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Arifa Bibi Stoned To Death in Pakistan for Possessing a Cell Phone
A young mother of two has been put to death in Pakistan for possessing a cell phone.
Arifa Bibi was sentenced to death by stoning by a Pakistani tribal court, and was executed on July 11 at the hands of her family. Her uncle, cousins and other family members threw stones at the woman until she died, all because she had a mobile phone. She was buried in the desert far away from her home village, and according to reports, her family was not permitted to be involved in her funeral.
Stoning has been a common sentence in countries like Pakistan for a long time and is used against women and other vulnerable groups. Since the stoning of Arifa Bibi this summer, women’s rights groups have launched an even stronger campaign to put a ban on stoning.
Naureen Shameem, representative for women’s rights group Women Living Under Muslim Laws, says that stoning is used against women in particular as a way to control them.
“Stoning is a cruel and hideous punishment,” said Shameem. “It is a form of torturing someone to death. It is one of the most brutal forms of violence perpetrated against women in order to control and punish their sexuality and basic freedoms.”
The Asian Human Rights Commission explained the act of stoning against women in a recent press release.
“Stoning to death is a barbaric act from a primitive society,” reads the press release. “Society is sent the message that violence is the way to deal with women and other vulnerable groups. Women’s rights are negated through the use of these forms of punishment. Pakistani society has degenerated to the point that, for a woman, keeping a cell phone has become serious crime. It is treated as a worse crime than gang rape, murder and bomb blasts, through which many people are killed on a daily basis.”
Groups are currently petitioning the United Nations to enact a worldwide ban on stoning. It is not known what progress has been made on that front.link
Jane Bond · Follow · Works at Seton Hall University
Women all across Pakistan have cells and talk on them freely. I have lived and been there. Why bother putting something so inaccurate out there (the article's author). Don't believe everything you hear or read. Lots of bigots and this is just another bigot. Cheers! -- A proud Muslim American Woman
Reply · 123 · Like · Follow Post · October 3 at 3:04pm
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IS THIS STORY BOGUS?
The story is reported here yesterday
www.dhakatribune.com...
and elsewhere, to have happened on 11th July 2013. However, the stoning was reported the day before most who have repeated the story are saying it happened. That is in this report:
www.pakistantoday.com.pk...
dated 10th July 2013.
Five days ago, the story was recycled as the headline and opening paragraph of the following rather muddled, campaigning "Special Report" in The Independent, which is about stoning in general, wherever stoning occurs in the world:
www.independent.co.uk...
The story of the alleged stoning of Arifa Bibi seems to stem from the two groups mentioned in the Opposing Views story here. It does look very much as though the story could be a made-up propaganda story, or a true story adapted and recycled for propaganda purposes.
Somebody should try either to substantiate or to debunk this story. However, I can't be bothered to complete that task. It's a thankless task challenging news organisations' suspect stories.
I was suspicious of a story on the BBC on 7/7/2005, that a group calling itself "Al Qaeda" had admitted responsibility for some bombs that had gone off in London that morning. The BBC even flashed up for a few seconds a website supposedly promulgating the said admission. I set out either to substantiate the BBC's story or to debunk it, by asking the BBC for the URL. I gave up after about two months of frustrating correspondence during which the BBC stonewalled my simple enough question completely. Never again. Since then, if a news story looks like bunk, I treat it like bunk until those publishing it substantiate it themselves.
Metaphysique
reply to post by Grimpachi
going by the comments alone...
Jane Bond · Follow · Works at Seton Hall University
Women all across Pakistan have cells and talk on them freely. I have lived and been there. Why bother putting something so inaccurate out there (the article's author). Don't believe everything you hear or read. Lots of bigots and this is just another bigot. Cheers! -- A proud Muslim American Woman
Reply · 123 · Like · Follow Post · October 3 at 3:04pm
***
IS THIS STORY BOGUS?
The story is reported here yesterday
www.dhakatribune.com...
and elsewhere, to have happened on 11th July 2013. However, the stoning was reported the day before most who have repeated the story are saying it happened. That is in this report:
www.pakistantoday.com.pk...
dated 10th July 2013.
Five days ago, the story was recycled as the headline and opening paragraph of the following rather muddled, campaigning "Special Report" in The Independent, which is about stoning in general, wherever stoning occurs in the world:
www.independent.co.uk...
The story of the alleged stoning of Arifa Bibi seems to stem from the two groups mentioned in the Opposing Views story here. It does look very much as though the story could be a made-up propaganda story, or a true story adapted and recycled for propaganda purposes.
Somebody should try either to substantiate or to debunk this story. However, I can't be bothered to complete that task. It's a thankless task challenging news organisations' suspect stories.
I was suspicious of a story on the BBC on 7/7/2005, that a group calling itself "Al Qaeda" had admitted responsibility for some bombs that had gone off in London that morning. The BBC even flashed up for a few seconds a website supposedly promulgating the said admission. I set out either to substantiate the BBC's story or to debunk it, by asking the BBC for the URL. I gave up after about two months of frustrating correspondence during which the BBC stonewalled my simple enough question completely. Never again. Since then, if a news story looks like bunk, I treat it like bunk until those publishing it substantiate it themselves.
k21968
Women have very little rights under Sharia law. In Kabul, a young girl was stoned to death by her father and uncles for LOOKING at a teenage boy on a motorbike. Apparently she had "unclean" thoughts so they killed her.
deckdel
reply to post by Grimpachi
Which brand of a cell phone did she have?
deckdel
reply to post by Grimpachi
Which brand of a cell phone did she have?
I would imagine this was a remote village where this occurred. Not in a city or large village. My husband served in Afghanistan for 18 months and told me there is a distinct difference between tiny villages and their crude ways compared to larger cities....
In Kabul, a young girl was stoned to death by her father and uncles for LOOKING at a teenage boy on a motorbike. Apparently she had "unclean" thoughts so they killed her.
babloyi
Maybe we should just create a "Bad things muslims supposedly do" forum for all these threads.
babloyi
reply to post by xavi1000
Thankfully, ATS doesn't make things THAT easy for bigots.
Grimpachi
reply to post by Nyiah
My problem with this isn’t why it may have happened it’s that it still happens.
Stoning someone to death is one of the more brutal ways a person can possibly die.
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