Any nation that pretends to multiculturalism actually has to do this. Not only grant him an appeal, but they should force the rape victim to ‘marry’ him and then let him kill her. After all, that is the Afghan tradition and Islamic law. Multiculturalism is an oxymoron. It simply cannot be. There cannot be more than one set of legal principles operating in the same area. The government of Australia is now asking a rape victim to accept no justice because her rapist was from a culture where rape of women is the norm.
In more rational periods of human history this would have been grounds for serious actions against a democratic government. It would have been headline news for weeks or even months in say, the 1960s and would have been discussed in the bars and schools of the free world by all. After all, one can’t help but notice that for us regular civilized folk, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” while for an Afghan, “an unclear concept of what constitutes consent” (ibid) is grounds for an appeal.
As it is, likely the vast majority of people will never even hear about this.
News.com.Au
AN Afghan refugee who argued cultural differences led him to rape a drunken girl has won a bid to appeal against a 14-year jail term.
Esmatullah Sharifi, 31, was given a total 11-year non-parole term for two rapes committed within days of each other in December 2008.
He pleaded guilty at separate hearings to raping a teen on December 19 and a woman, 25, on Christmas Eve. He’s been granted leave to appeal against the sentence for raping the teen.
A date is yet to be set.
Granting leave to appeal, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Redlich said: “The sentencing judge rejected any suggestion (Sharifi) didn’t have a clear concept of consent in sexual relations. His Honour concluded that the protection of the community was the principal purpose for which the sentence was imposed.”
But he said the 18-year-old victim had found there were “aspects of his conduct that were strange” because Sharifi treated her like a “willing participant”.
He noted that Sharifi, who came to Australia on a temporary protection visa in 2001, also drove her home.
“It proves, in my view, an adequate basis for most grounds of appeal that (Sharifi) wishes to pursue,” the judge said.
In April last year, a psychologist told the County Court that Sharifi had “an unclear concept of what constitutes consent in sexual relationships” in Australia.
This is the logical end for multiculturalism, hopefully it will lead to the actual end of multiculturalism.