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Pakistani Clerics: Women With Cell Phones Can Be Attacked with Acid, Secular NGO Workers Can Be Forcibly ‘Married’ to Local Men

May. 22, 2012 12:04pm Erica Ritz

Pakistani Clerics:Women Who Use Cell Phones Can Be Attacked With Acid, Secular NGO Workers Can Be Forcibly Married

Girls in Peshawar, Pakistan (Photo: AP)

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is reporting on a particularly disturbing string of events throughout Pakistan that neither the Pakistani government nor the international community seem in a hurry to condemn.

Maulana Abdul Haleem (Photo: MEMRI)

Not content with terrorizing women with the threat of honor killings, it seems, a Pakistani cleric in the Baluchistan province has issued a fatwa declaring that any woman using a cell phone can justifiably be attacked with acid, while former Pakistani lawmaker and prominent cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem announced that secular women working with NGO’s can be captured and forcibly “married” to local men if they dare work on women’s education, health, or welfare projects in the district of Kohistan.

Whether the women would be trapped there indefinitely in the conventional meaning of “marriage,” or if it would be a “temporary marriage” that sometimes enables affairs, prostitution, or worse, is unclear.

And according to MEMRI, Maulana Abdul Haleem is not just any cleric and former lawmaker.

“A member of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) party, [he] is known to have nurtured a generation of Islamic clerics in Pakistan. In 2002 he was elected a Member of the National Assembly, the lower house of the parliament, from the platform of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of religious-political parties cobbled together at the behest of then-Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.”

(Photo: AP)

The cleric’s other accomplishments, according to a Pakistani daily, include declaring poppy cultivation in Kohistan to be “in accordance with Islam.”

But despite the obvious danger they invite by speaking out, two women in particular are fighting– even ridiculing– the new declarations.

Fouzia Saeed (Photo: Wiki Commons)

Fouzia Saeed wrote in an article: “Who will tell the ‘fatwa guys’ that they are nearly an extinct species? Who will tell these men that they need to wake up to 2012…Perhaps they should be kept in a museum with the caption: ‘we used to have people like this who thought work for women was ‘un-Islamic,’ but marrying them by force was ‘Islamic.’ Idiots who thought talking on a cell phone was ‘un-Islamic,’ but throwing acid in women’s faces was ‘Islamic’!”

Another woman, Tazeen Javed, wrote: “[We] are teeming millions of people who cannot feed themselves, have limited access to energy, and will be dumber and weaker in the future because of the stunted mental and physical growth of our children due to the lack of education. At such a juncture in history, amongst us are individuals who issue fatwas and promote misogyny and obscurantism against hygiene, education, health, and progress.”

She continued: “In short, a former legislator issues fatwas during a Friday sermon inciting hatred against [NGO workers] and declaring the constitutional rights of getting an education for half of the population forbidden and no one, barring a few bloggers and tweeters, raises even an eyebrow.”

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dmerwin
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:26pm
We actually give foreign aid to these POSs.

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dmerwin
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:25pm
I don’t see any inane rationalization from Rose-Ellen…YET.

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dmerwin
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:23pm
War on women? No just some good old religion of peace, Sharia Law.

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Wes Hardin
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:43pm
I’ve never understood why the potential victims of such nutcases cower in fear instead of killing them first.

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phunkejay
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:08pm
we need to give all those NAGs protesting Rush on the street corner each a cell phone and ship them over to pakistan to work with the NGOs

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the gray lensman
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:08pm
You have it a bit wrong. Its the religion of pieces. Why else would it be called “I SLAM” ? Its fundamentalist zealots are mad dogs. Some of us know how to deal with mad dogs. The dipsticks in D.C. have no clue in that department. I am of the firm conviction that this world crisis will only be settled in a deluge of blood, in the same manner that slavery was settled by the shedding of the blood of almost a million Americans during the Civil War of 1861-1865. Mankind is too damn stupid to do it any other way.

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Arshloch
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:51pm
These are not ‘clerics’ they are feral hogs, and should be used like the fertilizer they are.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:34pm
Acid in the face for using a cell phone is kind of harsh. However, Islam marches on.
One day…that will be a law.

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Iamnotanumber
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:04pm
Dearest Afghan Ladies,
I am SO SORRY, but the time has come to cut bait with your people. They can not be taught any civilized manner in which they will agree to adhere too, so we must leave you to your own devices. Since we can not teach them, it is up to you! Don’t care how you do it, but make them believe you mean it now and forever!! Best of luck!!!

Sincerely,
Uncle Sam

Now bring ALL BOYS AND GIRLS HOME!!!!!

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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:27pm
  Amen
  
  and If they need work…..those of us down here in AZ would appreciate having them here on the border.
  
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Steve28
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:57pm
Funny, how the left comes out and now attack Romney’s religion, but for some reason Islam and the teaching of idiots like this cannot be mentioned at all. WE walk on egg shells to be politically correct unless it favors the left. I’m sick of it and think we need to stand up and speak like these brave ladies. Islam is a religion of hate. It deprives women of their rights and humanity. It does not allow any religion but Islam and is completely intolerant. They need to either get with the times or cease to exist in their present form. All the good tolerant moslems that allow for equal rights should demand change and chase out the crazy intolerant cavemen before they too go down with the ship as did the Germans who allowed Hilter to survive.

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NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:51pm
Wow, they’re fulla peace, love and Bobby Sherman, aren’t they? Regular bunch of rainbow farters.

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Mark0331
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:30pm
A Fatwa Was Announced In A Mosque On May 11, Stating That Any Woman Using A Cell Phone Will Have Acid Thrown In Her Face……..

Stone age heathens, they, muslim clerics, need to be eradicated like silverfish in basement crawlspace…

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RougeFastFingers
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:23pm
Haleem appears to be dropping acid.

Get out of the 7th century jackass.

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jim1964
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:21pm
What a group of twisted idiots.Why are we over there? To Hell with those Isamo nazis. We need to quit giving ALL muslam countries Aid. let them Eat sand and Oil!

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PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:11pm
This is an ancient tool of evil that has been used for centuries. They SEVERELY oppress women because they are so terrified by the power that women inheritently possess over men. So in order to control and keep your power, you hold down, prevent education, prevent communication in every way, terrorize with brutal and barbarian tatics all women and girls and then you get to keep your control. They are absolutely TERRIFIED of women and people in Islam educating themselves because then they will see how evil these MEN are and how EVIL what they are doing is. They will also see how truly powerful they can be if they stand up to it and call it out. These men will then loose their power and money and probably their lives for their crimes against humanity. Nothing new here. THIS IS WHAT OPPRESSION REALLY LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE!!!!

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TimO_Florida
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:10pm
The problem will never be fixed until the Muslim people themselves rise up and toss out the mullahs who spew the hate and the madrassas that teach it.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:57pm
how about a fatwa declaring any man attempting rape can justifiably be attacked with acid…???

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carolewash
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:53pm
I have to admire these two women for voiceing what all of the women want to say. I fear for their safety but brave they are. To bad their men are such cowards.

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- Wes Hardin
  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:47pm
  Why waste time talking? They need to be taking up sniper practice and learning how to make bombs so that they can erase that creep and his buddies from the land of the living.
  
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FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:44pm
USA Distracted & Looted of Liberty……..

“As Rear Admiral Chester Ward, a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has warned, the elite, led by the international banking cartel, “have one objective in common — they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty of the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world-banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.”

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- Mark0331
  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:38pm
  …your cut and paste propaganda is old news…if you are just coming across this info, and think you are spreading knowledge….you are woefully behind the times…the same could be said about the Tri-Lateral Commision, OAS..etc….step into the New Century with your info please…it reeks of Alex Jones, David Icke and old news..yawn..anyone over the age of 17 knows this information…Do some current research, good initiative on your part, though…but,please catch up on your reading…we are well past the point of the ‘boogieman’ group discussion.
  
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uisignorant
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:43pm
My wife and I would adopt the blond girl, she looks a lot like my wife.

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Rightsofman
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:40pm
to the UN Human Rights Council – you sure are doing a Grrrrraet job boys! Afew drops of hydrochloric on your foreheads and you may get the idea. How about a little acid spray foe Hareem the old degenerate bastard.

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jackact
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:33pm
Can you hear that? Listen carefully…………
complete silence from the femi-nazis in America.
You see it never was about equality, was it?

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FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:30pm
This is a straw man. These people chose a religion and must live with the consequences of their decision as a sovereign nation. Yes, it is sad, but they are responsible for their nation.
The real battle, for America, is for keeping our liberty where 1,000 Constitutionally treasonous public servants who took and oath to uphold and defend the Constitution now are bowing down to the UN one world gov. marxist agenda married to the world banking cartel, communism, and destruction of America. These people need criminally tried ASAP. If we loss this battle the whole world becomes enslaved by the UN and world banking cartel.

“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as ‘international bankers.’ This little coterie… run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen…[and] seizes…our executive officers… legislative bodies… schools… courts… newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” John F. Hylan, Trilateral Commission
“The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission — founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller — and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years.” Dr. J. B. Koeppl, PhD, CFR

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- Latter-Day-Soldier
  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:07pm
  There is no way the U.N. could enslave the whole world, the organization as a whole is just too corrupt and inept.
  
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zoro51
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:28pm
murdering muslums nohting more thna a MAN MADE CULT of HATE N DEATH how they see n treat women shows HOW “peacefull” thier so called religion really is.. thier in a cult of hate n death thier god allah is a false stone idol god cant do anything same as the statues of egypt.. cant see hear or speak.. HELL awaits ALl muslums…

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Infidel49
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:26pm
Where are all the libs, the champions of woman voicing their outrage and protesting in the streets? You know, like when you screamed and cried to get Rush off the air sort of thing. Typical lib hypocrates. They make me sick.

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