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This has turned into a fairly twisted situation:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/05/27/pakistani-woman-stoned-to-death-by-family-in-front-court-after-marrying-for/

And people just fething watched.

I was thinking of saying this people who killed the woman should be eaten alive by rats. But rats are actually Nice creatures who don't serve to be force-fed these people. Disgusting.

 cincydooley wrote:
And people just fething watched.

Personally, I think that that may just be the most disgusting thing of all.

Just trying to figure out that if marrying for love will get you killed, what else gets you a death sentence?

It is still a third-world view of women being little better than property: why else would she be killed for so little but they did not dare attack the man.

It all boils down to how much control over another person a culture makes people feel "entitled" to.

It would end pretty quickly if everyone who participated was charged with murder. Then the cultural "worth" of that life is at least a few years in prison (priceless).

People do what they think they can get away with.

Cowardly bastards is about the best that can be said of the people that did this. There are not enough people in the world like Farzana and these oxygen thieves murdered her with no repercussians.

 sing your life wrote:
I was thinking of saying this people who killed the woman should be eaten alive by rats. But rats are actually Nice creatures who don't serve to be force-fed these people. Disgusting.

What the feth is with people and their torture execution fantasies? Execute them or don't. Why do you feel the need to do it in the most gruesome way possible?

Some people like a show I suppose. I'm with you on it though. Just punish them and be done with it.

 trexmeyer wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I was thinking of saying this people who killed the woman should be eaten alive by rats. But rats are actually Nice creatures who don't serve to be force-fed these people. Disgusting.

What the feth is with people and their torture execution fantasies? Execute them or don't. Why do you feel the need to do it in the most gruesome way possible?

So that a message gets sent.

It doesn't nearly have the same impact if Bob just disappears as if he is ripped limb from limb by wild animals in a slow and painful death.

Just falling asleep is too good for these monsters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27586067

If it makes you feel any better a woman is on death row for changing religions...

 Grey Templar wrote:

 trexmeyer wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I was thinking of saying this people who killed the woman should be eaten alive by rats. But rats are actually Nice creatures who don't serve to be force-fed these people. Disgusting.

What the feth is with people and their torture execution fantasies? Execute them or don't. Why do you feel the need to do it in the most gruesome way possible?

So that a message gets sent.

It doesn't nearly have the same impact if Bob just disappears as if he is ripped limb from limb by wild animals in a slow and painful death.

Just falling asleep is too good for these monsters.

I wonder why we don't perform executions like you describe currently.

Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

Love it. Though I'd rank Saudi Arabia #1 myself.

 liquidjoshi wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
And people just fething watched.

Personally, I think that that may just be the most disgusting thing of all.

Would you engage a reasonably organized, armed mob?

I have

 Jihadin wrote:
I have

Yeah, but you're a well trained soldier with the backing of the US military, not some person standing outside a courthouse.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

I often find myself wondering what it would take for this country to live fully to it's stated values. Diplomacy is one thing but being party to enabling repression is something else.


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 dogma wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
I have

Yeah, but you're a well trained soldier with the backing of the US military, not some person standing outside a courthouse.

Which begs the question of where the authorities were while someone was being murdered in the street just outside the halls of justice.

Which begs the question of where the authorities were while someone was being murdered in the street just outside the halls of justice.

Probably taking bets on how many rocks would hit her before she died.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

see and list like this just tend to piss me off, we are giving those nations money while we are in a insane amount of debt.

 soundwave591 wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

see and list like this just tend to piss me off, we are giving those nations money while we are in a insane amount of debt.

[url=http://www.usglc.org/2010/12/03/americans-vastly-overestimate-u-s-foreign-assistance/]
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Still doesn't address the fact we are giving money to these dirt bags.

We should be giving a big fat 0 to them.

Giving them zero would probably make things worse. So long as we're giving them something we have some leverage over them and the ability to say their domestically policy does involve us.

 Ahtman wrote:

 soundwave591 wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Disgusting and guess what.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889.html#.U4VNfHJ_u2U

see and list like this just tend to piss me off, we are giving those nations money while we are in a insane amount of debt.

[url=http://www.usglc.org/2010/12/03/americans-vastly-overestimate-u-s-foreign-assistance/]
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well then, consider me corrected

 Grey Templar wrote:
Still doesn't address the fact we are giving money to these dirt bags.

We should be giving a big fat 0 to them.

Morality has never come into modern, US foreign policy; nor should it.

Relapse wrote:

Which begs the question of where the authorities were while someone was being murdered in the street just outside the halls of justice.

10 seconds away, of course.

That there is a law on the books where the family of the victim - oftentimes also the family of the perpetrator - can officially forgive the perpetrator and it stops being a crime boggles my mind.

Why can't people give these threads logical titles?

Anyway, truly disgusting act, and I can't see any twisted justification for it. If they thought that she had been kidnapped by her husband, why kill her? I'll never understand some people.

Least your thread had it copied and pasted, most of the time when Relapse makes these its just a link.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Still doesn't address the fact we are giving money to these dirt bags.
We should be giving a big fat 0 to them.

If international aid was withdrawn what do you suspect would happen given that significant segments of Pakistani society, including government agencies, are already well on the road to extremism?

This is yet another example of the region being about 5 centuries behind the west in terms of social development, but there isn't a lot that we can do other than hope that they get their gak together.

I think we should stop giving to India effective immediately (rather than winding it down over 2 years) and perhaps raise the aid budget for Pakistan. I'd actually encourage the Pakistani government to go down a more extreme punishment method. Arranged marriage is fething ridiculous. I can believe some degenerate fethwit would rather kill his daughter than see her marry somebody else.

 dogma wrote:

 liquidjoshi wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
And people just fething watched.

Personally, I think that that may just be the most disgusting thing of all.

Would you engage a reasonably organized, armed mob?

No, I'd find someone that could. AKA the authorities. If they're the ones unwilling to act on it, then... I don't know.

I realise this might be a rather naive view of the world...