follow up on Dr. Shazia Khalid's case

Another Face of Terror from NYtimes


but what shocks me is this

""When I treat rape victims, I tell the girls not to go to the police," Dr. Shershah Syed, a prominent gynecologist in Karachi, told me. "Because if she goes to the police, the police will rape her." "

:((((((

india lost.

quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.
-- Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain

quotes

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

can anyone prevent such laws from being passed in the name of religion?

Eroding women's rights Guardian

"Tony Blair, who continues to justify the invasion of the country as the only means of toppling a brutal dictatorship and helping establish democracy, now has an obligation to use all his powers to avert a new dictatorship in Iraq — that of the mullahs over women. "
...
"This particular interpretation of the Quran would legalise polygamy; divorce by talaq; honour killings; stoning and public beheadings of women for alleged adultery. But now rule 137's provisions are back in the new draft constitution. "
...
"These developments have caused deep dismay among women's organisations across Iraq, whether Kurds, Sunnis or Shias. Iraqi women have campaigned and lobbied hard over the past few months, often risking great personal danger — several politically active women have been assassinated, abducted, raped or threatened — for the new constitution to guarantee women's rights and abide by international treaties. "

is democracy only giving men freedom?

what's happening???

Colleges too go for dress code from hindu

"Insisting that students dress "simply, decently and modestly," many colleges have banned sleeveless, short, tight-fitting, transparent outfits and, in some cases, even jeans and t-shirts."
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""Indecent attire" invites adverse public reactions and incites sexual harassment of students,"


i don't know what the purpose of this system is... because i don't think the values of a 20 something years old can be changes by inflicting him/her with rules. at that age each of us are 'adults' and should be granted the freedom to decide what is moral/decent/appropriate. and please don't use sexual harassement as a reason. because thoes who harras are messed up anyway, so they should be corrected not the one being harrased.

A Tear Fell

A Tear Fell

I shed a tear today
Silently, I felt it fall
You caught it
shared it
held it
felt it
then
suddenlyit wasn't
so big
after all

--Marge Tindal
[via memory keeper]