
Pakistan: Social media star murdered by brother in "honor killing", feminists stay silent
Article here. Hundreds of women are murdered in Pakistan yearly, thousands in total there and in other Muslim countries, in "honor killings" done because they had the temerity to try living their lives without being coerced into compliant submission. Yet supposed feminists like Hillary Clinton, et al, remain utterly silent. They're more obsessed with a mythical wage gap and imaginery "microaggressions". Priorities are non-existent, it seems. Excerpt:
'A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said Saturday, prompting shock and revulsion.
Qandeel Baloch, praised by many of the country's youth for her willingness to break social taboos but condemned by conservatives, was strangled near the city of Multan, police said.
"Qandeel Baloch has been killed, she was strangled to death by her brother. Apparently it was an incident of honour killing," Sultan Azam, senior police officer in Multan, told AFP.
Baloch, believed to be in her twenties and whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, had travelled with her family to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Eid holiday.
She was killed there Friday, police said, adding that the brother, Wasim, was now on the run.
Up to 100 officers were gathered outside her family's home in Muzzafarabad, an AFP reporter there said. Five ambulances were also parked nearby.'
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