675 Pakistani women victims of "honor killings" so far this year

December 20, 2011

AT least 675 Pakistani women and girls--included at least 71 under the age of 18--were murdered during the first nine months of this year for allegedly defaming their family's honour, a leading human rights group said today.

The official said figures were still being compiled for the 4th quarter and that a full report would be released in February.

Activists say murders of girls for "defaming the family's honor" are often dismissed by Pakistani police as private, family affairs.

Around 130 of the women killed from January to September were accused of marrying without permission. Some victims were raped or gangraped before being killed, he said.

Wait a second: This can't possibly be true, because there's not a single mention of it in the NY Slimes or the WaPo. (Link is to some paper in Australia or something. They probably don't even speak English there, so how can we trust 'em to report the truth?)

Plus, if it was true, American feminists would be bouncing off the ceiling demanding that the U.S. gummint cut all aid to Pakistan until they started frying some of the murderers of female family members. After all, U.S. feminists always sound off when crazy men start killing women, right? So this report must be false. Or else feminists are hypocrites. And that's hard to even imagine.

But seriously: Where's the outrage from the Left/"progs" about this? The Left/libs were outraged! by the spectacle of a rogue female U.S. soldier posing for pics with Iraqi prisoners wearing a dog leash, so you'd think that consistency would demand that... Ah, wait, yes, what was I thinking?

Let me conclude by saying that I've always been grieved by stories of so-called "hunters" shooting caged animals, or of people throwing bags of unwanted kittens or puppies in a river to drown. Should we not speak out at least as strongly to condemn the murderous thugs in Pakistan who murder equally defenseless females in Pakistan for having the audacity to (gasp!) marry without permission?