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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.
Ah, "Muslims enjoy raping and killing women." The subtle but lingering stench of bigotry pervades that statement like post-prandial flatulence in a broom closet. Guess we need to start rounding up those nasty Christians for their ancestor's misdeeds during the Crusades, as well as their wholesale lynching of blacks in the South up until just a very few years ago.
One of the things I most enjoy about FR is that bigoted threads based solely on hatred of another culture, such as yours, seem to get pulled pretty darned fast. Jim R apparently shares my lack of tolerance for bigoted mouth-breathers of any persuasion, for which I am grateful.
I cited specific instances. The thread was deleted.
Think of it as "taking out the trash" or "evolution in action," then try to do better next time.
The Islamists here will bombard the moderators with complaints until they pull the threads or the comments. Just like, immediately after the 9/11 attack, they bombarded the major media with, "don't pick on Muslims;" and the major media bought it.
But this is FR, and it won't last nearly as long. I highly suggest that anyone who believes that Islamist infiltrators are here, and are trying to shut down people who disagree with Islamist behaviours, email Jim Robinson and let him know who they are.
He'll make sure that the moderators get a "head's up!"
Your analogy breaks down when you consider the fact that such an atrocity is just not possible in America. Our court system would never sentence the sister of a defendant to be gang-raped. Even if some KKK members were to conduct such a sickening deed in private, there would not be 1,000 people in the streets cheering it on, as there were in this Pakistani case. Instead, the public outrage would be instantaneous and overwhelming once word leaked out. The people who did this would immediately be arrested and tried for high crimes. Christianity would not come under attack. In fact, if the people committing this crime tried to say they did it in the name of Christianity, real Christians would fill the streets to disavow any connection at all to this depravity.
Where is the Muslim outrage over what transpired in Pakistan in this case? And I'm not talking about lawyers visiting the tribe and "urging" authorities to prosecute the rapists. What about the 1,000 people who filled the streets to cheer this spectacle on? Face it, these are the actions of a warped culture.
Of course, the vast majority of these were killed by Nazi or Communist groups which specifically rejected their Christian religion.
Instance after instance showing the true nature of Islam puts the lie to those words.
Sure, go ahead and give my screen name to Jim. He'll probably get a chuckle out of it.
I'm no more an "Islamist" than Kermit the Frog is. But I will not allow FR to become a haven for the kind of venal, bigoted liquid I've been seeing in this thread without having something to say about it.
But as a wife she is to subject herself to her husband. And women are physically inferior to men. They are not "equal" in either context at all.
I am sorry if you don't like it, but it's not my fault.
I didn't make men and women nor did I define their roles in marriage, God did that. I didn't make myself stronger or bigger so I could lord it over you either, God did that.
You don't have to agree, but your argument isn't with me. It's with God.
So we're supposed to admire a culture that has 1000 people watching a gang rape that was sanctioned by their courts? Racism against race is one thing, but to require people to believe that all cultures are equal and beautiful is another thing. People can change their cultural beliefs, they can't change race ---and I'm sorry but this culture sounds sick.
You, sir, win the Christmas turkey for that nugget of truth. Thank you.
Did those Germans do it in the name of Christ? These Islamists do it in the name of Mohammed or Allah.
If ANY group of people in the world rape women because their religion told them so, they are insane. And dangerous. And should be dealt with, immediately.
Why pick on things done by Muslims that are in conflict with what they claim are their beliefs to justify your opposition to the religion? Why not criticize the religion itself?
"Allah" who so loves murder, suicide, terror, bloodshed, the sounds of exploding bombs in crowded market places, the smell of burning flesh, the taste of blood, the screams of pain and terror and anguish! who roars with laughter at a baby or a kitten dressed as a suicide bomber!
How "Allah" must delight in gang-rape!
It would be much more entertaining to see you try to defend the myriad lynchings, mass murders, rapes, destruction of property, theft, et al. committed in the name of Jesus and/or the Christian God by a few deluded followers. Ask the Incas, Mayans, and the families of those lynched in the American South what they think about the phrase "They will know we are Christian by our love."
Muslims are actively engaged in trying to convert others to their faith. How they act, while telling us that their religion is one of peace, shows how they practice their religion, and how they expect converts to act toward non-believers.
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