5 women buried alive in Pakistan, Parliament Member defends act

The Times of India ^ | 1 Sep 2008, 0007 hrs IST | AP

[Cronos]

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of parliament this week to spare him their outrage.

"These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, said on Saturday. "Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."

The women, three of them teenagers, were shot and then thrown into a ditch. They were still breathing as their bodies were covered with rocks and mud, according to reports, which said their only 'crime' was that they wished to marry men of their choosing

[nmh]

“Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid.”

Burying women still alive for not wanting to marry some jerk is not immoral?

Truly eveil people and religion!!!

[ken21]

the good ol’ days!

/s

[GOPPachyderm]

How can anyone defend this inhumanity?

[homeguard]

True BARBARIANS!

[tioga]

I have heard these stories before, but I thought they meant it was an accidental thing.......they are just SICK!

[Stayfree]

A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands

As a matter of simple hygiene these women probably did not want to marry the guys in the village who have been herding sheep, goats, camels & other furry females with their staff of life for years, making their unwashed male organs somewhat unattractive. Unfortunately for the village, the practice of burying them alive removes some attractive females from the population, and since the men continue their habits, the other women in the village will also reject them...so after burying all the women who reject them, the males have only their herd animals...unless they go raid another area for women, which is why tribal cultures are always at war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.

[ZULU]

Cronos, ONCE AGAIN, Islam has shown its dirty little secrete to the world

[vladimir998]

And if I remember correctly, in Islam, women are supposed to give final consent to a marriage. Yet, here we see how women are really treated in a Muslim country.

[Cronos]

sadly, we seem more focused on the latest “rights” parade than on this.

[Cronos]

well, this seems pretty commonplace in the slmmie world — Pakistan’s Baluchistan and NWFP, Iraq, etc.

[webrover]

The adherents to this obscene ideology must be wiped from the face of the earth. They are an affront to God and man.

[onedoug]

Primitivism

[Kozak]

“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours”

Sir Charles Napier
Commander in Chief India