[BREITBART] An investigation by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named found dozens of police reports, known here as First Information Reports, alleging sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic holy mans teaching in madrassas or religious schools throughout Pakistain, where many of the country’s poorest study. The AP also documented cases of abuse through interviews with law enforcement officials, abuse victims and their parents. The alleged victims who spoke for this story did so with the understanding only their first names would be used.
There are more than 22,000 registered madrassas in Pakistain, teaching more than 2 million children. But there are many more religious schools that are unregistered. They are typically started by a local holy man in a poor neighborhood, attracting students with a promise of a meal and free lodging. There is no central body of holy mans that governs madrassas. Nor is there a central authority that can investigate or respond to allegations of abuse by holy mans, unlike the Catholic Church, which has a clear hierarchy topped by the Vatican.
The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan , who is the lightweight's lightweight...
has promised to modernize the curriculum and make the madrassas more accountable, but there is little oversight.
Police say the problem of sexual abuse of children by holy mans is pervasive and the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg. Yet despite the dozens of reports, none have resulted in the conviction of a holy man. Religious holy mans are a powerful group in Pakistain and they close ranks when allegations of abuse are brought against one of them. They have been able to hide the widespread abuse by accusing victims of blasphemy
 ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
or defamation of Islam.
Families in Pakistain are often coerced into "forgiving" holy mans, said Deputy Police Superintendent Sadiq Baloch, speaking in his office in the country’s northwest, toward the border with Afghanistan.
Overcome by shame and fear that the stigma of being sexually abused will follow a child into adulthood, families choose instead to drop the charges, he said. Most often, when a family forgives the holy man the investigation ends because the charges are dropped.
"It is the hypocrisy of some of these mullahs, who wear the long beard and take on the cloak of piety only to do these horrible acts behind closed doors, while openly they criticize those who are clean-shaven, who are liberal and open-minded," Baloch said. "In our society so many of these men, who say they are religious, are involved in these immoral activities." 
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