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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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cosmic dogma
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:37am
Heard about the new super hero, ANTI-FATWA WOMAN? She dresses like a man, with fake beard, and patrols the streets looking for ignorant fatwa proclaimers, whom she promptly performs a full frontal lobotomy on. Bringing the fatwa proclaimer to nearly the same place as they desire women to be in, except with intact sexual organs and the ability to leave the house unescorted.

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nosharia
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 2:15pm
Do those pathetic women ever have a reason to smile?

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Karama
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:18am
Just another reason to love to hate islam. Where do these bigots get off treating women like this? If all their women would simply start smothering the b@$tards in their sleep in one massive effort they could save the world.

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Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:45am
I just checked FOX, CNN and MSNBC, not even a peep about this on their websites…surprise, surprise.

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- Karama
  Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:19am
  You won’t hear a peep from NOW or the NAGS either.
  
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- Latter-Day-Soldier
  Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:32am
  @karma: I don’t expect to either. Sad, ain’t it?
  
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LameLiberals
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 12:54am
I REFUSE to give to ANY charity that gives food or money or aid to any Muslims overseas – PERIOD. It is aiding the enemy and allowing them to grow up and bred more Christian killers.

And, I refuse to feel sorry for these women who are brutalized because THEY ARE STILL MUSLIMS and defend Islam. So live and die and be maimed by it.

If some of these brutalized women GAVE UP Muslim to become Christian or Buddhist or whatever – FINE – FEED THEM and/or grant them asylum in FREE COUNTRIES. But as long as these women are Muslim – THEY MADE THEIR BED – LIE IN IT.

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Moe1138
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 12:16am
Ah, yes, that great bastion of “The Religion of peace” shows us once again how peaceful they are and how peaceful they want to be. Mutilation, acid, beheading, stoning, caning and physical disfigurement all acceptable in “The Religion of Peace” under the guise of “honor”.
Sorry, this does not happen in my country, AMERICA.
All are oiled, cleaned and ready to expel their little friends.

The war is coming…are you prepared?

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confederacyofdunces
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:55pm
The women should abduct that jackass and his ignorant followers and give them an acid bath.

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Sgt_Rock
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:18pm
After tours in OIF II and S*&%-hole-istan I can tell you this, women in Iraq are better off than women in the tribal areas of Pakistan and nearly anywhere in Afghanistan. It is and always will be a toilet. There is no hope for women in that part of the world. They are treated no better than dogs and the burqa in no less prevalent than it was ten years ago. We have done little if anything of any substance to change the future of women and girls in that s*&%hole. Once we are gone it will get worse for them, what little progress may have been made will be for naught, because the Imams will not allow it. They only just tolerate it now. We have done these women no favors…perhaps a brief reprieve, but nothing more. To save them you would have to “eliminate” most of the male population and start over. Frankly, that idea has merit…

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adeleeeee
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:12pm
Where is SURHANSURHAN?

Come and defend your ISLAM! You coward!

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- PutMoreOnMyPlate
  Posted on August 12, 2012 at 9:42am
  My thoughts exactly. Maybe even this can disgust Surwhatsawhoosits.
  
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