Islamism - 5

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<b>(4) Pakistan:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistani tells how he killed 4 daughters
The laborer, 40, says he took their lives to save his family's 'honor'
Associated Press Dec. 28, 2005

Nazir Ahmed, 40, who killed his three young daughters and their adult stepsister, is processed in police detention in Gago Mandi near Multan, Pakistan. : AP

MULTAN, PAKISTAN - Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" — a crime that shocked some in Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to the Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to prison, said he had only one regret — that he didn't kill the stepsister's alleged lover too.

<b>Hundreds of girls and women are killed by male relatives each year in this conservative <i>Islamic</i> nation</b>, and rights groups said Wednesday such "honor killings" will only stop when authorities get serious about punishing perpetrators.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistani teen recovering after cousins shot her in attempted 'honor killing'
Associated Press
May. 2, 2006 07:20 AM
KARACHI, Pakistan - Suffering from five bullet wounds, Noor Jehan calls out in pain for her mother. The 14-year old Pakistani girl is recuperating slowly in a hospital from a brutal attack allegedly carried out by two male cousins to avenge a rebuffed marriage proposal.

<b>Honor killings claim hundreds of lives each year in this conservative <i>Muslim</i> nation.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Another example of Islamic society punishing women for unrelated events:</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->More arrests in Pakistan gang rape
Police in Pakistan have confirmed that two more men have been arrested in the case of a woman who was gang raped on the orders of a tribal assembly in the province of Punjab. ... <b>Tribal elders are accused of ordering the woman to be gang-raped to punish her family over allegations that her brother had had illicit relations with a woman of a <i>different social status</i>.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->"Different social status" - a kind of 'caste' isn't it? So much for 'egalitarian' Islam.