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.

[Jhoffa_]

PS: The religious are easy targets..

All you have to do is look all throught history and dig up one thing on them, take something out of context or find someone perverting the religion to satisfy their own ends and WHAMMO!

Men do evil for all sorts of reasons, namely money and power. Regardless of the political or religious flag they fly while doing it.

[DoughtyOne]

...snicker.

[Don Myers]

"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. "

Many people have not accepted yet that this war is ideology against ideology. On one side, we have religious fanatics and on the other, we have secular culture trying to defend itself. Ok, there are a billion people on the other side. And, we might well have to fight all of them.

[Cultural Jihad]

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

They will not try to defend the atrocities because they do not defend them. But you can only insinuate that attacking the hate-mongering on this thread equates to supporting rape.

[PhilDragoo]

The vast majority of Gujjars today are Muslim and are semi-nomadic, herding sheep, goats and buffalo.

[jrewingjr]

Real men protect women; they don't try to rationalize rape by citing "they did it too" examples from ancient history. I'm sure that the girl who was raped will be comforted by the esoteric historical arguments being made by the theoretical blah blah expert apologists who have been trying to "prove" you wrong.

There has still been no public Muslim condemnation of this rape that happened right here in the US just a few weeks ago - NOT ANCIENT HISTORY!

MUSLIM MARCO MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE [FR Scoop at Post 25]

I guess the apologists will find that this rapist had a good excuse to rape an ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL. He asked her if she was a virgin before he assaulted her.

Islam is peace. Yyyyyeah.

Bring it on, Achmed. SOME of us know what you stand for and are ready.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..now, could you explain how Islam protects women?..

Well, sorry to rain on your little hate fest, but I don't think these rapists could be Muslims. From what I've read and heard there's no way a Muslim father or brother are going to sit by and let this happen to a family member.

Has this story been checked out, or were you and the usual suspects in too much of a rush to smear the whole religion?

[Don Myers]

"They will not try to defend the atrocities because they do not defend them. But you can only insinuate that attacking the hate-mongering on this thread equates to supporting rape."

This is a song and dance with a fast shuffle. Muslims will not speak against other Muslims no matter what they do. They stand together against non-believers.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ok, there are a billion people on the other side. And, we might well have to fight all of them.

Bluster from the Salon Bolsheviki. The world is grateful you are not the leader of the free world.

[S.O.S121.500]

"The difference is that nobody in the West still openly advocates such things, despite their ancient roots in our ancestral culture."

NObody??

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I notice that no one has disproved any of the quotes in your post #180. The silence is quite telling.

[Jhoffa_]

WHERE ARE THESE "GOOD" MIDEAST MUSLIMS EXACTLY CJ?

Where?

All I saw was a party in the street and allot of high fives.

[Jhoffa_]

I think they are abhorent.

Happy?

[Don Myers]

Byron, let us just drop this incident, if you prefer. I posted some links about Muslim atrocities against women and children. They are here in this thread. Would you care to express your opinion about those incidents?

[MonroeDNA]

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.

Perhaps I didn't hear the response, so just to be perfectly clear, let me ask both of you:

Do you condemn those Muslims who sentenced that teenage girl to be raped for something her brother did? Yes or no?

Simple question. Yes, or no?

[Don Myers]

"The world is grateful you are not the leader of the free world."

Yeah, I know. Muslims want to win this war. Guess what? It ain't gonna happen.

[Restorer]

"neither restorer nor strela has gotten around to expressing the slightest hint of human revulsion at this officially sanctioned atrocity."

103 Nope. It's obviously a sick culture.

136 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.

187 Your links are horrifying, I agree.

190 It will be interesting to see if anybody over there attempts to defend these actions.


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

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the Nazis were (or rather claimed to be) Christians, although the Nazi Party ideology was strongly anti-Christian. That is a fact, not a Clintonian libel.

I thought others were doing an excellent job of expressing disgust. If it helps, I'm disgusted, appalled and revolted. If anybody needs a spare man for the firing squad, I'm right over here. I have two young daughters, so that might give you some idea how I feel about it.

[Jhoffa_]

.. although the Nazi Party ideology was strongly anti-Christian. That is a fact, not a Clintonian libel.

True, the two were exclusive and completely incompatible. They were only joined by men and their continual rationalization (and diminishing) of what's written plainly in black and white.

[Restorer]

And, we might well have to fight all of them.

Quite true, unfortunately. However, don't force people into the enemy camp if you don't have to. It's bad strategy.

You can make a very good case it caused Germany to lose WWII. Many, if not most, Russians would have been glad to welcome the invaders till they found that (difficult to believe, but true) they were even worse (for Russians) than the Commies.

[MonroeDNA]

Paging someone and then going to their homepage to dig up dirt sounds more like a vendetta than debate to me.

Huh? What are you talking about?