AFP via news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8474775/pakistan-death-decree-over-wedding-video-police
Moral (or: one more reason not to let your country become mughalistan/greater pukestan):
once you become islamic, remember not to sing and dance*. Particularly in circumstances where there is gender mingling. Else you'll get killed. And if you're male, remember: it's likely you'll get killed first. Not sure if this last is islam's way of rectifying gender attitudes - say, to balance out all those "ladies first" occasions - or just a way to keep the genders separate until the end.
(* Actually, dancing plus acting were all long-time banned in christianity too. And acting was still severely frowned upon in christian society even at the start of the 20th century in Canada, as per literature of the time.)
Quote:Wedding dancers sentenced to death
Tue May 29 2012
Four women and two men have reportedly been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding.
Clerics issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six enjoying themselves in a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 176km north of the capital Islamabad.
Pakistani authorities in the area said local clerics had ordered the punishment over allegations that the men and women danced and sang together in Gada village, in defiance of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings.
"The local clerics issued a decree to kill all four women and two men shown in the video," district police officer Abdul Majeed Afridi told AFP.
"It was decided that the men will be killed first, but they ran away so the women are safe for the moment. I have sent a team to rescue them and am waiting to hear some news," he said, adding that the women had been confined to their homes.
Afridi said the events stemmed from a dispute between two tribes and that there was no evidence the men and women had been inter-mingling.
"All of them were shown separately in the video. I've seen the video taken on a cell phone myself, it shows four women singing and a man dancing in separate scenes and then another man sitting in a separate shot," he said.
"This is tribal enmity. The video has been engineered to defame the tribe," he added.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said at least 943 women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family's honour.
The statistics highlight the scale of violence suffered by many women in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where they are frequently treated as second-class citizens.
Moral (or: one more reason not to let your country become mughalistan/greater pukestan):
once you become islamic, remember not to sing and dance*. Particularly in circumstances where there is gender mingling. Else you'll get killed. And if you're male, remember: it's likely you'll get killed first. Not sure if this last is islam's way of rectifying gender attitudes - say, to balance out all those "ladies first" occasions - or just a way to keep the genders separate until the end.
(* Actually, dancing plus acting were all long-time banned in christianity too. And acting was still severely frowned upon in christian society even at the start of the 20th century in Canada, as per literature of the time.)