Hey Gals, Check This Out - Aussie Woman Raped By Religious Fanatic For Reading the Bible
And no, it turns out that the religious fanatic was not a Buddhist:
"The complainant was born a Muslim and raised a Muslim and was a Muslim all her life," Mr O'Brien said. He said when the woman came to Australia from the Middle East she began listening to Christian teachers and reading the Bible. He said the woman had received threats from members of her faith for reading the Bible but had not converted to Christianity.
It is alleged she met Al Shawany, who she had first met overseas, at Warwick Farm railway station in September, 2002, after he told her he had some mail for her from overseas. Al Shawany allegedly then took her to a Warwick Farm unit and pushed her in the head as she entered. "She was wearing a hijab. The accused grabbed the hijab, the veil, and pulled it tight across her mouth," Mr O'Brien told the court. "She fell to the floor and she couldn't scream because she had a hijab tight across her mouth."
The metaphor alone is enough to make the disgust overwhelming.
You know, all religions discourage their adherents from converting to other faiths. Many times, a convert is even shunned by the family members that they leave behind. But it seems that the global kind of "discouragement" coming from the "fundamentalists" of the Muslim faith is of a qualitatively different nature than that which we see coming from, say, Catholicism. Maybe "fundamentalism in general" isn't really the problem.
Or maybe we're wrong, and there's been a string of attacks on Buddhist apostates that we just haven't been hearing about (via Pamela)
References:
* Aussie News & Views
Previously:
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Saudi Companies Block Cell Phone Voting for Arab Reality Show
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Academic Feminism Not Doing Much To Stop Teenage Girls From Being Lost In Pakistani Poker Games
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Iran Has Legal Slavery And Rape Of Prebuscent Girls. They Call It "Temporary Marriage".
