Pakistani villagers face death for wedding dance

[Efs]

Islam is a Great Religion

http://www.rt.com/news/sentence-wedding-...istan-425/

Quote:Pakistani villagers face death for wedding dance
joyful wedding dance may cost six Pakistani villagers their lives after they allegedly violated tribal customs. A local police chief is racing to rescue two women, waiting for death tied up and starving, and the four men, who are now on the run.

­The two women and four men, all of them married, took the liberty at their friends’ celebration – a rare moment of fun in a remote mountain village, 109 miles north of the capital.

Unfortunately for them, the dance was caught on a mobile phone and leaked to the Internet, showcasing the violation of gender segregation, which has been practiced in their tribe for centuries.

Outraged by such a blatant breach, the local council ruled that the six "stained the honor" of their families and must be sentenced to death.

Thus far, only a lucky chance prevented the council from killing them. It was decided that the men should be killed first, but they managed to run away. So as long as they are on the run, the women are relatively safe – though they are being held, tied up with ropes and starved, their relatives say. A district police office sent a rescue team to the village.

“There was no clear evidence the men and women had been inter-mingling,” police officer Abdul Majeed Afridi told AFP. “The video shows four women singing and a man dancing in separate scenes and then another man sitting in a separate shot. This is tribal enmity.”

The relatives of the accused say the video has been engineered to defame the tribe.

"Since our family is affluent and owns vast acres of forestland, orchards and agriculture farms in Bando Baidar village, they hatched a plot to deprive us of our property," Muhammad Afzal, elder brother of the two men condemned to death, told Asian News International.

Around 1,000 women and girls in 2011 alone were murdered for “defaming their family’s honor,” according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. This stems from the conservative Muslim tradition where women are often treated as second-class citizens.

[4r4b7]

this is against islam.

[FarBeyondDriven]

Lol! It isn't against Islam, fuck. You're against Islam... think Britney.

[4r4b7]

you are telling me about islam, but you are not muslim.

thats like me telling about atheism

[aaaaaaasd]

actually arabiMAD does have a point, this appears to be more retarded tribal traditions than anything else

but then again lol who cares he's easy trollbait continue

[4r4b7]

i am guessing that this is when i argue with all of you...

[SwiftEscudo]

lol religion

[FarBeyondDriven]

(05-30-2012 07:09 PM)hahaha12345 Wrote:  you are telling me about islam, but you are not muslim.

thats like me telling about atheism

Not really, all that's being talked about is fact concerning your religion.

[4r4b7]

its stupid tradition not islam

[kelby393]

OH NOEZ!! DANCING?! THE WORLD'S GONNA DIE!!!

[Stadium]

tradition and fake sky fairies are both fucking stupid

I never understood the point of tradition. You keep doing it because...you've done it before? lolwut?

[4r4b7]

hi

[SoulRiser]

Quote:Around 1,000 women and girls in 2011 alone were murdered for “defaming their family’s honor,”

They can't defame the family's honour... because they have no honour whatsoever... geez

[UnschoolShqiponjë]

This IS against Islam as far as I am aware.

I've done research and a lot of the ridiculous things that happen in Islamic countries are cultural and not really based on Islam.

Don't think I am going all Muslim on your asses. Every religion is silly imo and causes much harm now that our race has moved beyond the need to make up explanations for previously unexplainable phenomenon.

[Bell778]

This is ridiculous. They danced! Oh, the HORROR!!!

Seriously? Killing your family, because they "stained the honor" by dancing? I wonder what other stupid traditions they have.

[RammsteinFearFactory]

(05-31-2012 05:06 AM)Bell778 Wrote:  This is ridiculous. They danced! Oh, the HORROR!!!

Seriously? Killing your family, because they "stained the honor" by dancing? I wonder what other stupid traditions they have.

Does beheading people over everything count? Seriously, these places need a slight change in government. Imagine getting a girlfriend, then you can't see her because she's female, then she's beheaded for doing something bad and for being female.

[HeartofShadows]

Humanity needs a good purification.

[Aya]

(05-31-2012 05:06 AM)Bell778 Wrote:  This is ridiculous. They danced! Oh, the HORROR!!!

Seriously? Killing your family, because they "stained the honor" by dancing? I wonder what other stupid traditions they have.

Except that's not wh these six people are being persecuted. If you read the article it says very clearly that a local council not their families are doing this, and that the video is fabricated to make it look like they were breaking tribal custom. one of the family members even said that this is just a plot to get money from a well to do family.

I'm not white knighting for Islam, but haha is right. This has nothing to do with religion. It doesn't even have anything to do with local traditions or gender segregation. It's just village politics at its finest.