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2004-12-28 Afghanistan/South Asia

In Pakland, 500 sex abuse charges 0 prosecutions

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Posted by mhw 2004-12-28 12:22:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They must have very good public defenders.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-28 12:48:54 PM|| 2004-12-28 12:48:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think they misunderstand that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing. They just figure if he's innocent, why have a trial? After all, he's muslim, so of course he's innocent.

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-12-28 12:54:38 PM|| 2004-12-28 12:54:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Unless he's the wrong flavor of Muslim and they see advantage in taking him down...

Posted by .com 2004-12-28 12:56:46 PM|| 2004-12-28 12:56:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Exposing the skin of your chin, neck, clavicle, leg, knee, ankle, arm, elbow, wrist, ear, forehead, nose, hands, or feet-just about any part belonging to a woman-makes you blasphemous and whorish. No wonder Pakistani madrassas are having such a hard time defining, recognizing or prosecuting sex abuse. The mere possession and airing of the non-sexual parts you were born with makes you a whore and therefore unfit to make an accusation. It's your fault!

Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-28 1:13:47 PM|| 2004-12-28 1:13:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Would you like to know why there is such a stunning lack of prosecution for these sex crimes? Merely examine the government that is countenancing them.

Pakistan is rated as worse than the Palestinian Authority, in terms of corruption.

Maybe that gives you an idea of how bad things are there. What follows are ratings by Transparency International with respect to national corruption indicators. Note that Iran and Iraq both make a better showing than Pakistan, which is bracketed by Kenya and Angola. (The scale is 1-10, 10 = Best)

China 3,4

Iran 2,9

Palestinian Authority 2,5

Iraq 2,1

Kenya 2,1

Pakistan 2,1

Angola 2,0

Remember, the same corrupt government that can be bought off over sex crimes can just as easily be bought off by terrorists.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-28 3:46:29 PM|| 2004-12-28 3:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 One can't argue with what you say, Zenster. Doesn't make it any less true that some Muslim societies have very unhealthy and perverse notions about the human body.

Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-28 3:51:13 PM|| 2004-12-28 3:51:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Even in this country there are still many who don't report rape because they are ashamed that it happened to them, or it isn't prosecuted because the girl was deemed to have said yes before she said no. (The Kobe incident is a perfect example -- it should never have been prosecuted even though the man is a cad.) It isn't surprising that Pakistani society is much too hung up on the whole subject of sex that they can't air such things in a public forum such as the courts. I imagine that, as many Rantburg fathers would, the situation is generally handled privately and permanently.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-28 5:46:45 PM|| 2004-12-28 5:46:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't make it any less true that some Muslim societies have very unhealthy and perverse notions about the human body.

I agree completely, Jules. Islam's hypertrophied sense of womankind's responsibility for original sin (and almost every other one thereafter) is simply disgusting and flat-out childish.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-28 10:32:15 PM|| 2004-12-28 10:32:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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