more jihadi heroism
Via The TimesOnline:
A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.
Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens of party activists, by a “fanatic”, who believed that she was dressed inappropriately and that women should not be involved in politics, officials said.
Mrs Usman, 35, was wearing the shalwar kameez worn by many professional women in Pakistan, but did not cover her head.
The attack happened in Gujranwala, 120 miles southeast of Islamabad, where the minister’s office is based. As Ms Usman, 35, stepped out of her car – where she was greeted by her co-workers throwing rose petals - the attacker pulled out a pistol and fired a single shot at close range, hitting her in the head. She was airlifted to hospital in the provincial capital Lahore, but died soon afterwards.
The gunman, Mohammad Sarwar, was overpowered by the minister’s driver and arrested by police. A stone mason in his mid 40s, he is not thought to belong to any radical group but is known for his fanaticism. He was previously held in 2002 in connection with the killing and mutilation of four prostitutes, but was never convicted due to lack of evidence.
Mr Sarwar appeared relaxed and calm when he told a television channel that he had carried out God’s order to kill women who sinned. “I have no regrets. I just obeyed Allah’s commandment,” he said, adding that Islam did not allow women to hold positions of leadership. “I will kill all those women who do not follow the right path, if I am freed again,” he said.
I have argued before that fate of the Islamic world will be decided by its women. Religious jihad is a hoax. The violence is real enough, but the religion is camouflage for the true casus belli: to keep women enslaved. The West is the enemy because the women of the West are free. And that is an abomination. If the US left Iraq tomorrow and every last Israeli moved to Antarctica, the war would continue. The West must fall or convert because women cannot be allowed to be free.
It will happen. The women of the Islamic world will be free. But they will pay for their freedom in blood, at the hands of filth like Mohammad Sarwar.
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by pwyll
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Thank you for bringing this tragic story, and your sound analysis, to our attention.
In the OnlineTimes article from which your blockquote is taken, the second commentor listed is Ali from Missouri. He begins his comment with the statement “This is really terrible. Such an incident will allow for an increase in women oppression unless widely renounced through the media. …” I turned on CNN this morning to watch while I ate breakfast but, given the news-lite they were spewing, quickly turned it off thinking it must be a slow news day. Wrong! The news editors at CNN should be ashamed of themselves for their failure to cover an important story such as this one.