Pakistani Minister Unveiled. Slain. Plus Other Muslim Carnage
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (02/23/07)
She had no veil. She was murdered, per The Times’ Devika Bhat and Zahid Hussain via FOXNews.com.
Zilla Huma Usman, minister for social welfare and friend to President Pervez Musharraf, was slain just as she was to address politicians.
Extremist Muslim Mohammad Sarwar informed anyone who wanted to hear that Usman was a disgrace to Islam and therefore did not deserve to live. He considers his act, not a crime, but a holy offering to Allah according to his interpretation of the Koran.
Usman, 35, sans head covering, disembarked from her car to be shot at short range. The bullet cut through her head. A single shot.
The killer is a stone mason in his mid-40s. He was once held by police due to having slain and tortured four prostitutes; he was never convicted "due to lack of evidence." It is not uncommon for Muslim males to find leniency in the Islamic courts. Sometimes the press looks the other way as do police when crimes are committed against females.
"Sarwar appeared relaxed and calm when he told a television channel that he had carried out God’s order to kill women who sinned.
"’I have no regrets. I just obeyed Allah’s commandment,’ he said, adding that Islam did not allow women to hold positions of leadership. ‘I will kill all those women who do not follow the right path, if I am freed again,’ he said."
There are like extremist killers who immigrate into non-Muslims nations. That is what is alarming certain European leaders. They call Muslims "aliens." However, what is sad is that non-Muslim leaders scold non-Muslims for not integrating more kindly the immigrating Muslims. What is the problem is that when extremist Muslims move in, they dictate, not dialogue. It is up to them to integrate peacefully with the host country. Often they do not.
"’He (Sarwar) is basically a fanatic,’ Raja Basharat, the Punjab Law Minister, said. ‘He is against the involvement of women in politics and government affairs.’ A police statement added: ‘He considers it contrary to the teachings of Allah for a woman to become a minister or a ruler. That’s why he committed this action.’
"’He killed her because she was not observing the Islamic code of dress. She was also campaigning for emancipation of women,’ said Nazir Ahmad, a local officer."
Diane Sawyer recently interviewed so-called liberated females in Iran. These women told Sawyer that they had hopes for a liberated Iran. However, there are other females throughout Iran who daily are tortured, slain in the name of "honor killing," hung from poles along roadsides, and beaten for showing their ankles.
"Usman, a married mother of two sons, joined the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League after being elected in 2002. A strong supporter of the President’s policy of ‘enlightened moderation’ - designed to tackle extremism - she was appointed to her current post in December last year according to her government biography.
"In April 2005, she encouraged the holding of a mini-marathon involving female competitors in Gujranwala – an event which led to riots after police intervened to stop armed Islamic activists from disrupting the race. She also ran a small fashion business from her base in the town.
"Analysts said that the murder of the female minister highlighted the failure of his government in curbing Islamic extremism. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in a recent report said that violence against women had increased alarmingly, with some of the incidents incited by Mullahs opposed to women’s emancipation.
"Islamists also campaigned against the Women Protection Bill which was recently passed by parliament, which seeks to provide protection to women who have suffered discrimination under Islamic Sharia laws.
"Women make up just over 20 per cent of the lower house of parliament, according to the country’s main human rights group, and there are three women ministers in the cabinet of the federal government. But widespread discrimination against females continues to be a problem in what remains a male-dominated society, particularly in the countryside, where most Pakistanis live."
As stated above, there is some leeway granted females in cities; however, in Muslim nation rural areas, untold incidents of mutilation and murder leveled against females go unreported every day.
For instance: "Sixteen-year-old Zahra Ezzo died at the hospital last month after a brutal attack. But it was her brother who confessed to killing her – and her family who appointed him to carry out the murder," per Rasha Elass, The Christian Science Monitor.
It is the extremist Muslim custom of "honor killing." Extremist Muslim males may murder a female accused of bringing shame on the clan. This takes place daily throughout the extremist Muslim world.
"Some experts estimate that 200 to 300 honor killings like Zahra's occur every year in Syria. Most receive little or no attention.
"But Zahra's murder – in part because it happened in the capital and not a rural area – has compelled Syria's grand mufti, cleric Ahmad Hassoun, to publicly condemn the crime, calling for the first time for the immediate protection of girls at risk and for legal reform on the basis that such crimes are un-Islamic. President Bashar al-Assad has also promised to find a solution."
In country sections of Muslim territories, females are slain with little or no attention attending the action, the latter not considered a crime by fanatic Muslims. Media will not touch the incidents in many cases. Police and legal authorities often give extremist Muslim males the leeway to commit such slayings by turning their heads the other way.
Fanatic Muslims consider females cursed from conception. The curse is defined by extremist Muslims as showing genitals in public. The curses number ten; one curse may be lifted if the female marries a Muslim.
"Among the public, too, debate is rising about the practice and the laws that protect men who carry out such killings. A key question is whether the brother should go on trial for premeditated murder – the family had planned it for months – or as someone who had no choice because the clan's honor was at stake."
Such carnage is approved by the "sharia," the latter being the so-called "justice system" of Islam. Extremist Muslim immigrants take this concept into non-Muslim countries, hence the present frustration with civil societies having to live alongside sharia-abiding Muslims. In some non-Muslim nations, Muslims vote for the sharia to replace the host countries’ legal systems.
"Syria's law is lenient on a man who kills or injures his female relative if he catches her in ‘illegitimate sexual acts with another,’ or in a ‘suspicious state with another.’ If Zahra's brother is tried under this law, he might get out of jail in three months.
"’This is what we're trying to change,’ said Yumun Abu al-Hosn, a founding member of the Association for Women's Role Development, one of the few nongovernment organizations in Syria. The association runs the girls' shelter where Zahra took refuge in her final months.
"’We may not be able to stop honor killings overnight, but at least if the crime is tried as premeditated murder, then Zahra and others like her will have some dignity in death.’"
Going against the uncivil Muslim tradition is difficult for those championing the defense of females. Extremist males often rule with such authority that women are treated worse than dung. Many conclude it would have been better for women never to have been conceived than to be imprisoned for life in such an extremist male-dominated insanity.
"Zahra's case is also compelling because of the events surrounding it. According to Zahra before her death, say sources who spoke to her before she died, her father was having an extramarital affair. If the clan had discovered this, Zahra's father and his mistress might have both been killed. A friend of Zahra's father, a young man who took a liking to the then-15-year-old, threatened to tell all unless Zahra ran away with him.
"She agreed. But when the clan discovered that Zahra had left, they decided to pursue both and kill them. But the police found them first. They put the man in jail, where he stands to serve a 15-year prison sentence for the kidnap and rape of a minor, and where he is safe from the clan's wrath. They put Zahra in the shelter.
"But only for nine months. During that time, Zahra's family tried three times to regain custody of her, but the association refused, saying the family could not guarantee Zahra's safety.
"The family then asked one of Zahra's cousins to marry her, which according to tradition would restore honor to the family. Fawaz hardly knew Zahra and was not in on the plot to kill her. He agreed to marry her first out of chivalry, then because he fell in love with her.
"Her family and the family of her soon-to-be-husband all came to the shelter to formalize her marriage, and her father signed a sworn statement guaranteeing that neither he nor anyone in the family would harm Zahra.
"So Zahra, whose name means flower, moved into her new husband's home, an apartment one floor below her new in-laws in Damascus.
"But one month later, her brother came to visit. On the morning of his third day with them, when Zahra's husband went to work and Zahra slept in, Fayez stabbed his sister to death."
It is reported that in some "honor killings," the male slaying the female will cup the dead body in his hands, weeping over the body. He believed he had to see through the murder while at the same time not hating the female. The tradition, to civil-minded individuals, is fraught with dysfunction and cannot be tolerated by civilized cultures. Therefore, it is this tension that now exists throughout European countries in particular due to the influx of extremist Muslim immigrants.
"Violence against women is coming under growing scrutiny in the Arab world. Last year, the United Nations Development Fund for Women sponsored for the first time a study on it in Syria, concluding that 1 in 4 women suffers physical abuse, usually from a male relative.
"But honor killings, which happen in many Arab and Muslim countries as well as in Israel and Western Europe, are a touchy subject. Local religious and political leaders are usually reluctant to become involved in a clan's family affair, and authorities in many countries rarely report a crime as an honor killing, making gathering statistics very difficult.
"Activists say that lawyers in countries with leniency laws for such killings often advise a male client accused of murder to claim it was in the name of honor to avoid the death penalty.
"’There are hidden motives behind these murders. It could be for inheritance or for financial reasons or because the victim wanted to choose her husband – or she's been raped or she's a victim of incest,’ said Rana Husseini, a Jordan-based activist who is writing a book on honor killing.
"Reforms are often slow or unusually targeted. Morocco, for example, recently gave women the right to a light sentence if they killed in a fit of fury.
"’They said this way we're making our laws "equal." But how many women kill men? No one needs a PhD to realize that the impact will be discriminatory,’ said Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director at Equality Now, a New York-based international human rights organization."
In the meantime, Europe confesses it does not know what to do with extremist Muslim "aliens."
"’Aliens are here, they don't accept our values, they are a threat to our way of life and turn to radicalism,’" said Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, State Department.
Nicholas Kralev of The Washington Times reports: "’You have a weird nativist surge in Western Europe, and a kind of odd panic,’ Fried explained."
The US leadership is trying to work with European leaders to integrate immigrant Muslims there. What they must understand as the bottom line is that when extremist Muslims move in, they dictate, not dialogue. Have not European leaders heard that message yet? Some have. Others have not.
Fried said: "The growing Muslim presence in Europe is a huge problem. We are thinking about it seriously, and we've tried to do some intellectual framing-up.’"
Devout Muslims adhere to the Koran, not host governments. Allah speaks, not national leaders.
"Unrest among Muslims in Europe, particularly those who have turned to extremist acts such as the 2005 London transit system bombings, has spurred a heated debate across the continent.
"Mr. Fried said that a ‘process of alienation’ is occurring within Europe's Muslim communities, and that their host countries have ‘no sense of integration.’"
There is the problem. Fried complains that the host nations don’t know how to integrate Muslims. It’s the other way around. Fried doesn’t get it. Sad. Very sad.
"Mr. Fried, a career diplomat since 1977, is a former ambassador to Poland and served as senior director for European affairs at the NSC during President Bush's first term."
Muslim "aliens"? True. They are misfits. For instance, on TheReligionOfPeace.com, there is a picture of a tiny Muslim girl locked in chains around her ankles. This little Muslim girl is being tutored at a young age how to obey extremist Muslim males. She has misbehaved, that is, according to her elders; therefore, she is put in chains. They expect her to learn how to conform immediately to every directive as she grows older. If not, she will pay severely.
Females are treated worse than dung in some Islamic territories. For instance, a 4-year-old Muslim girl is offered in marriage to settle a "sex crime," per Mansoor Mirani of Dawn.com, the Internet Edition. "Four-year-old Sapna, daughter of Khadim Hussain, (is presented) in compensation marriage to Abid, 10, son of Ghous Bux" in order to bring peace to a dispute.
Factually women are not considered significant unless, for example, used in extremist Muslim male bartering for a number of "reasons."
There are multitudinous examples of Muslim females being tortured or murdered by extremist Muslim males who conclude the females get out of line. Many times these accusations are only in the extremist males’ imaginations. Definite proof never needs to be provided in order for a Muslim female to endure maiming or killing.
This week Diane Sawyer gives news from her present-tense visit in Iran. On the one hand, she reports Muslim women who appear somewhat liberated. Yet all females, including non-Muslims visiting Iran, must wear the headgear. That includes Diane Sawyer.
On the other hand, she reports that outside the cities women are stoned to death. Of course, it is walking the tight rope for her to give data straightforwardly while inside Iranian borders. If she missteps, she could put her own safety in jeopardy.
Facts are that in Iran and other Muslim nations often females gamble with their futures for stepping over the line as defined according to extremist male boundaries.
Per Roni Singer-Heruti of Haaretz.com, "The discovery of the body of 19-year-old Hamda Abu-Ganem in her home in the Ramle neighborhood of Juarish didn't surprise Ramle Police Superintendent Yigal Ezra. Although many people, including Ezra, tried to help Abu-Ganem run from the fate that awaited her, she remained in her parents' house - and became the seventh woman in her family to be murdered in an ‘honor killing’ in as many years.
"’A few young criminals in Juarish set up a group that decides which of the women has violated the honor of the family,’ said Ezra. ‘For instance, if a woman spoke to someone on a cell phone, or laughed with a man, that is sometimes considered a violation of the family honor, from their perspective. They plan how the murder will take place, who will carry it out and even find an alibi for the murderer. From the moment someone is marked, there is no way out.’"
Move now to Multan, Pakistan’s report: "About 4,000 people, mostly women, have been killed in deeply conservative rural Pakistan in recent years in the name of protecting family honor when there are allegations of an illicit sexual relationship," per AFP as reported by Khaleej Times Online.
"Two lovers were tied to trees and stoned to death for adultery by angry relatives in a Pakistani village, police said Tuesday.
"Police said the couple, in their early 40s, were killed in a barrage of rocks thrown by relatives of the woman in a village in central Punjab province on Sunday.
"’It was a case of honor killing and we have arrested two brothers of the woman,’ local police chief Zafar Bokhari said.
"Bokhari said the woman’s family was annoyed because of her alleged affair with a man from the same village and planned the murder with the help of other relatives."
What if Muslim male or female is accused of stealing?
"The chief of the regime’s judiciary in the western city of Kermanshah, Allah-Yar Malik-Shahi yesterday said, ‘Soon there will be a number of limb amputations in public in connection with robberies in [Kermanshah] Province’ per official news agency IRNA as reported by National Council of Resistance of Iran..
"He said, ‘The judiciary will cut off the hand which steals people’s properties in order to serve as a lesson for others… Carrying out several sentences in public will greatly decrease such crimes in society.’
"The medieval regime has resorted to extreme measurers, such as limb amputation, eye gouging, flogging, and the degrading punishment of parading prisoners around towns, to combat the rising tide of popular uprisings and demonstrations in various provinces across Iran."
I wonder if Diane Sawyer will have a chance to interview Allah-Yar Malik-Shahi or any of his victims?
The facts of Islam point to a religion, not of peace, but of pieces.
One piece was the old man’s severed head. His head actually was never found, but the rest of him was. Further, "police said they found severe cuts on his fingers, hands and shoulder at his village mill in Thailand’s Pattani province."
Why the bloody mess?
Per PostNews of bangkokpost.com, "Thai Muslim extremists in the South have beheaded a 72-year-old Buddhist rice miller in at least the 24th such atrocity since they escalated their insurgency just over three years ago.
"Police said the victim apparently was killed in retaliation for a bomb attack on a village tea shop owned by Muslims.
"’This is revenge for what happened last night in Nakohn Nua,’ a message left at the mill said in reference to the village where a bomb exploded that injured no one."
Civility is a hard come-upon in some parts of the Muslim world.
Now to what really smatters against Christians?
Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, Al-Qaeda appointed as "head of the Islamic State of Iraq," provides the following recording dated February 2, 2007. It is titled, "Victory from Allah, Victory is Near."
Note that he finds "no blood sweeter than that of the Christians. . ."
"’Oh Muslim youths, remember the cut up bodies of the children, the voices of their bereaved [parents] and the anguished cries of the elderly. Let the volcano of your wrath burst forth. Burn the ground beneath the feet of the Jews and their helpers, eradicate their army, destroy their equipment, down their planes, ambush them in their homes, in the wadis and on the roads.
"Hide in the darkness of night and turn their morning into hell... We are not afraid of your coalitions...We have drunk blood [in the past], and we find no [blood] sweeter than that of the Christians... Roast their flesh with car bombs, cut off their supply lines with [explosive] charges and tear out their hearts with sniper fire. Know that offense is the best [form of] defense, and be careful not to lay down your weapons before the war is over... We are not fighting out of nationalism, but with the aim of making Allah's word supreme.’"
Consider that the most Iraqis slain have been slain by Iraqis, though Al-Baghdadi incites his own to slaughter non-Muslims for causing Iraq’s carnage.
Look at the facts: The real 2006 'Iraq Body Count' of Iraqi civilians killed last year by Islamic terrorists numbers 16,791.
Iraqi civilians killed collaterally in incidents involving Americans (and Islamic Terrorists) equals 225.
Iraqis aren't dying from war. They are being murdered by Islamic terrorists. Source: IraqBodyCount.net (includes civilians caught in crossfire who may have been killed by the terrorists, and terrorists who may have been counted as civilians). This detail is provided on TheReligionOfPeace.com at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Move on to Pakistan where Christians are severely beaten by extremist Muslims? "Voice Of the Martyrs Australia (VOMA) said its workers were attacked in Pakpattan, a district of Punjab province.
"’Three members of the four-member team were roughed up by radical Muslims, then taken to the police station where they were detained and questioned before being released,’ VOMA told BosNewsLife in a statement.
"’The fourth evangelist, the leader of the team, was badly beaten by a mob of more than 100 angry Muslims, who then dragged him through the crowd before taking him to the police station.’ He was allegedly ‘severely beaten’ and VOMA contacts took him to ‘a hospital for medical care.’"
Now to Quebec. There a village is taking no chances. There are no Muslims living there but they have already unanimously voted certain civil laws on the books just in case extremist Muslim barbarism wants to move in. They are determined that decorum shall reign; in other words, their values will remain the same no matter the immigrants moving across their nation.
"What grabbed the most attention is that the list includes a specific prohibition against stoning women in public and burning them alive and an interdiction against face covering, except at Halloween - measures clearly aimed at Muslims, even though the town is almost entirely old-stock Quebec francophone and there isn't a single Muslim resident."
According to Hubert Bauch of The Gazette, "Andre Drouin, the town councilor, said that ‘It's what the people want. There are 95 per cent of people in Quebec who want this.’"
"Drouin said he has received hundreds of supportive phone calls from residents and more than 5,000 emails from all over. He insisted his village, Herouxville, is not an isolated case.
"’It's a world problem. What we did seems to have pulverized the planet. We took a decision and the planet is surprised. All we're doing is standing up and saying this is who we are.’"
"The Muslim Council of Canada and the Muslim Forum of Canada have threatened to lodge a formal complaint with the provincial human rights commission that the Herouxville measures are in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights.
"But the happy hour crowd at Pub 842 is enthusiastically in favor of the initiative, and reveling in the town's newfound notoriety. The bar was buzzing yesterday with talk about the publicity it has generated and about who was on what TV network.
"Yves Trudel, who runs a bed and breakfast in the town, says the rules laid down by the council are a preventive measure that others, notably Montreal, should consider.
"’For them, it's probably too late to adopt a code of behavior because things have gone too far. Here, we're saying this is the way it is and you respect it. This is our home, we're at home here and this is the way we do things here.
"’Some people are calling us Heroville,’ he added, confiding he had an appointment later with a correspondent from the French newspaper Le Figaro.
"Steve Lafontaine, a local electrician, said if others aren't following suit, it is because they are afraid to speak up and stand up for the Quebecois way of life.
"’Some others aren't going along because they get subsidies from the government that they don't want to get cut off. All the big cities are the same.’"
"’I have nothing against immigrants, I know a lot of immigrants. But at one point there has to be a limit to accommodating them. If they came here, it must be because they like the way we live,’ another said.
"’We took our religion out of everything, the schools, the government. Why should they try to bring in theirs?"
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