Shantaram Naik
A Muslim Indian MP has said that rape after midnight is not a crime…no wait a second! He isn’t Mooslim!!
A Goan Hindu MP has said that if tourists get raped after midnight it shouldn’t be considered rape. What if he were Muslim? This would be news all over the media, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller would be adding it to their litanies of look at what “Islam” is doing. Of course we wont hear a peep out of them about this. (hat tip to our indelible reader: Retaane)
Goa MP says Rape after Midnight not a Crime
An Indian politician has sparked outrage after he suggested that cases when a woman was raped after staying out past midnight should be treated differently to other sexual attacks.
Speaking before the country’s parliament, Shantaram Naik, an MP from Goa from the ruling Congress Party, reportedly made a series of “contentious” comments referring to the British teenager Scarlett Keeling, who was raped and murdered in Goa last year, and a Russian woman who alleges she was recently the victim of an assault by a state politician.
“An alleged rape of a lady who moves with strangers for days together even beyond middle of the night is to be treated on different footings,” said Mr Naik, as opposition MPs shouted their disapproval.
He then turned his attention to the media, accusing it of sensationalising and over-reporting such attacks. “If we go by electronic media coverage of recent times, it appears that nothing happens except incidents of rape,” he added.
Mr Naik’s comments were also criticised by the Russian consulate in Mumbai, which wrote to the state government saying it intended to advise Russian visitors not to stay out past 10pm if it was not safe for them to do so.
“Essentially the Russian government is concerned about the safety about its citizens,” Vikram Verma, a lawyer representing the consulate, told the Times of India. “If [the state authorities] feel that Russians should not be out late in the night, we would [be] happy to give them any advisory which would improve their safety and security.”
The darker side of Goa, which has long attracted visitors from around the world, has received no shortage of publicity following a series of killings and assaults on tourists – among them Devon teenager Scarlett Keeling in February 2008. An initial investigation by police concluded she had drowned but after the intervention of her mother, it was shown the 15-year-old had been murdered.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
If Shantaram were Muslim we know what would happen, they would tabulate this as being motivated by the fact he is Muslim, Islam would catch the flak. When a Muslim does a crime its Izzzzzlam, when a Hindu, Christian, Jewish does a crime or says something absurd its because they are crazy but not because of their religions.
December 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
“what if he were Muslim?”
- Peoples like You cry to his opponents: “IIIIISSLAMOPHOBBBIAA!!! RACCCIIISSM!!! NAZZISSMM!!! FAAASCCIIISSSMMMM!!!!”
December 17th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
No of course you won’t hear the anti Muslim pro Zionist blogosphere, talking about this, because they see India as an ally.
Are you aware for example how AIPAC trains Hindu extremists how to Lobby effectively? Richard Silverstein clarifies more:-
Things You Never Knew about Aipac
Richard Silverstein November 26th, 2009
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/11/26/things-you-never-knew-about-aipac/
But would you ever in your wildest dreams answer that one of Aipac’s missions was to side with Indian Hindu extremists in their holy war against Islam? I thought I knew about a lot about Aipac. But even I was bowled over when I read this from M.J. Rosenberg (he should know since he worked for the group for 10 years or more):
http://www.aipac.org/Publications/index_2688.asp
AIPAC actually works closely with Hindu religious parties in the Indian government to teach them how to lobby effectively on Kashmir and the rest of the Hindu nationalist agenda. In fact, the Israel lobby trained the Indians on how to lobby effectively.
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000420.html
December 17th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Hey Bob Sphincter…….can you feel “the Taqqiya” here
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/bbc-asks-users-should-homosexuals-face-execution/
December 18th, 2009 at 3:17 am
This is just to inform you that Shantaram Naik is not a Hindu but a Christian going by a Hindu name. Indians call these types as “Crypto Christians” and the leader of the Congress Party (of which Mr. Shantaram Naik is a member and MP) is an Italian Catholic, Sonia Antonio Maino. She has a son called Raul John Paul and Bianca Vadera going under the aliases of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. You can verify everything online. Also, the owner of one of India’s largest TV networks, NDTV, goes under the name of Prannoy Roy, his full name being Prannoy James Roy. Facts about Prannoy James Roy were right there on Wikipedia, but recently he has been having his page edited at frequent intervals. Here is his page -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prannoy_Roy
Below is the revision history of the Wiki page of Prannoy James Roy -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prannoy_Roy&action=history&year=2009&month=12&tagfilter=
December 18th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Typo in my post above “She has a son called Raul John Paul and Bianca Vadera”
should have been “She has a son called Raul John Paul and a daughter called Bianca Vadera”.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sucker, this exception proves the point.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Kafir Harby- It is not an exception, it is a common attitude amongst men (and women) the world over. It is about patriarchy.
A Muslim imam in Australia suggested uncovered women were like uncovered meat- everyone went mental over it….a couple of weeks later a BNP candidate said women liked sex, so there is no such thing as partner rape (describing it to being force fed chocolate cake!)….tumbleweeds in the anti-Muslim camp and the BNP faithful kept their fat pointless mouths shut for that….
hmmmm. I have been seeing the double standards in the media since I was old enough to read.
January 15th, 2010 at 8:58 am
I googled Sonia Gandhi. It seems her real name is not Sonia. She was born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in Lusiana, Italy on 9 December 1946. It was her mother in law (Indira) who re-named her Sonia.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/225270/Sonia-Gandhi