RAPISTS GO FREE: MUSLIMS / PAKISTAN
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
The twelve-year-old boy made connections with someone from another tribe. He thereby "offended the honor of a powerful clan by befriending a woman from their tribe," according to Reuters.
For that, 12 males raped the boy’s sister, Mukhatarn Mai. They were getting even.
Now the Pakistani court set free the dozen rapists. That includes half a dozen actually convicted of the crime. But now they’re breathing free air like civilized citizens walking the lanes nearby.
The gang raped the woman. Now they are at liberty. That’s Pakistan. That goes on too many times in Pakistan.
The head of the government stated to the press that’s he’s working hard to quell such customs for it does not make his country look good to civilized nations on the planet.
Look good? What about the female violated? Any care about her welfare, sir president?
The Pakistani high court in Punjab told the men they could walk our of their cells last Friday.
This is not rare.
Often there is so-called lack of evidence in rape cases and "honor killing" whereby the criminal males go free. Honor killing is slaying a female by clan males when that female supposedly offended the family in some way.
Her throat may be slit. Her head may be shot through with a bullet. Soccer stadiums in the Saddam Hussein era of Iraq were frequently used for slaughtering offending females, usually by a bullet hold in her head.
In other words, in certain Muslim strongholds, women are as dung. They are conceived in mother’s womb with a ten-fold curse upon their existences. In fact, it would have been much better if they had never been conceived. Their earthly stay is fraught with daily, untold fear.
Now that the rapists have been set loose, Mai fears for her life. Where can she hide? Where can she flee? Will they come after her again — gang rape style?
"The original trial before an anti-terrorism court in 2002 found that Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a traditional village council after her brother -- who was 12 at the time -- was judged to have offended the honor of a powerful clan by befriending a woman from their tribe.
"Six men were originally convicted of the crime and sentenced to death, but five were later acquitted on appeal to the Punjab provincial court, which cited a lack of evidence. A sixth man had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
"Gang rapes and honor killings are common in feudalistic rural Pakistan. In most cases the perpetrators go free because of incompetent police investigations and flaws in the legal system, which have been highlighted in the current case.
"President Pervez Musharraf, who has been trying to project Pakistan as a moderate and progressive Muslim nation, has taken a personal interest in the case, saying it was tarnishing the country's image overseas."
Again: country’s image? What about the female’s welfare?
The twelve-year-old boy made connections with someone from another tribe. He thereby "offended the honor of a powerful clan by befriending a woman from their tribe," according to Reuters.
For that, 12 males raped the boy’s sister, Mukhatarn Mai. They were getting even.
Now the Pakistani court set free the dozen rapists. That includes half a dozen actually convicted of the crime. But now they’re breathing free air like civilized citizens walking the lanes nearby.
The gang raped the woman. Now they are at liberty. That’s Pakistan. That goes on too many times in Pakistan.
The head of the government stated to the press that’s he’s working hard to quell such customs for it does not make his country look good to civilized nations on the planet.
Look good? What about the female violated? Any care about her welfare, sir president?
The Pakistani high court in Punjab told the men they could walk our of their cells last Friday.
This is not rare.
Often there is so-called lack of evidence in rape cases and "honor killing" whereby the criminal males go free. Honor killing is slaying a female by clan males when that female supposedly offended the family in some way.
Her throat may be slit. Her head may be shot through with a bullet. Soccer stadiums in the Saddam Hussein era of Iraq were frequently used for slaughtering offending females, usually by a bullet hold in her head.
In other words, in certain Muslim strongholds, women are as dung. They are conceived in mother’s womb with a ten-fold curse upon their existences. In fact, it would have been much better if they had never been conceived. Their earthly stay is fraught with daily, untold fear.
Now that the rapists have been set loose, Mai fears for her life. Where can she hide? Where can she flee? Will they come after her again — gang rape style?
"The original trial before an anti-terrorism court in 2002 found that Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a traditional village council after her brother -- who was 12 at the time -- was judged to have offended the honor of a powerful clan by befriending a woman from their tribe.
"Six men were originally convicted of the crime and sentenced to death, but five were later acquitted on appeal to the Punjab provincial court, which cited a lack of evidence. A sixth man had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
"Gang rapes and honor killings are common in feudalistic rural Pakistan. In most cases the perpetrators go free because of incompetent police investigations and flaws in the legal system, which have been highlighted in the current case.
"President Pervez Musharraf, who has been trying to project Pakistan as a moderate and progressive Muslim nation, has taken a personal interest in the case, saying it was tarnishing the country's image overseas."
Again: country’s image? What about the female’s welfare?
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