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Pakistani couple kill daughter who talked to a boy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani couple killed their teenage daughter by pouring acid on her face and body after they caught her talking to a boy, police and a doctor said on Thursday.
The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli, a town in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, that they attacked their daughter after she had spoke to the boy outside their house, said Mohammad Jahangir, a local doctor at the hospital where she was brought.
"There were third-degree burns on her scalp, face, eyes, nostrils, both arms, chest foot and lower part of legs. Even her scalp bone was exposed," he said, adding that the mother initially told the hospital their daughter tried to commit suicide. Police have arrested the parents.
Almost 1,000 women lost their lives last year in so-called "honor killings" in the conservative South Asian nation, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Activists say the actual number is much higher as most cases go unreported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-pakistan-crime-teenbre8a018o-20121101,0,3676885.story
faithfulcitizen
(3,191 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Thankfully, the parents have been arrested. Now let's see if it actually gets to trial.
drm604
(16,230 posts)How can any parent treat their child like this? 1,000 a year?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 5, 2012, 05:46 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm less sure what "mass" mental illness would have on this.
Violation of basic human rights by people who are acting to meet a social and or a religious expectation doesn't require mental illness.
Globally the United States ranks roughly 5th in execution rates. In recent decades frequently the US is the only "western" or G-8 nation that executes anyone in a given year. It doesn't mean American has a mass mental illness, only that within our nation some states have a social acceptance of execution for some crimes.
drm604
(16,230 posts)It's different from executing murderers.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)they are acquired during socialization and consequently vary by culture/society. One of the curious things about religious discipline and discipline that provides group identity, is that it frequently demands it's adherents to act against their biological nature (abstinence from food and sex, and various rituals including mutilations, bathing, adornments etc).
Mentally ill persons are typically recognized by the personal stress/distress caused by that individual's cognitive, emotional, or behavioral dysfunction _within_ the context of their societies.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)Also like everyone in our own country who supports so many industries that are killing oceans and keeping people around the world in poverty and raping our own future.
I am certain mass mental illness affects almost all humans. And even though the Germans were in black & white, and these people are on the other side of the world, we are not so different from them. We are just as human and just as susceptible.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)lilithsrevenge12
(136 posts)but I am grateful to have grown up here.
get the red out
(13,459 posts)When they obviously have none.
These people have been rendered sub-human by their "beliefs". They are monsters. Killing one's offspring is illogical and shows no hint of normal, human emotion or intellect. SUB-HUMAN, and really lower than most any living thing on the planet. Cultures that propagate such behavior need to change, they should not be supported in continuing on like this.
jenw2
(374 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Maybe I'm naive, but I thought the idea is to love them.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Seriously, people that don't have the common sense to see the difference between right and wrong without basing it on a fucking book should be prevented from having children in the first place..
ornotna
(10,763 posts)That is a culture of violence to women.
LeftinOH
(5,342 posts)obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)It what the actual headline should say. They didn't even murder her quickly. That wouldn't be any better legally, but the girl's suffering would have been less. My God.
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)that has "honor killings"
Rex
(65,616 posts)that it does not mean what they think it means...I would use something else like, "malicous religiously insane parents try to kill their child via torture'.
But hey, that's just me.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Hopefully so.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)To get basically good people to do very bad things takes religion.
Rex
(65,616 posts)and if you are really, really unlucky - a closed government ruled by religious leaders.
Initech
(99,915 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Religious fundamentalists of all stripes are dangerous people but these Muslim fundies are particularly bestial. Given the free reign, I think we might see similar behavior from our own religious whackos. The secular nature of the government here is the only thing keeping them in check.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)If this was truly an "honor killing", stand up and shout it from the rooftops! Stand up and say, "we tortured and killed our daughter for talking to a boy. It goes against everything we believe in." You fucking brave neanderthals! Own it! Claim it! But no, you have to be cowards and say your daughter tried to commit suicide. If it's so fucking honorable why do you have to lie about it?
There is no level of hell low enough for these idiots!