Arab Immigrants Host "Rape Fest"
John
By Miranda Devine
July 14 2002
So now we know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of
Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims
on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading,
dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as 14, were
"sluts" and "Aussie pigs", the rapists said. So now that some of the
perpetrators are in jail, will those people who cried racism and media
"sensationalism" hang their heads in shame? Hardly.
The journalists, academics, legal brains and politicians who tried to claim
last August that the gang rapes of south-western Sydney were just a
run-of-the-mill police blotter story being beaten up by racists,
scaremongers and political opportunists don't ever want to acknowledge the
truth about that ugly episode in Australian history. They don't want to
acknowledge the fear and tension that ran through a part of Sydney they
rarely visit and can never understand.
This newspaper was the first to report the story, which had been common
knowledge in police and media circles, and it has never censored the race
element.
Even last week, with the conviction of two brothers for their part in the
gang rape of Miss D, who was 16 when she was held at gunpoint in a Greenacre
park, there were media outlets that downplayed the story and air-brushed
race from it.
Yet the victims have been crying out for the truth to be told. In court on
Friday, one victim gave another a card on which she had written
"Truth is Justice".
In August, when Judge Megan Latham handed out laughably lenient sentences to
three men in one gang rape case, which were later more than doubled on
appeal, she made a special point of debunking the race link: "There is no
evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these
offences," she said. "There is nothing said or done by the offenders which
provides the slightest basis for imputing to them some discrimination in
terms of the nationality of their victims."
Except that later one of the victims complained her victim impact statement
had been "censored" of any "ethnic" references by prosecutors intent on a
plea bargain. She was convinced she was raped because of her ethnicity. "You
deserve it because you're an Australian," the rapists told her during the
five-hour attack.
It's just so inconvenient of the victims to insist on telling the truth.
"I looked in his eyes. I had never seen such indifference," one 18-year-old
victim, codenamed Miss C, told the court, remembering one of the 14 men who
called her "Aussie pig", gang raped her 25 times over a six-hour period in
Bankstown and Chullora, and then turned a hose on her. "I'm going to f***
you Leb style," he said.
Fourteen gang rapists have been convicted, or pleaded guilty, thanks to the
courage of seven victims who testified for days in court as their tormentors
smirked nearby, the men's families threatened them and defence lawyers
suggested they had enjoyed the rapes.
"They're very brave, very strong and very courageous young women," said
Salvation Army Major Joyce Harmer, who held the hands of many of the victims
through the trials. "They knew this was something they had to do."
There were encouraging signs by the end of the week that some Muslim
community leaders were talking of "Muslims accepting responsibility that
they may have failed to do things that would have prevented these things
from happening", as Amjad Mehboob, chief executive for the Federation of
Islamic Councils, told ABC Radio on Friday.
Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, said: "It is
certainly a disgrace to our community that people who were born to a Muslim
family would commit such heinous crimes." But he went on to say it was
"rather unfair" that the rapists' ethnicity had been reported "because these
boys themselves have completely disaffiliated themselves from their culture
or their religion".
Yes, it is unfair that the vast bulk of law-abiding Lebanese Muslim boys and
men should be smeared by association. But their temporary discomfort may be
necessary so that the powerful social tool of shame is applied to the
families and communities that nurtured the rapists, gave them succour and
brought them up with such a hatred of Australia's dominant culture and
contempt for its women that they think of an 18-year-old girl, dressed for a
job interview in her best suit, sitting on a train reading a book, as a
slut.
These were racist crimes. They were hate crimes. The rapists chose their
victims on the basis of race. That fact is crucial to this story. If the
perpetrators had been Anglo-Celtic Australians, the furore would have been
enormous. No newspaper would have left out that fact and you can bet the
guilt and shame would have been spread far and wide.
Captain who went overboard
You have to feel sorry for Commander Richard Farrington, the captain of the
Royal Navy ship which ran into a rock off Lord Howe Island last week. His
career is sunk, he faces a court martial and he is the laughing stock of
England. The Sun newspaper nicknamed him Captain Clod.
"This is not a good day for me," he said. "This is quite the worst thing
that has ever happened, quite the worst. Character-building stuff."
There were photos of him, weeping, in the most wretched way, in front of a
delegation of men from the British High Commission.
They were classic portraits of male emotional awkwardness.
Farrington, 41, stands with head bowed, the heel of his hand scrunching at
his eyes, his mouth twisted with anguish. It's hard to be sure, but it looks
as if great wrenching sobs might have added to the pathos.
Seven men surround him, all keeping their distance, as if they're waiting
politely for him to pull himself together. British naval captains aren't
supposed to cry, even when their careers are flashing before their eyes.
Poor Farrington wasn't even on board when the ship set course for Wolfe
Rock, so named for the last British ship it sunk. He deserves a big hug, not
least for giving us something to laugh about.
This story was found at:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/13/1026185124700.html
watermelon
By Miranda Devine
July 14 2002
So now we know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of
Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims
on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading,
dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as 14, were
"sluts" and "Aussie pigs", the rapists said. So now that some of the
perpetrators are in jail, will those people who cried racism and media
"sensationalism" hang their heads in shame? Hardly.
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Now try telling me that the Australian Government is acting wrongly against
immigrants, shoot the bastards Australia does not need them , nor do we get
rid of all Moslem shits,
if you have a Moslem neighbour make life hell, get him packing, kill the
bastard if all else fails, because this is his ultimate aim for you.
welsh witch
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news:3d353...@news1.vip.uk.com...
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If they behave as a couple of postings on this ng suggest no one will
have to worry for long according to the latest figures they'll all get
AiDS and that will be the end of
that.http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/05/40688.php
http://www.walk-wales.org.uk/Finsbury.htm