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| Women get themselves raped to be millionaires: Musharraf |
| 2005-09-15 |
| Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that women in Pakistan get themselves raped for getting a visa to Canada and becoming a millionaire. "You must understand the environment in Pakistan. This has become a moneymaking concern...a lot of people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped," the Daily Times quoted Musharraf as saying in an interview with The Washington Post. He further said that Pakistan should not be seen in isolation as far as rape cases are concerned, as it happens even in the US, Canada, France and the UK also. "Pakistan should not be singled out when the curse is everywhere in the world," he said adding that reports or figures about rape in the US, Canada, France and Britain show that "it is happening everywhere". To a question about rape victim Mukhtar Mai, he said that she was free to travel now, and that he had no regrets about slapping on her to travel abroad. He said Mukhtar Mai had come "under the sway of organisations determined to harm Pakistan's image". |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #5 #4 Uh, not everything comes down to those damn rascist Liberals. The Pak newspapers are full of stories of horrific gang rapes, often sanctioned by tribal or village leaders. Most of these stories never make the international news, and presumably most of these women live in shame in their backwards villages. These rape stories have damaged Pakistan's image, and the only way for Perv to restore Pakistan's honour is to downplay the rapes and avoid taking any responsibility. The case Perv is talking about is that of Shazia Khalid, a lady doctor who was raped by members of Pakistan's military. In order to keep her quiet, she was spirited away to a psychiatric hospital, later on she was put under house arrest, where she was not allowed any visitors. After receiving death threats she fled to England, where she committed the cardinal sin in Perv's eyes - She talked to the BBC about what happened to her, damaging the honor of the Pak military. Since then her rapist has been released and she has been accused of being an Indian agent. Leaders of her clan have declared that they wish to murder her, but no action has been taken against them. But this brave woman, like Mukhtar Mai, has not backdowned to Musharraf's thugocracy. Reducing this case to another club for use in the culture wars does a great disservice to her. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-09-15 20:16 |
| #4 Perv has a small point, but a point. The western left thrives on horror stories from the third and fourth world, because it helps their feelings of moral superiority. If she just said she had been raped in Pakistan, so she wanted to move to Canada, she would have been given little sympathy. The left wants tales of "primitive inhuman barbarity" from filthy, ignorant, troglodyte men who oppress delicate, gentle, polite (even if coloured), and humble women. (She has to show humble appreciation to her noble liberal benefactors, or she is an ungrateful wretch.) The emphasis being that Pakistanis (excepting the victim) are all inferior, and thus need the providential hand of the morally superior leftist. The left has used this same modus operandi since Rousseau. They crave to find some "primitives", who either live in the "state of nature" in perfect harmony with their environment; but, failing that, they want to lord it over anyone they think they can lord it over. It makes them feel good to feel better than other people. These same Canadians would be utterly upset to learn that there are PhDs who teach in universities in Pakistan, secular Pakistanis who are appalled at the low-rent behavior of some of their countrymen, and many Pakistanis who speak English with greater erudition then they, and with upper-class London accents. These Pakistanis, and their Pakistan, is what Perv is defending, against this Canadian cabal of ex-English Lit and Social Work majors, who are the gatekeepers to what many Pakistanis see as "the land of plenty". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-15 18:56 |
| #3 1. Get raped. 2. Avoid being killed for dishonoring the family. 3. Get a visa. 4. Move to Canada. 5. * 6. Spend your millions. Step 5 is available to those who send $49.95 to POB 23857, Anaheim, CA 92802. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-09-15 16:02 |
| #2 This from the man we know and love as "Perv"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-15 09:51 |
| #1 Something got left out in this article. How does getting raped lead to being a millionaire? Where do I sign up? |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-09-15 07:38 |