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April 25, 2004

Australia: Jailed rapists charge anti-Muslim persecution

Is every investigation of every crime against any Muslim ipso facto anti-Muslim persecution? From the Sydney Morning Herald, with thanks to Jean-Luc:

It was an act of "great heinousness" - the betrayal of trust in which four brothers and another man brutally gang raped two teenage girls they had befriended a week earlier.

As sexual assault crimes go, this was the worst in its category, Justice Brian Sully told the NSW Supreme Court yesterday.

Even more disturbing was that the brothers maintained their innocence throughout the trial, despite overwhelming evidence, insisting that they were victims of an anti-Muslim conspiracy and a police set-up.

Rehabilitation would be problematic: they were in "total denial" of the offences, according to a psychologist's report quoted by the judge, and had no remorse.

But in what became a test case - they were the first to be convicted and sentenced under new gang rape laws which carry a life sentence - Justice Sully did not impose the maximum penalty. He handed down sentences ranging from 22 years to 10.

The brothers - who can only be identified as MSK, MAK, MRK and MMK - were each convicted of nine counts of aggravated sexual assault in company. Another man, known as RS, was also convicted. He was found hanged in his prison cell last week.

The five lured two girls, known as LS, 17, and HG, 16, back to the brothers' Ashfield family home in the early hours of July 28, 2002. ...

After their sentences were handed down, one said in court: "We did not commit this crime, the crime was committed against us. The police set us up because we are Muslims, your honour."

A man in the public gallery yelled out: "F---in' dickhead."

Outside court, the brothers' father, a doctor, said: "What can I say? I think they are innocent but I don't know, maybe the jury is right, I don't know. I'm so stressed. I have four sons . . . who are like dead people for me now because they will be jailed. What will happen? They will not get an education, nothing. That will be their luck. Everything is decided by God."

Posted by Robert at April 25, 2004 8:23 AM
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It is all a conspiracy against muslim rapists.
We should all be ashamed.

Posted by: SGT SHULTS at April 25, 2004 8:38 AM

This is what you get from a religion of predestination and the purposeful perversion of male sex/power drives.

"Happy is the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."
-Virgil

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
-Wilhelm Stekel

Islam says "it's the will of Allah" and that "Dying in the cause of Islam is best". It's what you'd expect from a religion that artificially retards the development of the individual and the species in order to control both.

Check how many Islamic countries lay the blame on rape victims for "asking for it" by not covering every square inch of skin and keeping deathly quiet.

I do believe in absolute morality, so I refuse to let Islamic criminals off the hook for their actions, but given their ideological foundations, it's not hard to see that the fruit didn't fall far from the tree, so to speak.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 25, 2004 10:04 AM

The cry of discrimination is the last hope of the guilty or incompetent, and it continues to work. In this case it didn't. Thank goodness.

The father of these men gives them and himself a pass, not taking responsiblity for his role as a parent in their moral upbringing and, irresponsibly not instructing them about tthe differences between life and customs in Australia and that of their homeland. He also blames the Australian legal system for not giving Muslims a pass for being …Muslims. (Surprise, surprise!) The victim is responsible because she dressed like a whore and wasn't accompanied by a male relative.

And finally, he blames Allah for creating this situation, also no surprise. How easy it is to foist off all responsibilty onto others, even onto Allah, when one is a Muslim.

Posted by: epg at April 25, 2004 11:42 AM

Everything is decided by God? No, sorry, sir, but your sons made their own fate themselves, when they decided to rape those young girls.

Take responsibility for your own actions -- quit blaiming everything on "God"!

Posted by: Susan at April 25, 2004 11:46 AM

This case reminds me of the series of Sydney rape cases, in which as many as 14 Muslims at a time gang-raped Australian girls because, as they told the the girls, they were "Aussies" and therefore, deserved it. They were Muslims from Lebanon (it is a matter of essential indifference whether they were "Palestinian" Muslim Arabs or "Lebanese" Muslim Arabs). Scarcely a word of this, which was extensively covered in Australia, was mentioned anywhere in the American or European press; you can find out about it by googling "rape" and "Sydney" and "Muslims" and "Lebanese" if you care to; it makes for enlightening reading. The emphasis on the deliberate humiliation of the non-Muslim girls accords with everything else that is known aobut the behavior of Muslims in the Lands of the Infidels; 60-70% of the rapes in Norway and Denmark, for example, are committed by Muslims (this can also be checked on the Internet). In Norway, one judge "blamed" the victim for dressing like -- well, like a Norwegian. She should have known a Muslim man would react thus. No doubt the same is true for Jews wearing kippahs who are beaten up in the streets of Marseille or Paris; they "should have known" how Muslims would be affected by such a sight, given the "Israeli occupation" of "Palestinian lands" and so on.

Enough. More than enough.

Posted by: Hugh at April 25, 2004 1:02 PM

So odd that Western women do not believe it is a Allah-ordained right to be raped - just shows how supid women really are.....I am simply amazed to hear about Western women converting to the Woman-hating faith called Islam - they truly have been brainwashed into this death cult called Islam.

jihan

Posted by: jihan at April 25, 2004 2:16 PM

Hugh:

I will save people the trouble of fact checking via Google. Below is the link to the article in the English language Cpenhagen Post and below that is the article itself.

http://cphpost.sites.itera.dk/get/62605.html

"Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases against young Danish girls. Promising demonstrations and an information campaign, Babar Baig from Minhaj ul Quran said that Islam totally condemns rape and the violation of women. 'We feel very strongly that as a Muslim youth organisation, we have a responsibility to speak out about this problem,' said Baig, whose organisation, alongside the Union of Muslim Students (FASM) and the Organisation of Pakistani Students and Academics (OPSA) announced demonstrations in Copenhagen, Odense and Århus."


Posted by: John B at April 25, 2004 2:19 PM

Oops. That should be Copenhagen Post.

Posted by: John B at April 25, 2004 2:37 PM

If young european girls are lured and gang raped by Muslims as "white Prostitutes", is this not another form of islamic terrorism ?
The use of rape has been historically us by muslims as a weapon of subjucation on the people they have conquered.
we still views such acts as part of criminal Justice system

Posted by: David at April 26, 2004 3:38 AM

The rape of Non-muslim women by muslim men is sanctioned - even taking them as slaves according to the hadiths and the Quran.

jihan

Posted by: jihan at April 26, 2004 12:22 PM

As if the world needed any more evidence of the barbarism of this so-called religion. So why do women convert to this thing? I can see the appeal it has for stupid, oversexed males, but women??

Posted by: nomorejihad at April 26, 2004 3:12 PM

There's been a spate of brutal, racist-motivated rapes here in Sydney of "Anglo" girls by young males "of Mediterranean appearance". Italians, Spaniards, Maltese, Greeks, Israelis? No, none of the above - the perpetrators were ALL of Arab and Moslem background, but the NSW Police have been banned from using "ethnic descriptors".

The NSW Police've been converted, in specific areas of crime and in the zones where it's centred - the southwestern suburbs of the city ("the Occupied Territories") - into social-workers, no longer law-enforcers.

Of course, in the wake of the controversy surrounding these racial-sexual assaults, a number of local "liberal" academics have "sensitively" hastened into print and onto the airwaves to vehemently object to the "stereotyping" and "vilification" of Arabs and Moslems, describing them as... "victims"....

Indeed, the vile and duplicitous "Imam of Australia", Sheikh Taj el-Din Hilaly, proclaimed that the impressionable youths in question must have picked up the notion of gang-rape from the surrounding Australian culture, since "it cannot possibly exist in Islam".

In other words, the girls brought their fate down upon themselves; another classic example of Arabs/Moslems blaming the victims, instead of taking one iota of responsibility for their own "culturally"-determined criminal behaviour.

Posted by: HG at April 26, 2004 8:21 PM

I should add that it was made abundantly clear during their trials that the racists/rapists quizzed all their victims, before attacking them, on their background, so as not to violate any fellow-Moslems.

In addition, they sought to be sure that there was no link between the victims and the Vietnamese community - this is the sole group here of which they're deeply afraid, knowing that the Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese gangs in this town will promptly avenge interference with their population in the harshest of terms.

Posted by: HG at April 26, 2004 8:34 PM

Rape is always a crime of violence more than one of sex, but these Arab-descent gangboys are guilty of not so much a sex-crime, nor even of a crime of violence, but of an out-&-out hate-crime, driven by sheer racism.

A great deal of media-time went into exertions to whitewash these offenders, but nobody is convinced that this was "juvenile horseplay that went a bit far", as much of the liberal/leftist press has dismissively pitched it.

Nevertheless, alas, Australia remains a long way, to date, from realizing the depth of the problem it's bound to face in coming years, coping with Islamo-fascism in South East Asia, while a rabid Arab/Moslem fifth-column steadily grows at home, protected by selfsame the laws and attitudes which they all burn to destroy forever.

Posted by: HG at April 27, 2004 6:49 AM

Rape is a weapon in islam.
when jihadist terrorists in kashmir wanted the hindus/sikhs/buddhists/christians out they told them to leave but leave their wifes, sisters & daughters !

Posted by: AI at April 27, 2004 8:46 AM

I'm tired of the hypocrisy!

Posted by: lee at April 28, 2004 4:17 AM

I am of neither extreme position. In regards to all religion; I have always felt its influence on human evolution has been far more detrimental then positive. But no religion exemplifies it more then radical Islam does today. Non-TRUE believers tend to be much more complacent then any true fundamentalist believer of anything. Doesn't really matter what brand of BS they choose to believe. It's the belief itself that fuels them. This complacency allows the perpetrators of these vile acts of every type to justify their behavior in the name of their misguided beliefs and find few detractors then would otherwise be the case. Fools embrace the enemy and defend his position while he methodically tramples those defenders into submission. This enemy takes no responsibility for his actions, blames everyone and everything else, freely lies to achieve very clearly stated goals. It's not to say everyone else is squeaky clean, but pay attention to those who would harm you most. Personally, I feel the world would be a much nicer place if it were devoid of all fundamentalist Muslin men and I have no problem saying so.

Posted by: Laurie at April 28, 2004 11:46 AM

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