The Baptist pastor was going against the spirit and word of his holy book while the Muslim clerics are in harmony with theirs. 
Posted on 12/10/2004 3:31:38 AM PST by JesseHousman
A Pakistani minister has revealed hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at Islamic schools, or madrassas.
There were 500 complaints this year of abuse allegedly committed by clerics, Aamer Liaquat Hussain, a minister in the religious affairs department, said.
That compares with 2,000 last year, but as yet there have been no successful prosecutions, Mr Hussain told the BBC.
The minister's revelations have sparked death threats and infuriated some religious political leaders.
Mr Hussain said he had received death threats from clerics, but that he had done his job and his conscience was clear.
Leaders angered
The time had come for his country to face the bitter truth - the sickness of child abuse, he said.
The allegations involving Pakistan's Sunni majority and Shia minority referred to a tiny proportion of the country's 10,000 or so madrassas, he said.
He added that the body responsible for them, the Federation of Madrassas, was willing to co-operate with investigations because some clerics were bringing a bad name to Islam.
However, the revelations have angered some Islamic leaders. At a parliamentary meeting this week, some demanded he apologise.
Mr Hussain refused, saying he had personal experience of attempted abuse in a seminary when he was eight.
The abuse revelations were made during a week in which the Pakistani government has been meeting religious leaders to build awareness of the spread of HIV/Aids.
Pakistan is stepping up its anti-Aids campaign, and the idea is to utilise the clerics' unique reach into communities to increase HIV/Aids awareness and to preach prevention.
Hmm...all boys I'm thinking.
Breaking: Sun Rises In The East!!
When they're not preaching murder and beheading, they're running buggery factories.
WWMD?
Oh, never mind. That's how they got into this mess to begin with.
Coming to a mosque near you soon! Unfortunately, they're already here and just living the "holy" word of their perverted god, Mohammed.
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Sigh.
Perhaps you could explan the significance of the religion angle to me.
But bear in mind, I will also expect you to tell me how this differs from the Baptist pastor who abused me at a bible camp.
Regards
Sadim
Religion of Piece.
Read your Koran, Sadim. But then you probably already have.
Yassar.
Hey, I'm no moslem.
But yes, I have read some of the Quran .. along with some of the book of Mormon, the Gita, and a smattering of other holy books.
Plus the Bible, of course ... I was, after all, a Bible student for many years until my teens.
None of which has any impact on my thesis .. that scum will clothe themselves in the raiment of all religions, if they think it will help 'em get into the pants of their preferred sex-partners.
Sadim
I've read and studied the Koran as well as islamic history and I can tell you that crap like this is part and parcel of their perverted culture!
The Baptist pastor was going against the spirit and word of his holy book while the Muslim clerics are in harmony with theirs.
Yes, well. I am a victim of sexual assault - by (as I say) a Baptist pastor at a bible camp.
And while I do NOT blame his supposed religion for his acts, I will say that the all-male bible camps set up by this man
allowed him, and a couple of his pedophile confreres, to prey on prepubescent (and immediately post-pubescent) boys.
Which is, according to the initial post, what has happened at some madrasses.
My point is that it is NOT the fault of the religion .. but of the evil turds who take advantage of their positions.
Sadim
Exactly.
Why is anyone surprised here? Their own Koran:
Koran 52:24
Round about them will serve, to them, boys (handsome) as pearls well-guarded.
LOL
O the joy of sodomy! So now be sodomites, you Arabs. Turn not away from it-- therein is wondrous pleasure. Take some coy lad with kiss-curls twisting on his temple and ride as he stands like some gazelle standing to her mate. A lad whom all can see girt with sword and belt not like your whore who has to go veiled. Make for smooth-faced boys and do your very best to mount them, for women are the mounts of the devils
Pingy
Sadim, I think the other posters are going by Mohammed's own history: his wedding to Aisha when she was 6, consummation at the age of 9. of course this would be statutory rape (at the very least) today.
I take the point though that sexual predators "target" any profession where they can get contact with children. If the only people on the planet who had contact with children were dentists (say) then after ten years a large % of dentists would indeed be paedophiles. These guys move around.
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