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Gang-rape of teenager ordered as punishment for brother's sins
ABCNewsOnline ^ | 7/2/02 | Anon

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: crime; rape; religionofpeace
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To: Khepera
Hindu has a class system built in.

Caste system, yes. Gang rape of innocent women, no.

41 posted on 07/01/2002 5:03:20 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Lowelljr
See post #29. You weren't there. You had to have been there to believe it. And yes, when I posted what I thought about Islam and my refusal to submit to it, he/she had my post pulled. My comments were benign and only a Muslim would have reacted that way.
42 posted on 07/01/2002 5:07:24 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Kalashnikov_68
Yes, and yes, it's tribal/class. Web search shows the "Gujjars" are oppressed. here's one:

The Gujjars of the Himalaya

43 posted on 07/01/2002 5:07:46 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: goldenstategirl
I second the tarp motion..

(if for no other reason than it will muffle the nagging.. At least in the car, during long trips anyway. OH, and in the morning.. Definately in the morning!)

44 posted on 07/01/2002 5:09:31 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: montag813
He had an alleged affair with a consenting adult.
45 posted on 07/01/2002 5:09:36 PM PDT by Zon
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To: goldenstategirl
What has puzzled me from the get-go on this Islam thing is that I have yet to hear any of the phony-baloney "muslims" here say ANYTHING about the atrocities. You know who I mean, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Muhammed Ali, Louis Faraquhand, and the list goes on. THEY claim to be Muslim; do they endorse this kind of thing? Their silence seems to imply that they condone it.
46 posted on 07/01/2002 5:13:01 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Diogenesis
Beneath the Veil. Amazing and outstanding report. It still disturbs me. The night I saw this report, I could not sleep.
47 posted on 07/01/2002 5:15:51 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: Khepera

Supposedly the police and lawyers are Muslim who are outraged and seeking prosecution, but whether these tribes practice Islam versus tribal justice and to what extent, is not clear to me. Islam enjoins compassion; indeed every Islamic epithet of Allah is "the Compassionate, the Merciful." One supposes if some hillbilly community of KKK members did some terrible deed that we must therefore condemn all of Christendom, too. The failure to adhere to religious morality in no way diminshes its excellence in preserving life and fostering happiness.

48 posted on 07/01/2002 5:16:07 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: What Is Ain't
Lawyers visiting the tribal area on Sunday urged the authorities to prosecute the rapists and the jury.

Radical Islamists make lawyers look like the good guys.

This is serious.

And it is the perfect metaphor for the 22 dictatorships of the Arab League dictating "peace" terms to Israel.

49 posted on 07/01/2002 5:16:27 PM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: Kalashnikov_68
The Mastoi and Gujjar tribes are muslim.

"Since the majority of the Pakistanis are descendents of the four racial stocks of Sakas, Kushans, White Huns and Gujjars. One may, with reasonable plausibility ask that since Hindu counterparts of these same races are spread eastward as far as western UP and Rajputana, do they also form part of Pakistani nation?

The answer is a definite no. Here comes in religion or ideology which sharply and distinctly separates a Hindu Rajput from a Muslim Rajput, a Hindu Jat from a Muslim Jat, a Hindu Gujjar from a Muslim Gujjar and so on and so forth. This demarcation carries a world of difference within its bosom---a different thought-orientation, a different culture-pattern, a different outlook both physical and metaphysical; an attitude to life and hereafter diametrically opposed to each other."

Pak.org The Official Pakistani Portal

50 posted on 07/01/2002 5:19:01 PM PDT by F-117A
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To: Cultural Jihad
Good response. I couldn't agree more. I was only speculating that it may have not been Islam that was to blame.
51 posted on 07/01/2002 5:20:02 PM PDT by Khepera
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To: What Is Ain't
I find myself reverting to the old colonial attitudes more and more as things such as this come out.

These people are godless heathen dogs and sons of Belial and the more of them that kill each other the better.

regards,

52 posted on 07/01/2002 5:22:37 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine
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To: Sabertooth
According to the Koran women were created secondarily for the pleasure and repose of men, and they are psychologically inferior to men.
53 posted on 07/01/2002 5:24:13 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: TLBSHOW
I think people in the stone age were probably more civilized that the monsters who did this.
54 posted on 07/01/2002 5:24:16 PM PDT by Flying Circus
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To: What Is Ain't
Note that the punishment was not supposed to be for the girl, but for the girl's brother. See, females in the Islamic religion are not seen as fellow human beings. They are seen as property. Women are treated like trash by the Islamic religion. Maybe we could get the Kennedys and Bill Clinton to convert.
55 posted on 07/01/2002 5:24:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: katnip
Brought to you by The Religion Of PeaceTM


56 posted on 07/01/2002 5:25:03 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: goldenstategirl

All your words are just idle conjecture and speculation. Only the poster who violates forum rules is the only one who forces the pulling of any posts. If you are so adamant that your post was so benign then rather than whine like a victimized liberal, you are welcome to take it up with management who judged otherwise.

57 posted on 07/01/2002 5:29:57 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: wienerdog.com; OrthodoxPresbyterian
I believe you have some material OP regarding CJ's affection for the ragheads.
58 posted on 07/01/2002 5:30:36 PM PDT by weikel
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To: What Is Ain't
"The girl and her brother were from the lower Gujjar tribe."

Lower than what?

59 posted on 07/01/2002 5:31:12 PM PDT by HangThemHigh
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To: What Is Ain't
Actually, this has nothing to do with their religion. I was just thinking about how, despite a thousand years of Islam, the traditions of caste in that part of the world have not died at all.

This is something you would see in rural India as well as Pakistan.

60 posted on 07/01/2002 5:31:15 PM PDT by Illbay
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