“The uproar was swift,” and since nothing works like public pressure, Khan’s office began claiming he was “misrepresented.”
And where might Khan be getting his views?
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
Therefore it is up to a woman to cover herself, to the point of reducing her vision. If she fails to do this:
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
It is high time that passages of the Qur’an which are contrary to human rights be honestly and openly admitted to and be formally dismissed. Unfortunately, those Muslims who do admit their existence and choose not adhere to them are regarded as apostates.
“Pakistan’s Prime Minister Links Rape to ‘Vulgarity’ and How Women Dress,” by Salman Masood, New York Times, April 8, 2021:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An outcry has erupted in Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan blamed a rise in rape cases on how women dressed, remarks that activists denounced as perpetuating a culture of victim blaming.
Mr. Khan made the comments on a live television show earlier this week when he was asked what the government was doing to curb an increase in sexual violence against women and children. Mr. Khan acknowledged the seriousness of the problem and pointed to the country’s strict laws against rape.
But, he said, women had to do their part.
“What is the concept of purdah?” he said, using a term that refers to the practice of seclusion, veiling or concealing dress for women in some South Asian communities. “It is to stop temptation. Not every man has willpower. If you keep on increasing vulgarity, it will have consequences.”
The uproar was swift….
Seeking to tamp down the anger, Mr. Khan’s office issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the prime minister’s remarks had been misrepresented.
“The prime minister spoke about the societal responses and the need to put our efforts together to eliminate the menace of rape completely,” the office said in the statement. “Unfortunately, part of his comment, consciously or unconsciously, has been distorted to mean something that he never intended.”…
There are few reliable statistics on rape in Pakistan, but rights activists say it is a severely underreported crime, in part because victims are often treated as criminals or blamed for the assaults. Thousands of protesters took to the streets last year after a top police official in the eastern city of Lahore said that a woman who was raped on a deserted highway was partly to blame for the attack…..
St. Croix says
“Seeking to tamp down the anger, Mr. Khan’s office issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the prime minister’s remarks had been misrepresented.
“The prime minister spoke about the societal responses and the need to put our efforts together to eliminate the menace of rape completely,” the office said in the statement.”
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Really? Putting efforts together to ELIMINATE the menace of rape *completely*…?
That will never happen while there’s still a Qu’ran and people who read it.
Those same people who will kill for it, die for it, and swear it is the holy book of Allah. Even if every infidel on the planet stopped committing rape, as long as there’s a Qu’ran, the “phenomenon” of rape will never end.
mortimer says
How about the real cause … Pakistan should be re-named ‘PORNISTAN’ because Pak men watch PORN online MORE than in ANY OTHER COUNTRY in the world.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Keith O says
This is just plain sickening.
Any male or female for that matter who blames women and girls for being raped is not fit to be called human.
Whenever I read this sort of statement coming from a so called “leader” of a nation my blood boils.
Islam is the product of a sick demented mind and it’s followers are nothing more than sick criminals who hide behind a religion or ideology to justify their demented behavior.
Wellington says
Yes, Keith O, Islam hides behind a lot of evil while all the while professing itself good.
Islam represents man at his worst, not his best. In fact, to aver otherwise doesn’t even meet the laugh test, by which I mean that Islam by now should have been laughed out of existence so monstrously absurd are so many of its dictates, not only about the female gender but about so much else, another example being death for apostasy.
Islam is a perverted remnant of a bygone era that still is “hanging around.” It serves as an example, a sterling example, of how base the human condition can exhibit itself at times. Islam however is, damn, still doing a lot of “exhibiting.”
mortimer says
An Islamic organizer invited Pakistani Islamic scholars to speak in Britain at mosques there, but found he couldn’t make any of them speak in the EVENING. That was when they were all at the computer screen watching porn.
Rob says
After his ‘discovery’ of rampant pedophilia in Pakistan, did Khan blame that on the victimised boys?
mortimer says
Pakistan’s Koranic schools (MADRASSAHS) are the subject of many accusations of rape.
Sabri S. says
So immoral whores are just supposed to run rampant through society?!?
What is the point of having moral and decent women. No wonder your western world is going downhill so fast. Islam enforces morality and obedience to God. We will never tolerate your alternative. This is why Muslims are the “best of peoples”…Allah u akbar!!
gravenimage says
Note that Sabri S. considers any woman in the street–or even in her own home, because many of these rapes take place there–is an “immoral whore”.
Note further that Sabri S. considers Muslims rapists to be perfectly chaste.
And why not? The “Prophet” Muhammed regularly raped his victims, forcibly married them, “married’ a prepubescent child, and kept sex slaves.
And for Sabri S., raping women is not enough–he has also applauded Muslims murdering wives and daughters in “Honor Killings”.
Wellington says
Ah, the burden is on the female to act “properly” and, if she doesn’t, than the man is exculpated. So Islamic.
Yes, females should use common sense respecting how they act (so should men) since exercising freedom without common sense is, whether one knows it or not, an abuse of freedom, often times damn stupid too.
But since Islam doesn’t care about freedom and as well a sound ethical system in general, indeed is an enemy of liberty and truly defensible ethical norms, how unsurprising therefore, per Islamthink, that the female is made responsible for bad male behavior by Muslim men. So Islamic.
Again I state that the curse continues. The curse is Islam. All of it.
mortimer says
Islam sets before Muslim men a pornographic paradise as the ‘carrot’ that is their ultimate goal. Mohammed had 11 wives and sex slaves. Sharia law makes it almost impossible to convict a rapist. The rape of a kafir is not even mentioned in Sharia law … so it is not a crime or even a misdemeanor. Is it any wonder that they are obsessed with sex?
The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ), Koranic commentator and polymath. He wrote:
“Each time we sleep with a Houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [i.e. Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas.”(Commentary Al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Qur’an, p. 351)
born saturday says
savages.
Wellington says
Admirably succinct.
James Lincoln says
born saturday,
Savages, yes.
Also:
Monsters, beasts…
born saturday says
barbarians.
mortimer says
Raping kafirs or apostates is not ‘barbaric’ to a Muslim, since it is authorized by Allah in the Koran.
tim gallagher says
Khan used to have quite a reputation as a playboy back when he was a big time cricketer and was captain of the Pakistani cricket team. I recall he also married the daughter of a British billionaire, Jemima Goldsmith years ago. I suppose people can change their point of view and way of life and Khan seems to have (very coveniently, typical politician) changed into a hardline, primitive, backward Muslim monster, which probably goes over very well amongst most of the primitive Pakistani people. I have the impression that Khan would say of do anything to climb the greasy pole to the top of Pakistani politics. I think he has no integrity whatsoever. As other commenters have pointed out, the views Khan is expressing, which I guess are very much mainstream Muslim attitudes, are barbaric, primitive garbage. But that’s what Islam is. Islam’s attitude to everything is outdated and evil rubbish. The way people lived in 7th century Arabia is an imbecilic model for modern people to live by. Muslims need to dump islam and join the civilised non-Muslim part of the human race.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“I have the impression that Khan would say of do anything to climb the greasy pole to the top of Pakistani politics.”
Absolutely true, tim.
Unfortunately, phony Pres. Biden would also “say or do anything to climb the greasy pole” – to the top of US politics…
tim gallagher says
I think that Imran Khan probably always had the “born to rule” mentality. Being a big time cricketer (and Pakistan actually won the World Championship of cricket when Khan captained the team) in a cricket mad country like Pakistan would have given him hero status, which would have greatly helped his political career. He seems like a total scumbag these days (probably always was). On Biden, who I know less about, I think he probably always lusted after actually winning the Presidency, so I guess he would say or do anything to reach the goal. He’s made it, but it took him so long to reach the goal that he is too old and almost certainly senile. It is weird to watch him losing his train of thought in those video clips I have seen. Very troubling to see such a man occupying the position of President of the USA.
truthout says
First and foremost its common that rape victims are blamed .That isn’t just Islam .In many cases its those closest to the victim especially men .It makes them feel powerless and they have to lash out .Its the victim though that gets the lashing[I am talking verbally].The Muslims wrap an ancient archaic mysoginistic fake religion around it .That way its enshrined. Tell me Khan ,what say you, about the gang rape victim wearing jeans and a turtle neck, that was so loose ,that you couldn’t tell what sex she was, at least not without raping her?She to blame to?
gravenimage says
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blames rise in rape cases to ‘vulgarity’ and how women dress
…………………
This is classic Muslism blaming the victim.
And note that this is about the abuse and rape of women *and* children. Apparently those “vulgar” children are tempting these Muslim men. This *is* how Muslims think–and why you find girls as young as babes in arms in Hijab.
God, I hate Islam.
Singh T. Junior says
What about increase in sex crimes committed by moslem men against goats? Are goats vulgar because they don’t wear burkha?
Infidel says
The goats are naked, and just begging for it! ?
gravenimage says
Ayatollah Khomeini wrote in his “LIttle Green Book” that raping animals is perfectly fine so long as you kill the poor beast immediately afterwards and sell its meat in a neighboring town.
R Suri says
O my god! With availability of instant divorce and halala, goats, underage boys still so many rapes? Is not the ‘most peaceful and most complete’ religion of the world not able to make a man out of animal? Or is it not it the other way round. As a matter of fact I thought nothing will happen to a Muslim man even if he sees a nude woman as he is follower of ‘best’ religion of the world!
Tim Hughes-Williams says
There is no place for Islam in a civilised Society,
The Qaran was written as a guide to living in the deserts of 7th Century Arabia and does not equate to life in Europe, USA, or the PACIFIC, or even AFRICA.
The solution is to
Close all the Mosques.
Ban the teaching of Islam.
Deport all the Immans.
Ban the Burkah
Close all madrassas, and schools of hatred
Andrew Blackadder says
muslim men, not just PM Khan, are admitting that they are, or can be, rapists.. Its out front now and none of them are hiding behind that fact, as Khan even said some men may not have control of their emotions, so he is telling the World that muslim men are savages, backward, morons, so at least they are honest about their low IQ, and now we have to let the Western feminists know as they just seem to love to protect men that despise them…
Walter Sieruk says
That prime minster of Pakistan by making the horrendously awful statement is playing the old erroneous folly of “blaming the victim card.”
To blame the victim and not the criminal is both wrong as well as an affront to justice.
Many Muslims do claim to “respect to Bible..” If that claim isn’t just empty lip service then they should pay heed that the Bible in Proverbs 17:15. reads “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – The Lord detests them both.” [N.I.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That terrible statement of the Prime minister of Pakistan is a reflection of the typical male Islamic mindset.
The reality is the the only real “vulgarity ” is the this unjust unfair and blatantly wrong Islamic practice of blaming the victim and not the villain who committed the crime.
In addition, this is as Brigitte Gabriel, who is the founder and head of the pro- US and anti-jihad lobby organization actforamerica.org , had revealed in her book THEY MUST BE STOPPED .Which on page 172 reads “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
somehistory says
“country’s strict laws against rape.” Sure, there are, but the creep gives mozlum males an *out,* an *excuse,*…..”Not every man has willpower” (he should have said “males”)
These mozlum rapists can blame the women they rape because the women have been warned, the males are going to rape them because of the ***way*** they dress.
And he’s okay with that….after all, he’s a mozlum male and who can give evidence of his “willpower”?
It should be “won’t power.” But, where there is a mozlum male, their is the “will” to rape.
And murder. How to stop the murders?
Oh, if only everyone would dress as the strictest of mozlums….and chant to satan at least 35 times a week and lie, lie, lie, even after the cows have all come home and the fat lady has sung her final set.
Proud Islamophobe says
That’s right, because if a baby (male or female regardless) is in a diaper and topless, lying on its back, what else is a moslem to do?