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Burying of women alive defended in Senate

By Ahmed Hassan

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: 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.

Acting Chairman of Senate Jan Mohammad Jamali, who was presiding over the session, said: “Yasmin Shah should go to our society and see for herself what the situation is like there and then come back to raise such questions in the house.”

Maulana Ghafoor Haideri of the JUI-F said there was no tradition of burying women alive in Baloch society because it was against Islam’s teachings.

Jamal Leghari of PML-Q emphatically stated that there was no custom of burying people alive, adding that the Baloch people did not believe in it."

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DAR
If the people did "believe in it," well then, it would be okay.

Yes, this is happening on the same planet you live on.

D.

Somali teen executed for adultery had been raped: U.N.

Tue Nov 4, 10:54 am ET

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamists on accusations of adultery was a 13-year-old girl who had apparently been raped while visiting her grandmother.

In the first such public killing by the militants for about two years, she was placed in a hole and stoned to death on October 28 in rebel-held Kismayu port in front of hundreds of spectators after local leaders said she was guilty under sharia law.

Witnesses said at the time that the victim was a 23-year-old woman.

"However, reports indicate that she had been raped by three men while traveling on foot to visit her grandmother in the war-torn capital Mogadishu," U.N. children's agency UNICEF said.

"Following the assault, she sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death," it added in a statement. "A child was victimized twice -- first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice."

UNICEF said the incident highlighted the vulnerability of girls and women in Somalia, which has suffered civil conflict for the last 17 years. In the latest cycle, Islamist rebels are fighting the government and their Ethiopian military backers.

Islamist spokesmen could not be immediately reached to respond to the U.N. accusation.

Human rights group Amnesty International identified the girl as Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow and said she was killed by 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in Kismayu, in front of around 1,000 spectators.

Her father and other sources told Amnesty International that she had been raped by three men.

When the family attempted to report the rape to the al-Shabab militia who control Kismayu, she was accused of adultery and was detained. None of the men she accused of rape was arrested.

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Darrel wrote:...she was killed by 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in Kismayu, in front of around 1,000 spectators.

DOUG
a. It's like something out of the Bible, so don't think that there aren't people here in the U.S. that would love to have laws like that. They're called Christian Reconstructionists. One very prominent one, who has published several books on this topic, used to live just south of Fayetteville. Maybe he's still there.

b. If we did this in the U.S. it'd be on pay-per-view. On the Christian channel.