Posted on 04/23/2011 4:19:34 PM PDT by george76
Punishment attack ordered because her 12-year-old brother was judged to have offended a clan's honour .
A Pakistani victim of a village council-sanctioned gang rape, who became a symbol of the country's oppressed women, says her life is in danger after the Supreme Court acquitted 13 men accused of the crime.
The ruling leaves just one of the initial 14 suspects in prison.
Mukhtaran Mai was attacked on the orders of a village council in Punjab province nine years ago as a punishment because her brother - who was 12 at the time - was judged to have offended the honour of a powerful clan by allegedly having an affair with one of its women. Mai, aged 30, was an illiterate villager at the time but the seamstress defied taboos and shot to global fame by speaking out about her ordeal and taking her attackers to court.
Mai had accused 14 men of being involved in raping her in a stable and in 2002, a court sentenced six of them to death while acquitting the others citing a lack of evidence.
But in an appeal, the Lahore High Court not only upheld the eight acquittals but also overturned five of the six convictions.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'My life is in danger': Fears of Pakistani woman gang-raped on orders of village elders as 13 out of 14 men are cleared
barbarism
1. a brutal, coarse, or ignorant act
2. the condition of being backward, coarse, or ignorant
3. any act or object that offends against accepted taste
Are these guys just perverts and sociopaths who start stalking a particular woman (selected for vulnerability, not protected by a powerful clan) and when their rape fantasies just irritate them enough...they dream up an accusation so they ‘get’ to rape her as ‘punishment’? Apparently not finding anything to accuse he of, they use her 12 year old brother as an excuse. ‘Cause that’s the best explanation of this state of barbarism I can think of...
4. Muslim Brotherhood
As Paul Harvey had said, the backward tribal Muslim Ottoman/Arab is neither ready for nor capable of any sort of attempt at any level of modern, open, stable, free, elected government.
Islam is an insane rape and murder cult, ever since Mad Mo crawled out of the bat cave and barked at the moon.
Ask any muslim if they think it should be a crime for a 50 year old man to “marry” a six year old girl, and have sex with her at age ten.
That’s Mad Mo’s M.O.
bttt
Her 12-year old brother had an affair with another woman? Really?
where are the “moderate” moslems who will stand up for her?
inbreeding leads to the rise of recessive genes, damages the genetic pool and can result in mental problems that lend owner towards violence and other mentally skewed behaviors.
In Briton, islams present 33 % of those seeking mental health help yet islams comprise only 3% of the population.
Info from article by Ann Barnhardt.
If you search on Arab consanguinity and related terms, you find any number of scholarly publications on the topic that back up your post.
Beyond that, see tagline.
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Check out my tag-line.
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The Religion of Getting A Piece.
Religion of peace.
Thanks george76.
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