Pakistani girl burned alive by mother over love marriage
Source: Times of India
LAHORE: A teenage Pakistani girl was doused in petrol and then burned alive on Wednesday in Punjab's Lahore allegedly by her mother and brother for marrying a man of her choice, in the latest case of so-called "honour killings" in the country.
Zeenat, 18, died on the spot, police said.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistani-girl-burned-alive-by-mother-over-love-marriage/articleshow/52657173.cms
apcalc
(4,461 posts)What this country and culture does to women...
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What in the world has this got to do anything with "multiculturalism"? It's just culture. Barking up the wrong tree here.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)How can a parent do something so deplorable to their own child?
elljay
(1,178 posts)It is difficult for us to understand because our culture is what has been called a Guilt Society. It is possible to redeem oneself through apology, appropriate behavior, penance (e.g. prison term). One person's crime doesn't necessarily affect the entire family/town/region.
However, in a shame or honor society like Pakistan, the consequences for a breach of behavioral norm extend to entire clans and can result in generations of violence and discord. Think Hatfields and McCoys with Kalashnikovs, IEDs and gasoline. The mother's not participating in this would have been another breach and she, herself, would have been hunted down and killed by family members (not trying to excuse, trying to explain). The honor killing is required to preserve the status quo and is generally approved of by the community. This entire society will have to change to stop this horrifying behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzat_%28honour%29
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)appears to be extremely easy for people in our society to inject judgment and blame .
And doubly difficult not to be aghast while still accepting a different reality.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Cultural relativism has come to its ultimate extreme
romanic
(2,841 posts)It's like these people have no fucking humanity or anything, I mean that's your child for God's sake. Smh
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)to their own child, no matter what they had done. They are cold, brutal people.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Burning her alive for fucking "honor?"
Fuck these assholes.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I'm not a parent but isn't it somewhat innate for a parent to PROTECT their child? And over fucking honor? This is sickening.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And women.
The more isolated, rural and religious/tribal the village, the harder such horrible beliefs hold on.
When a girl is born, there is no celebration..there are condolences and resentments.
god, how sad.
JI7
(89,174 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Apparently, centuries old beliefs hold on in urban areas too. Misogyny is a global disease. Rural, urban, wealthy, poor...
SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)must have felt.
CanonRay
(14,036 posts)no other word for it.