Misogyny? What misogyny?
Two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh had been gang raped, police say.
A man has been held over the murders of the girls, who police said were 14 and 16.
Three policemen have been removed from duty for not registering cases when the girls were reported missing.
Violence and discrimination against women in India remains deeply entrenched.
Meanwhile, Farzana Parveen, the pregnant woman who was stoned to death in front of the court house for marrying a man her family hadn’t chosen? That man she married murdered his first wife in order to marry Farzana Parveen.
Muhummad Iqbal, the 45-year-old husband of Farzana Parveen, who was beaten to death by 20 male relatives on Tuesday, said he strangled his first wife in order to marry Parveen.
He avoided a prison sentence after his family used Islamic provisions of Pakistan’s legal system to forgive him, precisely those he has insisted should not be available to his wife’s killers.
“I was in love with Farzana and killed my first wife because of this love,” he told Agence France-Presse.
Police confirmed that the killing had happened six years ago and that he was released after a “compromise” with his family.
But none of this is anything to do with misogyny. It’s just weather, or gravity, or natural selection, or entropy. Nobody mention misogyny.
Fucking disgusting. And he doesn’t see the link between his murdering his first wife and the murder of his second wife at the hands of her former “owners”: men expressing ultimate ownership of women’s bodies. Women are literally property in this viewpoint, where her death amounts to little more than a territorial dispute.
Also, and this is my cultural ignorance showing, isn’t it possible if uncommon under Islamic law to 1) have a second wife, or 2) get a divorce? Why the fuck would he resort to killing?
Yeah, it could’ve happened to anyone. Even hardline atheists are not exempt, being the very rigid perspective that it is.
That’s the first rule of misogyny club.
In Australian news media: Two police in India among three men arrested over gang-rape, hanging of teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh state
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Obviously, I misplaced the quotation tag in my previous.
Is it right now John? It’s not obvious which is you & which is quoted so let me know if not.
As well as India’s lethal misogyny, there’s also that abomination, the Caste system to consider, the BBC reported that the victims were from India’s lowest caste, the Dalits, why would the police bother to investigate?
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re #6: Yes, and thank you, Ophelia.