Aurat Azadi
Pakistani police have registered a blasphemy case against organisers of the feminist Aurat Azadi [Women’s Freedom] March in a northwestern city, while a court in the country’s second city dismissed the same charges as having no grounds.
Police in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar registered the First Information Report (FIR) under the country’s strict blasphemy laws, which can carry a mandatory death penalty, on Thursday.
So Pakistan may kill some women for organizing a women’s march. That’s a pretty thought.
In a statement, organisers of the march, which is held annually to mark International Women’s Day on March 8, condemned the allegations as “baseless and false”.
“Since the March, women marchers have been met with countless death and rape threats including a leading newspaper, Daily Ummat, referring to [feminist] marchers as prostitutes and whores,” said the statement.
Because women are basically just vaginas, so if they step out of line, the only thing to call them is whores. They don’t have minds, hopes, dreams, plans, ideas, thoughts, sorrows, needs, projects – they just have holes, there for the use of men. If they try to use any other part of their bodies they must be called whores.
This week, the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party has held days of violent protests across Pakistan on the issue of blasphemy, demanding the French ambassador be expelled over comments by French President Emmanuel Macron last year that were perceived to be “blasphemous”.
Allah is a fiction and Mohammed has been dead for 14 centuries. Move the fuck on already.
…and yet there are those that will claim against evidence that it was colonialism that made them this awful. If it is so then it is Muhammed the Colonizer who is responsible (I think they were assholes prior to that particular warlord personally).
Would the male relatives of these women be justified for taking vengeance on the newspaper that slandered them so?
The other usual one is that women only want independence so that they can go around the place being all …loose. This is how innocent men keep getting tempted to become rapists (who then marry the rape victim).
Me: Perish the thought. It will be the WOMEN who are punished. Always the women. Heck, the male relatives would be justified in honor killing the women identified in the newspaper, which is, after all, just expressing the Will of Allah.