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
Wonder why the feminazies aen't saying anything?
If I were one of these women, I think I'd prefer suicide to being raped for my brother's crime.
Think about it folks....
MANY of us have neighbors that are deeply committed Muslims..
They identify themselves as the "Moderate Muslims"....
"Moderate Muslim" --- those that haven't yet unpinned their grenades and become Jihadists???
If the "Moderate Muslims" outside of Iraq and Afghanistan don't soon join the fight against the lunatics in control of their "faith" -- they will all pay the consequences...
Semper Fi
The family did not approve of this, this is from the other post on this article...
When Ghulam Hussain approached the police, they refused to register a case against the groom and his friends.
He then approached high authorities and Civil Lines police instituted a case on the orders of the Dera Ghazi Khan district police officer (DPO). “We have registered a case against seven people – Mujahid Hussain (groom), his friends Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad, Abdul Majid Almani and Ghulam Mustafa, his grandfather Shahroo Khan, and mother Mukhtar Mai under sections 10/4, 19/2and 7/79 of Islamic law and detailed a team to arrest them, DPO Dera Ghazi Khan Salman Chaudhry told Daily Times.
Investigation Officer Zulfikar Ali Qureshi said the police were making raids to arrest the accused but they had left the area and gone into hiding after the case was registered against them.
YOUR ADDED HEADLINE IS FALSE, in fact her father did not approve and took the case to the police.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412907/posts
I didn't say which parents. The fact is the groom's parents DID approve and they are being sought for arrest. The headline is true.
Agreed...sorry for misunderstanding.
It looks like the members of the "religion of peace"
wanted a piece.
1) I was not altering headlines. I added commentary (that's what parenthesis are for); and,
2) It was not misleading. It was a heinous crime regardless of which set of parents approved it. The groom's parents approved it...read again.
I forget. Someone help me out. Do the stone them there or do they set them on fire? I can't seem to keep it straight.
/sarcasm
When you say, bride raped (parents approve) it gives the clear implication it is her parents. You protestation notwithstanding.
They always say this when Muslims do something to "make Islam look bad."
Great picture and article titles!!
Thank Allah they did'nt put mens shorts on her head.
These morons haven't got the brains of a retarded cockroach.
Makes who you include on your guest list a real consideration.
We need to import more of these people into this country so we can enjoy the quaint customs and multicultural wonders which abound in this world. Oh, wait a minute, we already are!
Hey...I like your tagline. I see you study this insanity too...welcome to the club.
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