Gang-rape of teenager ordered as punishment for brother's sins

ABCNewsOnline ^ | 7/2/02 | Anon

[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.

[Restorer]

Deuteronomy 21, NIV

"10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her."

Obviously, I misremembered the slavery part. My bad.

[JamesWilson]

Air fresheners, however.. are standard.

Unfortunately, not in the cabs.

[MonroeDNA]

Awwwww...thanks!

[Don Myers]

"Obviously, I misremembered the slavery part. My bad."

You seem to misremember a lot. You accuse the Jewish Bible of things not there. Yet, you excuse the things that are in the Islamic Koran.

[Cultural Jihad]

Kindly leave strela alone. She has answered your question you hounded her impetuously with. No rational, civilized person approves of rape, and for you to ask such a question of a woman is scurillous, almost 'Islamic' to use your own adjectives.

[rwfromkansas]

yawn

[Restorer]

We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. Any more than it would be logical to blame Judaism if some of the more Orthodox Jews started taking the relevant passages a little too literally.

BTW, I'm highly in favor or hunting down and killing them before they kill us. I'm just opposed to saying, "The Muslims do this or that" without qualification. Too much like, "The Jews (or Catholics, or whites) do this or that" without qualification.

The Muslims had better decide to sit on some of their more extreme brothers before we decide we have to play Cowboys and Muslims.

[MonroeDNA]

It is hard to believe there are areas of the world, entire cultures, that believe this is "justice."

Nobody's posted any evidence of this. So far, what we have is one smallish village. Not a whole "area of the world." It will be interesting to see if anybody over there attempts to defend these actions.

Keep moving that goalpost. Eventualy, nobody will be able to hit it.

[MonroeDNA]

You know, JR frowns on chasing people around and flaming them.

Unless they deserve it.

[Restorer]

Nobody seems to have pointed out this highly relevant part of the article:

"Awan said police were taking action against members of the Panchayat."

Why don't we wait and see what action they take before condemning a billion people as accessories to this crime?

[Don Myers]

"We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. .. The Muslims had better decide to sit on some of their more extreme brothers before we decide we have to play Cowboys and Muslims"

What you are not comprehending here is that you cannot separate the good Muslims from the bad Muslims in this manner. They cannot speak against or act against other Muslims.

Have you heard any Muslim leaders speak against Islamic Jihad against the West? Have they condemned the attacks and other atrocities committed by the terrorists?

[Jhoffa_]

You know, speaking of answering questions..

Why aren't we seeing opposition from the good Muslims overseas in general and specifically in the mideast?

I hear no dissenters.. Do you?

[ncpastor]

C'mon. Shouldn't you be more tolerant? I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding. Uh-huh.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..care to explain to me again how your beloved Islam respects and protects women?...

Sure! But since you brought it up, how about explaining this, first?

FBI Forcible Rape in the U.S. Statistics, 2001.

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, I only made it to #100, but I notice that neither restorer nor strela has gotten around to expressing the slightest hint of human revulsion at this officially sanctioned atrocity. All they can do is slap at Christians!

Strela is more upset over harsh words on the Internet than he/she/it is over gang rape~~yup, sounds like a raghead sympathiser to me.

Restorer defends Islamic rapists by using the Clintonian bullshit libel that the Nazi's were really some variant of Christian.

Fitting actually...rapists sticking together, smearing Christians. Sounds like the Pali psychopaths on Sunday morning talk shows.

Charming. Pardon me while I go puke.

[Jhoffa_]

Unless they deserve it.

He doesn't deserve it.

We have people here who specifically bash religion and people who support it. Paging someone and then going to their homepage to dig up dirt sounds more like a vendetta than debate to me.

[Don Myers]

Yep, we have a lot of criminals in this nation. And, many of them are immigrants brought over for diversity purposes. Now, if we could just get rid of the liberals who are trying to turn this nation in a swampland, we could make progress in getting rid of the criminals.

Now, could you explain how Islam protects women?

[Restorer]

Have you heard any Muslim leaders speak against Islamic Jihad against the West? Have they condemned the attacks and other atrocities committed by the terrorists?

Some have, but very few. And many of those have had their lives threatened for it.

When you have a billion people on "the other side," it only makes sense to try to draw lines that allow as many as possible of the enemy to switch sides gracefully. As I'm sure will begin to happen once the WOT really gets rolling again.

Which, unfortunately, will not happen until after another attack on this country.

[Cultural Jihad]

We should recognize that blaming the religion of Islam for the barbaric behavior of some of its followers is illogical. Any more than it would be logical to blame Judaism if some of the more Orthodox Jews started taking the relevant passages a little too literally.

Not only is it illogical, it is unjust, and goes against the grain of conservatism whereby each and every individual is judged solely by their merits, by the content of their character, and not by their skin color or membership in some larger group. Only Democrats and other liberals (and apparently Mastoi tribesmen) use group-identity, group-grievance, and group-politics. I understand we are at war, and with an enemy we cannot easily identify and kill, and hence it is natural to lash out against the cruelties of September 11th. We will win, but not by blindly embracing group-identities and group-hatreds which the liberals like to do.

[Don Myers]

Yes, they can only attack. They will not try to defend the atrocities. They know that they cannot do that.