O death, where is thy vespiary?
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Indian village bans mobile phones for unmarried women
AN INDIAN VILLAGE has decided to clamp down on the number of women being beheaded in so called honour killings.
According to the Associated Press its approach to this involves not letting unmarried women use mobile phones and only letting unmarried blokes use one if they have a parent with them.
The Panchayat, which is like a Parish Council, for a village with the unpromising name of Lank thinks that honour killings are getting out of hand since this newfangled mobile phone arrived in the village.
In the conservative Hindu village in northern India it is forbidden to get married outside your clan or run off with someone whom your family does not approve.
Women who do usually end up being killed. Thirty-four couples eloped in Muzaffarnagar district where Lank is located and eight women were killed by their families. Three of the women were beheaded.
Rather than think that this custom of killing your offspring for running off and getting married is bad, the village Panchayat has decided that it is better to stop it from happening at all by effectively banning mobile phones.
The theory is that kids of today are using them to arrange their own marriages and elope with people they fancy, which apparently just won't do.
The mobile phone ban for unmarried women is part of a wider, regional effort to curb intra-clan marriage among the 3 million population of western Uttar Pradesh.
The Lank council ruling, which applies to around 50,000 people, is also being considered by councils in nearby villages. µ
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Why not post the names of those beheaded? Wouldn't that give us an indication if this is a Hindu practise?
As the article stands, I am led to believe that Hindus are beheading their women.
"Wouldn't marrying only within your own clan have much higher chances of producing off-springs with strange side effect."
Hence the superior level of civilization they seem to have developed.. Nothing beats some inbreading..
Wouldn't marrying only within your own clan have much higher chances of producing off-springs with strange side effect.
@How dare you belittle their culture!
I'm afraid you get it all wrong. Indeed, is not fair to try to IMPOSE other people your beliefs, but you have all the rights in the world to criticise them. However, you still look stupid in this matter, killing other people because they exercise their free will is wrong no mather how you look at it.
"People everywhere are entitled to self-determination, and if they determine that it is necessary to behead women for having the temerity to try and leave, then surely that is entirely a matter for them?"
Well, you should ask the women in this case, too, don't you think?
OOHH, Wait! THey are already beheaded... Where is their self determination?
This is not a cultural problem.
This is about PEOPLE behaving like ANIMALS. It is a SAD story.
ps.: if you don't understand that this is not about self-determination, then take your self-determination and stick it where the sun don't shine!
This should go in the "Stranger then Fiction" section.
When will some of these people embrace 15th, I mean 21st Century?
"Rather than think that this custom of killing your offspring for running off and getting married is bad [...]"
Dont you think its racist to impose your pigheaded moral absolutes on another culture?
People everywhere are entitled to self-determination, and if they determine that it is necessary to behead women for having the temerity to try and leave, then surely that is entirely a matter for them?
Well I suppose fewer women being beheaded isn't entirely a bad thing, so it's probably a good idea.
Now... about that permanent seat on the UN security council they keep demanding...