Buried alive

Once upon a time there were five women, and they each had their own personal idea about the kind of man they’d like to marry. Well, that’s fair enough, isn’t it? Not quite, because these five women lived in Pakistan, and in Pakistan the state religion is Islam, which is practised by more than 97% of the population. In other words, if you’re in Pakistan and you want to find someone who isn’t a muslim then you’ll need to look very hard, because nearly everyone in Pakistan bangs the drum for Muhammad.

Now it’s hard to say if Israr Ullah Zehri is a muslim, but he’s definitely a Pakistani, and so it’s reasonable to suppose that he reads the koran and all that stuff. Anyway, something we do know about Zehri is that he strongly supports the violent practice of so-called honour-killing, especially when the targets are women. Oh, and another thing we know about him is that he’s a senator – an official lawmaker who regularly sits in Pakistan’s national Parliament.

But what’s this got to do with the five women who wanted to seek husbands for themselves? Sadly, the fact that five women felt they could find their own husbands is highly relevant as far as Zehri and Pakistan are concerned. It’s highly relevant because in muslim countries such as Pakistan the standard Islamic practice is that a female must have her guardian’s consent if she wants to get married, and in effect this means that most marriages are arranged or even forced.

And so, when these five women started talking about choosing their own husband you can easily imagine how very annoyed Zehri must have been. I mean, since when did women get the right to have a say in who they’d like to marry? And Zehri wasn’t alone in getting annoyed, for when news about these five women got out, their relatives, guardians and a gang others were so annoyed they all decided to put a stop to such foolishness.

And how did they do that: how did they stop those women from finding their own husbands? Well, basically, they abducted all five of them and had them shot, and even though they were still alive they then threw the women into a pit and totally buried them. Now whether Zehri actually played any part in their killing is unknown, but when asked about the matter he fully defended what happened and said no one “should make a big issue out of it”, and “only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid.”

Of course, most decent people would like to see honour killings stamped out. It’s bad enough they occur in cesspit countries such as Pakistan, but they’re also on the rise here in the UK and Europe. Having said that, Zehri himself should of course be painfully killed as soon as possible, preferably by having a huge water melon forcibly shoved up his arse, stabbed repeatedly in the face with a twelve-inch knife, then dumped in a barrel of pig fat and left to soak for an hour or so before being set alight. If that happened, I really don’t think anyone would “make a big issue out of it”.

For further details contact – Senator Israr Ullah Zehri, 302-E, Parliament Lodges, Islamabad, Pakistan, Telephone: 051 920 7477.