Terrorism that's Personal.
November 29th, 2009 by sixpegs
I came across this article few weeks ago and I felt the urge to share.
It is called “Terrorism that’s Personal” by Nicholas D.Kristof and was published in late 2008.
Everyone would probably see terrorism as a political act but who would have imagined
that it is also something affecting many women in Pakistan?
“But sometimes it
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November 29th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
omg this is so heartbreaking. :(
November 29th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
feel fortunate to be in Singapore. imagine the humiliation and pain they went through. fuck the men who did that, feel like pouring acid at their dicks!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I’ve read about this somewhere before. My heart goes out to those women out there. I’ve even read of those which the woman was raped, is pregnant with the child of the rapist and instead of the rapist going to jail, SHE has to go to jail!
November 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Thank you for this entry. I think sometimes we just need constant reminders to reiterate the repercussions of terrorism in our society.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
It is hard to read this, and yet somehow every picture just goes on to show more courage, and more injustice that are still very much existing in our times.
It is in the same country that the women get raped without being heard because they try to ignore it, and in their defence, gahment says it is not as bad in some other countries when women get blamed for rape.
One woman tried to stand up for herself, but she got harassed by her own gahment – Mukhtar Mai, which shows how little respect and rights are given to women in some parts of the world out there.
It’s sad. Very sad.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
oh my gosh pegs! this entry made me tear. It’s really saddening! But thanks for sharing. I’m sure it sheds light to the hidden truths in our modern society.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
hey peggy,
thanks for blogging something so moving and impactful, i think i might never get to know of such disgusting acts if i wasn’t a reader of your blog. i think we’re really very blessed, aren’t we?
November 29th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
we really are very very fortunate.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
:) you’re welcome.
i’m totally appalled when i first saw this article as well.
it’s really depressing to know that these things are still going on today.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
hey there dear, didn’t really understand the back part with the woman who tried to stand up against the government.
but whatever it is, these women are really brave to stand before the camera to use their scars to tell their story.
it’s shocking but yet it really did its part to let us in a little on how ugly our society really is.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
wtf man?!
November 29th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
i showed my mother the pictures and that’s exactly what she said too!
she said, “go buy acid and pour back on his face lah! nothing to lose already!”
November 29th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
yes it really is, serene. :(
November 30th, 2009 at 1:47 am
omg I just read this entry and it totally left me speechless. How can such atrocities exist in a world that is supposedly civilized and educated? These bastards ought to be persecuted.
November 30th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Mukhtar Mai suffered gang rape as a form of honourable revenge, she is a Pakistani, and instead of committing suicide, which was what was expected of her, she reported it and brought the case into attention.
It gained international attention, but her own country’s gahment had shown “help” by giving some form of compensation due to international pressure, but at the same time, she got harassed for her outspokenness, which is not expected out of female in their country.
She is the epitome of bravery, and yet reflects the ugliness of it all of how women are treated. You can wiki her name to find out more :)
November 30th, 2009 at 4:24 am
wahhh… okokok.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:39 am
… Because it’s a completely different society. They don’t embrace the same culture, same values….
Thank you for sharing this. If you don’t mind, I would like to share it on my blog too. Sigh.
November 30th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Our society?! You mean Pakistan! Not Singapore, and never Singapore, I hope. This is terrible. Good you’re sharing. Let the whole world know what shitheads there are in that country.
November 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
[...] Got this link from Peggy’s Blog
November 30th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
ouch, my heart just broke. there is quite frequent in pakistan i think. there are also honour killings :( thanks peggy, you just reminded me that i’m a very fortunate girl.
on a sidenote, how come they got access to acid all the time ah? so weird one
November 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Yeah it’s not in Singapore but still, in this modern day, it’s still sad to know that such ugly things are still gg on in our society, not just in our country.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
yah lor jayne, very horrible right?
really feel sad but also fortunate that we’re living in singapore.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:02 am
ohmy. my heart goes out to all these women there.
i guess the society there still believes in a men-up-women-bottom rule. i once watched a documentary about them and there is this case about a woman who got caught talking to a male neighbour. her husband got pissed, hung her upside down and cut off her tongue so that she can never speak again. while suffering, she is pregnant! wtf!
men are real selfish when they can still go round flirting, women cant even talk to people of the opposite sex.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
o god.. this is so heart breaking man!…What on earth are the ppl thinking when they splash the acid on the gal’s face?
December 5th, 2009 at 5:46 am
You should credit and link to the photographer. Amazing project. Powerful post.
December 11th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
the girl who showed her pic before her attack was so pretty! :(
December 11th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
yeah that was what i thought too. so poor thing!
January 29th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
absolutely true, unless the woman decided to fight back, hard.
Try reading In the Name of Honor where a woman decided to fight back after being gang raped over a family dispute.
February 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
This is nothing but a reflection of the savagery and how primitive still lots of men are in that society ( Pakistan and other countries) … we are talking about men who hardly use their brains, they all act upon rage, jelousy, selfishness, and some other primitive emotions, poor men who are raw and unable to behave like social beings. Just like dealing with animals, you talk to them, they have no clue what you are saying, they are what we call in my country, social dregs ( social shit) men who are usually iliterate, lazy, poor and unable to improve -