Pakistani girls shot for smiling and dancing in rain

[Decolonize The Left]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351836/Smiling-sisters-shot-dead-dancing-rain-Pakistani-girls-15-16-killed-mother-making-video-stained-family-honour.html

[Brutus]

I don't dare read the comments section...

[Zostrianos]

Pakistan is hell on earth, for women, Christians, Hindus, atheists, and these crimes often go unpunished, and many are supported or perpetrated by the Islamist rulers. And sadly this mentality seems to be ingrained into the population as a whole

[d3crypt]

This is just fucking depressing :( What type of shitty world do we live in:(

[Rafiq]

You'd think this was always a problem. You know today things are horrible when you read up on East Pakistan. It's funny how we are told of "developing countries" when there are clear signs of regression. I used to think Pakistan was simply always a vile and backward place almost with prejudice only to find they used to have an incredibly strong communist party. As communists today we must recognize Islamism not as a logical continuation of old customs but as a very recent regurgitation of customs that were already being done away with, as a new phenomena like fascism and libertarianism, a political decadence exclusive to neo feudal capitalism and neoliberalism. Islam is like all other religions stupid and inconsistent, let us not be mystified by it, Islamism is although entirely of Islam, a very recent obscenity. The problem is simply that, although these feudal customs always existed, they were always condemned and combatted, in the midst of being swept away by the revolutionary forces of capitalist production (Usually led by left wing cold war regimes). But Islamism integrates and sustains them in coexistence with capitalist relations which is why it is so dangerous, it gives customs which previously had no social (economic or modern) context, actual political and social space.

[Zostrianos]

Until the 70's, Pakistan wasn't so bad. Then they had theocratic reforms and everything went to shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia-ul-Haq%27s_Islamization

What's alarming is there doesn't seem to have been much opposition to Zia ul Haq's laws.

[Rafiq]

Until the 70's, Pakistan wasn't so bad. Then they had theocratic reforms and everything went to shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia-ul-Haq%27s_Islamization

What's alarming is there doesn't seem to have been much opposition to Zia ul Haq's laws.

No, it was bad, but it was marching in a very different direction, I.e. things were changing. Standards were different, and the political axis and dichotomy was different (backward and progressive).