May 04, 2006

Role Reversal Honor Killing

What goes around comes around I always say. I detect the odor of sweet, sweet irony here.

ME Times: Pakistani police have charged a 45-year-old woman with beheading her husband with a dagger and chopping up his body after he planned to take a fourth wife, officials said on Wednesday.

Majeeda Khatoon lopped off her spouse's head, cut off his legs with the help of relatives and dumped the body parts in a sewer in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on the outskirts of the southern city of Karachi, police said.

"The victim was said to bear a passion for women and Khatoon, who was already fed up with her husband's extramarital activities, got annoyed when he said he was going for a fourth marriage," said another police officer, Akhtar Shah BangashÂ…

Â…Pakistani men are permitted to take up to four wives under Islam, although most do not.

More often it is women who are subjected to brutal "honor punishments" including rape and murder for alleged adultery or for bringing supposed shame on their families.

WhatÂ’s good for the gooseÂ…

Related Honor Killing Wikipedia Entry and Jawa Report posts on Honor Killing here, here and here Really, really terrible almost as terrible as the conditions that women tolerate under Islamic Law. I guess she'd had enough. It seems Pakistan is the where this is most reported but still enforcement is spotty at best.

Posted by: Howie at 09:23 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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1 Hehehe!

Posted by: jesusland joe at May 04, 2006 09:28 AM (rUyw4)

2 Let me get this straight...it's NOT okay to laugh at this, right?

Posted by: Rusty at May 04, 2006 09:35 AM (JQjhA)

3 No it's not OK let's be clear, but I can't seem to help it.

Posted by: Howie at May 04, 2006 09:38 AM (D3+20)

4 Go Majeeda! Go Majeeda! You GO girl! Boy wouldn't this be a "WTF??" moment in fundamentalist Islam if it caught on...

Posted by: EricInTexas at May 04, 2006 09:53 AM (b96R4)

5 what is bad for the goose is bad for the gander. Always.

Posted by: john Ryan at May 04, 2006 10:00 AM (TcoRJ)

6 There's a saying where I'm from: crave all - lose all

Posted by: Graeme at May 04, 2006 10:17 AM (z9xwm)

7 IÂ’ll be darned if those folks havenÂ’t found another use for the Beheading Knife. Those things really do have a million and one uses. Mr. Khatoon goes tom catin around the neighborhood and Walla! Time to get the Ronko beheading knife out for use # 997,089. They really do need one in every garage over there, sort of like a hammer or pair of pliers in America.

Posted by: Brad at May 04, 2006 10:54 AM (BJYNn)

8 Dude should have stopped at 3! That's what he gets for being greedy!

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at May 04, 2006 11:15 AM (FCC6c)

9 Watch.. at some point they will blame the "evil west" for planting those thoughts in her head.. for taking his.

Posted by: JT at May 04, 2006 10:04 PM (yZQoS)

10 hehehe... that's Karma, serves him right. the unfortunate thing is, as a woman, she has no chance of a fair trial in Pakistan and will probably face the death penalty... THAT part of the situation isn't funny. people standing together are always stronger then people standing alone... maybe other muslim women will figure that out...

Posted by: Firefly at May 05, 2006 07:20 PM (xnpOT)

11 No Firefly, muslim women enjoy too much the fresh little teensie-weensie suicide bombers suckling their breasts.

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at May 06, 2006 07:12 AM (FCC6c)

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