No it's not. If you try to rape someone's child who the parent actually cares for, you will most likely get shot with a double barrel and no one will ever hear from this person again and the chief of police will get paid a small fee to keep his mouth shut.
I mean most of the girl's parents in this particular scandal were completely absent. No father whatsoever so you need to compare like for like here. Yes poor people/children without families get abused in poor countries like India/Pakistan. The girls had no families, no family structure, were easily enticed to drugs, etc.
You saying "Pakistan child abuse is common" makes it sound as if no parent in Pakistan gives a crap about their own kids and just rents them out as prostitutes. A good parent is a good parent regardless of where they come from, but it's certainly not as normalised as you make it sound.
Just because it's common doesn't mean it's got the green light from parents, and so doesn't really indicate if they are good or bad.
Here's an article which highlights the issue -
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....00-child-abuse-talk-still-a-taboo-in-pakistan
On a related point I did say that we ought to look at improving the situation that vulnerable children are in to make them less vulnerable and protected one way or another from abusers but that was interpreted as victim blaming...
The problem is that in the middle-east culture and religion are so intertwined it's difficult to separate the two, even for those in the middle-east. For example the full face veil, i bet a big section of middle-east men think it's religious when it's not
Technically there is some basis for the veil in jurisprudence but yes you're right although I was referring to a specific issue (i.e.grooming) and doesn't concern the Middle East as such.
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