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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 12:07 PM Jun 2014

Farzana Parveen stoning shames Pakistan

Farzana Parveen was just 25 years old born alone and died alone. The autopsy will show she did not die by natural causes but was stoned to death. She did not commit any crime except incurring the dislike of her own parents and family members by her decision to marry Mohammad Iqbal. They viewed it a matter of honor and conspired to kill Farzana.

The terrifying scene portrayed in the global news media showed hundreds of spectators witnessing the most horrifying crime to human nature, not in darkness but in broad daylight, and right where freedom, human dignity, and honor of the citizens should have been protected - the Lahore High Court compound with police in attendance.

It is incredibly shameful to be a Pakistani and to watch this inhuman atrocity out of the nowhere. Why the police did not offer protection to Farzana? Farzana's soul must be wondering, why did society not protect her against this draconian act of violence? Where are the concerned citizens who claim to be believers - the Muslims who day and night talk about Islam as being the faith and value of their society?

The truth is that Farzana is not the first victim of such a horrible tragedy. Every day, countless Farzans become the object of the powerful monsters of this beleaguered and mindless trend of the society. There was no Islam and no believing Muslims as Farzana was being stoned to death; nobody came to rescue her. Her husband, Mohammad Iqbal, begged the spectators to save his wife but none of them offered to help save Farzana from the stoning.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/SOU-01-020614.html

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