Tel-Chai Nation

There's an important point to made about this case of an alleged refugee from the Taliban in Afghanistan who raped a woman in Australia and tried to use his background as an excuse (H/T: Jihad Watch):

An Afghan man who fled from the Taliban to begin a new life in Australia will spend the next 14 years behind bars after a judge rejected his claim that cultural differences had led to him raping a woman.


Esmatullah Sharifi, 30, was told by Judge Mark Dean in Melbourne that his background as a traumatised Muslim refugee was no excuse for the rape of a drunken and vulnerable teenager.

The judge noted that a psychologist had told the Victoria County Court in Melbourne that Sharifi, who arrived in Australia in 2001, had an 'unclear concept of what constitutes consent in sexual relationships'.

Rejecting that argument, the judge said Sharifi's background and flight from the Taliban was not an excuse for violence, telling the Afghan: 'You well knew the victim was not consenting to the act of sexual penetration you performed.'

It was not the first time that Sharifi had appeared in court on a rape charge - in 2009 he was jailed for a minimum of seven years for the abduction and sexual assault of a woman on Christmas Eve, 2008 - five days after he had raped the teenager.

Already serving seven years imprisonment for that offence, he was now charged with raping the 18-year-old who he had found alone, intoxicated and sitting on the pavement near a nightclub after she had had a disagreement with her friends.

Sharifi, the judge said, had driven from his home that night in December looking for a victim.

He sat down beside the teenager, began talking to her and offered to drive her to a hotel where her friends had moved on to.

But when he drove off in a different direction, the young woman became concerned and texted her friends - until Sharifi took her phone and drove to a dark street.

The teenager cried and asked if he planned to kill her. He replied by putting his hand around her neck and forcing her to remove her clothes before raping her.

The point made by the judge can also be made about the case of Roman Polanski and his violation of a 13-year-old girl in 1977; as many know, he was a Holocaust survivor, but that's absolutely no excuse whatsoever for violating an innocent and defenseless girl. May this vulgar, disgusting man from Afghanistan now spend time behind bars, and afterwards, if they're wise, they'll deport him back to join the Taliban predators he supposedly was trying to flee from.

More on this at The Jawa Report.

Labels: Afghanistan, Australia, islam, misogyny