Submitted by Don (Peru), Jan 28, 2009 at 15:40
Family untiy, Mansoor? Tell me about your wonderful family untiy there in...where? Lahore? Karachi? Islamabad? SWAT? the Frontier Province? Peshawar? Been there..seen that. Ugly.
Women and girls in your "family" are so oppressed they can´t even get an education in many parts of Pakistan, and if they try they may get blown up with the school. Those families who (try to) send their children to an American or British style school trying to get an actual education for their children have their lives threatened for being unIslamic by those who think the madrassa is the only true education - where most of you stone-aged idiots are educated in the ways of hatred of all things unIslamic and Jewish and Western; where history doesn´t even begin until the birth of Mohammed; where you memorize a book of hatred and bigotry and war in Arabic, a language very few of you even understand, nodding back and forth reciting words and sounds you can´t understand, and are brainwashed and told the worst of lies by your instructors.
Yes, wonderful fathers and brothers and uncles and sons who kill their daughters and sisters and neices for "dishonoring" the family by refusing a marriage proposal or sneaking out to see a boyfriend they don´t know about or having the nerve to want a divorce from a husband who´s beating the living hell out of her every night. Maybe she´ll be one of the lucky ones who simply gets acid thrown in her face, huh Mansoor - a particularly nice little Pakistani tradition to keep your girls in line. "Don´t anger the men-folk or you´ll be killed or disfigured." No debt? Hmmm.
Stop at any busy intersection in Lahore or Karachi and brace yourself for the hordes of disfigured and crippled beggars that descend on you at red lights, these poor people literally owned by gangs of "dicoits" who actually purchased these poor children from poor parents who couldn´t afford to keep them, yet knew they would be blinded, broken-up, twisted, mutilated, burned, and disfigured by these inhamun gangs (Muslims all) who would then put them on busy street corners and take all their money at the end of the day. Lives totally destroyed and ruined by fellow Muslims, their "ummah" family. Nice.
Or what nice "families" at the center of Islam, its HQs so-to-speak, in Saudi Arabia, where women cannot go out of their homes without the permission of a male member of their family, even an of-aged son. Who cannot drive themselves. Whom Saudis would rather seen burned to death in a burning building rather than escape to safety dressed in their nightgowns. Nice.
Where as man can demand marriage to a young girl, sex her until he´s tired of her, than divorce simply by his word and leave her used up (in the eyes of Saudi men) and relegated to spend the rest of her life locked away in a room watching reruns of Bonanza for the next 50 years, closed off to the world.
How many half brothers and sisters does Osama bin Laden have? What...over 100? Hell, his father married and divorced over 50 women. Actually, most of them were just his temporary whores to please him for a few months or so at a time, including Osama´s own mother, but hey...at least he kept with Islamic law and never had more than four at one time, and he did support all his kids, so... that was nice of him.
Or how ´bout those wonderful Palestinian mothers having and raising their children to become murderers...oops...I mean "martyrs." Yes, the greatest wish for my beloved son is for him to go through a school getting an education replete with hatred and the hero worship of those who have killed (innocent) Jews and who are enjoying their martyrdom with virgins at the right hand of Allah. Oh, I´m so proud of my dead son who blew himself up killing the apes and pigs, and now I am a revered and respected mother of a martyr. I´m so lucky and proud, and when they gave little bloody bits of what was left of my beloved son I was so proud to commit his little parts to Allah as a hero - my boy, whom I brought into the world. I hope for my youngest boy to follow in his brothers path and also blow himself to bits killing Jews.
I´ll tell you what, Mansoor: Keep your wonderful families. In fact, keep them as far away from the rest of us as possible.
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