This was all about sibling envy in a world where the value of a woman is less than one of those seven deadlies.
The murder of Ayman Udas, who was in her early thirties and newly married, has shocked the city’s (Peshawar, Pakistan) artistic community because it symbolises a backlash against women and cultural freedom in an area that is increasingly dominated by Islamic funda-mentalists.
She won considerable acclaim for her songs but had become a musician in the face of bitter opposition from her family, who believed it was sinful for a woman to perform on television. Ashamed of her growing popularity her two brothers are reported to have entered her flat last week while her husband was out and fired three bullets into her chest. Neither has been caught.
Where are the calls of outrage from feminist groups on the beheading of Aasiya Z. Hassan by her husband/founder of “Bridges TV” because she filed for a divorce; the shooting deaths of sisters Amina and Sarah Said (18, 17) by their father for having “Western” boyfriends; British beauty queen Sahar Daftary, who was thrown off an apartment balcony 150 feet to her death when she discovered her new groom was married with three children, as well as the numerous women stabbed, beaten, shot, drowned, stoned, tortured, burned, and/or buried alive every day?
Political correctness will be the death of more women.
When a blonde girl goes missing, cable networks stop in their tracks – but when a Muslim woman is murdered by her father, there’s not a ripple of sustained interest. Where’s the outrage?
You know whom to ask.
I think these feminist groups are perplexed. Do they choose to be on the side of Pro-life? What about the rights of the parents? Or this could be an idea they want to push forth for themselves? 130th trimester abortions anyone?
Obama could sign that into law while everyone else is whipping themselves up into a frenzy with the swine flu…
These poor women. No matter what they do, it seems some relative might find it “shameful” and have them killed. Or just because they did something that pissed them off.
Pretty bad when you get treated less than an animal.
that’s why I have a growing disdain for islam…
There’s no “sustained outrage” because the news programs prefers to film saddened/outraged family members. However, in these crimes it seems that family members grieve quietly or simply close ranks. The Said sisters, for example, have been remembered by one of their aunts and former classmates, but seemingly few others.
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