Honor Killing Watch

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(via Little Green Footballs) Now you can devote an entire blog to the depressing topic of modern day honor killings in the Pakistani hinterlands. In fact, LGF sorta fills this role. But this killing was particularly gruesome and makes me damn thankful on this Christmas eve for the society we’ve been blessed to have been born within –

MULTAN, Pakistan – A father angry that his eldest daughter married for love slit her throat as she slept, then killed three other daughters in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Saturday. Nazir Ahmad, a laborer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4 to 12, would follow in their 25-year-old sister’s footsteps, police officer Shahzad Gul said.

There’s a sort of North Korean / Nazi / Stalinist sense of justice here – you don’t just bring down the perp but his / her family too. Not only to stomp out the meme but also to ensure that any future individuals are thoroughly disincentivized. Fascism comes in forms big and small.

107 thoughts on “Honor Killing Watch”

  1. This is true about Bush or even Clinton – when was the last time a major politician disgareed specifically with the axioms of christianity?

    well, jewish policitians clearly do! but, in the american context, william howard taft was a unitarian (early 20th century), so he rejected the trinity, which is the common assumption of the vast majority of christians. to be honest about it, it seems to be me that american politicians became very religious right when universal sufferage became common (andrew jackson’s presidency). before that most american presidents would be defined as non-christian!

    but i am skeptical that either bush or clinton are not sincere christians. but, in other christian nations non-christianity is acceptable, america is the exception. australia had an agnostic prime minister. chile has had an agnostic prime minister. so has brazil. france has had many atheist prime ministers and presidents (mitterand and jospin the most recent). the leader of the labor party in england in the 1980s was an atheist. the president of poland is an atheist. america is the exception. you can google my site and you will see that the nation america resembles in its attitudes toward religion is turkey (they even have about the same number of creationists!). i think that tells you something about the ‘christian’ vs. ‘muslim’ world in their distributions.

  2. you can google my site and you will see that the nation america resembles in its attitudes toward religion is turkey

    to be precise, i mean the attitudes of the public. see here. obviously america does not share the turkish elite’s laicism….

  3. Re interest rates, no longer have stats but will seek them again. This happened when interest rates were 15%+. Early/mid nineties.

    I admire the Gulf workers, try to coax airlines into serving them better. (The Philippines receive their cooks/nannies with govt organized parties, recognizing their forex contribution.) Also admire E Africa Indians(I was an expat for a decade) who pulled themselves up inspite of harsh circumstances, and the IndoCaribbeans who suffered tremendous, hideous slavery.

    Re returning something to India, yes a trickle has started, like AIF, Pratham. It will increase only when Indians feel something for their country. The Jews chose to invest in their so called homeland and not because they lacked options. Same re Chinese, Irish or any others.

    Also Pankaj, India certainly has been secular and democratic. With flaws? Certainly. I am a minority and never ever forget that it is the majority Hindu community which votes in a govt that for the most protects me. Yes Gujarat happened as did govt initiated pogroms during colonial times. And the Muslims should be compensated in every possible way. But this pogrom is NOT the norm and the Vajpayee govt, in spite of a good economic record, lost the elections. Also the Christian inquisition in Goa killed, tortured lakhs of Hindus. The Vatican books detail the horrors (children skinned in front of parents) but the Indian Christian community says the Pope must not be asked to apologize. After the terrible Staines event, public mourning was declared and Mrs Staines recd an official apology and much sympathy fromamhny many Hindus and Muslims. And yes, I do believe Indian Muslims, especially the women have benefited by being Indian.

    I am grateful that I come from a country whose constitution was written by a man from the lowest class. Also the only country in the world where Jewish communities have been safe for thousands of years. Anyway the fact remains that far too much remains to be done today.

  4. By the way Kush Tandon, I was referring to Indians here, NOT in the Gulf, when I wrote that they invested in India only when they profited from it. Sorry.

  5. By the way Kush Tandon, I was referring to Indians here, NOT in the Gulf, when I wrote that they invested in India only when they profited from it. Sorry.

    Hmmm so i have a deal for you. You pay me $100 today, which i will ‘invest’ in india and, i will pay you back $30 five years from now. Good Enough 🙂

  6. Investing out of patriotism ?? My freind has just returned to India, to run India wing of a US based hedge fund. His hedge fund has upwards of 3 billion $ under management. Its just that Indian stock markets are getting a lot of attention from overseas investors. BSE breaking records and all.