Girls in Pakistan ordered raped to pay off debt

[Dinner]

village council in Pakistan has decreed that five young women should be abducted, raped or killed for refusing to honour childhood "marriages".

The women, who are cousins, were married in absentia by a mullah in their Punjabi village to illiterate sons of their family's enemies in 1996, when they were aged from six to 13.

The marriages were part of a compensation agreement ordered by the village council and reached at gunpoint after the father of one of the girls shot dead a family rival.

The rival families have now called in their "debt", demanding the marriages to the village men are fulfilled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/22/wdebt22.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/22/ixworld.html

[Spiffor]

Tribalism

[Dis]

we should respect their differences.

[Sava]

Oerdin...

I'm curious. You are against the war in Iraq (I pretty much assume so given your anti-Bush anti-Republican leanings nowadays). So am I.

I don't mean to go off-topic here, but this is obviously horrible and barbaric. But, what exactly should we do about this?

I think most of us would agree that many things in the Muslim world are objectionable to the vast majority of us on these forums... regardless of political beliefs. But what is to be done?

And I want serious responses... not just "nuke the mideast". Do we just leave them to do whatever? Can we even do anything? Should we? I get just tired and sick and depressed reading this stuff. Is there anything that can be done to stop this kind of thing?

[Dinner]

We need to give up this PC nonsense about all cultures being equal. They are not equal and we need to stop pretending some things aren't the barbaric garbage they are.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Oerdin
We need to give up this PC nonsense about all cultures being equal. They are not equal and we need to stop pretending some things aren't the barbaric garbage they are.

okay...............

I am talking more about along the lines of actual policy

[Odin]

Originally posted by Oerdin
We need to give up this PC nonsense about all cultures being equal. They are not equal and we need to stop pretending some things aren't the barbaric garbage they are.

Cultural Relativism:

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oerdin
We need to give up this PC nonsense about all cultures being equal.

Duh. If I thought all cultures were truly equal then why would I bother trying to modify the one I live in (i.e. by voting)?

[Az]

What, b*tch, you don't like my money?!!!

[Patroklos]

to illiterate sons

What does this matter to the subject, especially in context?

[dannubis]

i think that is the root of the problem patroklos. too little education with the common people

[Az]

i think that is the root of the problem patroklos. too little education with the common people

How come? What does the ability to read and write have to do with the legitmacy of rape in society? the link is very indirect.

[Datajack Franit]

we have to respect multiculturalism

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Odin


Cultural Relativism:

[Datajack Franit]

Islam is a religion of peace!