While we have the bearded crazies blowing up your local supermarket during the day time, nightime in pakistan reveals the jinns the avid Quran reader might recall (I forget the passage, sorry- my quranic readings are a bit rusty). Pedophilia knows no bounds; country, culture, religion, socio-economics. And it is pervasive everywhere. The problem is that in Pakistan, it is not only pervasive, but also condoned by the lack of laws punishing pedophiles or protecting the abused. There are so many levels to this endemic that your humble blog-writer knows not where to start from. So lets start with the 'rich and famous' (or the gaudy and uneducated)- like SAH (initialized because I don't want to be sued), a so-called fashion designer and socialite residing in Karachi- who is openly a pedophile. [Openly: acting publicly or without concealment, as a person (dictionary.com)]. Yet he has friends, clients, a support group- all knowingly, who or un-knowingly, act as co-conspirators in this perverse mental illness. While he can behave like a depraved animal and get away with crimes such as child rape and molestation because of his social status, others without his nouveau riche origins also get away with similar behavior.
Why do we let pedophiles go scot-free in our society? Pedophilia is not that uncommon by trusted relatives on children who do not even know what is going on. Are we blind to let this happen over and over again? And the punch line is, even when adults become aware of that a family member is abusing a child in the family, they are unwilling to speak out against it. What are we teaching our children? Do not speak out if you have been wronged- respect authority even if it is abusing you- family is more important than your bodily rights- pedophilia is normal, get used to it. It is certainly easier to pray five times a day than confront a child abuser in your family, but why is it so difficult to recognize a crime in our country? Why does no one print a picture of SAH picking up kids for his personal enjoyment? Why can no one look at a child abuser and say, enough- don't you dare step in this house and I do not care if you are my brother-in-law, my cousin, or my brother. What is more important than a child's right to a carefree innocent childhood?
We need to change our society from within. Pakistan is in trouble in more ways than one, and for more reasons than can be considered in this blog. But we need to have laws, laws that are enforced by a police force free of corruption, that protect children from such animals, whether they are relatives of the children or sick people like SAH who feel they can use and abuse children at will just because they can afford to. We need to get rid of this hypocrisy in our society before we can move forward as a nation-until then we can only wait to hear the "thud" when we soon hit the bottom of the barrel.
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You are so right. The rule of law has failed miserably in light of recent events in Pakistan. But what's more important is our backward and hypocritical system of values. We instruct rape victims to commit suicide, we silence innocent children who have been molested by their family members and then of course there's the religious fundamentalists who are so obviously blinded by their religious beliefs that they want everything and anything that goes against their wishes to be destroyed.
No Problem Is There - Low Is The Problem! We No Need A Low - We Need Just A Justice! We No Need Goverment - We Are Social! We No Need Prisons And Courts - Just Kill Pedophile! - Not More - Not Less! - Maybe Some Can Be Easy? - Not! Any Human Is The Low! - Not Anybody Else!
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