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Another consequence of a mindset that views women as possessions, and considers all of the earth to be rightfully entitled to Muslim believers, particularly those who wage jihad.
"Girls to marry militants, orders Taliban," from the Times of India, January 2 (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMABAD: On the heels of their crusade against girls going to schools, the Taliban have now issued new dictum in the areas under their sway asking parents of the grown up daughters to marry them to militants or "face dire consequences".
What is their definition of "grown up?"
This new force-marriage campaign is being run in most of the areas in the Pakistan's troubled NWFP through regular announcements made in mosques to congregations.
Such instances have come to light recently through some of the affected women daring to go to authorities for justice rather than meekly surrender to the militants’ dictates.
Salma, who teaches in a primary school in Peshawar, told the Dawn newspaper that Taliban have told families to declare in mosques if they have unmarried girls so that their hand could be given in marriage, most probably to militants.
If they did not do so, the girls would be forcibly married off, the newspaper quoted the 30-year-old widow as saying.
She also said the Taliban in the Swat valley of NWFP have threatened women with dire punishment, if they are found outside their homes without identity cards and a male relative accompanying them.
Couples should also carry 'Nikah Nama' or marriage certificates with them when they venture out of home or they will be in trouble, she said.
"I have heard that Taliban have announced that if a girl above the age of seven is found outside her house, she would be slaughtered," Salma said.
Once an avid listener of Pakistani Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah's FM radio station, Salma doesn't tune in to the channel any more.
"Usually there is only dreadful news on the radio, so I stopped listening to it," said Salma, who has three sons.
Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio for the fiery sermons he broadcasts on his illegal FM station, leads a campaign by Taliban militants to enforce Shariat or Islamic law in Swat.
Fazlullah's followers have blown up or torched over 100 girls' schools in Swat and barred women from going to markets.
The Taliban's recent decision to completely ban girls' education from January 15 has upset Salma and her colleagues because most of them are the sole bread-winners of their families.
"My colleagues were crying when they heard this bad news. Some have aged and handicapped parents while others have lost their male members in the ongoing conflict," she said.
"Our principal has said that all female teachers should write down the domestic problems forcing them to work so that they could be forwarded to Taliban, who would be requested to review their policy about women's education," Salma said.
No concept of education as a human right (irrespective of gender), or of innate human curiosity and the right to the pursuit of happiness, and least of all, of self-determination. All of these are fundamental to the Western understanding of "elevating" the status of women.
Women who go out for work, especially social work, are tagged as immoral and eliminated by militants controlling the area, he said.
Bakht Zeba, a 45-year-old woman councillor who was a staunch supporter of girls' education, was murdered on November 25. She was first threatened by Taliban to stop her activities or face dire consequences. When she did not pay heed to the warnings, the Taliban shot her dead in her house.
Posted by Marisol at January 3, 2009 2:26 PM
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Pakistanis can thank their ISI and Saudi Arabia for creating Taliban. But no worries. All Muslims belong to the Ummah, submitted to, therefore expendable in, the service of Allah.
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at January 3, 2009 2:44 PM
This post is actually so sad, in some many ways, that I had difficulty reading it through.
Anyone else?
Posted by: Vee at January 3, 2009 2:53 PM
The barbarity of these people (and I use the word people very loosely) is unbelievable. They are talking openly of "slaughtering" 7 year old girls!
at January 3, 2009 3:24 PM
I simply do not understand their fear of women.
Posted by: cm at January 3, 2009 7:05 PM
Every day, you will see an op-ed piece, or a posted comment, by a Muslimah disgusted and offended by Western views that Muslim women are systematically devalued and demeaned by the very beliefs they hold.
No amount of evidence supporting the Western view will remove these Muslimah blinders. No crime or horror or embedded injustice is enough to even cause hesitation in their claims that Mohammed loved and elevated women, that Islam was the first to grant women rights, that paradise is under the feet of mothers, etc., etc. Just as terrorists "hijack" Islam, the millions and millions of Muslim wife-beaters, daughter-murderers and -mutilators, acid-throwers, serial divorcers, rapists, forced-marriagers, child-bride molesters, and the like simply "misunderstand" the respect Islam has for women or are overcome by "culture."
When one asks why offending "cultures" as otherwise diverse as Indonesia, Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Balkans share only these crimes and Islam, there is first a silence and then a frantic dance of "colonialism" and "everyone does it."
When one points out the sections in the Koran and the hadith, the repugnant behavior of the Prophet himself, and the thousand years of juristic interpretation that support these conditions as part of Islam, there is first a silence and then shrieks of "racism" and "bigotry." The smarter Muslimahs, actually detecting the problem, will begin denying the validity of everything from the ulema to the universities to the Hadith themselves, teetering somewhat dangerously in some cases on the edge of apostasy. It's the "my personal Islam" garment, stitched together with the raveling thread of gender theory and sequined by colonialism.
Attempting to systematically go through an argument with an intelligent Muslimah turns into a trip down the rabbit hole. This new abomination from Afghanistan will change nothing in their minds, just as the murders of Amina, Sara and Aqsa did nothing. The hijabs are tightened down. Their personal modesty is secure, their personal obedience to Allah is prominently displayed to all. Other womens' torture and deaths are irrelevant.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at January 3, 2009 7:29 PM
And CM -- they're no more "afraid" of women than a stockbreeder is afraid of his livestock.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at January 3, 2009 7:39 PM
Vee,
Unfortunately, I think I'm becoming numb to this stuff, as I occasionally do. Time for a break, maybe.
We (America and her allies) shouldn't be involved in any way with Muslim countries. We should shrug them off, tune them out, defend ourselves against attacks on our own soil, with extreme and harsh retaliation, and let them support themselves, in their wretched dust and filth.
Starving and uneducated children are a sad, tragic fact of life in Pakistan, and all the other "stans". But it's their social tragedy, not ours.
There are children to be educated and fed in America, and I'm sorry if I'm an ogress for believing they should be fed and educated first.
Attempts to curry favor, by both major political parties, has brought nothing but heartache upon us. The definition of insanity is to continue to do a thing, repeatedly, expecting a different result.
Our outreaches, our attempts to vaccinate, our attempts to educate, our attempts to feed--all come to nothing but hatred and murder, in return.
It's just not possible to maintain a feeling of deep concern for the victims of Islam. Sooner or later, one becomes tired and numb. That's where I am, right now.
Islamic countries should be left to sort out their own problems. When we get involved we get drained, and that's not a good thing, when these savage people are threatening to kill or enslave us all. We need to pick off the ticks and keep up our own strength.
I have no disregard for anyone who is still energetic enough to care about Pakistan--I salute you all. But for my part, I'm tired.
Posted by: Stormwarning at January 3, 2009 7:48 PM
We (America and her allies) shouldn't be involved in any way with Muslim countries. We should shrug them off, tune them out, defend ourselves against attacks on our own soil, with extreme and harsh retaliation, and let them support themselves, in their wretched dust and filth.
Islamic countries should be left to sort out their own problems. When we get involved we get drained, and that's not a good thing, when these savage people are threatening to kill or enslave us all. We need to pick off the ticks and keep up our own strength.
Posted by: Stormwarning at January 3, 2009 7:48 PM
good point!
An Iron Curtain is needed!
Posted by: eleytheria-h-thanatos at January 3, 2009 9:08 PM
Oh, I quite agree with you, Stormwarning. I'm all for a separation, as literal as possible, between the Islamic world and the "rest" of the world (whether Western, or not).
But as a human being, and a female one at that, it's very painful to read about what happens in Islamic societies. It does not follow, though, that because of that emotion I would sacrifice myself, my loved ones, or my values to right the wrongs there.
I am extremely grateful it's not my bed to lie in, and that I was born free.
Posted by: Vee at January 3, 2009 11:26 PM
I don't understand something - how many of these Taliban are there? Surely the population outnumber them? If these women ahve nothing to lose - and they sure don't ! - can't they organise before they're all confined to their basements?
If I'm off the track, apologies.
Posted by: carpediadem at January 4, 2009 7:02 AM
We (America and her allies) .....
They (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) are her allies. LOL.. They (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) have it covered.... you just didn't realize it.
Posted by: Alert at January 4, 2009 11:31 AM
It's pretty sad that Talibanis have to force women (actually, by our standards, children) to marry them. Some guys just can't get a date any other way.
But this is the hidden face of Islam, the one that its apologists and advocates deny. I keep remembering the words of Abraham Lincoln - "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
at January 5, 2009 9:24 AM
Vee,
I too felt intense sadness and hard time reading this! And Stormwarning, I agree with you!
isn't it sad to watch the news these past 10 days and see our own American cities and our own citizens marching against Israel and supporting the murderers of Gaza-that would be Hamas!
If we allow these Democrats to stay in office this civil disobedience will just get much worse! And until this past 2 years, I was a lifelong Dem. Never again!!
Don't worry, the dem leaders who say they support israel will change in a second when the Great messiah decides he wants to sit down with these Terrorists!
What make Obama and the Dems the most dangerous, is they actually think that these Islamic countries can be reasoned with! Sad day in the world!
at January 5, 2009 11:10 AM
This rather reminds me of the caveman mentality. See, knock on the head, take.
Do we really want to live in a society where this sort of thing is acceptable? After all, it is coming to a neighborhood near you.
Who will stand against this? Who will say, no you may not do this to our girls? Because if we allow this to stand somewhere in the world, very soon we will allow it in our own hemisphere, in our own towns and cities, and in our own families. And if you think it isn't true remember we've done just that with CAIR and the constant chipping, chipping, chipping away of our standards and our rights.
So an iron curtain won't work this time. There is no containment. This filth is spilling over into where we live and it is doing so right this minute.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at January 5, 2009 1:35 PM
Vee, tanstaafl, MNproud, and Isabella,
I agree with you all. It's sad as hell. I was more or less "crying in my beer", in my previous post, which did sound a bit hard-hearted.
I don't know what we can do for these poor children. What, outside of Hell could be worse, for them? Marrying your repulsive cousin is bad enough, but marrying a violent, disgusting stranger with blood under his nails? To call it marriage is to blaspheme a holy institution, and God's intention for it.
I wonder what the average age is, for a Muslim girl, in an Islamic country, when she realizes she's vulnerable and in danger, simply because she has no penis.
When I think about it, those three inches or so of dangling skin being the difference between freedom and abject slavery, it makes my blood boil.
Posted by: Stormwarning at January 5, 2009 4:02 PM
How can this utter depravity continue while we, in the west, live a life of luxury and abundance?! The atrocities will only get worse and worse and we do nothing out of "respect" for a nations "sovereignty". These third world, backward nations have no hope of improving the lives of their citizens. I say we return to our colonial past and bring civilization to the masses via a form of "benevolent colonialism". We go in and over throw the worthless governments and begin an occupation that, via initially severe martial law, restores true law and order that is based on the truth that everyone is created equal and deserves the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We train and brainwash a new police force in how to protect the public and not accept bribery. Yes, I am advocating "re-education" camps that deprogram years of misery. We greatly lower corruption by training an army of lawyers that are trained on the newly established constitution and we defang the place that their religion has in politics and defang their childrens school books and curriculum so that hate will be replaced by hope and opportunity. Then we continue to occupy and closely monitor progress and build roads, sewer systems and schools and new industries that are suited for their locales and apptitudes.
I know this all sounds like pie in the sky fantasy, but we keep pouring charitable money into these countries to keep the poor alive and give a free pass to the corrupt governments that should be doing this. If we really want to give them more than just a full belly, we need to address the root of the problem: corrupt governments that only care about staying in power or that are too weak to control and lead their people or that are consumed with hate.
We(the governments of the west) need to shed our PC filters and come to the realization that yes, some cultures are truly way better than others and that we need to move the backward cultures into the ashbin of history.
If we do not, the world will continue its downward spiral as the poor, angry, uneducated, easily manipulated masses grow in numbers and turn this world into a insurmountable cesspool of wickedness, despair and hopeless that only the likes of satan will take delight in.
Posted by: Alex Tracemont at January 6, 2009 12:06 AM
Pakistan: Taliban demands all unmarried girls be wed to their jihadists
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Horrifying. This also brings to mind an event in Afghanistan from about 15 years ago, where local warlords, after seeing a broadcast from a Kabul television station featuring attractive female news anchors, went down to the station and demanded that the women be turned over to them.
No doubt these good Muslims thought that any women with the temerity to appear unveiled on television were sluts, and fair game to any male who wanted them.
A bizarre bit of dissonance involving modernity and Medieval barbarity. Even worse, the station personel, perhaps fearing they had no choice, *did* hand over their collegues over to the thugs.
at January 6, 2009 4:05 PM
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