When Authoritarians Squirm
Deerly Departed

Psychotic Tribal Punjabis

Western Resistance:

Five young women have been ordered to be either abducted, raped or killed for not honouring marriages arranged for them when they were children.

In 1996, when they were then aged six to thirteen, a mullah in their Punjabi village ordered that the five girls were "married" to the illiterate sons of their family's rivals. This arrangement was part of a compensation claim after the father of two of the girls shot a man dead.

The family the girls were "promised to" has now called for the "debt" to be paid. The village council has backed them up with its outrageous order, and has also sentenced two men, the fathers of the girls, to death for not honouring the agreement.

[Emphasis mine]

But remember, in Islam women are treated with respect.

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