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2016-06-21 India-Pakistan
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Are we okay with politicians threatening rape on TV?
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[DAWN] On a live TV talk show some nights ago, applauded campaigner and journalist Marvi Sirmed was verbally accosted and threatened with force by a bearded bulwark of what has become Islam in this country.
Marvi had the gall, the complete and appreciable bravado, to simply agree with another speaker Barrister Masroor on the show. Masroor had commented that when it came to honour killings in Pakistain, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) seemed slumbering in an inebriated stupor.
For agreeing with his words, Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Fazl's (JUI-F) Hafiz Hamdullah called Marvi a "whore", vowed to "strip her" if she didn’t quieten down and tried to physically assault her.
While the questionable language was omitted from the transmission, it circulated widely on social media after Marvi posted about her experience.
Her claims were backed by the other panelists on the show.
I don’t know about you but if someone airs an incitement to rape on national television -- in a country where religious celebrities provoke murderers and hate-mongerers -- I consider such threats to be a clarion call for rolling out the legal books and restraining orders, and doing some rigorous rethinking of why these men represent our social and political system.
The ’holy man’ in question here, Senator -- yes, Senator -- Hafiz Hamdullah, went on to say that he would not "allow" Marvi to speak.
Errrr, who died and decided to make you king of the oafs?
Marvi is a strong, opinionated woman; she is not the kind to take this type of abuse lying down. Unfortunately, that is how most men here like to give anything to a woman. But Marvi rebuffed Hamdullah (I refuse to use any sort of scholarly title for such a man) in full.
The audacity of a woman in Pakistain, a woman I say, to dish out some sweet scorn? -- of course, she ought to be pillaged and shown a knuckle or two. Such was Hamdullah’s reaction and aggression, that he had to be tackled and led out of the recording.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread...
the show continued airing, stacking up ratings in a world where sensationalism is our favourite kind of televised past-time. 
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Posted by Fred 2016-06-21 00:00||
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