Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.
Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.
Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.
All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honor. Many Pakistani families think a woman marrying her own choice of man brings dishonor on the family...
...Around 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year by their families in honor killings, according to Pakistani rights group the Aurat Foundation.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/27/us-pakistan-honourkillings-idUSKBN0E711A20140527
Misogyny kills.
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Especially when it only involves stoneage treatment of women. We have to realize that they have chosen that lifestyle by being born into it, and must obey their rules and we have no right to even talk about human rights or women's rights in this case so long as our country is so wicked and evil; and especially since somewhere, someplace a construction worker just whistled at a woman walking down the street. 
Either Islam, or our fucked up justice system that lets rapist and domestic abusers walk free.
And this: 
"You're coming as close to an endorsement of this rationalized system of murder as I've ever read here. I won't feel sorry for you. You should know better."
In what way did I 'endorse' a 'rationalized system of murder?' Is a ridiculous statement and shows that you either didn't actually read my post or you don't have any understanding of social science. So no need to feel sorry for me.
Do you have problems with reading comprehension?
Judge all you want, I do and have. but judge based on the root of the problem not the religious veneer that many use to justify the murder and rape of women. The root it a patrimonial worldview that treats women as chattel, a worldview that is not only depressingly prevalent in Islamic countries but in the West, Africa, and Asia.
And equal pay? why did you throw that out there? I was discussing rape and domestic violence.
edited to add: and so disgusting that people do that in the name of religion. I guess that is supposed to make it OK,
in some people's minds.
If Christians ever get the power to do this, people will go ape shit wild. Others, we just have to understand.......
The problem is, in most of the world outside of the West (including Russia, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America), Japan and China (and concentrated in the Middle East, from Pakistan to North Africa) people tend to marry their cousin. It is presently illegal in China, but is believe to still be a common practice in China. Marrying Cousins is legal in most of the West, but do to culture it is rarely done (you do not keep something illegal if it is so rare that most people do not know it is illegal).
Given the above, Pakistan in one of those areas where marrying cousins is almost mandatory. Thus this woman's decision to marry someone else put her outside her cultural norms. Islam has had little affect on that norm. Pakistan has one of the highest rate of marring cousins in the world, over 70% admitted to such marriages:
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Cousin_Marriage_in_Islam
Now, Islam does not encourage marrying one;s cousin, nor does it discourage it. On the other hand it was the norm among Arabs at the time of Mohammad and seems to have spread with Islam, but independent of Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_East
The high rate of Cousin marriages in Pakistan is opposite the low rate of such marriages among Hindus in Northern and Western India (but Southern India has a high rate of Cousin marriages, but no where near the rate in Pakistan).
The Pakistan rate of cousin marriages is the highest in the world, exceeding by far the rate in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia.
Just a comment, that this stoning appears to have little to do with Religion, but with what the family cultural norms are in Pakistan.
Please note, where Marrying one's cousin was illegal (such as in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union) the rate of such marriages dropped like a rock. When such marriages were made legal (Late Soviet Union for example) such marriages remain rare (see the Former Soviet Central Asiatic States, whose rates of such marriages is the same as Russia and most of the rest of the world).
That has nothing at to do with misogyny
What is honorable about killing a pregnant young woman whose only sin was to marry a man without her father's approval. Why should a 25 year old woman even need her father's approval to marry anyone she chooses?
I'm soooo sick of these type of stories. Ditto for the woman in Sudan who married a Christian and converted. Who gives these bastards the right to kill her????
When are women going to rise and say ENOUGH!!!!!!! A pair of testicles and a penis should not be the criteria used to control women's lives.
BTW, this happened on the steps on a court house. Why didn't anyone help the poor woman?
