jj, I think a lot of us actually know about this. We will all be pretty united in our condemnation of it too, I would imagine. However, this is not an isolated event like the sentencing of the Nigerian woman to be stoned to death, it is a societal aberration of which Pakistan appears to have more than its fair share.

I listened to a Radio 4 programme a few weeks ago about the forced marriage industry in Pakistan. Chilling stuff, too.

None of this should be blamed on Islam, it is a "local custom" in each case. The local imams or mullahs may condone it in much the same way as Christian priests in Africa condone the continued adherence of their parishioners to animism ...

It is within Pakistan's capability to do something about it. There is little we can do except deplore it.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...