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Islamic compassion, or inherent barbarism? Act II

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From: Monte
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:35
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They did it again!  Yes sir those muslims are one fine upstanding
bunch.  ...but I'll let the story tell itself see ->
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/international/asia/17RAPE.html

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 00:57:35 GMT, montep@email.com (Monte) wrote:

>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.
>
>=============================================
>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

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
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