In 1976, then-PM Malcolm Fraser was warned by frantic officials that his ‘Lebanese Concession’ was inviting future disaster for Australia. Fraser was warned that a large proportion of the so-called ‘refugees’ were not only unaffected by the civil war, but they were also from backwards rural villages. The officials warned that Fraser was importing the barbaric attitudes and simmering resentments of Arabic hillbillies who were illiterate even in their native language.
We’ve see the consequences of Fraser’s blind virtue signalling in the string of terror attacks and hate preachers stemming from Western Sydney’s Muslim heartland. What will we see in the future, when we’re importing people like this today?
A shocking case of ‘revenge rape’ involving 12 members of two families has been unearthed by police in Punjab province, Pakistan.
A man had been accused of raping a woman in Pir Mahal in the Toba Tek Singh district on March 20.
Local news reports that the suspect’s family had approached the victim’s family for ‘pardon and reconciliation’.
The victim’s family agreed to pardon the rapist, on the condition that ‘her brother would commit the same act with the suspect’s sister’, dawn.com reports.
A dozen people attending a meeting between the two families agreed to the terms, and the brother subsequently had sex with the suspect’s sister on March 21.
This is far from an isolated incident in Muslim Pakistan.
The case has echoes another incident in the southern city of Multan last July, where a village council ordered a ‘revenge rape’ on a 16-year-old girl.
The girl’s brother had sexually assaulted a 12-year-old, and the ‘revenge rape’ was reportedly carried out in front of her parents and 40 members of the village council.
Just the sort of people we should be importing by the thousands? What could possibly go wrong?
Never fear, though: we’ve got the legacy media here to leftsplain why it’s totally nothing to worry about.
While neither Dawn News nor Geo News mentioned a Sharia council being involved in the incident, Geo News did report that a ‘four-member panchayat’ mediated the agreement and ordered the rape. Panchayat, which means local council, refers to a group of local village elders and not Islamic jurisprudence experts who would be expected in a Sharia council.
Oh, well, that just makes us feel so much better.
The practice of local village councils mediating conflicts of this nature is common in Pakistan, with the councils operating under different local titles such as ‘jirga’ and ‘panchayat’. In a report titled the ‘Jirga System in Pakistan’, The Research Society of International Law defined it as, “an all-male council which settles conflicts through local customs and laws” that has operated in Pakistan since the pre-colonial era. It added that jirgas often prescribe solutions such as, “‘swara’, ‘vanni’ or ‘sung chatti’ which involve the barter of women as settlement.” Specifically important to this case would be ‘vanni’ which, according to the report, “applies in cases of kidnapping, murder or rape whereby the closest virgin female relative of the accused is handed over to the other family as punishment.”
Sounds like just the vibrant cultural diversity we need.
And is it really Nothing To Do With Islam©?
“Honor killings,” which claim the lives of hundreds of women every year, and other forms of violence against women, particularly domestic violence, are rampant in Pakistan. Last year, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to push through a set of laws designed to protect women. While the bill was praised by rights groups and liberal sections, religious parties and organizations denounced it by saying it conflicted with the Koran and the teachings of Muhammad, Islam’s prophet.
Do we really want to import this kind of mentality?
