People Suck

From Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_marriage_revenge

I think the people who did this should be hunted down and cut in a similar fashion. Creeps.

Hmm, not very smart…now as well as being married to a lower caste boy, she is married to an ugly lower caste boy…doh!

Yay for the 21st century :noway:

Not mentionning the Brit who was lynched in India for whatever “unclear” reason …

What brit?

[quote]"Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press on Wednesday about 30 male relatives of his wife stormed into his mother’s village home during the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha, demanding vengeance for the “dishonor” the marriage had brought to their family.

“You have mixed our honor with dirt,” Iqbal, 22, speaking from his hospital bed, recounted the attackers chanting as they assaulted him with a dagger and ax on Monday night. They also slit his brother’s ears and shot his mother in the thigh, he said."

"In deeply conservative rural areas in Pakistan, many men consider it an insult if their female relatives marry without their consent. Killing or attacking women and their partners in such cases is thought to restore family honor.

Offenders are rarely punished because of poor policing, corruption and legal loopholes.

The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, citing government figures, said in a report last year that about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings."[/quote]

Some of that “Ol’ Time Religion”…like 7th century…gads!

What brit?[/quote]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2119045.ece

Idiocy.

Glad the Dutch Reformed Church isn’t that hardcore… my old gf’s parents just threatened to kick her out of the house if she saw me. :astonished:

there are a lot of alarming things about pakistani culture…very disturbing… :s

ditto! sadly tho they’ll probably end up getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist…

Suprised that the woman wasn’t burned.

Pakistan is one of the most barbaric countries in the world. This is so-called civilized nation where a woman is required to have 4 witnesses to the crime in order to file charges for rape, an impossible standard - and so rapists run free with impunity. I hate to wish this on any people, but if Kashmir ever comes to a real war, I hope the Indians nuke the shit out of them.

(No, I don’t seriously wish that on any country. But when you hear about the story linked in the first post, it’s natural to feel that way, for a moment of anger at least…)