September 01, 2004

Isn't this nice? Money quotes:

Isn't this nice?

Money quotes:

"A village council has ordered
an Indian woman pregnant with her second husband's child to return to
her first husband, released from a Pakistani jail five years after
being written off as a deserter or dead."
"After being tracked in a prison in Pakistan and returning to his
village near Delhi this month, Arif appealed to Islamic scholars to reclaim his wife, Guriya, local papers reported."

{my emphasis}

You'd think they were referring to a stereo or a TV. Some random piece of property.
Some sort of inanimate object these people are bickering over, where
the resolution of said property is decided by an impartial judge. This
would make sense with verbs like "reclaim" and "ordered" being used.
Instead it's a living, breathing, and very pregnant woman they're
chatting about. Nice.
/sarcasm

Posted by Kathy at September 1, 2004 11:12 AM | TrackBack
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