“The judge accepted that seeing girls in bikinis is different to the environment in which he grew up.”

The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.

To what extent will Australian authorities be willing to set aside Australian law for these “cultural differences”? At what point is an immigrant expected to know and respect the laws and mores of his new country? Or would that be “Islamophobic”?

“The teenager was initially charged as an adult because he had no birth records from Afghanistan.”

If there are no birth records from Afghanistan, how do they know now that he is a minor?

“Teenager avoids jail for sex attacks due to ‘cultural differences,'” Yahoo7 News, April 26, 2017:

A teenager who immigrated to Australia from Afghanistan has escaped jail after a series of sex attacks because he grew up in a different culture. The court heard the teenager, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to assaulting eight women and girls on a Surfers Paradise beach in January 2016. The judge accepted that seeing girls in bikinis is different to the environment in which he grew up….

“Teen who groped Surfers Paradise swimmers avoids jail,” by Tom Forbes, ABC.net.au, April 25, 2017: