Sunday, October 20, 2013

Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology Condones Rape

This article illustrates just how far apart Islamic states are from Western society.

FROM GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG:

Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology Condones Rape

by Mohshin Habib
October 18, 2013 at 4:30 am

    The chairman of the Council told journalists that the Council rejected the Protection of Women Act because its provisions are not in line with Islamic injunctions. He said Islam determines procedures to evaluate criminality in cases of rape.

Some hideous rape cases coming to light in Pakistan are prompting questions about the nation's civil liberties. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission report, Motaan, a poor minority woman, age 26 and two months pregnant, was brutally beaten and gang raped in broad daylight by five assailants in the district of Tharparker in Sindh Province on September 4. She, along with her husband, three children and some relatives, were going to work as laborers at a brick kiln. Motaan was grabbed by her hair and was taken inside a community center along with her husband and their three children; the other relatives were able to escape. They were beaten brutally, their their hands and feet tied, then were forced to watch the rape of Motaan.

The Asian Human Rights Commission claimed that the family went to the police station to report the rape and assaults, but a member of Provincial Assembly, Mahesh Kumar Malani, apparently pressured the police and threatened the family, warning them not to press charges.

A few days later, on September 13th, a five-year-old girl was brutally raped in Lahore and later found dumped near a hospital.

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