I stand strongly and absolutely and religiously against ‘honor’ killing. For in Pakistan and elsewhere, sisters and daughters are murdered for the basic human and religious right of marrying by choice. Marrying by choice has not just been recommended by Islam but Islam has taken action against marrying a girl by force, against her choice. Prophet Muhammed Pbuh himself nullified such a Nikah in his lifetime when a girl reached his office with the complaint of the stated crime against her.
Poof! Prophet Muhammed Pbuh cancelled the enforced Nikah.
In the culturally and religiously confused society of Pakistan, girls being subjected to enforced marriages sometimes have no choice but to leave home and do court marriage. It is neither vulgarity nor Zina but a strong statement coming from her about her choice of her life-partner. However, to the low-esteem men, this appears to be an assault on the honor of the family and specifically themselves.
Ah! The boys and men themselves can loafer the streets, ogle at other girls and whistle at them, hoot at them, pass leery comments at them. All this dishonorable behavior does not amount to any kind of honor violation either by themselves or on those objectified girls. But if a girl from their family seeks her human, religious, legal right of marrying by choice … it is a raid on ‘honor’!
Shame!
And shameful was also what Qandeel Baloch was doing.
Qandeel Baloch was not reaching out for any human, religious or legal right, but she was a … I do not even want to call her a human being. The first time I saw one of her videos, doing the solo sex act, I felt like puking. She seemed neither a woman to me nor a man, neither human but an animal. Yes, she appeared like an animal to me. Like those cats shrieking out in the street, in view of everybody, when the male cat is pursuing the female cat, pouncing upon her and then moaning loudly.
As somebody said on social media; when she was doing all that filthy and disgusting stuff, there used to be comments online … ‘Is there nobody who would kill her?’
Now, that somebody has killed her … and oh what a good riddance!
Now, the comments coming online are … ‘Oh why was she killed? After all, she was a human being …’
She appeared like a human being to you?
Is that the way humans behave?
Nah! She had been behaving like a cat in the skin of a woman. Rather worse!
Cats do not film themselves in their acts of sex, maintain a Facebook page and then post them online!
Cats do not invade the personal space of celebrities … Imran Khan, Shahid Afridi and Virat Kohli … and publically promise unwanted, uninvited sexual fantasies to them.
Ah! But the story of Mufti Abdul Qawi is another story. The idiot sat there like an idiot, feeling upbeat to be sitting with the hot Qandeel Baloch and allowed her to make selfies. And now he says it was all a setup … Ha! Was he dumb, that he could not say no? Was he handicapped that he could not stand up and walk out? Was he paralyzed that he could not move his head in refusal?
Mufti Abdul Qawi! Shame on you for carrying the religious title of ‘Mufti’ and maligning the religious profession by your loose character. The slandered Imran Khan is a million times better than you who instructed his administration not to let Qandeel Baloch enter the pavilion of his Jalsagah, let alone sit on the stage or come near him.
They say, whatever any human being does is his/her personal act and nobody has the right to object to him/her and nobody has the right to claim that they or their family are being affected or influenced by the act of another.
Really?
Why do we condemn
trash heaps in residential areas?
Why do we have ‘No
Smoking’ signboards in public locations?
Why do have
silence zones in certain parts of buildings and cities?
To me, Qandeel Baloch was a mega heap of stinking trash that many of us were calling the city administration to clear out.
But no response.
For as a society, we have developed the attitude of being sitting duck on actions and quacking out on reactions.
I thank Waseem Baloch for bundling her up and throwing her out. Thud!
Not because there was an issue of ‘honor’ over here and not because brothers and fathers have the right to play the ‘Ghairat Brigade’, but …
Because the Government of Pakistan did not exercise its due authority over Qandeel Baloch when she wore the Pakistani flag as a bikini and danced around as trailer to a mind-blowing striptease dance if Pakistan won against India in a cricket match. Ugh!
Because the PEMRA did not play its due role against Qandeel Baloch and did not shut out her Facebook page as it has blocked so many other porn websites.
Because the media channels of Pakistan played a negative role by giving her undue attention and feeding her thirst for the spotlight, promoting her from a slut to Qandeel Baloch Sahiba.
As Newton says, ‘Every action has an equal and opposite reaction’.
Or we can also say, ‘Every inaction has an equal and opposite action’.
It is what happened in the case of Aunty Shameem & Lal Masjid, it is what happened in the case of Salman Taseer and Mumtaz Qadri and it is what has happened in the case of Qandeel Baloch.
“Those who love to spread vulgarity among the believers will have a painful punishment in this life and in the Hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know.” [The Holy Quran, Surah Al-Noor, Verse 19]
I know it is Islamic ethics not speak ill of the dead, but that is specifically for the personal negatives of the deceased. While public figures and their public actions are another story. I feel sorry for Qandeel Baloch and may Allah Almighty forgive her for whatever she had been doing. It may have been Allah’s Mercy that Allah decided to call her back to Himself, because it seemed that there was no stopping to her as she said in one of her posts,
“I will
fight for it. I will not give up. I will reach my goal & absolutely nothing
will stop me.”
So I am writing about her as a furious warning to future Qandeel Baloches!
No more Meeras and no more Qandeels.
The day she died, Qandeel Baloch had 758,081 likes on her official Facebook page.
Where were all these adorers on her Janazah ?
