Not this namby-pamby “assault” euphemism that it’s called today? Perhaps the reason sentences are so light is because we stopped using the offensive language to describe the heinous crimes.

I am taking this Toronto Star article and reprinting in full, to allow you to see just how much dancing around the facts is done to protect the easily offended, and how it ends up skewing the verdict and sentencing:

A young Mississauga man convicted yesterday of sexual assault disgraced himself and his family when he used his 16-year-old victim as his “personal plaything,” a judge said yesterday.

But by pleading guilty, Barton Reeder saved the girl from the pain of having to testify at a trial, Justice James Keaney said.

“I’m satisfied this was a one-time error in judgment, albeit of staggering proportions,” Keaney told Reeder, 19, before sentencing him in a Brampton courtroom to a 21-month conditional sentence, including house arrest for the first year.

Reeder pleaded guilty to one count of participating in a sexual assault with Philip Perry, also 19, an offence often described by police as a gang assault, in connection to an incident that occurred in the early hours of Feb. 25, 2007, at a Mississauga home.

Perry pleaded guilty to the same offence last month and received the same sentence.

Two youths remain before the court and appear headed for trial next year in connection with the case that attracted intense media and Facebook coverage when the arrests occurred.

The specific roles of the two convicted men — and the alleged participation by the youths – remain under a publication ban until evidence is presented at the youths’ trials.

Reeder, now attending college, refused to say anything before being sentenced.

But Keaney warned him he would be imprisoned if he broke any of the numerous court-ordered conditions imposed on him as well as on Perry previously.

The youths were 17 at the time of the incident. Their identities as well as the name of the victim remain protected by Canada’s youth laws along with any information that could lead to their identities.

Crown prosecutor Carrie Stoddart and Reeder’s lawyer Barry Fox yesterday submitted a joint submission on sentencing, which Keaney accepted.

At the time of the arrests, Peel police alleged the rape of the young girl had been videotaped on a cellphone and then shown to various students in the cafeteria of the victim’s high school.

Police also previously revealed that alcohol was involved and that the victim was unconscious and never knew she’d been sexually assaulted until the video of the incident surfaced at the school.

Following the first year of house arrest, Reeder will be under a strict 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for the remaining nine months.

He can leave home for one hour, three times each week for physical activity and three hours each weekend for personal shopping.

He can also leave for employment, school and health reasons.

He must also attend counselling and perform 100 hours of community service.

Perry is attending university so his house arrest is served in his dormitory, court previously heard.

Both were ordered to submit DNA samples. Their names have been put on Ontario’s sexual assault registry.

Disgusting. The gang-RAPE of a young girl is euphemized beyond recognition, till it sounds as if she merely had her pigtails pulled in the schoolyard. Her RAPE is videotaped and broadcast, further humiliating her. And her RAPISTS get house arrest and counseling? Heck, why don’t they just get a slap on the back from the boys club, and a cool “Atta boy!”?

Justice James Keaney must not have children, or must be a bit of a sadist himself, to take this so lightly. A “one-time error in judgment”?? A girl was gang-RAPED! He is neither “Honourable” nor “Just” for these actions he has taken in punishing RAPISTS. And for the Crown to be party to this sentencing request means that this girl never had anyone on her side.

The law is an ass if we have asses practicing it. Whatever happened to lynchings, anyway?

A blond girl is raped by two North Africans in a busy railway station. Nobody stops to help. Nobody. Disgusting.

The article gets translated by Google, so please be kind with the language mish-mash.

It was June 12. “My daughter was returning from Waterloo. It was 21 h. At its exit from the train, she headed to the Bancontact.” A place of passage. Yet this is where the tragedy took place.

“In the midst of a station. But how is this possible?,” The father of Lola, 21 years. “Two men have accused him [sic] of not wearing the veil. My daughter is pretty. She is blonde with blue eyes.”

“One of the assailants took out a knife. My daughter was plated against the wall of Bancontact. Knife to her throat, one of the boys raped her. The other watched.”

The rape ended, the attackers left, quiet. “They were two North Africans. They did not even have hoods. And do not tell me that I am racist because I give you their origin! My daughter was raped because she was not wearing a veil. That it’s reality! ”

Last May 25, a group of three Muslims allegedly raped a girl with psychological problems in Lahore. At first the family, who are Christian, did not want to file charges because of the threats and pressure against them; later, thanks in part to support received from two Christian lawyers, they presented themselves to the authorities, and the three suspects were arrested.

Khalil Tahir, a Christian lawyer and president of the Adal Trust - an NGO that offers free legal assistance to the poor - will represent Elishba, 12 years old and affected by mental disturbances, during the trial: “The little girl”, the lawyer tells AsiaNews, “comes from a very poor Christian family: they live in a rented home, and the father is a manual labourer.

Goats, sheep, little girls… these big manly Muslim men will go after anyone or anything they think won’t raise a fuss. Such kindness. Such compassion.

And in other Religion of Peace™ news, the “Youths” are at it again.

Lille - Dozens of French youths clashed with police in a town in northeast France overnight, burning cars during a rampage triggered by the killing of a 22-year-old man, an official said on Sunday.

Erm, but the man wasn’t killed by the cops. He was murdered. But hey, any excuse for a riot, right?

The violence started around 22:00 (20:00 GMT) after the 22-year-old man was gunned down in Vitry-le-Francois. A suspect was arrested overnight.

“This started out as a murderous settling of scores,” said Nicolas Comte of the SGP-FO police union.

“But quickly this tragic event prompted a violent group to attack police with baseball bats and molotov cocktails as young bystanders watched passively, like spectators to the ‘riot show’,” said Comte.

Update: From the comments, we have another slavering drone of Islam:

In this article, you display a very cavalier misunderstanding of and insensitivity towards Islamic teachings.

In fact, a Muslim CANNOT rape a non-Muslim unless she has paid the Jizya, since un-submissive non-Muslims are haaram, filthy, and all they are and have belongs to the Mohamaddan.

Therefore, unless you first determine whether this Kaffi has paid her protection tax or not, you can’t speak about “rape”.

In the event that she IS submissive, then we would need 4 witnesses (4 male, 8 female, or a proportionate combination) to determine whether she had consented or not.

As The Prophet (P. Be Upon Him) has said, “A virgin’s consent is indicated by her silence,” if she did not fight these men to the death, we can determine that she was begging for it.

And as for her age, the Prophet (P. Be Upon Him) Himself blessed a 6-year-old Aisha with matrimony, and filled her with the Mighty Man-Root of Allah when she reached the mature age of 9. It is not clear whether or not the little minx tempted and seduced The Perfect Man.

Having read this clarification, I trust you will concede that Islam provides the perfect, most humane, system of Law, and Mohammad (P etc etc) raised women higher than men, and honoured them even though they are dirty and must be kept from manly gaze and are only worth half of a man.

Good God. There’s no hope for these people, is there?

Naqabi Woman: “One eyed hooked Imam Hamza Mesri said muslims can kill British infidels and have sex with their wives and daughters, Do you agree with him?”

Imam: “It is not what Imam Hamza said nor is there a question of my agreeing with him or not. It is in Quran thus those are Allah’s orders.”

N.W.: “But why would Allah tell muslims to kill and rape innocent non muslims?”

Imam: “Because Non-muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet. If you don’t believe me, here is the legal authority, the top muslim lawyer of Britain, Anjem Choudhary.”

N.W. “ But our Prophet was sent as a mercy for all the humanity; he never hurt any body in his life”

Imam: “Yes he never hurt a muslim in his life. But Allah said non-muslim are lowest beasts and worst creatures in ayas 8.22,8.55,95.5 and 98.6 and muslim are ordered to kill them.”

N.W.:” But did prophet approve of killing them and raping their wives?”

Imam: “Yes he did. He not only approved of such acts, he and his sahabas practiced it regularly under Allah’s orders. He was helpless in it… If you don’t believe me , you have to believe sahih hadiths. I will quote you two hadiths about his typical day after a raid. These hadiths are about the raid on jewish village Khaibar whose chief was Kinana who had gorgeous 17 year old wife Safia. Prophet tortured and beheaded Kinana in front of Safia and raped her all night afterwards.

And all that time Jesus wasted healing the sick - he could have been getting hot teenage poontang.

I have said before that Islam should be declassified as a religion and classed as a cult instead. It is a cult of sex and death, going back to its inception. How anyone can read peace into this is beyond me.

Reaching out to spread the word of the Holy Koran…

A young Christian woman was kidnapped, raped and forced to convert to Islam by a Muslim man in Faisalabad, Khalil Tahir, chairman of “Adal Trust,” a free legal aid organisation that helps minorities, told AsiaNews.

According to early reports, 18-year-old Razia went to visit her aunt on October 21 but never came home. Her parents went out looking for her but to no avail. They also contacted a Muslim man, Sajid, who had harassed her in the past, but he denied any knowledge of her whereabouts.

Razia did eventually make it home on October 31 in a state of shock. She told her parents that Sajid had abducted her, repeatedly raped her and forced her to convert to Islam. She is currently under medical care.

“The girl’s father went to the police to file a complaint on the evening of Razia’s return, but they were reluctant to register the case fearing that it might get out of proportion because of its religious element,” Khalil Tahir told AsiaNews.

I wonder if this means that, now that she’s a Muslim, will she be stoned to death for extramarital sex?

May Dog forgive me.

Let me be clear: I think dog fighting is reprehensible, and that in a mob-justice system, Michael Vick would be disemboweled. But to my knowledge, last time I looked we didn’t have a vigilante justice system. And when it comes to the “beautiful people”, like rock stars, actors, socialites and sports icons, we barely have any type of justice at all.

Michael Vick endangered the lives of dogs - man’s best friend. We get all warm and squishy when we think of our childhood pal Fido or Rover (or in my case, Valentine). And our anger at a “monster” like Vick becomes palpable.

Vick has been suspended indefinitely from the Atlanta Falcons, disgraced. Dog lovers and animal rights groups would like to kill him. His co-defendants copped a plea, and he will now plead guilty himself. And he’d better hope the judge doesn’t have a dog.

Am I the only one who thinks this “kill Vick” mentality is a little overblown? Where were these activists and outraged do-gooders when Kobe Bryant was on trial for rape? Or when Mike Tyson was beating the snot out of Robin Givens or chewing on Hollyfield’s ear? Heck, Barry Bonds probably didn’t even know he was in the ballpark when he hit his history-making homer. What makes the pit bulls more important than a rape victim? Have we really sunk so low that we place the lives of dogs before the lives of humans?

I’m not saying - like some celebrities in past days have done - that Vick should get away with what he has done. I’m just suggesting that perhaps we should try to have a little perspective. We cry rivers of grief when gang-banging rappers are shot in the street - we never stop to ask what they did to deserve it. Why are we so quick to condemn Vick?

Cut the guy a little slack - he wasn’t a drug pusher, he didn’t rape or kill anyone. He hurt and killed some dogs. Disgusting and criminal? Yes. Worth all this misplaced fury? No way.