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Father set on fire by daughters after rape in Pakistan (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to c/world@quokk.au

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The girls confessed to the act, according to police official Rizwan Tariq. “The girls said that they decided amongst themselves to find a 'permanent solution',” Tariq told AFP

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's not like the bible is any better on women's rights. It's just that most modern Christians (thankfully) ignore large parts of their book. There are plenty of fundamentalist Christian groups that have just as bad, or in some cases a worse, culture of misogyny.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah a large part of how to solve this, is really just slowly getting rid of religion as much as possible.