarcasm)
I learned everything I need to know abuut islam on 9/11.
"Will the ACLU and the human rights UN council condemn this?"
My answer: Nope. But the UN is tyring to figure out a way to have sharia law cover their peacekeeprs in the field.
Sounds like more of that moderate, tolerant brand of Islam (/sarcasm)
Why not? They (NOW) turned a blind eye to women being treated as a commodity in the White House during the Clinton years ...
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
"By their fruits ye shall know them." (Matt 7:20)
I hate is-lam
These animals are totally offended by pork, touching of food by a left hand, and the "mishandling" of their book, but think nothing of gang-raping someone.
Well, think about the 'culture.' Like the value of a daughter's life is less than a boy in China because they simply cost more than they return, well, so a woman in Islam is worth less than, say, a book about an illiterate rapist prophet.
Why? Because it takes technology to print a book and anybody can make a baby girl. [/vicious Islamist sarc off]
...not to mention beheading or blowing up random innocents.
Yes. TROP at its finest.
These people are depraved monsters.
Let's hear it for cultural relativism!
What a bunch of barbarians....why does the civilized world allow this cancer to steal room on this planet from the rest of us?
Religion of piece?
Muslims are animals.
Yeah, and why do I have to go to a South African newspaper to find this stuff? Why doesn't our mainstream media tell the truth about Islam?
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