Could go in the media thread too, I suppose.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/AR2009031800144.html
Washington Post doing some PR for Islam and GangRapistan - sorrrrry, I meant Terroristan.
Check this hilarity - can they advertise any more for how a supposed romantic happy end undoes the islamic villainy preceding it, or for islamic oneway polygamy (though only polygyny - no polyandry, no polygynandry. Begs the question: where are the fembots?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9031800144.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Famed Pakistani gang-rape victim gets married</b>
By KHALID TANVEER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 18, 2009; 2:57 AM
MULTAN, Pakistan -- A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo _ she just got married.
Mukhtar Mai is now the second wife of Nasir Abbas Gabol, a police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained notoriety. He said she was reluctant to accept his offer and that he threatened suicide when she turned him down.
(Oh great, a Stalker Boy. "I will keeel misself, keel misself, keel misself." Sure. Sayonara.)
Mai was gang raped at the order of a tribal council in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002 to punish her family for her brother's alleged affair with a woman from <b>a higher-caste family.</b> There were also allegations that the boy had been molested by members of the other family, and that the accusations of the affair were used to cover up the crime.
(Islamic casta system. No blaming Hindu Dharma for this casta system since it's pious muslims doing islamic things.)
Rape victims in Pakistan face severe social stigma and diminished marriage prospects, prompting many to commit suicide. But Mai went public and challenged her alleged attackers in court, attracting international attention and becoming a women's rights activist.
<b>She was named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year</b>, and now runs a school in her southern Punjab province village of Meerwala. The case against her attackers is still in the court system.
(Huh? Are they mocking her tragedy? Please tell me it's not more of the west's sham pity. Eewww.)
Mai told AP Television News after the nuptials that she'd never completely ruled out marriage.
"When you do marriage <b>you have to have faith in your partner</b>," she said.
Her new husband told the AP on Wednesday that he was enraptured by Mai's "extreme courage."
"I will do whatever is possible to help my wife in her efforts aimed at raising her voice for the rights of women," he said.
(Here's a thought: He and his family can convert to a Dharmic tradition or some other Natural Tradition. That will help with all creatures' rights.)
Mai initially refused his offer because Gabol was already married and discouraged him from divorcing his first wife. Pakistan is a majority Muslim nation, and Islamic law allows men to have up to four wives.
(Oh, what a trustworthy loyal entity he is. She had to discourage him from divorcing and leaving his first wife for her. Mai ought to have second thoughts, especially as she had declared "you have to have faith in your partner". Am assuming loyalty/trust is 'faith' here. Also, he seems mentally unstable. Doesn't it worry anyone? Mai can do better.)
<b>Gabol said he was so desperate to marry Mai that he threatened to kill himself unless she relented. Fearing he would carry out his threat, Gabol's first wife met with Mai and persuaded her to marry.</b>
(An <i>Ahhhh, How Sweet</i> moment. Western readership brought to sympathise with polygamist islam where a very islamic gang-rape incident "is not so bad <i>after all</i>" since it ends on a happy note of being second wife to some nearly-disloyal dude. And look how happy the Islamic Marriage System is: the first wife nearly jilted by him for the would-be second wife *wants* the second wife to marry the apparently mentally-unstable husband (never mind he got wife #1 to beg on his behalf by threatening with his suicide). That nicely mirrors how the intended second wife pleaded with him not to abandon the first wife.
Is it just me, or is the promised 'romantic islamic fairytale' not really romantic?)
The wedding took place Sunday and a reception is planned for the weekend.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Anyone else touched by the drama? Come on, fellow TSPers. TSPers? I mean fellow Indian islamics? Oh drat. I registered in the wrong forum. You kaffirs don't have any taste in the romantic. Don't you know Islam means Romance and Peace.
Good luck to the poor woman though. Things could have been worse. I'm trying to think *how*, but in the meantime, this placeholder: things could have been worse.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/AR2009031800144.html
Washington Post doing some PR for Islam and GangRapistan - sorrrrry, I meant Terroristan.
Check this hilarity - can they advertise any more for how a supposed romantic happy end undoes the islamic villainy preceding it, or for islamic oneway polygamy (though only polygyny - no polyandry, no polygynandry. Begs the question: where are the fembots?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9031800144.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Famed Pakistani gang-rape victim gets married</b>
By KHALID TANVEER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 18, 2009; 2:57 AM
MULTAN, Pakistan -- A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo _ she just got married.
Mukhtar Mai is now the second wife of Nasir Abbas Gabol, a police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained notoriety. He said she was reluctant to accept his offer and that he threatened suicide when she turned him down.
(Oh great, a Stalker Boy. "I will keeel misself, keel misself, keel misself." Sure. Sayonara.)
Mai was gang raped at the order of a tribal council in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002 to punish her family for her brother's alleged affair with a woman from <b>a higher-caste family.</b> There were also allegations that the boy had been molested by members of the other family, and that the accusations of the affair were used to cover up the crime.
(Islamic casta system. No blaming Hindu Dharma for this casta system since it's pious muslims doing islamic things.)
Rape victims in Pakistan face severe social stigma and diminished marriage prospects, prompting many to commit suicide. But Mai went public and challenged her alleged attackers in court, attracting international attention and becoming a women's rights activist.
<b>She was named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year</b>, and now runs a school in her southern Punjab province village of Meerwala. The case against her attackers is still in the court system.
(Huh? Are they mocking her tragedy? Please tell me it's not more of the west's sham pity. Eewww.)
Mai told AP Television News after the nuptials that she'd never completely ruled out marriage.
"When you do marriage <b>you have to have faith in your partner</b>," she said.
Her new husband told the AP on Wednesday that he was enraptured by Mai's "extreme courage."
"I will do whatever is possible to help my wife in her efforts aimed at raising her voice for the rights of women," he said.
(Here's a thought: He and his family can convert to a Dharmic tradition or some other Natural Tradition. That will help with all creatures' rights.)
Mai initially refused his offer because Gabol was already married and discouraged him from divorcing his first wife. Pakistan is a majority Muslim nation, and Islamic law allows men to have up to four wives.
(Oh, what a trustworthy loyal entity he is. She had to discourage him from divorcing and leaving his first wife for her. Mai ought to have second thoughts, especially as she had declared "you have to have faith in your partner". Am assuming loyalty/trust is 'faith' here. Also, he seems mentally unstable. Doesn't it worry anyone? Mai can do better.)
<b>Gabol said he was so desperate to marry Mai that he threatened to kill himself unless she relented. Fearing he would carry out his threat, Gabol's first wife met with Mai and persuaded her to marry.</b>
(An <i>Ahhhh, How Sweet</i> moment. Western readership brought to sympathise with polygamist islam where a very islamic gang-rape incident "is not so bad <i>after all</i>" since it ends on a happy note of being second wife to some nearly-disloyal dude. And look how happy the Islamic Marriage System is: the first wife nearly jilted by him for the would-be second wife *wants* the second wife to marry the apparently mentally-unstable husband (never mind he got wife #1 to beg on his behalf by threatening with his suicide). That nicely mirrors how the intended second wife pleaded with him not to abandon the first wife.
Is it just me, or is the promised 'romantic islamic fairytale' not really romantic?)
The wedding took place Sunday and a reception is planned for the weekend.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Anyone else touched by the drama? Come on, fellow TSPers. TSPers? I mean fellow Indian islamics? Oh drat. I registered in the wrong forum. You kaffirs don't have any taste in the romantic. Don't you know Islam means Romance and Peace.
Good luck to the poor woman though. Things could have been worse. I'm trying to think *how*, but in the meantime, this placeholder: things could have been worse.