(This should never happen in this day and time.)

(What did you say – that Islam is a religion of PEACE?  When you say PEACE are you sure you don’t mean PIECE?  These people still live in the dark ages.  Where does the “brotherly or sisterly love” come  into their religion?  And they think these same people will assimilate into modern culture.  The Pakistan court should be held responsible since they caused this controversy.)

May 27 2014, 1:02 pm ET

Family Stones Pakistani Woman to Death in ‘Honor Killing’ Outside Court

LAHORE, Pakistan – A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan’s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called “honor” killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.

Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.

Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in the hospital, police said.

All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honor. Many Pakistani families think a woman marrying her own choice of man brings dishonor on the family.

Iqbal had been engaged to her cousin but married another man, Cheema said. Her family registered a kidnapping case against him but Iqbal had come to court to argue that she had married of her own free will, he said.

(This woman was formerly engaged to her cousin.  Did the cousin pay a dowry to the family because if he did – the family would have to return the money to the kissing cousin.  This is another problem because these people inter-marry and then produce idiots.  Belgium found that out when they accepted all of the Muslims and then tested their IQ – and you know the rest of the story.  Belgium reported that the majority of these people could not pass the IQ tests.  Is that done so the children won’t have enough sense and can be taught to blow up themselves.  A person in their right mind would not blow up themselves.)

Around 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year by their families in honor killings, according to Pakistani rights group the Aurat Foundation.

The true figure is probably many times higher since the Aurat Foundation only compiles figures from newspaper reports. The government does not compile national statistics.
Image: Police collect evidence near body of Farzana Iqbal, killed by family members, at site near Lahore High Court building in Lahore

Police collect evidence near the body of Farzana Iqbal, who was killed by family members, at the site near the Lahore High Court building in Lahore May 27, 2014. Iqbal, 25, was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan’s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called “honour” killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer. Mohammad Tahir / Reuters

Campaigners say few cases come to court, and those that do can take years to be heard. No one tracks how many cases are successfully prosecuted.

Even those that do result in a conviction may end with the killers walking free. Pakistani law allows a victim’s family to forgive their killer.

But in honour killings, most of the time the women’s killers are her family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. The law allows them to nominate someone to do the murder, then forgive him.

(This doesn’t make it okay.  It only tells you the barbaric nature of their religion.)

“This is a huge flaw in the law,” he said. “We are really struggling on this issue.”

(Where is the United Nations and Samantha Powell for a statement?  Is this okay with the United Nations.  Don’t hear any women’s rights groups speaking out for this woman?

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