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| Honor Rapes Approved by Village Council Might Not Be Legal After All |
| 2004-05-08 |
| Six men have been remanded in custody by a court in Pakistan’s Punjab province following an alleged revenge double rape. A landowner is accused of attacking two women after the village council said he could avenge his honour. The other five are alleged to have abetted the landowner. .... Police say the village assembly, or panchayat, consisting of around 50 people mainly from the landlord’s clan, authorised the revenge. They say the women - one in her late teens, and her sister-in-law - were taken forcibly to an outhouse and raped while some of the landlord’s relatives guarded the premises. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #5 Seen Savage Nation a couple of times,the host is certanly hardcore. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-05-08 7:54:23 AM |
| #4 Well, I have been hearing that sodomy is quite the thing in the Arab world. If so, it would make sense. |
| Posted by: Anon 2004-05-08 5:17:43 AM |
| #3 Only in islam is the outhouse thought of as the "passion pit" |
| Posted by: Oknod 2004-05-08 1:29:15 AM |
| #2 It doesn't say if the Village Assembly, the panchayat, which "authorized" the rapes is being investigated or charged for sanctioning this act, though a reference to another case at the bottom of the article vaguely implies it. Call me a romantic, a dreamer, but it might be a good idea to do something about those who can, in the eyes of this and other villages, "authorize" honor rapes or killings. If they are not so empowered, making a point of that fact seems a rather good idea. Gosh, since it's PakiWakiLand, maybe "Oops!" will cover it and everyone can go their merry way - except the rapees, of course. They will have to "go" so that no one is reminded of this little SNAFU. Rapes and killings are one thing, but embarrassment is humiliating - and we all know what that means. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-08 1:25:12 AM |
| #1 Stories like this really drive it home. It used to be "better off dead then Red", now the chant needs to be "better off dead than Moh-ham-med" Something I heard on The Savage Nation the other day. |
| Posted by: Long Hair Republican 2004-05-08 1:07:52 AM |