MUSLIM RAPE
Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway - Authorities Look the Other Way
posted by Fjordman
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Numbers released in January 2005 indicate a
sharp rise in the number of rape charges in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city:
Thomas Anderberg, responsible for statistics at the Malmö Police, says there
was a doubling of the number of reported rapes by ambush in 2004, following what
was already a decade of steadily increasing numbers of sexual crimes. - I think
that’s great news, says Anna Gustafsson, head of the Domestic Violence Unit at
the Malmö Police. She suggests that the increase is due to the fact that women
who otherwise wouldn’t press charges for rape now choose to contact the police.
In other words, Gustafsson claims that we are dealing with a “technical”
increase, not a real one. However, national statistics reveal that reported
rapes against children have almost doubled in Sweden during the past ten years:
According to Swedish Radio on Tuesday, statistics from Sweden’s National
Council for Crime Prevention show that the number of reported rapes against
children is on the rise. The figures have nearly doubled in the last ten years:
467 rapes against children under the age of 15 were reported in 2004 compared
with 258 in 1995. Legal proceedings continue this week in a case involving a 13
year old girl from Motala who was said to have been subjected to a group rape by
four men. (Note: These four men were Kurdish Muslims, who raped the girl for
hours and even took photos of doing so)
The number of rape charges per capita in Malmö is 5 – 6 times that of
Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a larger city, but the percentage of
immigrants is much lower. And it’s not just the rape statistics that reveal a
scary increase in Malmö or Sweden. Virtually every kind of violent crime is on
the rise. Robberies have increased with 50 % in Malmö only during the fall of
2004. Threats against witnesses in Swedish court cases have quadrupled between
2000 and 2003. During the past few decades, massive immigration has changed the
face of Sweden’s major cities, as well as challenged the viability of the
welfare state. In 1970 Sweden had the fourth highest GDP per capita among
developed countries with income about 6% above the OECD average. By 1997 it was
at fifteenth place with an average GDP per capita 14% below average. Malmö has a
heavy concentration of Muslim immigrants in particular. According to some
estimates, it will be a Muslim majority city in no more then 10 years. Crime is
rampant in the growing ghettos:
Becirov runs the Islamic Center of Malmö, on the outskirts of Sweden's
third-largest city. Some immigrant neighborhoods in the city have (official)
unemployment rates exceeding 50 percent. Swedish authorities have failed to lift
up the area, and seem to be giving the Islamic Center of Malmö a great deal of
leeway in attempting to do so. An article that appeared in 2003 noted that "a
few" of the 6-to 10-year-old girls were wearing headscarves. On a visit in
January 2005, fully 80 percent were covered in class--only a handful were not.
In a fit of absent-mindedness, Sweden has suddenly become as heavily populated
by minorities as any country in Europe. The percentage of foreign-born is
roughly equivalent to the highest percentage of immigrants the United States
ever had in its history (on the eve of World War I). Rosengård appears to be
all-immigrant. The public schools have virtually no ethnically Swedish children.
There are stories--familiar in other parts of Europe where immigrants from the
Muslim world have recently settled--of students harassing Jewish teachers and
defacing textbooks that treat Jewish themes. Crime is high.
Is it unfair and “racist” to suggest a link between the influx of Muslim
immigrants and the growing number of rapes? Not if we compare with the situation
in neighboring Denmark, where this trend has been evident for years:
Criminologist: immigrants are rape champions
If one leading expert is to be believed, the sharp rise in the number of
rapes in this over the last 5 years is largely attributable to a group of
unemployed and alienated immigrants. 'Over the last 5-10 years there has an
increasing tendency to marginalise and alienate immigrants,' says Professor
Flemming Balvig, a criminologist at Copenhagen University. 'As a result, many
second generation immigrants have reacted against this through various types of
criminal activity, including rape.'
Muslim rape concern
Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all
rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading
Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing
problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases
against young Danish girls.
As Robert Spencer has demonstrated, rape can indeed be linked to Islamic
teachings of Jihad, and even to the example of Muhammad himself, his Sunna.
Above all, it is connected to Islamic notions of the role of women in society,
and their behaviour in the public sphere. An Islamic Mufti in Copenhagen sparked
a political outcry after publicly declaring that women who refuse to wear
headscarves are "asking for rape." Apparently, he isn’t the only Muslim in
Europe to think this way:
The German journalist Udo Ulfkotte told in a recent interview that in
Holland, you can now see examples of young, unveiled Moroccan women with a
so-called "smiley". It means that the girl gets one side of her face cut up from
mouth to ear, serving as a warning to other Muslim girls who should refuse to
wear the veil. In the Muslim suburb of Courneuve, France, 77 per cent of the
veiled women carry veils reportedly because of fear of being harassed or
molested by Islamic moral patrols.
Hijab, the Islamic veil, is thus not ”just a piece of cloth”. It serves as a
demarcation line between proper, submissive Muslim women and whores, un-Islamic
women who deserve no respect and are asking for rape. The veil should more
properly be viewed as the uniform of a Totalitarian movement, and a signal to
attack those outside the movement. Judged in the light of the Mufti who said
that women who don’t wear it are asking for rape, how on earth can the veil be
said to be about ”choice”? The freedom to choose not to be raped if you dress in
a normal fashion in your own country? Is that what freedom is about in Europe in
2005?
Even though Sweden, unlike Denmark, has almost no public debate about
immigration, frustration is very much present underneath the surface. 75 % of
Swedes “dislike” Muslims, more than in any other European country surveyed. Even
in Holland, which recently witnessed violent clashes with Muslims after the
murder of Islam-critic Theo van Gogh, the rate is lower than in Sweden. But
you’re not supposed to talk about such issues in Sweden. That would be “racist”:
Swedish laws prohibiting "hate speech" against racial minorities have been
vigorously enforced. There have, for example, been a number of gang-rapes of
Swedish women by Muslim immigrants. But Swedes must be careful what they say
about them. On May 25, neo-Nazi Bjorn Bjorkqvist was convicted and sentenced to
two months in prison for writing, "I don’t think I am alone in feeling sick when
reading about how Swedish girls are raped by immigrant hordes." ["Jag tror inte
jag är ensam om att må dåligt när jag läser om hur svenska tjejer har våldtagits
av invandrarhorder"]
All in all, we must say that there is strong circumstantial evidence indicating
that the rise in rape charges in the city of Malmö could very well be real,
which puts the Malmö Police assertion that this is “great news” in a rather
curious light. And the problem is not just limited to Sweden. It exists in
Norway, too:
Rape charges in the capital are spiraling upwards, 40 percent higher from
1999 to 2000 and up 13 percent so far this year. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen
of Oslo's Vice, Robbery and Violent crime division says the statistics are
surprising - the rising number of rape cases and the link to ethnic background
are both clear trends. But Larsen does not want to speculate on the reasons
behind the worrying developments. While 65 percent of those charged with rape
are classed as coming from a non-western background, this segment makes up only
14.3 percent of Oslo's population. Norwegian women were the victims in 80
percent of the cases, with 20 percent being women of foreign background.
Europe: Tolerating Intolerance
An incredibly revealing article that tells us all we need to know about the
multiculturalist fetish in Europe and some parts of North America, not to
mention the need for change within Islam. Apparently, the Norwegian newspaper
Dagbladet reported that 65 percent of rapes of Norwegian women were performed by
"non-Western" immigrants – a category that, in Norway, consists mostly of
Muslims. The article quoted a professor of social anthropology at the University
of Oslo (note: her name is Unni Wikan) as saying that "Norwegian women must take
their share of responsibility for these rapes" because Muslim men found their
manner of dress provocative. The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men
living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite:
"Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt
themselves to it."
In January 2005, Norwegian media reported that 2004 saw the highest number or
rape charges ever recorded in the capital city of Oslo. Strangely enough, there
was now no mentioning of how immigrants were grossly overrepresented in rape
cases. Why not? Unless there has been a sudden and unexplained drop in the
number of immigrants raping Norwegian women between 2001 and 2004, which is
unlikely, the statistics should be at least as staggering in 2005 as they were
before. If they are not revealed, it can only mean that “somebody” didn’t like
the numbers presented in 2001, and decided to bury them. That “somebody” must be
a person at the very top level in the police, maybe even in the government. If
so, that is disquieting. What is even more disquieting is that the media are
equally silent about this. How come no journalists are digging into the
material? And where are all the professional Feminists, in a Scandinavian nation
brimming with them?
The conclusion one may draw from this is that the authorities in Sweden and
Norway know about, or should know about, a disturbing amount of Muslim immigrant
rapes of native Scandinavian women, yet choose not to make this information
known to the public. Perhaps it would be just too politically incorrect to
reveal the negative effects of decades of naïve immigration policies. Perhaps it
would also destroy too many multicultural pipe dreams among the intellectual
elites, who have built their current careers and reputations on advocating how
culturally and economically enriching this new population mix would be. So in
the end, the safety of young Scandinavian women is sacrificed in order to keep
the glossy image of a multicultural society intact. It is a chilling
demonstration of an Eurabian continent that now appears to care more about not
upsetting relations with its immigrant population than about protecting its own
citizens.
Jihad and rape go hand in hand
By Robert Spencer
Saturday, September 25, 2004
WorldNetDaily.com
"Each of us was raped by between three and six men. … One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us."
This happened in Darfur, from which Sudanese military personnel actually airlifted women to Khartoum to serve as sex slaves.
Meanwhile, Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan, Russia, reports that "several 15-year-old girls were raped by terrorists." Her daughter "heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away."
This indicates that there are two things the massacre in Beslan has in common with the ongoing massacres in Darfur: both, no less than the 9-11 attacks, are examples of Islamic jihad terrorism, and both are characterized by rape.
The jihadist element has been made clear by the ringleaders of both atrocities. Sudanese Gen. Mohamed Beshir Suleiman recently declared: "The door of the jihad is still open and if it has been closed in the south it will be opened in Darfur." In southern Sudan, of course, the jihad was waged against Christians; in Darfur, the targets are black African Muslims whose Islamic bona fides don't satisfy Khartoum. As for Beslan, the Chechen jihadist leader Shamil Besayev warned the Russian government last winter: "Praise Allah, we are dreaming of dying in jihad, we are dreaming of dying on the way of Allah, so that we could earn paradise and mercy of Allah."
What does rape, then, have to do with these religious conflicts? Unfortunately, everything. The Islamic legal manual 'Umdat al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates: "When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled." Why? So that they are free to become the concubines of their captors. The Quran permits Muslim men to have intercourse with their wives and their slave girls: "Forbidden to you are ... married women, except those whom you own as slaves." (Sura 4:23-24)
After one successful battle, Muhammad tells his men, "Go and take any slave girl." He took one for himself also. After the notorious massacre of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe, he did it again. According to his earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad "went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for [the men of Banu Qurayza] and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches." After killing "600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900," the Prophet of Islam took one of the widows he had just made, Rayhana bint Amr, as another concubine.
Emerging victorious in another battle, according to a generally accepted Islamic tradition, Muhammad's men present him with an ethical question: "We took women captives, and we wanted to do 'azl [coitus interruptus] with them." Muhammad told them: "It is better that you should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of Resurrection." When Muhammad says "it is better that you should not do it," he's referring to coitus interruptus, not to raping their captives. He takes that for granted.
With Muhammad revered throughout the Islamic world as al-insan al-kamil, the perfect man, the rapes of Darfur and Beslan are not surprising. What is surprising, or ought to be, is the silence from the Islamic world about the rapes in both cases. Where are the reformers who will dare to say that Muhammad's example must not be followed in this case? Who will acknowledge that the world has developed principles of human rights that must supercede those forged in seventh-century Arabia? Where are the Western spokesmen who are not so in thrall to multiculturalism that they will condemn rape that is justified according to Islamic religious principles? The much-lionized "Muslim Martin Luther," Tariq Ramadan, now banned from entering the U.S., can so far only bring himself to call for a moratorium, not a definitive ban, on stoning for adulterers. Rape of captives? His sentiments are not known. Where is the Muslim Solzhenitsyn, who will speak honestly about the aspects of Islam that so desperately need reform and call for the overhaul that the system so obviously needs?
The whole world is waiting. But for the girls and women of Darfur and Beslan, it is already too late.
Gang rapist blames culture
By Kim Arlington
09dec05
A CONVICTED gang rapist has told a Sydney court
he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl because he thought she was promiscuous
and "had no right to say no".
The 27-year-old, identified only as MSK, said voices had commanded him to rape
the girl, but also blamed cultural differences for the attack.
MSK, convicted of raping two girls aged 13 and 14, faced sentencing submissions today before NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Hidden.
He is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in the gang rape of two more girls, aged 16 and 17.
All four attacks took place at the brothers' Ashfield home, in Sydney's inner-west, in June and July 2002.
The court was told the first rape, that of a 14-year-old girl known as T, took place four days after MSK arrived from Pakistan.
MSK took an oath on the Koran before telling the court his cultural background was partly to blame for his crimes.
T, who had visited his house with two female friends, was not wearing traditional Muslim dress, he said.
"She was not covering her face or wearing any headscarf," MSK said.
"Then she started drinking with us ... at one point she started touching my leg."
MSK agreed T had not consented to sex but said: "I go ahead with it because ... I believe that she was promiscuous".
"I believed at the time I committed this offence that she had no right to say no," he said.
"I believed I'm not doing anything wrong."
T had told the trial that before she was raped by MSK and his younger brother MAK, who also was convicted, she was a virgin and had never kissed a boy.
MSK said he believed that his 13-year-old victim, known as C, also was promiscuous.
Now 18, T shook her head as she listened from the public gallery, supported by C's mother.
MSK had visited Australia nine times, including a 10-month stint when he worked as a security guard, before his arrest.
He told the court he now had a "better idea and understanding of Australian culture" after being exposed to the country's media.
"I understand now that what I did at the time was wrong and (that) what I believed was wrong," he said.
MSK also said he was drunk at the time of the offences, and was not taking the anti-psychotic medication prescribed for him by his father, a doctor.
"I was not taking my medication so I was under the influence of voices," he said.
"I was commanded by voices to go ahead."
Crown prosecutor Ken McKay told Justice Hidden that MSK's explanation for the offences kept changing.
"One minute it's the voices, the next minute it's a cultural issue," he said.
Mr McKay said the question of mental illness was raised only this year when MSK's applications to adjourn his trial were refused, but a jury found him fit to be tried.
MSK apologised to his victims for the first time today, but interrupted his apology to tell T: "Don't shake your head - I'm telling you something."
Outside court, T rejected his apology.
"It wasn't a sincere apology. I don't accept it at all," she said.
MSK will be sentenced next year.
Muslim Rape Wave in Sweden
By
Fjordman
December 15, 2005
Swedish girls Malin and Amanda were
on their way to a party on New Year's Eve when they were assaulted, raped and
beaten half to death by four
Somali immigrants. Sweden's largest newspaper has presented the perpetrators as
"two men from Sweden, one from Finland and one from Somalia", a testimony as to
how bad the
informal censorship is in
stories related to immigration in Sweden. Similar incidents are reported with
shocking frequency, to the point
where some observers fear that
law and order is completely breaking down in the
country. The number of
rape charges in Sweden has
tripled in just above
twenty years. Rape cases
involving children under the age of 15 are six - 6 - times as common today as
they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime
have rapidly increased, too.
Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas.
According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four
times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born
in Sweden. Resident aliens from
Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics,
almost half of
all perpetrators are immigrants.
In Norway and Denmark, we know that non-Western immigrants,
which frequently means Muslims, are grossly
overrepresented on rape statistics. In Oslo, Norway,
immigrants were involved in
two out of three rape charges in 2001.
The numbers in Denmark were the same, and even higher in the city of Copenhagen
with three out of four rape charges. Sweden has a larger immigrant, including
Muslim, population than any other country in northern Europe. The numbers there
are likely to be at least as bad as with its Scandinavian neighbors. The actual
number is thus probably even higher than what the authorities are reporting now,
as it doesn't include second generation immigrants. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm,
who has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that
85 per cent of the convicted
rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents.
A group of Swedish teenage girls
has designed a belt
that requires two hands to remove and which they hope will deter would-be
rapists. "It's like a reverse chastity belt," one of the creators, 19-year-old
Nadja Björk, told AFP, meaning that the wearer is in control, instead of being
controlled. Björk and one of her partners now plan to start a business to mass
produce the belts and are currently in negotiations with potential partners.
"But I'm not doing this for the money," she said. "I'm really passionate about
stopping rape. I think it's terrible." In an online readers' poll from the
newspaper Aftonbladet,
82% of the women expressed
fear to go outside after dark. There are reports of rapes happening in broad
daylight. 30 guests in a Swedish public bath
watched as 17 girl was raped
recently, and nobody did anything. The girl was first approached by 16-year-old
boy. He and his friends followed her as she walked away to the grotto, and
inside the grotto he got her blocked in the corner, ripped off her bikini and
raped her, while his friend held her firm.
There are
even reports of Swedish girls
being attacked and cut with knives on the dance floor. A 21-year-old man who
came to Sweden a couple of years ago admits that he has a low opinion of Swedish
females –or “whores” as he calls them. He is now prosecuted, suspecteded
of cutting eight girls in several
pubs. He is also charged with raping a girl at a private party, and with
sexually harassing another girl in the apartment. Several witnesses claim that
the 21 year old has said that he hates Swedish women.
Some Muslim immigrants admit their bias quite openly. An Islamic Mufti in
Copenhagen
sparked a political outcry
after publicly declaring that women who refuse to wear headscarves are "asking
for rape." Apparently, he's not the only one thinking this way. “It is not as
wrong raping a Swedish girl as raping an Arab girl,”
says Hamid. “The Swedish girl
gets a lot of help afterwards, and she had probably fucked before, anyway. But
the Arab girl will get problems with her family. For her, being raped is a
source of shame. It is important that she retains her virginity until she
marries.” It was no coincidence that it was a Swedish girl that was gang raped
in Rissne – this becomes obvious from the discussion with Ali, Hamid, Abdallah
and Richard. All four have disparaging views on Swedish girls, and think this
attitude is common among young men with immigrant background. “It is far too
easy to get a Swedish whore…… girl, I mean;” says Hamid, and laughs over his own
choice of words. “Many immigrant boys have Swedish girlfriends when they are
teenagers. But when they get married, they get a proper woman from their own
culture who has never been with a boy. That’s what I am going to do. I don’t
have too much respect for Swedish girls. I guess you can say they get fucked to
pieces.”
The number of rapes committed by
Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult
to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. Muhammad
himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This
is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that
many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that
European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full
accordance with Islamic law. Western women are not so much regarded by most
Muslims as individuals, but as "their women," the women who "belong" to hostile
Infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the Infidels someday
will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hand. This is not mere crime, but
ideologically-justified crime or rather, in Muslim eyes, attacks on Infidels
scarcely qualify as crime. Western women are cheap and offensive. We Muslims are
here, here to stay, and we have a right to take advantage of this situation. It
is our view of the matter that should prevail. Western goods, like the land on
which we now live, belong to Allah and to the best of men -- his Believers.
Western women, too, essentially belong to us -- our future booty. No wonder
there is
a deep and increasing
suspicion against Muslims in the Swedish and European public.
Sweden has national elections less than a year from now. Here is a suggested
draft email, in English and Swedish, that you can send in to Swedish politicians
and media to protest the lack of honesty about what Muslim immigration is doing
to the country:
I would hereby like to protest against the passivity and the lack of resolve
demonstrated by Swedish authorities in the face of a huge spike in the number of
rapes in their country. It is time for Swedish politicians, Swedish media and
the Swedish public to admit that the large increase in the number of rape
charges in their country during the past generation is intimately tied to the
immigration that has taken place during that same time period. The attitude
among many Muslim men is that women who are not veiled and act properly
submissive have themselves to blame if something happens to them. Such a line of
thinking is incompatible with the culture of freedom in any Western country. It
means that as long as Muslim immigration continues, Sweden will continue to
import an Islamic culture that will destroy women’s freedom in Swedish society.
The strains caused by immigration are now so large that unless something serious
is done about this, pretty soon Sweden will face the same kind of riots we have
recently seen in France, and will approach the point of permanent ethnic and
religious strife. Swedish politicians and media need to put the well-being of
their daughters above that of political correctness and their own Multicultural
vanity, and it is shocking that they actually need to be reminded of this. It is
an international embarrassment to Sweden as a nation that Swedes travel around
the world to lecture about women’s rights, and at the same time their own young
women are finding that their most basic rights, such as being able to go outside
wearing normal clothes without being harassed, are slipping away. It’s a sham,
and it needs to end. Unless Swedish authorities are able to provide basic
security to a population that pays some of the highest tax rates in the world,
the Swedish government should publicly admit its inadequacy and resign from
office. At the very least, it should be honest enough to tell Swedish citizens
that they have to provide security for themselves, and stop making it difficult
for people to do this. The Swedish general elections are less than a year away,
and this time, Muslim immigration needs to be raised to the very top of the
public agenda.
Violence part of life for girls in French suburbs
10 Nov 2005
Source: Reuters
By Kerstin Gehmlich
SAINT DENIS, France, Nov 10 (Reuters) - With nightly scenes of rioting beamed around the globe, the world has learned that France's bleak suburbs are enclaves of gang wars and macho rules. The girls living there have known this for years.
Even before the riots, Ophelia, 16, used to run home from school every day because she was afraid of being attacked in the maze of high-rise buildings in her suburb northeast of Paris.
A series of gang rapes in these bleak housing estates shocked France a few years ago. In 2002, a 17-year-old girl was set alight by an 18-year-old boy as his friends stood by.
Walking near a burned-out garbage bin, Ophelia's twin sister Sandra says the riots came as no surprise. Violence against and pressure on women is part of daily life in the suburbs, where boys can dictate how girls should dress.
"You have to behave like a guy and look like a guy. If you wear a skirt, you get into immediate trouble. You're a slut," says Sandra, wearing a baggy sweatshirt and jeans.
Sandra and her sister grew up in the nearby Clichy-sous-Bois suburb, where the riots broke out after the accidental death of two teenage boys on Oct. 27.
The violence spread across France, with young men venting deep anger about racism, unemployment and a bleak future.
But not many girls have taken part, and many say they are fed up with consecutive nights of violence.
Apart from poverty, feminists say the dominance of traditional cultures among families of Arab and black African origin, combined with the growing role of Islam in the suburbs, have contributed to the harsh treatment girls get there.
Pressure is mounting for Muslim women to wear veils. Forced marriages that snatch them from college and career -- where they do much better than their male schoolmates -- are on the rise.
The support group "Ni Putes, Ni Soumises" ("Neither Whores nor Submissives") says the number of forced marriages has risen in recent years, with roughly 70,000 girls pressured into unwanted relationships each year in France.
"MARRY THIS MAN!"
"There is so much violence in the suburbs because there is so much poverty here," said Ourdia Aibeche, who runs a soup kitchen in Saint Denis, a rundown suburb north of Paris where France's kings are buried.
"There is a saying: If there is no money in the house, there is war in the house," she said.
Violence comes in different forms, says Sarah Oussekine, who leads the feminist Voix d'Elles-Rebelles group from a small office in a grey housing estate in Saint Denis.
"Many come to us because they have been beaten by members of their families," she said. "And there are lots of women between the age of 17 and 30 who are being forced into marriage," she said, adding her group was advising some 3,500 women a year.
Oussekine said many girls of African origin were depressed because they failed to lead a modern French life and fulfil their families' expectations at the same time.
"One day, their father comes along and says: 'Marry this man. He's a good guy. He'll treat you well'," Oussekine says.
Aisha's father did so. The 22-year-old, who did not want to give her real name, ran away from her family last night because her father told her she would have to marry a distant relative or be sent to live with family in Algeria.
"I can't go back to my parents," said the soft-spoken girl.
Oussekine says the conservative government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin should provide groups like hers with means to educate young women and offer them hope.
Villepin has said he will increase money for local support groups, after years of cutting back state funds for them.
"I'm so angry," says Oussekine. "It
takes a total mess (like the riots) to make people even notice our problems."
Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
Posted GMT 12-27-2005
In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations.
When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were "sluts" and "Aussie pigs" while they were being hunted down and abused.
In Australia's New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf.
And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them.
A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when -- like his peer in Australia -- he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped.
And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He added, "For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct."
In Norway and Sweden, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women.
In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, "Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace." A few weeks ago she said, "Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl."
In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence -- after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects -- and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, "any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore."
Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100 Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of President Suharto. Many of them were told: "You must be raped, because you are Chinese and non-Muslim."
Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were doing it because she was an "infidel and a Christian."
In Sudan -- where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in an ongoing genocide -- former Sudanese slave and now a human rights' activist Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; "Are you Christian or Muslim?" and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before having their breasts cut off.
This phenomenon of Islamic sexual violence against women should be treated as the urgent, violent, repressive epidemic it is. Instead, journalists, academics, and politicians ignore it, rationalize it, or ostracize those who dare discuss it.
In Australia, when journalist Paul Sheehan reported honestly on the Sydney gang rapes, he was called a racist and accused of stirring up anti-Muslim hatred. And when he reported in his Sydney Morning Herald column that there was a high incidence of crime amongst Sydney's Lebanese community, fellow journalist, David Marr sent him an e-mail stating, "That is a disgraceful column that reflects poorly on us all at the Herald."
Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association said the gang rapes were a "heinous" crime but complained it was "rather unfair" that the ethnicity of the rapists had been reported.
Journalist Miranda Devine reported during the same rape trials that all reference to ethnicity had been deleted from the victim impact statement because the prosecutors wanted to negotiate a plea bargain.
So when Judge Megan Latham declared, "There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences," everyone believed her. And the court, the politicians and most of the press may as well have raped the girls again.
Retired Australian detective Tim Priest warned in 2004 that the Lebanese gangs, which emerged in Sydney in the 1990s -- when the police were asleep -- had morphed out of control. "The Lebanese groups," he said, " were ruthless, extremely violent, and they intimidated not only innocent witnesses, but even the police that attempted to arrest them."
Priest describes how in 2001, in a Muslim dominated area of Sydney two policemen stopped a car containing three well-known Middle Eastern men to search for stolen property. As the police carried out their search they were physically threatened and the three men claimed they were going to track them down, kill them and then rape their girlfriends.
According to Priest, it didn't end there. As the Sydney police called for backup the three men used their mobile phones to call their associates, and within minutes, 20 Middle Eastern men arrived on the scene. They punched and pushed the police and damaged state vehicles. The police retreated and the gang followed them to the police station where they intimidated staff, damaged property and held the police station hostage.
Eventually the gang left, the police licked their wounds, and not one of them took action against the Middle Eastern men. Priest claims, "In the minds of the local population, the police are cowards and the message was, 'Lebanese [Muslim gangs] rule the streets.'"
In France, in the banlieues, where gang rape is now known simply as tournantes or 'pass-around,' victims know the police will not protect them. If they complain, Samir Bellil said, they know that they and their families will be threatened.
However, Muslim women in the French ghettos are finally fighting back against gang rape and police non-action. They have begun a movement called, "We're neither whores nor doormats." They are struggling against the intrinsic violence that plagues their neighbourhoods and the culture that condones it.
In most French prosecutions, the Muslim rapists state that they do not believe they have committed a crime. And in a frightening parallel with the gang rapists in Australia, they claim the victim herself is to blame and accuse her of being a "slut" or a "whore."
According to The Guardian, during the recent French riots, a Saudi Prince with shares in News Corporation boasted to a conference in Dubai that he had phoned Rupert Murdoch and complained about Fox News describing the disturbances as "Muslim riots." Within half an hour he said, it was changed to "civil riots."
Swedish translator, Ali Dashti, stated that in Sweden when three men raped a 22-year-old woman recently, they said one word to her. "Whore." Such stories, according to Dashti, are in the Swedish newspapers every week. And, the politically correct "take great care not to mention the ethnic background of the perpetrators."
Sweden's English newspaper The Local reported in July that Malmo police commander Bengt Lindström had been charged with inciting racial hatred. He sent e-mails from his home computer to two city officials. To the head of healthcare, he wrote: "You...treat old Swedes who have worked hard building up the fatherland like parasites and would rather give my taxes to criminals called Mohammed from Rosengärd."
In Malmo, the third largest city in Sweden, the police have admitted, Dashti says, that they no longer control the city. "It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants." Ambulance personnel are regularly attacked and spat upon and are now refusing to help until a police escort arrives. The police are too afraid to enter parts of the city without backup.
In early 2005, Norwegian newspapers reported that Oslo had recorded the highest ever number of rape cases in the previous twelve months. However, Fjordman explained, the official statistics contained no data regarding "how immigrants were grossly over represented in rape cases", and the media remain so strangely silent.
Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Unni Wikan, said Norwegian women must take responsibility for the fact that Muslim men find their manner of dress provocative. And since these men believe women are responsible for rape, she stated, the women must adapt to the multicultural society around them.
The BBC pulled a documentary scheduled for screening in 2004, after police in Britain warned it could increase racial tension. "In these exceptional circumstances... Channel 4 as a responsible broadcaster has agreed to the police's request..." The documentary was to show how Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abused young, white English girls as young as 11.
The number of rapes committed by Muslim men against women in the last decade is so incredibly high that it cannot be viewed as anything other than culturally implicit behaviour. It is overtly reinforced and sanctioned by Islamic religious leaders who blame the victims and excuse the rapists.
In three decades of immigration into Western countries, Islam has caused social upheaval and havoc in every one of its host countries. No other immigration program has encountered the problems of non-assimilation and religious ambiguity.
Everywhere in the world, Muslims are in conflict with their neighbours. And as Mark Steyn recently said, every conflict appears to have originated by someone with the name of Mohammed.
In July 2005, Melbourne Sheik Mohammad Omran told Sixty Minutes that "...we believe we have more rights than you because we choose Australia to be our home and you didn't. "
In the same interview visiting Sheik Khalid Yasin warned "There's no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend, so a non-Muslim could be your associate but they can't be a friend. They're not your friend because they don't understand your religious principles and they cannot because they don't understand your faith."
Despite being told over and over by Islamic scholars, and witnessing massive influxes of Islamic crime, Western countries continue to believe in the reality of assimilation and moral relativism.
In Australia, Lebanese Christians have assimilated and become a respected part of our community. The Premier of Victoria is a Lebanese Christian as is the Governor Of New South Wales. However, Lebanese Muslims have encountered serious problems because of their refusal to accept our right to live our way of life. Nothing so clearly demonstrates that it is not an issue of race -- but of culture.
By Sharon Lapkin
FrontPageMagazine.com
Sharon Lapkin is a former Australian Army Officer and a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne.
PAKISTAN: RAPE LAW COMPROMISES
CRITICISED
Lahore, 13 Sept. (AKI/DAWN) - Expressing outrage at the ‘political
expediency’ demonstrated by the government over the women’s protection bill,
human and women’s rights bodies on Tuesday accused it of reneging on its
promise. They said women had campaigned against the discriminatory laws for 25
years and proved them fundamentally flawed. Ahead of the discussion of the
measures in the National Assembly on Wednesday part of the governing Pakistan
Muslim League reached a compromise on the amendments with the six party
religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).
The Hudood Ordinance - passed under the dictatorship of the late General Zia-ul-Haq
- means women could be sentenced to death if found guilty of having sex outside
marriage and make a rape victim liable to prosecution for adultery if she can
not produce four male witnesses.
While religious hardliners seek to preserve what they see as divine rules, civil
society and womens's organisations have struggled to pressure successive
governments to repeal them.
One of the agreed amendments, reached after discussions with the hardline MMA,
read that the offence of rape (Zina bil Jabr) that the women’s protection bill
had sought to delete from the Hudood Ordinance 1979 would be made subject to the
Islamic Hadd punishable for adultery - if it fulfilled the requirements of the
Hadd.
Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Asma Jehangir said that
the manner in which the government had dealt with the issue of women’s rights
was disappointing.
“The so called women’s protection bill was a farcical attempt at making the
Hudood Ordinances palatable. In the first place, the implications of the
ordinances went far beyond discrimination and persecution of women on the plea
of morality.
She said the bill had addressed none of the concerns. In addition, the
government had agreed to replace Section 9 of the draft bill by subjecting the
interpretation of the ordinance according to the injunctions of Islam.
"Such open-minded jurisdiction granted to an already cowed-down judiciary would
result in authentication of the most conservative form of religious
interpretation. It would also be detrimental to the rights of non-Muslim
citizens, who might not subscribe to Islamic principles.
Reiterating the HRCP’s demand for repeal of Hudood Ordinances, she said the
government should refrain from using the issue of women’s rights to further its
own interests rather than making any real effort for the improvement of their
lot.
The Women Action Forum working committee was of the view that the government’s
political machinations with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would result in
amendments that would be even more barbaric.
By acceding to the MMA an extraordinary advantage the government had subverted
all the constitutional bodies such as the Council of Islamic Ideology and the
National Commission on Status of Women and ignored the decision of the cabinet
committee concerned.
All parties in parliament were invited to participate in the parliamentary
select committee but the MMA decided to boycott it. By conducting closed-door
negotiations the government was pandering to a group of religious obscurantists
who were known for their rabidly anti-women stance and thus bartering away
women’s rights, it said.
Muslim Rape, Feminist Silence
By
Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com
November 1, 2006
Unveiled women who get raped deserve it.
That’s the pedagogy preached by the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, who recently sparked an international stir by pronouncing that women who do not veil themselves, and allow themselves to be “uncovered meat”, are at fault if they are raped.
This is nothing new, of course, and it is somewhat mysterious why the Sheikh’s comments have caused any shock at all, since his view is legitimized by various Islamic texts and numerous social and legal Islamic structures. And that is why back in September 2004 in Denmark, al-Hilali’s Australian counterpart, the Mufti Shahid Mehdi, declared exactly the same thing, stating that unveiled women are “asking for rape.”
All of this, in turn, explains the skyrocketing epidemic of Muslim rape in non-Islamic countries. Muslim newcomers are significantly overrepresented among convicted rapists and rape suspects throughout European nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
No wonder why many Muslim rapists openly
admit their actions and justify them smugly with casual references to their
religious and cultural beliefs.
This horrifying phenomenon was on display in a court trial in Australia last
year, in which a Muslim rapist, going by the name "MSK", taunted his sobbing
14-year-old victim and proudly professed the legitimacy of his sexual assaults
on young girls by explaining that his victims were not veiled -- as the Islamic
religion mandates women to be. [1]
"MSK" is from Pakistan. He is doing in Australia what he learned best back home:
in some of the most notorious rural areas of Pakistan, gang rape is officially
sanctioned as a legitimate form of keeping women marginalized and "in their
place." As noted earlier, certain realms of Islam help institutionalize this
form of violent misogyny. The Koran, for instance, permits Muslim men to
enslave - and have sexual relations with - the women of unbelievers captured in
the spoils of war (Sura 4:23-24). The Islamic legal manual 'Umdat al-Salik,
which is endorsed by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni
Islam, sanctions this violence, affirming that Muslims can enslave captured
infidel women and make them concubines.
To compound this pathology, a notion has developed within the system of gender
apartheid in which Muslims like "MSK" have grown up: the idea that a woman who
does not veil herself is somehow responsible for any sexual or physical harm
done to her. In the psychopathic mental gymnastics that occur in the
perpetrators' minds, the unveiled woman must be sexually punished for violating
the "modesty" code. Thus, when Islamic Muftis like
Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali and Shahid Mehdi declare that women who
refuse to wear headscarves are "asking for rape," they are merely regurgitating
a popular theme in many segments of Islamic culture.
In traditional Islamic law, rape cannot be proven unless four males testify as witnesses (Sura 24:4 and 24:13). In other words, raped women cannot get justice anywhere Islamic law prevails. More horrifying still, a woman who has the courage to say she was raped, and fails to produce the four male witnesses (which is obviously almost always the case), ends up being punished because her accusation is regarded as an admission of pre-marital sex or adultery. And this is why seventy-five percent of the women in prison in Pakistan are behind bars for the crime of being a victim of rape.
In Holland, myriad women now bear the horrible scar that has infamously become known as "smiley," whereby one side of the face is cut up from mouth to ear - a war mark left by Muslim rapists as a warning to other women who don't veil themselves.
In France, the phenomenon of Muslim gang
rape as punishment for non-veiling even has a word to describe it: "tournante"
(take your turn). In areas where Muslims form the majority (i.e. the Muslim
suburb of Courneuve, France), even non-Muslim women feel pressured to veil
themselves in fear of Muslim sexual and physical punishment.
In the context of this epidemic of Muslim violence against women, and the open
legitimization of it pronounced by Islamic clerics, one would think that the
Western feminists of our time would be up in arms, sympathetically coming to the
side of their raped sisters and standing up for women’s rights in general.
But this is just not the case.
The West's leftist feminists are responding with an apathetic heartlessness and
deafening silence. [2]
It's all very much understandable and expected, of course: it is politically
correct and cutting-edge to scream with moral indignation about a woman's right
to an abortion in the West, but to actually care for - and come to the public
defense of - the female victim of a gang-rape committed by Muslims is
unthinkable. This is so because admitting the Muslim rape epidemic, and the
theology and institutions on which it is based, and denouncing it, would violate
the central code of the "progressive" leftist faith: anti-Americanism and
cultural relativism. No culture can be said to be better than any other - unless
it is American culture, which is always fair game for derision and ridicule. But
to criticize any Third World culture in general - and an adversary culture in
particular - is to surrender the political cause and faith.
And that's why leftist feminists are also completely mum on the horrors of forced marriages, honor killings and female genital mutilation within the Islamic world.
The worldview of Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Unni Wikan, is perfect in representing leftist feminists' stand on Muslim rape and Islamic gender apartheid. Wikan's solution for the high incidence of Muslims raping Norwegian women stresses neither the punishment of the perpetrators nor the repudiation of the Islamic theology that legitimizes such abuse of women. Instead, Wikan recommends that Norwegian women veil themselves. This is because, in Wikan's view, Western women must take their share of responsibility for the rapes, since they are not dressing and behaving according to Muslim understanding. The Norwegian women, in her view, are to realize that they live in a multicultural society and should, therefore, adapt themselves to it. Sheikhs Taj al-Din al-Hilali and Shahid Mehdi would be proud.
It has long been evident that Western leftist feminists couldn't care less about
real actual breathing women; they care only about their ideological beliefs. For
them, the victims of Muslim rape can be easily forgotten and dismissed -- for
the pursuit of their ultimate goal: to aid and abet the West’s totalitarian
enemies and to wreak the destruction of their own free societies which bestow
the individual liberties and rights that they despise and abhor.
NOTES:
[1] Although debate exists about whether Islam enforces women’s veiling, and there are some valiant Islamic reformers fighting for a tolerant Islam that does not enforce veiling, the unfortunate reality is that Muslim fundamentalists find legitimacy for forced veiling in Islamic texts. See Robert Spencer’s Onward Muslim Soldiers, pp. 77-78 and his new book The Truth About Mohammad, pp. 44 and 61.
[2] Dr. Phyllis Chesler has powerfully documented Western feminism's betrayal of Islamic gender apartheid's victims in The Death of Feminism.