Death for singing? Pakistan search for condemned wedding women [Updated]

Death for singing? Pakistan search for condemned wedding women

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Pakistan's Supreme Court has sent a fact-finding mission to a remote northern area to establish if four women have been killed, following reports that they had been sentenced to death by a local tribal council or Jirga.

It has been reported that the women, along with two men, were condemned when video footage showed them singing and dancing at a wedding.

Local officials told the court they had been unable to contact the women, despite several attempts, as the BBC's Orla Guerin reports. (video)

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Vile. Outrageous. Despicable.

Is there no limit to how twisted human beings can be? Gentle, subdued singing to rejoice at a wedding leads others to judge the participants worthy of death.

The men escaped. The women, who were presumably just more vulnerable to attack, had their throats slit.

Let's see what the Pakistani legal system says the perpetrators deserve...


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Yeah, if they start letting them sing and dance...
the next thing you know, they will want to take their burkas off,
there will be cats and dogs living together.
IOW, the downfall of Muslim sharia law could occur.

The fact is, most people from the Western world have and always will be disgusted by the ways of the people of the Middle-East. We're just too far apart, both ideologically and theologically. We need to focus on the issues of the US homeland, and quit trying to save everyone from themselves. The US was not founded on the principals of global interventionism and hegemony. In fact, you you take a few minutes to read what the Founding Fathers actually say about foreign policy and the perils of militaristic interventionism, you'll find that they specifically warn against it and espouse the philosophy, "trade with all, alliance with none".

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This behavior is despicable and has nothing to do with America. Thanks anyway.

Wow, this Religious/Political system is sooo very Peaceful. /sarcasm.

The Western countries will never live up to these standards.

I hope justice will come for those who were the victims, though too late for them.

I'm still trying to come to terms with what I've just seen. I have to say one thing that struck me was the dignity of the girls' brother at the press conference. Clearly coming from that remote village background does not mean people necessarily think and act in barbaric ways.

It will be very revealing to see how both the Pakistani courts, people and government react. It will say a lot about the whole society.

Just another completely sickening example of the collective insanity that is the Muslim "faith", and its draconian Sharia Law.

Four fully clothed young women sitting down, clapping their hands and softly singing a song...while a young man does a little dance by himself - is fornication? And the penalty for this is death?

It is completely beyond me why any woman would ever want to subscribe to this religion. In places like Pakistan they may not have much option...but any American or Canadian (or any other nation where there is freedom of worship) woman who remains in - let alone joins - this wing nut religion must herself have rocks in the head.

It gets worse:

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken suo motu notice of a death decree in Kohistan, allegedly issued by a tribal Jirga (committee) of elders ordering the execution of four women on charge of "singing and dancing with men" at a wedding party recently.
 
The severe punishment came even as the heavily clothed four women, with only their faces showing, were merely seen in footage clapping and singing. However, the upset villagers allegedly killed them at the behest of the Jirga.
 
According to the brother of an "accused" -- Mohammad Afzal, who filmed the video and than uploaded it on the net -- the incident took place on May 30 following a wedding party.
 
The commissioner of the area, Hazara Khalid Umarzai, and provincial minister for social welfare Sitara Ayaz, however, denied the killings. They claimed that the women were alive and safe in their homes.
 
According to Afzal, the women were kept in captivity and tortured by pouring boiling water on their bodies before being executed. The Jirga had also ordered the killing of Afzal and his brother along with the four, but the duo reportedly fled the village.

Source (India Today)

This is how they treat their own people, from their own village.