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Thread #135090   Message #3120658
Posted By: GUEST,lively
24-Mar-11 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
Sure. To be clear, I'm not commenting on the piece's author, or indeed the source. But considering the context of the comment, I did find some irony in the implicit summary dismissal of the argument being made in that piece, when compared to the length of this discussion.

I'm unsure how many posters here are debating the precise nature / volume of the alleged crimes currently under discussion? Though it's clear that some posters do so, and in no uncertain terms.
For my part I have read and heard enough to conclude that there appears to be a serious issue in need of addressing. And that the subject is certainly worth discussing. To be clear, hundreds of reports of allegations, is sufficient for me to form that conclusion.

Without a basic agreement among contributors that there is indeed a subject to discuss and what the nature of that subject is, it would seem that there can be no further discussion on the topic!

I don't go as far as accepting some of the arguments being posited here regards the 'causes' within Pakistani culture. And in particular, I find the fashion of Keith's presentation of those arguments, too reductive to render them credible. However, I don't consider myself suitably knowledgeable concerning the multiple possible contributing factors, to determine alternative 'causes'.

I find it an insurmountable leap, to move smoothly from "There appears to be a serious problem worth discussing here." to the conclusion that "Pakistani culture causes child rape."