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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 229 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It also led to mass protests across Pakistan, after a policeman questioned why the woman had been out late on her own.

The day after the attack, a senior police official in Lahore, Umer Sheikh, appeared in front of the media and implied the woman was partly to blame.

He questioned why she had not taken a busier road, given that she was alone with her young children.

Man what a terrible take. Her car broke down, she had the doors locked, and they broke the windows and dragged her out before raping her at gunpoint. She was also a foreign tourist, and can't be expected to know all the good/bad parts of town imo.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 88 points 6 days ago

And that's why all those victim blamers need to punished.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

why do tourist still go to these places?

like a brown person going to America in 2026

like i’m not blaming her and fuck that cop but why would you risk going there, minorities coming for the world cup are crazy given current america

or people that visit north korea

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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 108 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Pakistan executes rapists, we elect them.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (10 children)

One instance doesn't mean Pakistan is for women. This incident happened in 2020. It's just because of the protests that led to the arrests.

Pakistanis will kill a woman for being a Hindu. It's a one religion state. Pakistan also sponsors terrorism and extreme Jihadists who believe women must wear burkhas all the time. It is a failed state that borrows money from the west just to keep itself floating and sponsor terrorism.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

They executed a Christian dude for not giving a guy a discount for being a muslim. Apparently during the argument, he committed "blasphemy"

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"We" do not as I am not from the US, nor are many other lemmings.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 78 points 6 days ago (10 children)

The site is called Daily Rag for a reason. They've always been running sensationalist and racist stories since its inception:

“There landed yesterday at Southampton from the transport Cheshire over 600 so-called refugees, their passages having been paid out of the Lord Mayor’s Fund. . .There was scarce a hundred of them that had, by right, deserved such help, and these were the Englishmen of the party. The rest were Jews. . .They fought and jostled for the foremost places at the gangways. . .When the Relief Committee passed by they hid their gold and fawned and whined, and, in broken English, asked for money for their train fare.” Daily Mail, February 3, 1900

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/08/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices

I can't find the article, but i remember seeing an anti-refugee headline from them at the outbreak of the Second World War.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah.

The relentless upvoting of tabloids may be my biggest issue with Lemmy. Information hygiene here is terrible, and the users don’t seem to care.

One time, calling this out, the OP of a news post responded that they didn’t care an article was fake. It was upvoted to the front page and never got removed.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

After their enthusiastic support for Mosley and Hitler, they've been more commonly called the Daily Heil.

Too bad Churchill didn't get his way with trying its owner Rothermere for treason and hanging him.

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Maybe headlines like this stick in my head, but it seems there's a rather large rape problem in Pakistan and India.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

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

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.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

The Daily Heil is using this to feed Farage's "all immigrants are rapists" lie.

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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Tge entire Indian subcontinent is unsafe for women w/o a good justice system. Marital rape is still legal in India.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Daily Mail? If there's no better source, it didn't happen to me.

[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 75 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

BBC good enough?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56472645

The BBC article is from 2021, when the original verdict was made. The Daily Mail update here is just saying that the appeal failed and the death sentence is confirmed.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

eww, daily mail.

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