RAPE, MURDER AND MAYHEM.

The gang-rape and murder of 2 teenage girls in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is the latest in a long line of bestial acts by people who can barely be called human. It comes hot on the heels of the stoning to death of a woman outside a court house in Lahore and the condemning to death of a pregnant woman for daring to become a Christian, supposedly having been born a Muslim, in Sudan.

That these events have happened is bad enough but it seems that neither the Indian nor Pakistani authorities did anything to intervene in those which occurred on their soil while the Sudanese case was an act was actually committed by state authorities. It is also the case that these are far from being isolated instances of primitive brutality, with hundreds, if not thousands, of so-called 'honour killings' being carried out every year, the rape of young girls in India being so common as to be almost a national sport and the increasing lunacy of Islamic courts in various countries surely giving rise to the greatest concern throughout the civilized world. 

Many will claim that the events on the sub-continent are not common, but they are deluded. These events are part of the normal lives of millions of people who live in genuine poverty and squalor, are uneducated and locked into societies in which class and religion is all that matters. Worryingly, such cases now also occur with increasing frequency in our own country as immigrants not only bring themselves here but also import their own ways and customs. More and more we will be pressed to allow the introduction of elements of 'Sharia' law, and more and more we will find that parts of our society simply do not share our traditional values.

The events in India, Pakistan and Sudan are the tip of a medieval iceberg. These countries still exist in a primitive, almost Stonehenge, fashion and many of their people know no better. How they can be considered to be the same as the peoples of the civilized western world defeats me; the same species, buy far from the same.