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Article #573Islamic compassion, or inherent barbarism? Act II
From: Monte
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:35
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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