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After reading the following Associated Press story I would like anyone
to please explain to me, because I cannot fathom the explanation
myself, the following things?

1. What part of a culture such as described should be celebrated and
embraced?

2. Where is the compassion, the all encompassing(both sexes) love and
respect that we are told is inherent and explicit in the Islamic
faith?

3. Why should anyone believe anything a muslim says about their
religion when acts of barbarism equal to anything done a thousand
years ago continue to occur seemingly daily in muslim countries?

4. Why should not any or all muslims be held accountable until such
acts of atrocity cease?

By all means verify the authenticity of the story and then spread it
far and wide.  It is time to call the muslim apologists to task and
demand that their actions match their rhetoric.

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Gang-rape victim found no mercy in Village
Houston Chronicle 07/04/02
By KHALID TANVEER
Associated Press

MEERWALA, Pakistan - For two nervous hours, the teenager worried for
her 11-year-old brother as their father pleaded before a Pakistani
tribal council that the boy had done no wrong in walking unchaperoned
with a girl from a different tribe.
The council was unconvinced, and ordered a brutal punishment: The
boy's sister would be gang-raped to shame her whole family.
Shortly afterward, four members of the council took turns raping the
18-year-old sister in a mud hut as hundreds of people stood outside
laughing and cheering.
"I touched their feet. I wept. I cried. I said I taught the holy Quran
to children in the village, therefore don't punish me for a crime,
which was not committed by me. But they tore my clothes and raped me
one by one," the young woman told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
As she spoke, her mother, Allah Bachai, sat beside her at their home
in the village of Meerwala in Punjab province, wailing.  ...

Monte
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
 and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ---Gore Vidal