‘Degenerate’ Imran Khan as soon as once more blames girls for sexual violence

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan lately held girls’s garments chargeable for the rising cases of sexual violence within the nation.
In an interview with ‘Axios on HBO’, the Pakistan PM mentioned: “If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on the men, unless they are robots. It’s just common sense.” He additional added, “This is cultural imperialism. Whatever is acceptable in our culture, must be accepted everywhere else. It’s not.”
Khan was defending his controversial remarks that he mentioned in April 2021.”…I mentioned the idea of ‘purdah’. Avoid temptation in society. We don’t have discos right here, we don’t have nightclubs. It is a totally completely different society lifestyle right here. So in case you elevate temptation in society to a degree — all these younger guys have nowhere to go — it has a consequence within the society,” Khan mentioned.
Social media customers and opposition leaders slam Pakistan PM Imran Khan for his misogynistic feedback
Khan’s misogynistic feedback sparked large on-line outrage, with opposition leaders and social media customers slamming the Pakistan Prime Minister for blaming girls’s dressing for the escalating sexual violence within the nation.
Reema Omer, a authorized skilled with the International Commission of Jurists, expressed her disappointment with Khan’s stance of victim-blaming in circumstances of sexual violence.
“Disappointing and frankly sickening to see PM Imran Khan repeat his victim-blaming regarding reasons for sexual violence in Pakistan,” she tweeted.
Disappointing and admittedly sickening to see PM Imran Khan repeat his sufferer blaming relating to causes for sexual violence in Pakistan Men aren’t “robots”, he says. If they see girls in skimpy garments, they’ll get “tempted” and a few will resort to rape Shameful!— Reema Omer (@reema_omer) June 20, 2021
Author Marvi Sirmed mentioned nothing that Pakistan PM Imran Khan speaks disappoints her anymore. She alleged that it’s worrisome that what Khan says has an impression on a lot of his younger followers.
Moreover, in case you insist on pondering in any other case, it’s “cultural imperialism” in PM @ImranIsmailPTI‘s view. Frankly, nothing that comes from him disappoints me anymore. But the truth that no matter he says impacts a lot of his younger followers in Pakistan, is worrisome. https://t.co/nZ7KqG2Ajn— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) June 21, 2021
A Twitter person mentioned Khan’s feedback on girls’c clothes chargeable for the sexual violence in opposition to them encourages extra incidents of assault and rape in opposition to girls.
I’ve seen that clip and admittedly talking Imran Khan’s stance on this problem is pathetic. Victim blaming is immediately encouraging extra r*pes within the society. I’m baffled !! https://t.co/ofqHp4Pn0e— Mateen Ul Waheed (@__mateen) June 21, 2021
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb known as Imran Khan a “sick, misogynistic, degenerate” as he lashed out on the Pakistani Prime Minister for his remarks on girls’s clothes. “The world got an insight into a mindset of a sick, misogynistic, degenerate & derelict IK. It is not women’s choices that lead to sexual assault rather the choices of men who choose to engage in this dispicable and vile crime,” Aurangzeb tweeted.
The world obtained an perception right into a mindset of a sick, misogynistic, degenerate & derelict IK. Its not girls’s decisions that result in sexual assault reasonably the alternatives of males who select to have interaction on this dispicable and vile CRIME 1/2 pic.twitter.com/lla3WnWFdx— Marriyum Aurangzeb (@Marriyum_A) June 21, 2021
“Maybe the misogynist, degenerate can defend Paedophiles and murderers, as he advocates for rapist, after all, men cannot be expected to control temptation. Just FYI Mr degenerate, self-control is a little thing upon which Allah places a great premium,” she added.
The explanation for sexual violence in Pakistan is due to obscenity, a western import: Pak PM Imran Khan in April interview
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s feedback on sexual violence got here two months after he had made comparable feedback, alleging that sexual violence was a product of ‘obscenity,’ which he described as a Western import. During the tv interview, Khan suggested girls to cowl as much as forestall temptation. “This entire concept of purdah is to avoid temptation. Not everyone has the willpower to avoid it,” he mentioned.
In April 2021, throughout a query and reply session with the general public, Khan chalked up the rise in sexual violence in Pakistan, significantly in opposition to youngsters, to “fahashi” (vulgarity).
He concluded by reiterating that incidences of rape and sexual violence are “spreading like cancer” in society. Official statistics in Pakistan have revealed that no less than 11 rape incidents are reported within the nation on daily basis, with over 22,000 circumstances reported to the police within the final six years.