The once-notorious British man about town Imran Khan, formally Great Britain’s most notorious playboy cricketer and hailed “moderate,” has completed his radicalization. The now sharia-enforcing Pakistani politician was once the moderate Muslim archetype, the standard bearer of what the West believes is “the answer” to the difficulties we face melding Islam and the West (freedom and submission).
How does the left reconcile the path of Imran Khan — from moderate, hotshot, womanizing Muslim to devout, sharia-enforcing Pakistani politician? This is their stubborn delusion, no matter how improbable or illogical — but reality.
Khan was educated at Pakistan’s prestigious Aitchison College, at boarding school in England and then at Oxford University. He married a creme de la creme of British heiress Jemina Khan, he eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and financier Sir James Goldsmith. Her mother is from an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, the daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry. Her father was the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Major Frank Goldsmith.
School kids in Pakistan are raped, killed. So Imran Khan govt and clerics recommend abayas
Police in Pakistan confirmed this week that three boys – aged eight and nine – who were missing for nearly three months were raped and killed.
In yet another absurd chain of events in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘Naya Pakistan’, the ruling party’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made it mandatory for girls in public schools to ‘cover themselves up’ with a gown, abaya, veil, or chadar. The reason behind the decision gave a lot away: the government, which had already circulated its order in a district a couple of days ago, believed its measure would protect the girls from “unethical incidents”.
The Imran Khan government, which is responsible for the safety of young girls and boys, hides under tradition, religious and cultural values to pass its responsibility onto the children themselves. It seriously believes that enforcing a regressive practice on schoolgirls is the best way to protect them from harassment or abuse.
But then, what is the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf government if not a bag of surprise? A day after the mandatory order, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan did what the Imran Khan government does best: take a U-turn. And why not – after all, Imran Khan is “glad” that he is called “a prime minister of U-turns”. “Only an idiot doesn’t do any U-turns; only a moron… when he comes across a wall… only that stupid idiot keeps banging his head against the brick wall,” he proudly declares.
So, should we consider PM Imran Khan’s colleagues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stupid for possibly seeing the wall (the protests and criticisms that the decision was sure to invite) and still choosing to bang their heads and issue the circular on what schoolgirls should wear?
Barely hours before CM Mahmood Khan ordered to withdraw the government notification following severe backlash from child rights activists and others on social and mainstream media, education adviser Ziaullah Bangash was defending the orders.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had to clarify that the order was “neither necessary nor was there logic behind it”.
Citizens should be free to decide what they want to wear and young girls should not be shamed into taking responsibility for what perverted men do. Pakistani schoolgirls all across the country have a dress code in place already, a uniform that covers every part of the body. Whether or not they wear an abaya or a hijab is not a decision for the government to make – let alone its excuse of taking the decision to prevent “unethical incidents”.
If the government thought it was addressing the issue of harassment or abuse by asking young girls to cover their bodies “properly”, then what does it suggest the young boys do because they are even more vulnerable? In 2018, Pakistan had a total of 3,832 cases of child abuse – an increase of 11 per cent from the previous year – reported in the country, according to a report by child rights advocacy group, Sahil. Of the total children abused, 2,094 were boys and 1,738 were girls, the report added.
Pakistani society has to first accept and then speak up what many inadvertently end up denying: child abuse is a real problem and it will not go away by making children wear a certain piece of clothing. Instead of taking concrete steps that deal with the larger issue of male perversion, the government turns to measures that only give fodder to the religious Right, which then brushes the uncomfortable truth about child abuse under the carpet.
Take for instance cleric Mufti Taqi Usmani. He first criticised the government’s recall of the abaya order, which he said was “in accordance with the teachings of Holy Quran and worthy of praise”. And then, he asked Imran Khan to intervene since the First Lady wears a ‘naqab’ and the PM himself advocates for the ‘State of Medina’.
It should be clear to anyone that dress is irrelevant. There are women wearing burqa getting harassed, those covering their head with dupattas catcalled, hijab-wearing girls being offered lifts by strangers, or those in chadars being molested in public places. The blame doesn’t rest on women, and until policymakers realise this, there won’t be much progress.
Moreover, by putting the blame on the victims, society stops the child – boy or girl – from coming forward and reporting the incident of sexual abuse. Children need to be given the confidence to talk to a trusted adult, who should be bound to report any sign of actual or potential abuse.
Laws alone not the solution
Pakistan is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, having signed and ratified it in 1990. So, Pakistan is bound to have tough legislation on these issues. But having laws alone won’t help. They need to be implemented as well. Along with strengthening the implementation of existing laws in the country, the government must also focus on how to prevent these incidents of crime. At the same time, it should ensure child rights activists and experts educate parents, school teachers and members of local communities on how best to address such issues.
When six-year-old Zainab Ansari was raped and killed in Punjab’s Kasur district, it had shaken Pakistani society’s conscience. Or at least that’s what it felt like when the case became a watershed moment in Pakistan’s civilian activism, finding global support, and resulting in the rapist-killer getting hanged. But what did the outrage and justice do for the safety of other children?
Since then, thousands of such cases have been reported, with and without media or civil society registering their outrage. On Wednesday, police in Kasur confirmed that the three boys – aged eight and nine – who were missing for nearly three months were found to have been raped and killed. Their bodies were found Tuesday. The aggrieved families protest, people demand punishment for the culprits – and the cycle continues. Nothing actually gets done that would ensure the safety of children in Pakistan.
The author is a freelance journalist from Pakistan. Her Twitter handle is @nailainayat. Views are personal.
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Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago
Muhammad’s favorite wife was six when he married her, but the marriage was not consummated until three years later. Could it be because Muhammad was hung smaller than a squirrel?
I second that. THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. A. MUSLIM. MAN.There are only squirrel-hung little slaves of Allah trying to work the odds of winning some stray renewable Houri virgins in the whorehouse paradise. And they will destroy any woman or little girl in their path to succeed.
Malsikcuf
4 years ago
Why isn’t Greta Thunberg addressing the U.N. about this?
Shhhh… Greta is the NEW “rain man” for climate change.
Michael Knowles Is Right About Greta Thunberg, but Fox News Caves Anyway
By Josh Manning
Published September 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm
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Guesting on Fox News’ “The Story” on Monday night, Knowles said that “the climate hysteria movement is not about science. If it were about science, it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left.”
It was the “mentally ill” part that the media latched onto, and Fox News caved. The network issued an apology, saying, “The comment made by Michael Knowles, who was a guest on ‘The Story’ tonight, was disgraceful. We apologize to Greta Thunberg and to our viewers.”
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Even if Knowles was wrong, since when is Fox News a part of “cancel culture”?
But he wasn’t wrong. Thunberg has battled mental illness, and if the world is going to attack Knowles for pointing that out, then the world also should attack The New York Times for noting the exact same thing, only in more detail.
“As a child, doctors told [Thunberg] she had Asperger’s syndrome. In early adolescence she battled severe depression, so much so that she stopped eating for a while and stopped growing.
“Recovery came slowly, and only after finding a sense of purpose.‘I’ve had my fair share of depressions, alienation, anxiety and disorders,’ she wrote in a recent Facebook post.” (Being exploited as a climate change alarmist is her “sense of purpose”)
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So if what Knowles said on Fox News has some basis in reality, why the massive reaction? Two reasons.
First, the left picked Thunberg because any attack on what she said or how she said it could very easily be recast as an attack on a child.
Second, Knowles exposed this entire farce by pointing out that Thunberg is a tool of the left — a little girl transformed into both a puppet to spout talking points and a bear trap for anyone who dared disagree.
Going forward, conservatives need to take a page from the rest of Knowles’ interview (though, we should note, autism is not a mental illness — it’s a developmental disorder). His point was that the left is exploiting a child who has suffered from mental illness, and he’s 100 percent right. That’s exactly what’s happening.
Filling a child’s head with nonsense about the end of the world due to cow flatulence is wretched.
Doing the same to a child who has struggled with anxiety and depression is evil.
The same reason all the big-mouth “woke” celebrities screeching about gay/women’s/drag queen/tranny rights, reparations, polar bears, meatless Mondays, plastic straws, white privilege, the evil of cis-gendered straight white males, Fakestinian grievances, illegal “refugees” and the rest of the list won’t touch this issue: they might get called “Islamophobes” and/or “racists”. As for the United Nations it includes 57 states which support this savagery to some extent.
Lagertha
4 years ago
It’s terrible they are a war-on-terror “ally” and gets billions of dollars.
Lisel Sipes
4 years ago
Punishing the girls because the boys are savage animals like their fathers. Nice.
The last “outrage” was spurred by two little boys, kidnapped, raped, then murdered …. More than likely most of the cases of rape/murder involved little boys … as ALL moslem males are homosexuals.
patd
4 years ago
The children aren’t raped because they don’t wear a burka..they are raped because the POS parasitic feral animal muslims are total perverted parasites!!!
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
So was Hitler a “moderate” nazi before he implemented the Holocaust?
The only problem is this woman probably wants it done pre-emptively.
felix1999
4 years ago
Muslim males have no restraint. They will rape, infants, little children, male or female and older women.
They will rape younger men but less likely since they can fight back unless it is a Muslim gang rape.
When was the last time a Muslim in a Muslim dominated country was punished for rape?
You have to wonder, will the Muslim paradise have “virgins” that are infants, little boys, little girls and older men and women? If they get off on this on earth, why wouldn’t they want that in their eternity? I fail to see where delight in perversion on earth would stop in eternity.
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
No mention of the Pakistaini boys who are butt raped by muslum truckers across the width and breadth of Pakistain.
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Peter WF
4 years ago
Muslim men prey on the weakest.
Murielle
4 years ago
Perhaps, in order to save children from sexual attack by the rabid dogs of the nation, instead of circumcising their “boys” they should castrate them.
But when Muslim families come to western countries the girls still wear the towel head but with sexy yoga pants/skinny jeans… cause they know they won’t get raped!!!!
Muslime POS’s are western country uber rapists who rape white drunk women. Read the newspapers and listen to your girlfriends about this first world common problem girlfriend.
Cauc-Asian Patriot
4 years ago
WELL THEIR PROPHET WAS A CHILD MOLESTER AND MURDERER AFTER ALL! WHY DO WE EXPECT THEM TO BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN THEIR PERFECT MAN ESPECIALLY IN A COUNTRY WHERE THEIR MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS, A CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN HIS CAR OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS TO SEND A MESSAGE? IS WHAT IT IS!
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