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Racist thugs spat on four-year-old girl and beat up her mother in a sickening attack in her corner shop
by Leon Watson


Racist thugs spat on a four-year-old girl and brutally beat her mother in a
sickening attack.

Saly Chowdhury was left with a black eye and facial injuries after two men and a woman tried to steal two boxes of crisps from her shop, the Hendon Valley Stores in Sunderland.

The incident took place on last Friday at 4.40pm when the mother-of-four ran out of the shop after the thieves and accidentally locked herself outside.

When the trio started hurling racist abuse at her, she fled to her home nearby.

But they caught up with her and spat on her four-year-old daughter Ousha, shoved her seven-year-old daughter against the wall and thumped her 13-year-old daughter in the face.

The gang then turned their attentions to Saly, 31, punching her in the face, tearing out chunks of her hair and choking her with her scarf.

Saly, who also has a nine-year-old daughter, managed to free herself and get herself and her children inside to safety.

And just 12 hours later the mum-of-four was back behind the shop counter, determined not to let the vicious thugs get the better of her.

Saly, who refuses to sell alcohol in her store, said: ‘I had to close my shop on Friday and I lost business. ‘I’m not letting them do that to me again. It was scary and it’s worrying going back to work but there is no need for this behaviour. ‘I have many great customers who know me and I know them. If this is all about stealing, then please speak to me first and we can see if something can be sorted out.

‘The problem of people coming in here and stealing things is getting worse and worse.’

Northumbria Police yesterday said the incident ‘simply won’t be tolerated’.

An investigation into the attack has been launched and is being treated as racially aggravated.

Sergeant Tom Connor, who covers the area, said: ‘This type of behaviour is despicable.’

Angry Moroccans are demanding a change to the country's strict Islamic penal code after a 16-year-old girl killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist.
An online petition, a Facebook page and countless tweets expressed horror over the suicide of Amina Filali, who swallowed rat poison on Saturday in protest at her marriage to the man who raped her a year earlier.
Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code allows for the 'kidnapper' of a minor to marry his victim to escape prosecution, and it has been used to justify a traditional practice of making a rapist marry his victim to preserve the honour of the woman's family

'It is unfortunately a recurring phenomenon,' she said.'We have been asking for years for the cancellation of Article 475 of the penal code which allows the rapist to escape justice.'
The victim's father said in an interview with an online Moroccan newspaper that it was the court officials who suggested from the beginning the marriage option when they reported the rape.
'The prosecutor advised

The incident throws more light on the way women are treated in Islamic countries

shafique wrote:Your denials fool no one

shafique wrote:It's a shame more of your 'friends' don't share her work ethic

shafique wrote:Why can't you bring yourself to condemn the racist thugs explicitly?

herve wrote:what is the basis for this claim?

herve wrote:I do not see in the article how and why it is a "racist" attack, what is the basis for this claim?

Let s see if he explains how this attack was "racist".

Racist Thugs...

When the trio started hurling racist abuse at her, she fled to her home nearby.

But they caught up with her and spat on her four-year-old daughter Ousha, shoved her seven-year-old daughter against the wall and thumped her 13-year-old daughter in the face.
...
Northumbria Police yesterday said the incident ‘simply won’t be tolerated’.

An investigation into the attack has been launched and is being treated as racially aggravated.

shafique wrote:I thought I was quite polite about herves massive failure in comprehension - asking what it is about the article which starts with 'Racist Thugs' makes it about a racist attack. His question spoke volumes about his powers of observation

shafique wrote:I thought I was quite polite about herves massive failure in comprehension - asking what it is about the article which starts with 'Racist Thugs' makes it about a racist attack. His question spoke volumes about his powers of observation!

But I note, we have yet another of your posts devoted entirely to me

Bora Bora wrote:

shafique wrote:I thought I was quite polite about herves massive failure in comprehension - asking what it is about the article which starts with 'Racist Thugs' makes it about a racist attack. His question spoke volumes about his powers of observation

Failure of comprehension is due to the poor grammar and English skills of the person who wrote the article.

Minority women in Pakistan face harassment: Study

Around 74 percent of Pakistani women from minority communities -- Christians and Hindus -- were sexually harassed, while 43 percent faced religious discrimination at workplaces in 2010 and 2011, a study said.

Around 27 percent of minority women faced discrimination in admission to educational institutions and were forced to take Islamic studies for absence of any alternative subject, said National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) executive director Peter Jacob.

A study titled "Life on the Margins" conducted by the commission with rights activists, media and people from various walks of life has just been released.

The research, based on interviews with minority women, was led by Jennifer Jag Jivan and Jacob and assessed by three prominent minority women, Asiya Nasir, Ernestine C. Pinto and Pushpa Kumari.

Jacob said the study looked into social, political and economic conditions of minority women with a baseline survey conducted in 26 districts of Punjab and Sindh, the two provinces where 95 percent of minorities in the country lived.

As many as 1,000 Hindu and Christian women were interviewed.
The study looked into issues such as legal disparity, laws concerning minorities, religious and gender biases, forced conversions that affected everyday life of minority women.

During the study, it was found that only 47 percent of minority women were educated, lower than the national average -- 57 percent.

He said the living and economic conditions of women, assessed through income, savings, health and education placed minority women on the margins of social and economic development.

Though 55 percent of minority women saw the social environment as conducive to multi-religious living, around 62 percent of respondents were of the view that in the wake of a religious disturbance, a majority of people would not stand with them.
The study while noting the discrimination related to the Constitution of Pakistan, blasphemy laws and education policy, has recommended policy corrections and safeguarding women's rights.

herve wrote:BB , care to explain why the attack was racist, other than saying it is because it is in the title like the parrot al shafique? You are a moslem and wear the veil, would an attack on you be "racist" eventhough you are caucasian?

Bethsmum wrote:That must have been a quick dinner Big Mac and fries?

kanelli wrote:I really think Herve, BM, and EH have no idea how moronic they look with their comments in this thread.