"3 Pakistanis stoned, shot to death
By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 7:23 AM ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two men and a woman were stoned and shot to death in northwestern Pakistan on the orders of a tribal council that found them guilty of adultery, an official said Thursday.
Activists from a radical Islamic group detained the three on Monday in a house in Belod, a village in the Khyber tribal agency near the Afghan border, said Fazel Mehmood, a local government official.
The activists from the Lashkar-Islam group put a woman called Tasleema and two men, identified as Noorullah and Shehzad, before a jirga, or tribal council, on Wednesday, where elders found them guilty of adultery, Mehmood said..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_re_mi_ea/pakistan_tribal_killing_1;_ylt=AlWztGutDkJFahyqsBDdoyruOrgF
2007-03-16 06:22:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
hichefheidi, I don't see you making the world aware of these atrocities. I post these stories all the time, as the media only reports them in buried places and there are no liberal groups championing these poor victims. Yet, for some reason, you who holds yourself out as a champion of women's rights feels fight to criticize me. Go figure.
2007-03-16 06:32:57 · update #1
No, everyone should be up in arms over this and the thousands of other incidents that occur all over the world in the name of this vial ideology. As a nation, are we to care only about the white europeans in America? Is that the true socialist worldview?
2007-03-16 06:34:54 · update #2
What does that question even mean? This incident took place in Pakistan, it would not have happened in the US and I am sure that Conservatives wouldn't have agreed with a stoning either. So what do you mean by Liberal mafia?
2007-03-16 06:29:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like these attrocities were committed by the government, enforcing its current laws.
There are no universal "sexual rights". Legal rights arise directly and exclusively from a particular body of laws.
If what this tribal council did was legal, then no legal rights were infringed. That sound harsh (and it is) but that's how the law works.
If you think those laws should be changed or abolished, I agree with you. But that doesn't change the fact that they are currently the law.
2007-03-16 06:28:04 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
So when abuse happens in this country the liberals should do nothing but when its over seas they should be up in arms. That makes no sense at all. You must be like 12 years old. Was school canceled today.
2007-03-16 06:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its horrible that there are still laws like this.
and its catch-22. we want to stop this from ever happening but we can't impose our beliefs on others
this is why I fear the christian fundementalists in america.
2007-03-16 07:21:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
where are you? Always pointing the figer away, as if human rights issues don't concern you.
EDIT: You wish to bring these things to light by using divisive tactics? Good luck. ANd believe me, you don't know the fight I bring for women, since you don't know me. You seek to divide, I seek to unite.
2007-03-16 06:26:55 · answer #5 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋