A double bill of grotesque Islam derived misogyny related backwardness for you today when I bring you not one, but two examples of how badly women are treated in Pakistan, a country increasingly appearing to be a full toilet that refuses to flush. As is common with all too many countries which take Islam as their guiding moral light, women in Pakistan can be subjected to violence and murder for refusing the advances of men or for failing to behave as Muslim women should according to Islam behave.

The first example is a particularly horrific example of how it is communities and families in Pakistan and not the state which oppresses and punishes women for perceived ‘failings’. Both these examples are from the Pakistan Tribune newspaper.

Here’s the first example of Pakistani gyno hatred, which is also an example of how deeply embedded in this backward and retarded culture Islamic misogyny truly is.

The Pakistan Tribune said:

A woman was set on fire allegedly her in-laws in Okara on Monday for not conceiving a child during her three years of marriage, leaving her with severe burn injuries.

Aasia Bibi was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital Okara.

Police said Aasia’s in-laws poured petrol over her and set her ablaze at their home.

On hearing Aasia’s screams, neighbours rushed to the house to save her and immediately took her to the hospital.

The police said the motive behind the crime was that she had not given birth to a child during her three years of marriage.

Aasia’s husband, Afzal, was happily married to her, but his family continuously admonished her for remaining childless.

On Sunday night, her in-laws along with two other accomplices, Mir Islam, Fazil and Bagh Ali, doused her in petrol and set her on fire.

She is said to be in a serious condition and has only managed to survive because she was rushed to the hospital immediately.

A case has been registered at the Saddar Police Station against the suspects and the police have arrested them.

Awful, truly awful, but I’m afraid normal for Pakistan and normal for Islam. Although neighbouring India the Hindu community has its own issues with female status and emancipation, these problems are not as vicious or as nasty or as rooted in a culture shaped by a highly misogynistic religious belief, as is Pakistan. In Pakistan women are seen as mere brood mares or livestock and this case surely shows it.

In the second example of this double bill of Pakistani Islamic misogyny we have the case from early May 2017 where a man shot his niece dead because she refused to marry him. Because this poor girl had the temerity to refused to be shackled sexually, mentally and physically to her uncle the uncle shot her and killed her. You may not be able to imagine a society that treated the lives of women and girls so cheaply but I can, it’s called Islamic society and it’s this Islamic mindset that controls Pakistan.

Here’s the Pakistan Tribune article about the girl shot dead for refusing to be a victim of incest and misogyny.

The Pakistan Tribune said:

An 18-year-old was shot dead by her paternal uncle in Rawalpindi on Friday for turning down a marriage proposal, reported Express News.

The suspect, Niaz, allegedly killed his niece, Mahrukh, in Fauji Colony. A case has been filed against the suspect on the complaint of Mahrukh’s father and the body has been sent to a hospital for an autopsy, police said.

Such incidents are extremely common in Pakistan.

In February, a middle-aged woman was shot dead at her home in Karachi’s Orangi Town for rejecting a marriage proposal for her daughter. Her daughter too was injured in the attack.

In March, A teenage orphan was allegedly sexually assaulted by her relative after she refused to marry him.

Last year in June, a 19-year-old woman, Maria Sadaqat, was tortured and then set on fire by a group of men in a village near Murree for refusing to marry a man. She was a teacher at a private school in Dhok Kallar in Lower Dewal.
What we see occurring in Pakistan isn’t an aberration, it isn’t a local cultural issue or something related to the nation’s history as a British colony, it’s a creation of the ideology of Islam. It is Islam and nothing else that has created the living hell for women that is Pakistan.