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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

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.

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

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.”

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

(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.

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

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.”

Comments (92)

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  • rdk
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:25pm

    What is an NGO?
    Why are they bad?

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:34pm

      Non Governmental Group. Like the Red Cross. Charity, aid workers.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:06pm

      13th Imam Rule # 13

      Women can attack any Muslim Cleric who adheres to this dopes beliefs. With acid, handguns, rifles, hamhocks, bacon slabs, bullwhips, SUV’s, any available weapon. But the rule stipulate’s that he must be sent to meet his 72 homosexual lovers. No survivors.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:22pm

      To answer the second question. Because they are not Muslim, and as women have no rights.

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    • BakeSale
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:55pm

      I don’t think that is it. I think it is more like when people were punished for teaching slaves to read. Then they get “ideas”. Then the are not easy to control.

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:17pm

    Instead of sending Pakistan aid in the form of US tax dollars, how ’bout we ‘aid’ them with 1,000-pound bunker-buster bombs… delivered from an altitude of 40,000 feet.

    I HATE Islam!

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:14pm

      Or air drop 50 million DVD’s of the Lorena Bobbitt story.

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    • Intense66
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:06pm

      @The_Almighty… Iced tea came squirting out of my nose! I absolutely love your comment!

      These poor women, I feel for them. Our alleged “war on women” doesn’t hold a candle to what these women must endure everyday. Maybe we should send some of the libs who are crying foul on their reproductive health and let them see what it’s really all about. Perhaps (I’m reaching now), they would realize just how good we have it here. I am privildged to be a woman who lives in what I still believe is the greatest nation on the planet.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:12pm

    I am issuing an atheist fatwa: it is just, right and moral that one can remove the manhood of any person declaring such horrific rules.

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    • IowaBlackRobe
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:56pm

      @BruceP – That is what i was thinking, only with the use of acid. Hey, those are the cleric’s approved “Islamic” punishment. They need to know how well the acid works!

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:09pm

    I’m curious…why are we giving foreign aid to this country?

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:28pm

      I agree 100%…..I will go one step further, why give ANY foreign aid to ANY country?…What part of 16 trilliion + in debt do our leaders not get…only losers and suckers pay to have ‘friends’…

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:09pm

      We’re buying them off so we can “legally” use their airspace and land to chase after those who follow in the footsteps of the pedophile warmonger Muhammad.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:23pm

      Ron Paul will stop all foreign aid…just sayin…

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  • jhrusky
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:03pm

    Why do we allow our senators, congresspeople and president to continue to send our hard-earned money to this country chock full of barbarians?

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  • deeberj
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:02pm

    “declaring poppy cultivation in Kohistan to be “in accordance with Islam.” ”

    I guess because infidels using heroin and ruining their lives and dying is just fine with them.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:14pm

      Not quite. They harvest it and send it to Europe for money. That is turned into terror for local and international terror operations.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:11pm

      I wonder why SurhanSurhan isn’t here playing cheerleader for his logic-deficient Muslim brothers?

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  • Searchingforthelight
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:00pm

    God teaches Agency to learn and obey or disobey His commandments. Force of Marriage doesn’t sound like agency to me. Is it to preserve a culture or gender due to economics, or are the women treated like cattle? I would like to hear the actual reason behind these laws, spiritual or worldly.
    Throwing acid on someone is just inhumane to me.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:59pm

    Who is the young girl with BLOND HAIR AND BLUES EYES in the above photo

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Probably Pakistani. Blonde hair and blue eyes do occur there, though rare. It was once part of Alexander the Great’s empire; Alexander often had his soldiers marry locals. Thus, some people in the region still carry those genes.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:56pm

    So where are all of the woman’s rights groups screaming from the rooftops on these horrific mandates?!?!?! Silence=Death, its not just for gays anymore!

    Report Post » capitalismrocks  
    • Shasta
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:12pm

      The left, Obama, Clinton(s), Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, NOW etc., will always look the other way when a story or situation does not fit their agenda. They made up a ‘war against women’ here in the US and ignore the real war on women in the middle east.

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  • Kafir-Islamsux
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:54pm

    islam…satan’s anal leakage…

    Report Post » Kafir-Islamsux  
  • Sargon
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:54pm

    Why is it wrong to burn a Koran or denounce Islam if this kind of satanic abuse is indeed advocated? For having the courage to speak out Fouzia Saeed deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Why BO received it is a mystery.

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  • uisignorant
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:50pm

    These women need to start assassinating these peace loving clerics.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Sooner or later we are going to have to flush these mid evil sand turds off the earth .

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:35pm

    This is the real “War On Women,“ so when will the administration and the left as a whole going to speak out and call this ”Hate Speech?”

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:42pm

      This administration is all about freedom of religion for Muslims…it’s Catholics they seem to have a problem with..

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    • deeberj
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Have you all noticed that it’s Catholics only they are raising a stink about? Not the smaller Protestant church groups. This is because if you can bring down a huge organization like the Catholic church the rest will be easy.

      Report Post » deeberj  
    • Rajabear1
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Bingo, Gonzo! And these are our allies? We are trusting this country to keep their nukes out of the hands of the ‘bad guys’? Really? I dare say, when SHTF, they will be ready to rock and roll against the American, Israeli and Euro dogs. They ARE the bad guys.
      It is a total joke what the current and past U.S. gov has done to us. We have been placed in the biggest catch 22 ever conceived of. How do we stop all these ‘deals’ we have with ALL these different countries? We hand over money, oil deals, trade deals and ‘protection’ to our enemies. And don’t even get me goin on the God forsaking UN. We are so intertwined, so muddled with evil deals from NWO freaks and power hungry evil bastards for the past hundred years, if we pulled out of all this crap, we would be sitting ducks. No country would come to our (the US citizens) real rescue.
      These people we trusted to safe guard our God given rights and Constitution for the past hundred years, have insured the destruction of the only true free nation. God help us.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:22pm

      No doubt Raja, but they already have them. How do you take them away? That‘s exactly why Iran can’t be allowed to get them.

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    • happ77
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:50pm

      Gonzo, With about 50 well placed bunker busters.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:30pm

    These are Barack Hussein Obama’s PEOPLE…….

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  • TheSoundOf Truth
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Yes, Heroin is in accordance with Islam….

    But PORK RIBS are not!!!! Talk about screwy philosophy…

    I hope Richard Dawkins decides to take this Cleric on the same way he attacks people who aren’t going to stone him to death for his opinions…

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    • candcantiques
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:42pm

      There isnt a religion on earth that is supposed to eat pork. ALL bibles no matter the religion tell us not to eat of the pig. WANT TO KNOW WHY? Many years ago all people knew was that if you ate pork you got sick and died. Modern medicine knows that the sickness is cause by the trichina worm. The worm lives in pork and other animals muscles. You eat the pork the worm burrows through your intestines and into every muscle in your body eventually killing you. Today however there are processes by which the worm is killed before you buy the pork. The religions that believe in not eating pork are living in the dark ages still.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:04pm

      You cook the pork thoroughly and viola, no worms. We do live in modern enough times to manage to cook pork thoroughly.

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  • Logic77
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:27pm

    These guys are cavemen.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:26pm

    Well now, that sounds reasonable…nut jobs.

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  • lawrench
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Wow! If this does not prove that Islam is not a peaceful religion, I do not know what will. Islam that people like this guy follows is more Satanic than Godly. God loves all people, and would not want some of his children treated poorly while others are treated as kings. God created women to be companions to men, not slaves or objects of tyranny.

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  • jayster
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:24pm

    Break it down to the most basic points…..

    If the founder of Islam was a pedophile, murderer, thief, rapist, liar and admitted to possibly have a demon posses him………What does that tell you about the so called religion of Islam.

    Not difficult to figure out folks.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:23pm

    Muslim… FatWa s… should be Published & Placed in Public Places!

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:22pm

    Where are the bimbos from NOW to decry this misogyny….? (crickets)

    Where are the liberal women in our govt demanding that this war on women come to a screeching halt? (crickets)

    Where are the liberals calling this guy out for instigating violence against women?? (crickets)

    Where is Obummer to express his contempt for religious oppression of women? (crickets)

    Wow, their silence is deafening……

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  • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:22pm

    This is why we have no business anywhere in the middle east. We will never be able to reason with them, make them get along or make them live in peace. Dam shame all out troops have had to die for these people who could give a dam about what we are trying to do. WAKE UP AMERICA, WE ARE NOT THE WORLD POLICE, WE ARE NOT THE WORLD PEACEKEEPERS, WE ARE NOT THE WORLD ARMY. Take care of our own and let the rest do for themselves!

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    • deeberj
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:01pm

      I see the reason why we got there in the beginning (oil and trying to keep it flowing to us), but it‘s obviously a black hole that just keeps sucking our money and people and I don’t see it changing. We need to become energy self sufficient so we can get out of there.

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  • daxbrady
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:14pm

    The peaceful loving religion of Islam….. Its about time to wipe it out.

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  • Frodo RinosBane
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:12pm

    That the religion of peace I‘m talkin’ about.

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