Bob Collins
For utter incomprehensibility, nothing beats this quote in the news today:
“I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it.”
A pregnant woman, Farzana Parveen, 25, was stoned to death today as she headed to court for a hearing for her husband, who was charged with abducting her.
But he hadn’t abducted her. They were in love. So, according to the Associated Press, the family took care of the matter.
Nearly 20 members of Parveen’s extended family, including her father and brothers, had waited outside the building that houses the high court of Lahore. As the couple walked up to the main gate, the relatives fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal, her lawyer said.
When she resisted, her father, brothers and other relatives started beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks from a nearby construction site, according to Mujahid and Iqbal, the slain woman’s husband.
Iqbal said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five children.
“We were in love,” he told The Associated Press. He alleged that the woman’s family wanted to fleece money from him before marrying her off.
“I simply took her to court and registered a marriage,” infuriating the family, he said.
The woman’s father, who has been arrested, called it an honor killing.
