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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.
Haven't been following recent news stories about the Catholic Church, have you? These bishops, obviously in positions of authority, were at least accessories, and at worst co-conspirators.
As far as I know, the perpetrators of these vile acts were not doing them in the name of Christ, although purportedly some told the boys that these sexual acts were another way of taking communion.
Actually, I don't disagree with you. I think if some group started slaughtering non-Christians and claimed it was in the name of Christ, Christians throughout the world would denounce them. I know I would.
Christians in the past have committed a great many crimes in the name of Christ. The difference is the Muslims are commiting crimes in the name of Allah today, and few Muslims are willing to say it is un-Islamic. They may be afraid of the fanatics, or they may in agreement with them.
Either way, they seem to have no clue what kind of fire they are playing with.
I said Christian.... ;O)
We are in agreement.
I would suspect that statistically speaking the priests have probably been charged with more pedophilia related offenses than the doctors have been (this is a left-handed compliment to the doctors of Australia).
Their silence is deafening.
Don't give them any ideas
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A TEENAGER yesterday became the seventh woman to sit in court and watch the men who had gang raped her convicted of their crimes.
Most of the seven have never met. They are victims of 14 young males who now have been convicted or pleaded guilty to five different gang rapes and sexual assaults in western Sydney over two months two years ago.
And NZ ugly lezza of a Prime Minister does bring more and more of them here: everyone of them who couldn't do it to Australia and even wasn't granted a refugee status by the UN!
Punchy writing ping.
He's a Genetically Modified Orthodox Jew - with a substantial part of Orthodox "genes" replaced by trendy leftie-lib ones. Unfortunately, it's not a rare species nowadays.
I have just lost a battle with nominally Jewish activists here in NZ who refused to publish in their shitty newsletter my point of view (shared by many!) on unacceptability of hugging and kissing with the local Muslim crowd in the time of war the Islam waged on all of us. Moreover, when an evening paper did publish my letter, they planned to forward a refutation!
As to the Aussie gang-rape story, it did appear in NZ week-end press, but guess what version of it? Yeah, you're right: that with the Muslim connection under as heavy make-up as possible.
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