European migrant crimes

The quote popularly attributed to Italian Saint Aurelius Ambrose reads, “When in Rome, live as the Romans do.” It is a saying lost upon many of the Pakistanis who entered Europe on humanitarian grounds along with the millions of migrants from Syria, Iraq, etc. Now, adding to the embarrassment of Pakistanis globally, they have committed those heinous crimes abroad, which are, perhaps, all too easy to get away with in their home country. In one story coming out of a camp in Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, four Pakistani boys, aged between 16 and 17, were arrested on allegations of rape of another Pakistani boy. In a second news story, a Pakistani man is suspected to have raped the eight-year-old daughter of an Iraqi man in Berlin. The altercation in this story resulted in the Iraqi father being shot dead by policemen, who were trying to stop him from attacking the alleged suspect with a knife. It seems the malice and propensities towards vigilante-style justice from this part of the world, the region spanning Pakistan and Iraq, have officially been exported to Europe, with a highly advanced system of law and justice that migrants have failed to follow.

If the allegations against the young Pakistani men are true, law-enforcement agencies in all nations welcoming refugees from this part of the world must be circumspect about such crimes happening in the coming months and years. They will have to remain on task to straighten out the anarchic and medieval mindsets of emigrants from this region, who had maybe become too accustomed to war, violence, depraved behaviours, and taking the law into one’s own hands. Perhaps they are to blame for their immoral mentalities, or perhaps, they are not since their home countries did not instill in them high moral standards or values of freedom and respect for all living beings. Notwithstanding, authorities should continue carrying out their due processes of law and take these men to task, as they are accountable for their actions no matter where the radar might reflect their geographical presence.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2016.

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