Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead

Posted by samzenpus on from the trying-to-silence-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader sends word that Sabeen Mahmud, a prominent Pakistani social and human rights activist, has been shot dead. The progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan's first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi. Sabeen Mahmud was leaving the T2F offices with her mother some time after 9pm on Friday evening, reports the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. She was on her way home when she was shot, the paper reports. Her mother also sustained bullet wounds and is currently being treated at a hospital; she is said to be in critical condition.

4 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. No, it's the SJW Crowd Who Defends Islam by Nova+Express · · Score: 0, Troll

    Indeed, criticizing Islam is a sure way to get attacked by Social Justice Warriors. Given that Sabeen Mahmud was almost certainly killed by radical Islamists, your comment is nonsensical.

    Just how Islam became so sacred to radical feminists is an interesting question...

    --
    Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)

    http://www.lawrenceperson.com/

  2. Re:Damn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's a big difference between "Women shouldn't be seen, drive, or learn" and "I believe a pregnant woman is hotelling a human" and you damn well know it.

    I am saying that as someone who remains on the fence with the issue. As a man, if a fetus were growing inside me, I do not want it dead, but I would probably want it out.

  3. Re:Damn... by Bengie · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is a difference in the end result, but the mindset is the same.

  4. Re:What could have been by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Neo-nazi. Why don't you listen to the words of mid-eastern Muslim leaders who still deny the holocaust, while at the same time praising Hitler. Pull your head out of your arse. Islam is a threat to life around the world. It is at least a great a threat as Nazism was, or the Soviet.

    --
    "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br