Hey Gals, Check This Out - Pakistanis Gang Rape Mother and Daughter for 12 Days Because Daughter Was Getting a Masters Degree
Remember, it's not anything specific to Islam - the problem is religious extremism in general:
Reports of yet another pack rape in Pakistan emerged over the weekend as plans to amend laws aimed at making it easier to punish rapists stalled in the Islamabad parliament because of opposition from ultra-conservative Islamic parties.
The News International said a mother and daughter in a rural area had been abducted and gang-raped for 12 days because the daughter continued her schooling in defiance of villagers in her home near Multan. The newspaper said the daughter had recently attained a masters degree in education at the Bahauddin Zahariya University. Precise details of what happened are sketchy, but it appears that the girl's father was also attacked by the assailants and that police took 12 days to act and save the women.
Reports of the rape claimed involvement by "a minister of state" but did not name him. The case recalls that of Mukhtaran Mai, a woman who was imprisoned after she was raped in June 2002. She was freed only after intervention by the Pakistan Supreme Court.
Nothing to do with Islamic-specific religious laws at all:
Under the ordinances, unless the complainant in a rape case produces four male witnesses to support her claims, she will herself face punishment. As a result, it has been almost impossible to prosecute rape cases, and thousands of Pakistani victims of rape are languishing in jail.
Some day very soon - we're 100 percent sure - a historian will uncover documents that demonstrate conclusively that things were just like this in Catholic Europe too, and that there's absolutely no difference between the implementations of political Islam and the implementations of political Christianity.
Reports of yet another pack rape in Pakistan emerged over the weekend as plans to amend laws aimed at making it easier to punish rapists stalled in the Islamabad parliament because of opposition from ultra-conservative Islamic parties.
The News International said a mother and daughter in a rural area had been abducted and gang-raped for 12 days because the daughter continued her schooling in defiance of villagers in her home near Multan. The newspaper said the daughter had recently attained a masters degree in education at the Bahauddin Zahariya University. Precise details of what happened are sketchy, but it appears that the girl's father was also attacked by the assailants and that police took 12 days to act and save the women.
Reports of the rape claimed involvement by "a minister of state" but did not name him. The case recalls that of Mukhtaran Mai, a woman who was imprisoned after she was raped in June 2002. She was freed only after intervention by the Pakistan Supreme Court.
Nothing to do with Islamic-specific religious laws at all:
Under the ordinances, unless the complainant in a rape case produces four male witnesses to support her claims, she will herself face punishment. As a result, it has been almost impossible to prosecute rape cases, and thousands of Pakistani victims of rape are languishing in jail.
Some day very soon - we're 100 percent sure - a historian will uncover documents that demonstrate conclusively that things were just like this in Catholic Europe too, and that there's absolutely no difference between the implementations of political Islam and the implementations of political Christianity.
