Valentine gifts for Pakistan assassin

[Lady Macbeth]

RAWALPINDI: Pakistani students brought Valentine’s cards and flowers on Monday to the detained self-confessed killer of one of the country’s most liberal politicians.

Supporters of police commando Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri gathered outside the high-security prison in Rawalpindi, the city headquarters of the Pakistan military, where he was to appear before an anti-terrorism court later Monday.

Qadri confessed to shooting dead Punjab governor Salman Taseer, whom he was assigned to protect, on January 4 because he objected to the politician’s wish to amend blasphemy laws which carry the death penalty.

The murder has divided Pakistan. The powerful conservative religious right praised the gunman for silencing a dangerous reformer. An appalled liberal elite interpreted the killing as a death knell for reform efforts.

Outside Adiyala prison, about 140 rallied in support of Qadri, joined by 10 students from a government college who turned up with posters, Valentine’s cards and flowers.

“Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Mumtaz Qadri,” read one placard.

They handed over flowers and cards to jail officials who said they would give them to Qadri, as students from religious schools shouted “Free Qadri!”

Valentine’s Day is increasingly celebrated in Pakistan, a Muslim country where many conservatives disapprove of the occasion as a Western import.

“We admit it is not our tradition and it is wrong to celebrate Valentine’s Day, but it is now widely celebrated and the media is full with Valentine’s Day activities,” student Hussain Ahmed, 22, told AFP at the jail.

“We love Qadri because he loves the holy Prophet (pbuh) and that is why we have brought flowers and Valentine’s Day cards for him,” Ahmed said.

Qari Hanif Qureshi, a firebrand speaker and apparent inspiration for Qadri, also said Valentine’s Day was not Muslim.

“It is wrong to celebrate it, but since these students have come to express their love and support for Qadri, we cannot turn them away,” Qureshi told AFP.

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[Lady Macbeth]

Men giving flowers/chocolates to a man for valentines day....now thats progress. lol

[vinod2070]

This whole thing is so absurd. An Islamic fundamentalist extremist getting gifts on a kaffir festival!

Only in Pakistan.

[Lady Macbeth]

-Richard Ramirez, better known as the Night Stalker, was convicted in 1985 of 13 murders in the Los Angeles area and 30 counts of rape, burglary and attempted murder.

Yet, dozens of women flocked to his side after he was arrested. Lines formed outside the prison. Letters flooded in.

After courting a number of women from behind bars he married Doreen Lioy, a freelance magazine editor, in 1996.

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- Carol Ann Boone moved from Washington state to Florida so she could be near Ted Bundy, who was convicted of killing about 30 women across the country.

She married the handsome serial killer in 1980 and had his child.


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- 95 percent of correspondence to the convicted comes from women admirers and the usual perps are on death row.

About five Death Row inmates at San Quentin get married each year. There are 621 people on Death Row. California, however, does not allow conjugal visits for Death Row inmates.


Those who receive the most attention are Ramirez, Charles Manson and Scott Peterson.

Women still throw themselves at Ramirez, even though he is married. Manson – who held sway over a group of men and women followers, who murdered actress Sharon Tate and others on his command – receives several televisions from admirers every year.

Even before he arrived, dozens of calls came in from women wanting to get in touch with Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife and unborn child.

Serial killer groupies are often criticized for seeking out the condemned, even though many are intelligent, career-minded women.

Originally Posted by vinod2070

Only in Pakistan.

Not just in Pakistan, it happens all over the world.

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Not just in Pakistan, it happens all over the world.

I didn't mean the support for this extremist killer only. It was the way the support was being expressed on a kaffir festival for an Islamic extremist by people who are themselves obviously Islamic extremists.