Wife dies in 'honour killing'

[drdon326]

A PAKISTANI poured kerosene over his sleeping wife and daughter and burned them to death in the country's latest example of so-called honour killings, police said today.


The 45-year-old man, named as Jalil Ahmed, snapped after his brother caught his daughter having sex with a neighbour in the remote town of Samasatta, about 105 km south of the central city of Multan, police said.
He rushed back from his workplace in the southern city of Karachi and with the help of his brother tied the 20-year-old girl, named as Shomaila, and her mother to wooden beds as they slept, local police officer Arif Nawaz said.

They then set light to the two women - the girl for having an affair and the 40-year-old mother Azeem Mai for "not discouraging her daughter", the police officer said.

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3320129

[dogday]

1. Why Is It Only The Woman?

No men ever fuck up?

[politicaholic]

5. That guy probably doesn't need to sleep around...

not when he has four other wives to choose from.

What i'm wondering is what happens to the guy his daughter had sex with?

[Kraklen]

2. Meanwhile, back in the United States...

four women were killed today by their husbands or lovers.

[politicaholic]

3. I suppose this isn't going to prompt anyone into rethinking their society-

perhaps make some changes to a few laws. Possibly a radio campaign against honor killings...anyone? anyone?

The crickets have come out early in Pakistan.

[drdon326]

4. Rethinking their society ??

is that a slap at them??

[politicaholic]

6. It certainly is...

just like when the US rethought it's stance on lynching and civil rights as a whole.

There are some fundamental human rights problems around the world that need to be addressed and public perception in those countries needs to be changed or they will persist.

[drdon326]

9. Honor killing is common amoung certain .....

countries,religion and societies.

[politicaholic]

11. So is foot binding and vaginal circumcision, so what's your point?

Does religion exempt Jim Jones or David Koresh from being murderers?

[Beaverhausen]

7. and this is the country we aren't entering to find Osama because?

[cynatnite]

8. And will anyone in this regime stand up for this atrocity????

chirp fucking chirp

They don't stand up for women at all. :eyes:

[Nikki Stone 1]

10. Nice ally, Pakistan.

But then, lots of our allies do horrible things.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Here in "civilized" America, men shoot, bludgeon, or knife their wives.

Usually in the name of honor. Not to mention batter, rape, humiliate, abandon, stalk, and harass, so that they can prove their manhood.

It's a worldwide phenomenon, not limited to Muslims.