Posted on 08/26/2008 9:09:26 AM PDT by forkinsocket
ISLAMABAD: Three teenage girls along with their two close elderly relatives were shot at before being buried alive in a desert of Balochistan by their tribesmen in the name of honour. The shocking reports of this horrible incident reaching the capital from different quarters revealed that the girls studying in classes 10 to 12 intended to marry men of their choice through a civil court by defying the centuries-old tribal traditions. When the fuming elders of Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls to appear before a local court, they picked them up from their homes along with two of their elderly women relatives. The crying girls were pushed into official cars and driven to a deserted area. There they were pushed out of the cars, made to stand in a queue and volleys of shots fired at them.
As the bleeding girls fell on the sand, the tribesmen dragged them into a nearby ditch and levelled it with earth and stones before the girls could breathe their last. As the two shocked elderly women tried to rescue the hapless girls, they too were gunned down and buried in the same manner.
The killers after burying these women returned to their tribe like conquerors without any action against them. The step taken was to send a loud message to the rest of the tribe’s girls. Father of these girls lodged an FIR with the police against his own brother, who was said to be the architect of this crime. But after some family pressure, he withdrew the case and so the blood of those girls was forgiven in the name of centuries-old tradition, which does not allow any girl of the tribe to contract marriage of her choice.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Watch has accused Abdul Sattar Umrani, the younger brother of PPP Housing Minister in Balochistan Government Mir Sadiq Umrani, of being directly responsible for this shocking act of barbarianism.
The Housing Minister, Mir Mohammad Sadiq Umrani, confirmed to The News on phone that this was true that three girls and two other women were buried alive by men of the Umrani clan. But he strongly denied that his brother had to do anything with this act. He claimed that these girls were actually buried alive by their uncle — Sardar Fateh Mohammad Umrani — against whom even an FIR was lodged with the local police. But the FIR was later withdrawn by the father of these girls, after he was put under pressure by those who had buried his daughters alive in the desert.
He said the alleged killer Sardar Fateh Mohammad was his political enemy since 1985 and his brother Abdul Sattar Umrani was being maligned only to settle political scores otherwise everybody knew in the area as to who had buried the women alive in the desert.
And yet we are told by Obama/McCain/Bus that islam is a religion of peace.
What a joke.
I wonder if these people were all muslims?
Religion of peace.
But no culture is superior to any other culture, dontcha know?
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Far as I’m concerned, these people have relegated themselves to the depths of the Dark Ages. There can be no redemption for these people.
The ‘politically correct’ will have no comment on this practice.
Bloody savages.
Prayers for the innocent victims may the Lord carry them to Heaven to sit beside him in eternal peace.
This happened in Islamabad.
That means it is not “news” any more than a traffic jam on the D.C. Beltway is “news”.
We’re seeing these things happening to muslim women right in this country. A father and his brother killed a daughter because she was dating someone the father didn’t like. He and his brother killed the girl and buried her under the front porch steps. RIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
PFFFT, a religon of peace.
Especially the women's groups.
I may just have to take this article with me to use as an example in the Diversity endoctrination training class I must take next month.
Too bad we no longer have the cultural confidence to “follow our custom after they follow theirs.”
You know what I mean.
Welcome to the jungle.....And these idiots want everyone to convert to Islam or be killed? Good luck with that. It’s hard to understand how this mentality is tolerated anywhere in the world.
The "Dark Ages" were never like this... I think you'd look long and hard in all the annals of the Christian Middle Ages before you'd find anything as cruel and barbaric as this...
If Islam doesn’t quickly experience their civilizing Reformation —— “Ethnic cleansing” and “religious persecution” may become both viable and necessary responses to militant Islam and its barbaric followers.
Re: “Too bad we no longer have the cultural confidence to “follow our custom after they follow theirs.””
I recall that this was England’s response when Indians said it was their custom to burn widows alive (suttee). The British said it was their custom to hang people who burned women alive, and that they would follow their custom if the Indians followed theirs.
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