"These are centuries-old traditions, and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province....
"Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."...
Zehri told a packed and stunned Parliament on Friday that Baluch tribal traditions helped stop obscenity and then asked fellow lawmakers to stop making such a fuss about it.
August 31, 2008
5 teenagers buried alive for wanting to choose their own husband.
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tribal traditions helped stop obscenity
A universal, cross-cultural line.
This is why fight. Such 'cultural' diversity must be made extinct.
These are the people that certain Presidential candidates wish to negotiate with.
Those are his people. Only replace "teenagers" with "members of the current administration" and you will see the similarities.
Don't certain candidates propose invading Pakistan (for other reasons of course)?
On the up side, at least the defense of the tradition "stunned" Parliament.
That's something positive.
Hurman rights were a gift to the world from the West, rights which were finally made to appear as if a priori.
The gift is the made-to-appear, which is now taken for granted in our culture.
But not yet everywhere.
This is why I'm totally incensed whenever someone feeds me some multi-culti line about how all cultures are equally valid. Burying people alive is not ethically valid in any sane universe.
Don't certain candidates propose invading Pakistan (for other reasons of course)?
Both McCain and Obama support the idea of unilateral strikes in Pakistan if necessary to attack terrorists. Neither of them "proposes invading Pakistan."
Interesting plan.
Keeps them from borrowing the car on Friday night, too.
I wonder if this was upsetting, whether discussions were had, and tearful defenses made. They hadn't actually done anything at this point other than express a degree of desire for self-determinism.
In our culture, it's a common joke to want to kill your teenagers, but can any of us actually imagine doing so? And for the crime of expressing a wish contrary to our own?
Are such people human as we understand the word to mean?
Hey, what's wrong with that?
So the land of Jinnah continues it's spiral into barbarism. I'm glad my community all got out in 1948.
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