Padma Patil Actress Threatened With "Honor" Killing

[veritybrown]

Until I read about this today, I wasn't aware that the actress who plays Padma Patil in the Harry Potter movies is Muslim. But apparently, despite the fact that Afshan Azad was allowed to accept a role in such in an appallingly infidel movie series as Harry Potter (playing a Hindu character who is a witch!), her family seems to have decided she was

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[babsbybend]

I saw a Night Court espisode decades ago, where a judge quit--walked off the bench, and the judge who was the center of the show went to find out why.

He told him about his last case. It was a young woman who had been beaten by her boyfriend, and who refused to testify against him. She said, "I don't want you to put him in jail; I want you to make him stop hitting me."

"It happens over and over again. The only way I can get them to stop for a while is to put them in jail. I cannot make anyone do anything. I can't make him stop beating her--I can't make her testify against him. I can't do anthing."

[veritybrown]

It's hard to know what to do when people refuse to act in their own best interest. Part of me wants the law to get really tough about these things, taking the question of prosecution out of the hands of frightened women, relying on recordings of physical evidence and the victim's statements at the time to convict these losers, whether the victim still wants that to happen or not. And yet I fear that an unintended consequence would be that many women would stop calling the cops for help, if they know that their beloved abuser *will* go to jail. :~(

[babsbybend]

By the way, I hope that the charges are not dropped. On one side, the hard-nosed Islamists might think twice about emigrating there, but on the other, the ones who are already there will go more undercover, dragging their families with them.

She's lucky someone stepped in and stopped them, or she doubtless would have been killed. Now she'll be the poster girl for domestice violence reporting.

But one thing for sure--I sure hope she quits feeding them from her movie royalies.

[veritybrown]

Yes, that was one of the things that really bothered me about this. It was okay for her to go against their religious beliefs when it was making them money. But when it comes to her own personal happiness

[babsbybend]

I remember a leftist movement to condemn those in the US and Europe who were working to put an end to the "ancient tradition performed in female-centric Africa" of female circumcision.

And I think that it's the same crowd that's embracing Islam just because it is old and has some decent art. How DARE we impose our morals outside of our borders! How DARE we not be tolerant of those inside!

I learned recently of the Chicago World's Fair, back in the day. The Mormons weren't allowed to have a display on the grounds because of polygamy, while the sheiks and their numerous wives were wined and dined all over the place (never mind that their religion also forbade alcohol.)

[veritybrown]

Wow, I hadn't heard about the World's Fair thing.

Female circumcision (or, more accurately, female genital mutilation) is certainly a serious logical conundrum for far-left feminists. The impulse to "protect" women from "harmful" social practices has been given free reign when it comes to Western practices. Western women are being "harmed" if a man so much as opens a door for a woman. And yet the same far-left feminists are strangely reticent to even criticize (at the very most) a practice that, for the sole benefit of male "honor" in a highly patriarchal culture, typically results in the loss of *any* sexual pleasure for the mutilated woman, and often causes a lifetime of discomfort every time she urinates. The kind of hypocrisy that can look down on American women who choose to stay home with their children, while at the same time looking the other way while Muslim women in Africa are sexually mutilated in the name of pleasing men, makes me sick.

[babsbybend]

And while I was searching, I found this:

people.com:

Wright, 19, plays Ron Weasley's sister Ginny in the Harry Potter films. Bower, 21, played the vampire Caius in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. They will appear together in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming in November -- in which Bower portrays Gellert Grindelwald.

Wright confirmed to PEOPLE in February that the pair had been dating for about six months. "It's not like we kept it a secret intentionally, but we didn't go around telling everyone either," she said.

Oh, my! All those Ginny/Tom Riddle and Ginny/Voldemort fanfics, and now it looks like there's a whole new Ginny/Grindelwald genre about to happen!

[veritybrown]

THAT is a pairing I would never have envisioned!

Good news (sort of)

[babsbybend]

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/07/06/important-update-from-the-ministry-of-magic/

Afshan Azad has not asked to have the charges dropped: Her father and brother's lawyer is the one spreading that rumor.

Re: Good news (sort of)

[veritybrown]

I'm not surprised that the brother's lawyer would lie. One of the British tabloid stories on the subjected quote the brother moaning and whining about how badly this is going to damage their family's image and the image of Muslims in Britain. Maybe he should have thought of that before he went all 12th-century at his sister? :~P

I just hope that she manages to stay safe after this is over.

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[babsbybend]

I hope her wedding to whomever SHE chooses is at the home/castle of some western big-wig with lots of security. It was okie dokie for the idea of Protestant Princess Di to date/marry a Muslim, but not for a Muslim woman to date/marry a non-Muslim.

I still think that the Muslim clerics uproar over the pope's stupid comment from a 13th century dead guy would not have happened had not a Muslim woman (first one!) been in outer space at the time.

Re: Good news (sort of)

[babsbybend]

Same here. I suspect that father and brother thought that threatening her would make her change her mind and nothing would ever be said about it again. They probably even had her future husband in mind and expected her to go quietly.

And yes, I hope she stays safe too.