The Age - Australia[...]
Lahore: A girl, Kauser, 17, was strangled by her elder brother because she had married of her own will. She returned home and asked her family to forgive her but her brother strangled her with a piece of cloth. - The Daily Times.
Ghotki district: Two women were killed over Karo-Kari (honour killing). One Nihar Jatoi tied his wife to a bed and electrocuted her. One Bachal axed his wife Salma to death and fled. No arrests were reported. - The News.
Sargodha: A woman is in hospital after having both legs amputated because of severe injuries inflicted by her brother-in-law and mother-in-law, who clubbed her for her alleged illicit affairs. The woman, who was fighting for life, said the real reason was that her brother-in-law was trying to force her to arrange his marriage to her younger sister, but her sister had instead eloped with her paramour. - Dawn.
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No, the US didn't go into Iraq, or Afghanistan, to liberate women. Indeed, by the standards of the region Iraqi women were not badly oppressed - notwithstanding the hundreds who were executed by Saddam's son, Uday, for "dishonouring" their country (which meant speaking out about corruption in government).
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The birth rate in Saudi Arabia is 6.1. Germany's is 1.3, Spain's 1.1. You would think EU countries would be doing everything they could to help Iraq to set an example as a decent, democratic state in the Middle East.
Thousands of women in Arab countries are legally murdered every year in the name of honour, little girls are forced into marriages with old men, women are stoned and beaten for reasons that would be unheard of in Western countries.
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[You may now resume your regularly-scheduled USA bashing already in progress]
