Hi, I’m Pakistani, fluent in urdu and punjabi and I really don’t understand the point you’re trying to make regarding the translation being off. I can’t think of a single phrase that Chaudary might’ve used that would be an incorrect translation of what he tweeted. Also if he is a member of the upper class and lives in…

Pakistani woman here, I was born there, speak urdu and punjabi fluently and I don’t understand what point Jessamina is trying to make. Especially since one part of her argument is that this person is member of the upper class and at the same time that english translation is tough for him. A person who is of privileged…

Except she was married off as a child to a far older, abusive man who threatened to throw acid on her face for being so beautiful and regularly beat her. I don’t think being upper class offers the sort of protection you think it does.

“Even told colleagues what a bad actor she was.”

Yes. Just reading about the mass killer in Nice who it seems, surprise surprise, was apparently a wife and child beater. Who knows what kinds of tragedies could be averted if domestic violence were easier to prosecute and got the perpetrators serious prison sentences.

Except that domestic abuse in upper-class families all over the world is often invisible and overlooked. That’s the reality.

You can “see” how people might dismiss a frightened and crying woman because she’s upper class?

“Thought she was being overdramatic.”

They’re committed as part of a patriarchal system.

Yeah, heaven forbid he should take a woman’s fears seriously. Domestic violence victims across the world are treated this way until the worst happens.

“Thought she was being overdramatic”.

So do I, most days. And I am one.

I hate men.

See, America, we Canadians also have people who rush past the point of an article just so they can sling partisanship at a person involved in it!

Well he has the same economic advisors that Paul Martin did who was the last PM to not only balance the budget but to create a surplus.

But don’t try to tell me that “normal” men don’t ever look at their daughters and think of them as sexual beings, or possible sexual partners.

Syracuse.com reports that the man wept in court, telling the judge, “I’m giving away many years of my life.”

If I were this girl’s mother I would be seriously tempted to give up years of my life in prison just to brutally murder this man.