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Teenage girl burned to death for helping friend elope.


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2016 May 5, 12:57pm   3,761 views  14 comments

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than a dozen leaders of a small village in northwestern Pakistan were arrested Thursday and charged with burning a teenage girl to death because she helped one of her friends elope, security officials said.

The crime, which is renewing attention on Pakistan’s horrific record of protecting women and children from abuse, took place on the outskirts of Abbottabad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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A graphic photo of the teenager’s charred remains quickly circulated online. It appeared as though the girl’s arms had been bound before she was set on fire.

Initially, police suspected that she may have been raped by a scorned boyfriend or as part of a family dispute. But Saeed Wazir, the regional police chief in Abbottabad, said Thursday that the killing was a “pre-planned act” involving 14 village leaders. Wazir said the entire village council had sanctioned the act to send a message to other minors.

“They said she must be burnt alive to make a lesson for other girls,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ppakistan-police-arrest-14-in-honor-killing-of-teen-said-to-have-helped-bride-to-elope/2016/05/05/47badeea-12c6-11e6-a9b5-bf703a5a7191_story.html

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1   Shaman   2016 May 5, 1:04pm  

What can we do to ensure this happens at a rate 10,000,000 times as commonly? That seems to be the only way it will ever die out... when Muslims do.

2   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 May 5, 1:34pm  

Everybody is really a liberal Westerner at heart. It's only education and ignorance that prevents everybody from being a PBS donor.

3   Strategist   2016 May 5, 2:09pm  

Blurtman says

Teenage girl burned to death for helping friend elope.

Islam at it's best, folks. More to come.

4   Heraclitusstudent   2016 May 5, 2:46pm  

They're just living according to their traditions. We should respect that.

5   dublin hillz   2016 May 5, 2:51pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

They're just living according to their traditions. We should respect that.

No, we should not. This form of barbaric social conservatism needs to be denounced. Drop leaflets with Darwin's and Nietzsche's writings all over Peshawar and make it clear that next drop from plane will not be words of peace.

6   curious2   2016 May 5, 3:07pm  

dublin hillz says

Drop leaflets with....

Many Muslims are illiterate, especially the younger ones. BTW, that's part of why many Muslim countries go berserk about cartoons. Because Islam commands believers to kill blasphemers, many Muslim countries (e.g. Pakistan) mandate the death penalty for blasphemy. Even illiterate kids might see a cartoon and laugh and share it with their friends, or worse yet draw a copy. Then the kids would be guilty of blasphemy, and could be killed by either the government or vigilantes who would never be prosecuted. Reports from Iraq and Pakistan say Muslim vigilantes (aka "Sharia patrols") show up and tell you that one of your children has trespassed against Islam, and you must kill your own child or else they will kill your family for failing to uphold Islam. For that reason among others, a cartoon that even an illiterate child could copy sets off a panic and riots. Islam is an inherently violent religion that causes horrible consequences, and sadly many politicians say they "respect" it rather than refuting it.

7   Heraclitusstudent   2016 May 5, 3:15pm  

dublin hillz says

Heraclitusstudent says

They're just living according to their traditions. We should respect that.

No, we should not. This form of barbaric social conservatism needs to be denounced. Drop leaflets with Darwin's and Nietzsche's writings all over Peshawar and make it clear that next drop from plane will not be words of peace.

Just to be clear. I was being sarcastic.

8   curious2   2016 May 5, 3:19pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

I was being sarcastic.

On the Internet, with no social cues, sarcasm doesn't help, partly because of Poe's Law.

9   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 May 5, 3:31pm  

Meanwhile, random #Stabastinian attacks have arrived in London. Boy stabbed by woman on a bus for no discernible reason (or one the police will reveal - had Yarmulke or Cross?); grandmother intervenes to save him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400718/CCTV-shows-moment-woman-wearing-kangaroo-headscarf-attempted-stab-15-year-old-boy-London-bus.html

They also elected a mayor today who called Moderate Muslims "Uncle Toms."

11   Strategist   2016 May 5, 4:05pm  

curious2 says

Is "Asian" really the best description they could provide? Asia is huge but she doesn't look Chinese or white Russian, or anybody who could be mistaken for either of those. The perpetrator and victim appear possibly of similar ethnic bacground, so maybe he had said something blasphemous and she felt compelled to kill him as per Islam.

In England "Asian" is referred to Pakistanis and Indians. So most likely the perpetrator was a Pakistani Muslim.

12   curious2   2016 May 5, 4:10pm  

thunderlips11 says

[London] elected a mayor today who called Moderate Muslims "Uncle Toms."

Wow again.

I love London, but this report reminds me of a cautionary example, Hans Litten.

London's election results won't be known until Friday, but VoA has an article that sounds very supportive of Khan:

“When we came first, there wasn’t a mosque. We used to pray in a house, in the basement of a house,” Mohammed Lalmiah, a retired restaurant owner, told VOA after voting Thursday. Lalmiah was born a British subject in the colony that is now Pakistan before coming here 55 years ago, and he sees an ironic twist. Now, he said, he thanks God for the proliferation of mosques all over Great Britain. The British government puts their number at around 1,850.

Lalmiah said he hopes having Khan as mayor will make it easier to obtain building permits for more mosques and other institutions that serve the Muslim population.
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At a nearby polling station, there was a similar sense of accomplishment and progress among Muslim voters.

“It’s a very important day not only for me, but (all) British Muslims as well.” “We want to see him win. It’s a historic day, definitely,” a voter who identified himself as a Muslim, told VOA. “We can see it’s the beginning of a new era.”
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In this city whose population is now one-eighth Muslim, the growth of Muslims’ influence in government is cause for skepticism among some.
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Most London voters polled ahead of Thursday’s elections cited housing and transport as the main issues. But analysts say underlying concerns about immigration and demographic change could play out in the poll, which may indicate the outcome of a June 23 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union.

Proponents of a British exit, or Brexit, cite immigration and the belief that Britain has lost control of its borders as top concerns."

London endured a year of Sharia patrols from 2013-14, until they provoked a backlash of Christian patrols. I can only hope that what is already happening in Bangladesh does not spread to London: Muslim vigilantes murdering blasphemers and never getting prosecuted.

13   lostand confused   2016 May 5, 6:32pm  

Wow, there is progress in Pakistan. The killers were actually arrested-how did that happen-did they kill the wrong girl??

14   Strategist   2016 May 5, 9:18pm  

lostand confused says

Wow, there is progress in Pakistan. The killers were actually arrested-how did that happen-did they kill the wrong girl??

It hit the international headlines. Otherwise they would not have bothered.

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