Re: Sati in Bihar, India
This thread is leading nowhere and the time has come for it to be closed.
Dekho bhai, sati is banned by law in India…everyone criticizes it, including me…unfortunately it occurs once in a crimson-moon in some remote village of India…it is a highly condemnable practice…so condemnable that even the “great” Aurangzeb mumbled something against it and this was his greatest contribution to humanity…blah blah blah…
I can post articles like these on Honour killings, honour rapes, in Pakistan, and on the first page og google I found this from BBC World May 2, 2005:
Pakistan rejects pro-women bill
The Pakistan government has allied with Islamists to reject a bill which sought to strengthen the law against the practice of “honour killing”.
The parliament rejected the bill by a majority vote on Tuesday, declaring it to be un-Islamic.
Honour killing is the name given to murders where the offender claims the victim, usually a woman, had brought his family into disrepute.
The bill was rejected after being declared un-Islamic by a majority vote.
{Mashallah !}
“Karo-kari”
Under the so-called Islamic legislation enacted by General Zia ul Haq, Pakistan’s Islamist military ruler in the 1980s, proven killers could seek or buy pardon from the victim’s family under the Islamic principles of compromise.
Observers say Islamists still wield influence in parliament
The law has remained essentially unchanged since then.
Observers say that it has been grossly misused and has contributed directly to an alarming increase in the practice of “karo-kari” or the so-called honour killings.
*Karo-kari is a tradition whereby a man can kill a woman, claiming that she brought dishonour to the family, and still expect to be pardoned by her relatives.
Once such a pardon has been secured, the state has no further writ on the matter. *
Human rights agencies in Pakistan have repeatedly emphasised that most women falling prey to karo-kari were usually those wanting to marry of their own will.
Islamists have an uneasy relationship with the government
In many cases, the victims held properties that the male members of their families did not wish to lose if the women chose to marry outside the family.
Government and independent researchers estimate that over 4,000 women have fallen victim to this practice in Pakistan over the last six years.
In December last year, the government passed a bill making karo-kari punishable under the same penal provisions as murder.
But it did not alter the provisions whereby the accused could negotiate pardon with the victim’s family under the so-called Islamic provisions.
These provisions often in conflict with the Anglo-Saxon law inherited by Pakistan in 1947.
Toh bhai before slinging mud on others on sati which is practiced by less than 0.00001% of India’s large population, look into your own country and see how karo-kari is being given almost legal sanction by the law itself.