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Posted on 07/01/2002 4:32:35 PM PDT by What Is Ain't
A teenage girl was gang-raped in central Pakistan last month as "punishment" meted out by a tribal jury for her brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher tribe, police said.
A Panchayat, or tribal jury, ordered four men, including one of the jurists, to rape the 18-year-old girl on June 22 in the village of Meerwala.
Meerwala lies 610 kilometres south-west of the capital Islamabad.
District police chief Malik Saeed Awan said authorities were informed of the publicly-ordered gang-rape several days after the incident.
He said four men took turns to sexually assault the girl inside a room. She was then ordered to return home naked before 1,000 onlookers.
The rape was to avenge the "insult" caused to a family of the Mastoi tribe by the girl's brother's alleged "illicit affair" with a woman of a higher social standing.
The girl and her brother were from the lower Gujjar tribe.
The Panchayat had threatened that all women in the accused's family would be raped unless the 18-year-old submitted herself to the public gang rape.
Awan said police were taking action against members of the Panchayat.
Lawyers visiting the tribal area on Sunday urged the authorities to prosecute the rapists and the jury.
Why, they all just showed up to see "justice" be done, of course! And they just happened to be wearing raincoats.. and happened to have their hands in their pockets..
Nice try, but I hate any kind of murder. It is as equally vile for one to murder in the name of Allah as it is to murder in the name of Jesus, Iehovah, Buddah, or L. Ron Hubbard.
As other posters have sagely noted in this thread, there is no evidence that the gang rape and humiliation of the girl in this story was based on the teachings of Islam. If you have evidence to the contrary in this case, we'd love to hear it.
The gang rape was recent. The Incas and Mayans are remote.
Let the Islamist terror apologists address their anti-Spanish grievances to Bill Richardson.
And their anti-KKK snits to Robert Byrd.
Ironically, a pair of leftist fifth columnists.
The Spanish Inquisition lasted, with a short break, from 1478 to 1820.
More than a few years, by most definitions of the term.
Absolutely. The history of Islam has been almost as filled with intramural wars as the history of Christendom. It's just that they seldom speak against or fight each other for being too hard on unbelievers.
Not hardly. The differences in cultures is what makes them unique and special.
Do you support this punishment? Yes or no?
No. And in a perfect world, everyone who participated in that "punishment" in any way would be in jail or six feet under.
And, I await your general condemnation of Christianity based on the actions of a few deluded murderers and idiots. Do hurry - I've got supper waiting on me.
Nobody said anything about rounding up anyone for their ancestor's misdeeds. Where did THAT come from?
Any culture today that sentences rape for a teen girl as punishment for her brother should be eliminated from the planet, as pure evil. Do you agree? Yes or no?
So your respect for a culture is based solely on the concept of "What have you done for me lately." Charming. Shallow, but charming.
QED Islam is a religion of peace.
Or not.
The difference in cultures is what makes some people enjoy a relatively good live and have enough to eat and others barely can survive, or are leading dreadful dreary lives. It's not bigoted to point that out either.
A culture is different from a religion. Every valid religion has an ebb and flow of its adherence to God's moral Law. If Islam were the instigator of this tribal behavior (which has probably been ongoing from well before the Mogul invasion), there would be public gang-rapes in Morocco and Turkey and Jordan, which there aren't.
Any such culture needs some serious work, I would agree. Not sure I'd go so far as to suggest wiping out all the members of that particular culture, though.
Cultures, or aspects of a culture, can be destroyed without wiping out the people unfortunate enough to be born into them.
Muslims will not condemn other Muslims, even when they commit the most heinous crimes. Anyone who isn't a Muslim has no standing in the eyes of the Muslims. And, anything that a Muslim does to a Christian or other non-muslim is just fine in the eyes of all Muslims.
No. And your question is based upon a false assumption.
The culture didn't sentence that girl to be raped, a few corrupt, evil judges and townspeople did. If rape-as-punishment were the usual penalty within a culture, don't you think that we would be reading about incidents like this every day?
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