Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali were convicted of gang rape, kidnapping, robbery and terrorism offences back in March 2021 over the attack on the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway.
There’s a very concerted effort by certain European publications to sensationalize crime by immigrants from India and Pakistan. Kinda similar to publications in usa to sensationalize crime by black and muslims
I’ve seen commentary about the rape culture in India in their media and media personalities. The movie Robot had a pretty heavy bus scene and the whole movie seems like it’s skirting around the India censorship board. Indian actresses will sometimes comment on the topic, but get told it’s embarrassing to bring it up.
Off screen, its stars have usually avoided commenting on sensitive social and political issues. However, the anti-rape protests following the 2012 Delhi gang-rape have led to a noticeable change.
A handful of stars, like Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, were known for their social activism, but in the year-and-a-half since the Delhi gang-rape, others have spoken out. Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has thrown her weight behind an emergency cellphone app for women’s safety; others have taken to the streets in demonstrations; and some like Abraham have used other media platforms to air their protest against rape.
There’s over 1.5 billion people there and the British Empire connection means they’re in the Anglosphere media. By raw numbers yes of course there’s a lot of crime, there’s a lot of pretty much everything.
Not everything which involves a reference or comparison to a similar thing is whataboutism, smartass. “Pakistan has a rape problem” implies that there’s somehow something special about Pakistani culture or environment which makes it so, and that it’s distinct from rape culture in other places. It’s perfectly valid to push back at that by saying that actually there is a global problem in this regard, and the only reason to single out specific countries like this is to stoke racial animus.
Maybe headlines like this stick in my head, but it seems there’s a rather large rape problem in Pakistan and India.
The Daily Heil is using this to feed Farage’s “all immigrants are rapists” lie.
There’s a very concerted effort by certain European publications to sensationalize crime by immigrants from India and Pakistan. Kinda similar to publications in usa to sensationalize crime by black and muslims
I’ve seen commentary about the rape culture in India in their media and media personalities. The movie Robot had a pretty heavy bus scene and the whole movie seems like it’s skirting around the India censorship board. Indian actresses will sometimes comment on the topic, but get told it’s embarrassing to bring it up.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/7/10/indias-bollywood-speaks-out-against-rape
There’s over 1.5 billion people there and the British Empire connection means they’re in the Anglosphere media. By raw numbers yes of course there’s a lot of crime, there’s a lot of pretty much everything.
Also to be fair, they are being executed.
Yeah, unlike the west which definitely doesn’t have any kind of rape problem.
And what rough whataboutism, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Not everything which involves a reference or comparison to a similar thing is whataboutism, smartass. “Pakistan has a rape problem” implies that there’s somehow something special about Pakistani culture or environment which makes it so, and that it’s distinct from rape culture in other places. It’s perfectly valid to push back at that by saying that actually there is a global problem in this regard, and the only reason to single out specific countries like this is to stoke racial animus.
Numbers don’t care about your feelings, statistics show a significant larger number of rape in those cultures, comparing to western countries