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Racist rapes: Finally the truth comes out (Arabs/Muslims rape aussies)
The Sun-Herald ^ | July 14 2002 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 07/13/2002 5:10:44 PM PDT by Michael2001

So now we know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading, dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as 14, were "sluts" and "Aussie pigs", the rapists said. So now that some of the perpetrators are in jail, will those people who cried racism and media "sensationalism" hang their heads in shame? Hardly.

The journalists, academics, legal brains and politicians who tried to claim last August that the gang rapes of south-western Sydney were just a run-of-the-mill police blotter story being beaten up by racists, scaremongers and political opportunists don't ever want to acknowledge the truth about that ugly episode in Australian history. They don't want to acknowledge the fear and tension that ran through a part of Sydney they rarely visit and can never understand.

This newspaper was the first to report the story, which had been common knowledge in police and media circles, and it has never censored the race element.

Even last week, with the conviction of two brothers for their part in the gang rape of Miss D, who was 16 when she was held at gunpoint in a Greenacre park, there were media outlets that downplayed the story and air-brushed race from it.

Yet the victims have been crying out for the truth to be told. In court on Friday, one victim gave another a card on which she had written

"Truth is Justice".

In August, when Judge Megan Latham handed out laughably lenient sentences to three men in one gang rape case, which were later more than doubled on appeal, she made a special point of debunking the race link: "There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences," she said. "There is nothing said or done by the offenders which provides the slightest basis for imputing to them some discrimination in terms of the nationality of their victims."

Except that later one of the victims complained her victim impact statement had been "censored" of any "ethnic" references by prosecutors intent on a plea bargain. She was convinced she was raped because of her ethnicity. "You deserve it because you're an Australian," the rapists told her during the five-hour attack.

It's just so inconvenient of the victims to insist on telling the truth.

"I looked in his eyes. I had never seen such indifference," one 18-year-old victim, codenamed Miss C, told the court, remembering one of the 14 men who called her "Aussie pig", gang raped her 25 times over a six-hour period in Bankstown and Chullora, and then turned a hose on her. "I'm going to f*** you Leb style," he said.

Fourteen gang rapists have been convicted, or pleaded guilty, thanks to the courage of seven victims who testified for days in court as their tormentors smirked nearby, the men's families threatened them and defence lawyers suggested they had enjoyed the rapes.

"They're very brave, very strong and very courageous young women," said Salvation Army Major Joyce Harmer, who held the hands of many of the victims through the trials. "They knew this was something they had to do."

There were encouraging signs by the end of the week that some Muslim community leaders were talking of "Muslims accepting responsibility that they may have failed to do things that would have prevented these things from happening", as Amjad Mehboob, chief executive for the Federation of Islamic Councils, told ABC Radio on Friday.

Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, said: "It is certainly a disgrace to our community that people who were born to a Muslim family would commit such heinous crimes." But he went on to say it was "rather unfair" that the rapists' ethnicity had been reported "because these boys themselves have completely disaffiliated themselves from their culture or their religion".

Yes, it is unfair that the vast bulk of law-abiding Lebanese Muslim boys and men should be smeared by association. But their temporary discomfort may be necessary so that the powerful social tool of shame is applied to the families and communities that nurtured the rapists, gave them succour and brought them up with such a hatred of Australia's dominant culture and contempt for its women that they think of an 18-year-old girl, dressed for a job interview in her best suit, sitting on a train reading a book, as a slut.

These were racist crimes. They were hate crimes. The rapists chose their victims on the basis of race. That fact is crucial to this story. If the perpetrators had been Anglo-Celtic Australians, the furore would have been enormous. No newspaper would have left out that fact and you can bet the guilt and shame would have been spread far and wide.


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Fourteen gang rapists have been convicted, or pleaded guilty, thanks to the courage of seven victims who testified for days in court as their tormentors smirked nearby, the men's families threatened them and defence lawyers suggested they had enjoyed the rapes.

And Joe Liberman wants to bring more of these animals to the US:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704689/posts
1 posted on 07/13/2002 5:10:44 PM PDT by Michael2001
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To: Michael2001
Peaceful, friendly, religion bump.
2 posted on 07/13/2002 5:16:58 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Michael2001
Aw, Joe Doesnt have to worry. They know how to get here illegally, They'll just come here from Canada or Mexico. Secure Our Borders!
3 posted on 07/13/2002 5:20:26 PM PDT by Madcelt
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To: Michael2001
" ... vast majority ... smeared by association. "

Yeah, it's a shame all Muslims are smeared by the acts of a few. But I won't feel bad about it until I see millions of them speak out often and publicly, condemning the acts and taking positive steps to change their culture.

Their silence is deafening.
4 posted on 07/13/2002 5:23:15 PM PDT by AngrySpud
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To: AngrySpud
Australia has the world's most populous Muslim nation at its doorstep. If militant Muslims take over Indonesia, it may not be long before the first invaders land in Darwin and northern Queensland.
5 posted on 07/13/2002 5:26:34 PM PDT by Loyalist
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To: Michael2001
Does the legal concept of "hate crimes" exist in Australia? How about vigilantiism?
6 posted on 07/13/2002 5:26:56 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: Madcelt
There were encouraging signs by the end of the week that some Muslim community leaders were talking of "Muslims accepting responsibility that they may have failed to do things that would have prevented these things from happening"...

Oh no don't say that the Muslim community are actually going to take responsibility for something. They can't be held responsible because I'm certain that they were only acting out the only way they could. They are so oppressed you know?

7 posted on 07/13/2002 5:28:24 PM PDT by Postbro1
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To: AngrySpud
Their silence is deafening.
I suppose their silence is because some of them agree with the others and the rest are afraid because the others will come after them as traitors. A government (religion) of fear will turn one from the other and no one knows who to trust, including their own families. A communtist government is a lot safer than a crazy mixed up religious one. Islam, to me, is synoymous with a L-A-R-G-E cult!
8 posted on 07/13/2002 5:34:38 PM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: Michael2001
All this from followers of the Cult of Mohamed (read: pedophile)....who'da thunk it?
9 posted on 07/13/2002 5:39:37 PM PDT by gilor
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To: Loyalist
Australia has the world's most populous Muslim nation at its doorstep. If militant Muslims take over Indonesia, it may not be long before the first invaders land in Darwin and northern Queensland.

Dominoes of a different color.

10 posted on 07/13/2002 5:43:12 PM PDT by AZLiberty
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To: Michael2001
bttt
11 posted on 07/13/2002 5:45:44 PM PDT by Don Myers
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To: Loyalist
"Australia has the world's most populous Muslim nation at its doorstep. If militant Muslims take over Indonesia, it may not be long before the first invaders land in Darwin and northern Queensland."

Seems like our good allies the Ausies will be our closer allies as this lengthy war continues.

12 posted on 07/13/2002 5:47:06 PM PDT by gilor
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To: Michael2001; monkeyshine; ipaq2000; Lent; veronica; Sabramerican; beowolf; Nachum; BenF; angelo; ...
PINGING!   ) ) ) )  

If you want on or off me Israel/MidEast/Islamic Jihad ping list please let me know.  Via Freepmail is best way.............

alt

13 posted on 07/13/2002 5:52:33 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Michael2001
He does? What the heck kind of an Orthodox Jew is this guy? V's wife.
14 posted on 07/13/2002 5:53:50 PM PDT by ventana
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To: dennisw; Sabertooth
Keep me on.......and my 2 cents is we have NO control over our borders or immigration...ya get the government you deserve..right now it is indifferent to the risk......that is just what the silent masses deserve
15 posted on 07/13/2002 5:56:06 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: AngrySpud
It really is ashame that 99% of the muslims can ruin it for the rest of them.
16 posted on 07/13/2002 5:59:39 PM PDT by watchin
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To: Michael2001
"You deserve it because you're an Australian," the rapists told her during the five-hour attack.


17 posted on 07/13/2002 6:02:45 PM PDT by Lorenb420
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To: watchin
It really is ashame that 99% of the muslims can ruin it for the rest of them.

Please refrain from exagerating - it is at ost 98%

18 posted on 07/13/2002 6:03:15 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: watchin
Part of the Muslim's trouble is that they have such a hard time dealing with adult women in a civilized manner.
19 posted on 07/13/2002 6:05:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Michael2001
Just an isolated incident. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks... (And grant more visas to Muslims)
20 posted on 07/13/2002 6:08:28 PM PDT by eclectic
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