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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.
Caste system, yes. Gang rape of innocent women, no.
(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!)
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.
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.
"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
These people are godless heathen dogs and sons of Belial and the more of them that kill each other the better.
regards,
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.
Lower than what?
This is something you would see in rural India as well as Pakistan.
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