Singing dancing sluts killed for singing and dancing
Well now I feel sick. Last week there were news reports that four women and two men in Pakistan had been sentenced to death for singing and dancing at a wedding. Yes that’s right; singing and dancing...
View ArticleLaw in a theocracy
Apparently in Pakistan, if you’re a lawyer and you think a case might not go your way, the thing to do is to muse aloud about people who got murdered in similar circumstances if you know what I mean...
View ArticleThey would regret helping the “infidel” campaign against polio
First, do no harm. First, don’t be evil. It’s strange how easily a lot of people lose sight of that basic thought, or never entertain it in the first place. What would be high on a list of harms not to...
View ArticleThree more
Three more anti-polio campaigners killed dead in Pakistan. That’s showing them. That makes 8 this week. Wednesday’s attacks all took place in the restive western frontier province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
View ArticleThe victim should have kept quiet
That’s all the good news for now. Here’s more bad news. In Pakistan, a girl of 13 was gang-raped by four men, and now she and her family are being persecuted because her family refused to kill her....
View ArticleDistracted during Ramadan
Problem-solving in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan – it’s Ramadan, so the thing to do is remove all sources of temptation. Or, at least, one source of temptation to one part of the...
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