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Klytus
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I see there are riots going on in Australia as well.
| Quote: | Muslim Gang Rapes and the Aussie Riots
By Sharon Lapkin
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2005
In Australia this week amidst anger over an Islamic man’s rape conviction and the bashing of two Aussie life savers, working-class locals erupted in a rampage of anger and brawling in some of the worst racial riots in decades. But there is more to the story than is being repeated in the American mainstream media....
Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. And during his sexual assault trial in a New South Wales courtroom, the Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony.
But she had every reason to express her disgust. After taking an oath on the Qur’an, the man – known only as MSK – told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as young as 13 because they had no right to say “no.” They were not covering their face or wearing a headscarf, and therefore, the rapist proclaimed: “I’m not doing anything wrong.”
MSK is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in a gang rape of two other young Sydney girls in 2002. In his own defence, he argued that his cultural background, was responsible for his crimes.
And he is right.
In some parts of Pakistan, sexual assault – including gang rape – is officially sanctified as a legitimate form of enforcing the social value system.
One village council recently ordered that five young girls should be “abducted, raped or murdered” for refusing to be treated as chattel. The girls were aged between six and thirteen when they were married without their knowledge, to pay a family debt.
And when Mukhtar Mai’s 12-year-old brother was alleged to have committed an offence in a small Pakistani farming village, the village council ordered that his sister be gang-raped. So, she was taken to a hut where four men repeatedly assaulted her.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan there were 804 cases of such officially orchestrated sexual assault in 2000, and 434 of these were gang rapes. And if that isn’t bad enough, the victims of these atrocities are then expected to commit suicide because rape victims bring irreparable shame upon their family.
So as MSK committed his acts of rape while visiting Australia, he was simply perpetuating his own cultural heritage. He hails from a society where officially sanctioned sexual violence is commonly employed as a means to enforce the subservience of women.
And this is where two fundamental tenets of the modern Left clash: the irresistible force of cultural relativism collides with the immovable object of gender equality. But in the 21st century it is the latter that must prevail.
The laissez faire attitudes of cultural relativism are unacceptable in modern society. Female genital mutilation is not some quaint tribal custom that we are bound to respect: it is barbarism, pure and simple.
Yet many Western leftists habitually excuse these crimes against women in order to maintain political solidarity with their allies in the Islamic world. After all, it would be tough to make common cause with Muslim groups in the antiwar movement if Progressives began to criticize the practice of polygamy.
But along with Islamic immigration to the West have come Third World value systems regarding the treatment of women. We must not be seduced by the false tenets of cultural relativism into a toleration of forced marriages, officially sanctioned rape, and honour killings.
Australia’s unique brand of multiculturalism confers both rights and obligations: while cultural and linguistic diversity are to be cherished, every Australian must subscribe to a single standard of human rights. Australians must forcefully repudiate the corruption of the multicultural idea that would condone crimes against women and support jihadism.
The dangers of cultural relativism became evident Down Under last weekend when long-festering ethnic tensions erupted into violence at Cronulla Beach near Sydney. The trouble began when a group of Middle Eastern men were assaulted by mobs of angry locals. The local Member of Parliament, Bruce Baird MP, claimed the public outcry was revenge for the Bali bombings and September 11.
But Baird also explained that a series of high profile rapes in the area had spurred locals on and that a group of Middle Eastern men had attacked two Aussie lifesavers the previous weekend. Locals claimed to the media after the riots that they were sick of Lebanese Muslim gangs calling their daughters and wives names, and throwing cigarette butts at them.
Then neo-Nazis showed up in a transparent attempt to exploit local ethnic tensions for their own benefit. But mainstream Australians expressed their frustration with both the violence inflicted by Middle Eastern men, and the equally violent effort by white racists to exploit it.
While rejecting the tenets of neo-Nazism, working-class Aussies who live near Cronulla Beach were saying they’ve had enough of this culturally motivated crime wave in a wave of violence that is also unacceptable. The race riots in suburban Sydney represented a clash between two polar opposites of white supremacy and Islamic male supremacy. But the average Australian seeks a midpoint between these equally vile extremes in which fairness and a single standard of law will apply to all. |
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RobertN
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| That article seems very biased. From what I've read, Muslim youths all over the area have been savagely attacked by drunk white yobs. 5,000 of them alone descended on one beach and caused absolute anarchy. |
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RobertN
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THE WORLD
Australia Riots Persist; Police May Gain Powers
From Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia — About 5,000 white men, many of them drunk, targeted people believed to be of Arab or Middle Eastern descent on Cronulla Beach on Sunday after rumors spread that Lebanese youths had assaulted two lifeguards.
Police, who had stepped up patrols on the beach after learning of cellphone text messages urging people to retaliate for the attack on the lifeguards, tried to control the mob with batons and pepper spray.
Young men of Arab descent struck back in several Sydney suburbs Sunday, fighting with police for hours and smashing dozens of cars with sticks and bats, police said. They said 31 people were injured and 16 arrested.
Television images of Sunday's riot shocked Australians, who pride themselves on tolerance.
Racial tensions in Australia have been rising in recent years, fueled by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S. and the 2002 bombings on Bali, Indonesia, that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. |
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Mithrandir
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Revenge will never work.
This reminds me of Miller's experiments.
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mjs82
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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As an Australian, and this is not an exaggeration, but this there is stupidity and criminality by people on all sides of this issue. I don't live in Sydney, but one of the groups leeching off the mob retaliation were responsible for a series of bashings at my university last year. Not to be offensive but, the riots of Brixton and LA had a deeper meaning, this is just violence. There is a concerted police effort now but I suppose the next test will come this weekend. I have muslim friends and surfer friends in my city and they get along fine. This mob action is an expansion of a microcosm into a horrific scale.
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Mithrandir
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| mjs82 wrote: | | As an Australian, and this is not an exaggeration, but this there is stupidity and criminality by people on all sides of this issue. I don't live in Sydney, but one of the groups leeching off the mob retaliation were responsible for a series of bashings at my university last year. Not to be offensive but, the riots of Brixton and LA had a deeper meaning, this is just violence. There is a concerted police effort now but I suppose the next test will come this weekend. I have muslim friends and surfer friends in my city and they get along fine. This mob action is an expansion of a microcosm into a horrific scale. |
Are these sentiments reacent as in after 9/11 or have they been going on for a long time?
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mjs82
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The gang problem is ongoing, probably no more or no less than most large cities around the world. Keep in mind, this started as a small news story about the lifesurfers which then snowball monstrously as each additional element came into play. Alcohol and stupidity. I feel sorry for those affected on both sides and for the police officers caught in the middle. I hope the Lebanese Rugby League side can tour next year and help heals some wounds.
In regards to 9/11 and more in particular for us, the bombings in Indonesia and ongoing terrorist cell arrests, you'd be naive not to think it had a part in it. This is the image of the world that's being re-created as we speak.
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Vejita
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| I agree. It suxor. |
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