I am extremely pissed-off after reading this article published in The Guardian by Declan Walsh today!
You would be too… at the insensitivity… the height of illiteracy… at such preposterous traditions that, for centuries, have marred the lives of so many… women and young girls in particular!
When will we evolve and shed off these inhuman, man-made laws that give no importance to the lives and the will of a person? Where innocence is lost by sheer brutality in a tit-for-tat settlement. Women are being raped, exchanged, enslaved, killed for the sake of resolving decades old tribal feuds whose history and origin are as ridiculous as their eventual means of resolve! Young girls … ages ranging from barely months to around 15 years are flung from one side to the other as if their value is nothing more than that of a barter trade comodity.
Why has humanity died in these people and why is there nothing being done to stop this?
The article in reference (above) gives a startling account of the very same practice that happened recently in Balochistan… where 15 child brides aged 3 to 10 were ‘handed over’ for marriage to end a bloody feud whose history was summarized as:
A dog owned by one tribe, the Chakranis, was shot dead because it strayed too close to a well controlled by their rivals, the Qalandaris. In revenge the Chakranis shot a donkey belonging to the other side. A ferocious bout of tit-for-tat killings ensued in which 19 people, including five women, were killed…
The eventual solution: Blood money and 15 women given for marriage!
Correct me if I am wrong… but isn’t it WRONG to declare a 3 YEAR OLD CHILD a WOMAN?
Did any one even bother to ask the helpless mothers whose younglings you were snatching away and ‘using’ as a bargain? I am sure it never happened because it NEVER happens! Women are never treated with respect and regard where such a horrific trade is at large. Because it is an exclusively ‘MAN-made’ parallel-law; a law that has no logic and doesn’t give due acknowledgement to free will and personal freedom.
No one in these rural areas cares about the writ of the government. That has always been the case. Governments have come, promised action, issued orders and yet there has never been a substantial decline in these practices. It is the law of the jungle there. That is why this practice of exchanging women for marriage called Vanni, although declared illegal in Pakistan, is still thriving!
THESE MEDIEVAL AND BARBARIC TRADITIONS MUST STOP!
THE GOVT MUST TAKE STERN ACTION AGAINT THE PERPETRATORS OF THESE CRIMES!
WOMEN MUST BE PROTECTED AGAINST SUCH PRACTICES!
ENOUGH OF EXCUSES AND COWARDNESS ON THE PART OF OUR GOVERNMENTS AND LEADERS! ENOUGH!
Link To The Guardian article: 15 child brides used to settle Pakistan feud
The Danes are getting really desperate. I think they are beginning to realize the sheer impact of the hatred they have fueled against themselves from Muslims all over the world! A week ago there was a suicide bomb blast at their embassy in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad by Al-Qaeda. If this gave them a wake-up call, they came up with a really odd plan to cool off some of the anger.
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