Burying of women alive defended in Senate
Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of "our tribal custom." Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah of the PML-Q raised the issue citing a newspaper report that the girls, three of them aged between 16 and 18 years, had been buried alive a month ago for wishing to marry of their own will. The barbaric incident took place in a remote village of Jafarabad district and a PPP minister and some other influential people were reported to have been involved. The report accused the provincial government of trying to hush up the issue. Ms Shah said that the hapless girls and the women were first shot in the name of honour and then buried while they were alive. She also said that no criminal had been arrested so far.
Burying women alive. That's fucking horrific.
There is this pervasive attitude in the politically correct portions of the western world. That multiculturalism is beautiful and we need to accept the values of these cultures as if they were no better or worse than our own.
Sorry. But that’s bullshit. The values of the western world are infinitely superior to the barbaric 7th century values of the Islamic world and we don’t need to pretend otherwise. Decent Muslims are welcome but if your aim is to change the values of this country to match your hideous theocracies then expect some resistance from me.
Posted on: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:43 PM