Posted on 12/15/2005 9:27:31 AM PST by elizabethr
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.
we need bigger MOABs
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See? TROP obviously supports women's rights more than that evil Bush does. /sarcasm
The "untold story" is that muslims don't belong among the civilized. Sorry. Maybe a few can be assimilated and make the adjustment, but not large communities of them. I go along with Ann Coulter's sentiment that we need to invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. Only one side can win this thing and it had better be us.
The neo-Nazis are on the side of the Muslims. Their various "leaders" such as they are, have endorsed jihad and the events of September 11, July 7 and Bali.
"The race riots in suburban Sydney represented a clash between two polar opposites of white supremacy and Islamic male supremacy."
Still tip-toeing around the periphery, I see. Labelling anyone who fights back a "white suprematist" is at best disingenuous. No one "attacked" Lebanese Christians, Vietnames, Thai or any other ethnicity. The problem was and is one of religion and culture. Which leads to this transparent attempt at spinning religious bigotry and cultural supremacy into some sort of sexist thing ... yes, Islam is quite sexist by our standards. The males are merely enforcing the tenets of their (here's that word again) MUSLIM belief system, much as the women pin down their young girls and "circumcise" them ... the women participate actively, "oppressed" though they may appear to us. To reductively assert that this is just a male thing is pure delusion.
To add to your comments: Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a tactic of a declared enemy.
In many Muslim countries the women has no rights at all in cases where rape is charged. Whatever a man does to a woman is normal in these pagan countries.
Welcome multiculturalism!
No mention of a Police force that was told there are "No go" areas and to ignore the "Middle Eastern" gangs.
Wrap the man in a slaughtered pig and hang him.
Need a few of these to 'calm' the Jihadista.
From Islam Q+A (Ask the imam):
If a female was raped due to her not maintaining the laws of Hijaab, she is partly to be blamed as the rapist will be considered as being seduced by her revealing form and shape. She should make Tawbah (sincerely repent) by also adhering to the laws of Hijaab.and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
You see, it' a little known fact outside of muslum nations, that the islamic slave rag is in fact, a magical anti-rape marker to brand your property with, in the way someone may brand an animal
A common theme elsewhere:
Rape: Nothing to do with Islam?I got some comments, among others from Norwegian blogger Bjørn Stærk, to my posts about the Norwegian government covering up the number of rapes committed by immigrants. The Swedish government is probably even worse, but Sweden is in many ways collapsing. Although he agreed that the statistics should be published, he questioned whether these rapes have anything to do with Islam. It is true that mass rapes of "the enemy's women", in part to humiliate the enemy's men, is not unique to Islam. It has been done at times of war by the Vikings, the Mongols, the Germans and the Russians during WW2, and all the way up to the Balkans in the 1990s. That's also my point. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This happens in most Western European countries, as well as in other infidels countries such as India. In Bradford, England, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abusing white English girls, some as young as 11. Writer Theodore Dalrymple thinks that "thanks to their cultural inheritance, (Muslim) abuse of women is systematic rather than unsystematic as it is with the whites and blacks." In France, grotesque reports about systematic gang rapes of French or "too Western" Muslim girls keep coming in. At the same time, European jails are getting filled up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. You can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That's because they can't, or don't want to, see the obvious: This is exactly how an invading army would behave. Rape, pillage and bomb.
I disagree that this has nothing to do with Islam. Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law. And Muslims do follow their medieval religious laws, even today....
I saw several photos of the "white supremacists" which included men who appeared to be of aboriginal heritage. Hmm.
Maybe their skinheads and their equlivalent to the KKK are better than the knuckleheads we have here posing as such. All our idiots do is get drunk and make fools of themselves. Maybe a few timely eliminations would cure the problem
"Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a tactic of a declared enemy."
Precisely! Virtually all of the MSM reports of the riots in Australia say that white supremacists are rioting but do not even mention anything about muslisms being behind the riots.
I am so sick of this BS from muslims. When this kinda cr*p starts here in the US, I hope that our government is going to be ready for an uprising of real American citizens who will not stand for islamic shenanigans.
"When this kinda cr*p starts here in the US, I hope that our government is going to be ready for an uprising of real American citizens who will not stand for islamic shenanigans."
It's interesting, how so many people sense that it's a matter of when and not if, myself included. After watching the performance in France and now Australia, all I can say is, prepare to be demonized by your own government.
"prepare to be demonized by your own government"
This is what I expect from Washington. But it won't change how I respond to any muslim uprising in the US.
This is not unavoidable. We can easily balance the scales by taking punitive action against the real enemy: the MSM.
This would work better.
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