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Muslim Gang Rapes and the Aussie Riots
By Sharon Lapkin
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2005
In Australia this week amidst anger over an Islamic man’s rape conviction and the bashing of two Aussie life
savers, working-class locals erupted in a rampage of anger and brawling in some of the worst racial riots in
decades. But there is more to the story than is being repeated in the American mainstream media....
Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. And
during his sexual assault trial in a New South Wales courtroom, the
Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims
because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony.
But she had every reason to express her disgust. After taking an oath on the Qur’an, the
man – known only as MSK – told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as
young as 13 because they had no right to say “no.” They were not covering their face or
wearing a headscarf, and therefore, the rapist proclaimed: “I’m not doing anything wrong.”
MSK is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in a gang
rape of two other young Sydney girls in 2002. In his own defence, he argued that his
cultural background, was responsible for his crimes.
And he is right.
In some parts of Pakistan, sexual assault – including gang rape – is officially sanctified as
a legitimate form of enforcing the social value system.
One village council recently ordered that five young girls should be “abducted, raped or
murdered” for refusing to be treated as chattel. The girls were aged between six and
thirteen when they were married without their knowledge, to pay a family debt.
And when Mukhtar Mai’s 12-year-old brother was alleged to have
committed an offence in a small Pakistani farming village, the village
council ordered that his sister be gang-raped. So, she was taken to a
hut where four men repeatedly assaulted her.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan there were 804 cases of such
officially orchestrated sexual assault in 2000, and 434 of these were gang rapes. And if
that isn’t bad enough, the victims of these atrocities are then expected to commit suicide
because rape victims bring irreparable shame upon their family.
So as MSK committed his acts of rape while visiting Australia, he was
simply perpetuating his own cultural heritage. He hails from a society
where officially sanctioned sexual violence is commonly employed as a
means to enforce the subservience of women.
And this is where two fundamental tenets of the modern Left clash: the irresistible force
of cultural relativism collides with the immovable object of gender equality. But in the
21st century it is the latter that must prevail.
The laissez faire attitudes of cultural relativism are unacceptable in modern society.
Female genital mutilation is not some quaint tribal custom that we are bound to respect:
it is barbarism, pure and simple.
Yet many Western leftists habitually excuse these crimes against women in order to
maintain political solidarity with their allies in the Islamic world. After all, it would be
tough to make common cause with Muslim groups in the antiwar movement if
Progressives began to criticize the practice of polygamy.
But along with Islamic immigration to the West have come Third World value systems
regarding the treatment of women. We must not be seduced by the false tenets of
cultural relativism into a toleration of forced marriages, officially sanctioned rape, and
honour killings.
Australia’s unique brand of multiculturalism confers both rights and obligations: while
cultural and linguistic diversity are to be cherished, every Australian must subscribe to a
single standard of human rights. Australians must forcefully repudiate the corruption of
the multicultural idea that would condone crimes against women and support jihadism.
The dangers of cultural relativism became evident Down Under last weekend when
long-festering ethnic tensions erupted into violence at Cronulla Beach near Sydney. The
trouble began when a group of Middle Eastern men were assaulted by mobs of angry
locals. The local Member of Parliament, Bruce Baird MP, claimed the public outcry was
revenge for the Bali bombings and September 11.
But Baird also explained that a series of high profile rapes in the area had spurred locals
on and that a group of Middle Eastern men had attacked two Aussie lifesavers the
previous weekend. Locals claimed to the media after the riots that they were sick of
Lebanese Muslim gangs calling their daughters and wives names, and throwing cigarette
butts at them.
Then neo-Nazis showed up in a transparent attempt to exploit local ethnic tensions for
their own benefit. But mainstream Australians expressed their frustration with both the
violence inflicted by Middle Eastern men, and the equally violent effort by white racists to
exploit it.
While rejecting the tenets of neo-Nazism, working-class Aussies who live near Cronulla
Beach were saying they’ve had enough of this culturally motivated crime wave in a wave
of violence that is also unacceptable. The race riots in suburban Sydney represented a
clash between two polar opposites of white supremacy and Islamic male supremacy. But
the average Australian seeks a midpoint between these equally vile extremes in which
fairness and a single standard of law will apply to all.
The crimes were committed in a society that sets it's citizens up as helpless victims by denying them the means of self defense. I would almost argue that the gun control attitude of Australia is almost a form of rape in and of itself.