MUSLIM RAPE
Child Rape
Gang Police Whistleblower: Child Sex Abuse is ‘Going on Everywhere’ in the UK
29 Jul 2021
Breitbart
Former
detective turned grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver said that the
apologies offered in the lastest review to child rape
victims in Bradford are “pointless” and that the scourge of rape gangs persists
“everywhere” in the UK.
An independent
review into five child grooming cases in Bradford, West Yorkshire since 2001
found that “children suffered abuse no child should have to experience”.
The review repeated the oft-heard
refrain from such findings that the Bradford Partnership “fully accepts more
needs to be done”.
“We want to apologise to the young people identified in this report and
any others where the actions of agencies in Bradford has
failed to protect them from child sexual exploitation.”
One of the
victims highlighted in the report, referred to as Anna, was placed into the
care of foster parents whose son was her abuser.
Anna was then
forced into an Islamic wedding with her abuser after becoming pregnant at the
age of fifteen, all of which, she claimed, was sanctioned by Bradford
authorities.
“While in the
‘care’ of these adults, she was subjected to further sexual abuse and
exploitation, domestic abuse, including assaults and coercion and what we would
now recognise as domestic slavery,” the report
revealed.
Anna said that
the agencies “just ignored the abuse”, destroying her childhood.
Anti-abuse
campaigner Maggie Oliver, who quit the Greater Manchester Police in 2012
in order to expose the grooming scandal in Rochdale, said of the
review: “It’s another apology where they say lessons will be learned and all
the rest of it.”
“We’re now 15
years on and as a result of what I learned after resigning, I started the
Maggie Oliver Foundation where we help survivors and victims of child abuse
every single day,” she told GB News.
“I can tell
you that in the last six months, we are dealing with 31 cases from West Yorkshire,
alone.
“Bradford is
just another case, this is going on everywhere. What
we’re finding in the foundation is that the worst cases that we are aware of
are West Yorkshire and in [Greater Manchester]”.
Another victim
cited in the latest review, Fiona Goddard — who waived her life-long right to
anonymity — said that the Bradford police and council had many opportunities to
stop her abuse and “nip it in the bud” but they “never did”.
Goddard, who
was the victim of sexual abuse by the 2008 Bradford grooming gangs,
said: “I reported it multiple times – physical abuse, sexual abuse or
rapes – and they were never followed up on.”
In 2019, nine
Bradford men, Basharat Khaliq, Saeed Akhtar, Naveed Akhtar, Parvaze Ahmed, Zeeshan Ali, Fahim Iqbal, Izar Hussain, Mohammed Usman and Kieran Harris were
convicted of rape and inciting child prostitution against girls as young as
fourteen years old starting in 2008.
The jury in
the trial heard that local authorities were aware that at least one of the girl
victims in the case was “being picked up by multiple Asian males in smart
cars”.
One of the
victims in the case told the
court: “I struggle to leave the house due to anxiety which prevents me
from living a full life, and have spent my adult life on medication,” adding that
“the drug and alcohol misuse has had a large effect on my health, such as
abnormal liver function.”
Maggie Oliver
said that the survivors of grooming gangs and other child abuse crimes feel as
if they have no one to turn to, saying: “They’re being blamed, they’re being
ignored. There are cover-ups and there is a lack of concern.
“These
children are in care they are taken away from homes because they are deemed to
be at risk. I would argue that they are being put into situations that are even
more risky than when they’re in their own home”
“It destroys
lives and it’s about time that we did something as a country to address it.”
Sweden:
Migrant-Background Rapists Make Up Majority of Attackers
26 Feb 2021
Breitbart
The Lund
University found the majority of convicted rapists in Sweden are of migrant
backgrounds and nearly half of rapists born abroad in a landmark study which is
one of the first of its kind in the high-migration level nation.
The study,
which was published
online on February 22nd, looked at a total of 3,039
convicted rapists and found that 59.3 per cent of the convicts came from
‘migrant backgrounds’ — first and second-generation migrants.
For those
offenders born outside of Sweden — 47.8 per cent in total — 34.5 per cent came
from the North African and Middle Eastern region, while 19.1 per cent came from
sub-Saharan Africa.
Just under a
third of the offenders, or 32.5 per cent, were on some form of government
welfare programme, while 38.6 per cent were said to
have low levels of education.
The authors of
the study noted the paper came across a background of rising levels of rape in
Sweden and lamented the lack of other research on the backgrounds of convicted
rapists saying, “Unfortunately, studies on rape offenders’ characteristics in a
Swedish context are absent and, as far as we are aware, there is only one
previous study, which has evaluated this issue in regard to adult
male-on-female rape offenders.”
The other
study cited, a 2020 study from
researchers at Malmo University, looked exclusively at cases in the city of
Malmo but also gound that the majority of rapists, 71
per cent, were from migrant backgrounds as well.
“Our findings
are of particular importance for crime preventive efforts. Very little,
however, is known about the association between rape and different contextual
factors among immigrants in Sweden,” the authors said and called for more
studies to better understand the issue.
As early as
2017, Breitbart News reported on the
overrepresentation of migrants in case of gang rape, with research indicating
that 85 per cent of those involved in gang rapes were foreign in origin.
A year later,
Swedish newspaper Expressen reported
that almost every man convicted
of gang rape from 2016 and 2017 had a migrant background.
The study was
followed just months later by another report, this time published by
newspaper Aftonbladet, that confirmed the vast over-representation of migrants in
gang rape cases.
Sweden was one
of the most enthusiastic adopters of mass migration during the mid-2010s Europe
Migrant Crisis, a significant event in the nation’s history which has radically
altered the constitution of the country. A nation of just ten million souls, Sweden issued 1.2 million residency permits to
new migrants in ten years, meaning that by 2020 one fifth of all ‘Swedes’ were
foreign-born.
Police officer
among 15 men due in court charged with historic sex offences
Telegraph
& Argus
January 4, 2020
A police
officer and 14 other men are due to appear at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’
Court on Monday charged with historic sex offences.
The
allegations against the 15 defendants date back to between 2006 and 2009.
The investigation
relates to two girls aged 13 to 16 at the time and include counts of rape,
sexual assault, supplying cocaine and cannabis and making a threat to kill.
One of those
due in court was a serving West Yorkshire Police
constable, charged with sexual assault on a woman. Amjad Ditta,
35, was based in the force's Protective Services Operations. He has also
carried out work in Bradford in recent years.
He is now
suspended from duty.
The defendants
listed to appear in Courtroom 1 on Monday morning are:
Mohammed Vaqaas Abbas, 30, of Hyde Park Road, Halifax, charged with
three offences of raping a girl aged 13, 14 and 15 and three offences of
supplying cannabis.
Nadeem Adalat,
34, of Mayfield Terrace South, Halifax, charged with four offences of raping a
girl aged 13, 14 and 15 and four offences of supplying cannabis.
Sajid Adalat,
43, of Baines Street, Halifax, charged with one count of raping a girl.
Waseem Adalat,
33, of Balmoral Place, Halifax, charged with two counts of raping a girl aged
13 to 15, supplying cannabis and trafficking.
Amjad Ditta, 35, of Halifax, a police constable based with West Yorkshire
Police’s Protective Services Operations, charged with one count of sexual
assault on a woman at The Withens, Halifax.
Christopher
Eastwood, 45, of Princeton Close, Pellon, Halifax,
charged with two offences of raping a girl aged 13 to 15 and two counts of
supplying cannabis.
Mohammed
Rizwan Iqbal, 34, of Parkinson Lane, King Cross, Halifax, charged with one
count of raping a girl aged 13 to 15.
Mahtab Islam, 46, Park Road, Halifax, charged with
five offences of raping a girl aged 13 to 15, two charges of sexual assault,
three charges of supplying cocaine, three counts of supplying cannabis and
conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Ishtiaq Latif, 32, of Chestnut Street, Halifax,
charged with one offence of sexual activity with a child aged 13 to15.
Asad Mahmood, 33, of Hyde Park, Halifax, charged
with two counts of rape and one offence of trafficking.
Khalifa
Mughal, 36, of Rawson Avenue, Halifax, charged with six counts of raping a girl
aged 13, 14 and 15, one offence of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice,
one charge of supplying cannabis, and three allegations of supplying cocaine.
Nadeem Nassir,
39, of Batley Field Hill, Batley,
charged with two counts of raping a girl aged 13 to 15, two charges of
supplying cannabis and making a threat to kill.
Shazad Nazir, 44, of Queens Road, King Cross,
Halifax, charged with two offences of raping a girl aged 13 to 15 and two
charges of supplying cannabis.
Shahzad Nowaz, 40, of Gibralter Road,
Halifax, charged with one offence of rape, and a single charge each of
supplying cannabis and making a threat to kill.
Sohail Zafar, 36, of Akeds
Road, Halifax, charged with one offence of rape and a single charge of
supplying cannabis.
Eight men will
stand trial next year charged with raping and trafficking the same 15-year-old
girl
By SEBASTIAN MURPHY-BATES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:41
EST, 5 November 2019
Men aged
between 29 and 61 accused of raping teenager in South Yorkshire
Defendants,
all of whom are from Barnsley or Sheffield, are yet to plead
Two more men were
charged with rape but failed to attend earlier hearing
Eight men are
due to stand trial charged with raping and trafficking the same 15-yer-old girl
early next year.
The men have
been charged with crimes including rape and trafficking against one teenager
between 2010 and 2011.
The offences
are alleged to have taken place in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and the men have
been charged as part of an ongoing multi-agency investigation in the area.
Usman Din, 34,
of Sheffield, is charged with three counts of rape and one count of trafficking
for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Tony Ejoune, 61, of Sheffield, is charged with one count of
rape. Shangar Ibrahimi, 29,
of Barnsley, faces one rape charge.
Farhad Mirzae, 29, of Sheffield,
is charged with two counts of rape. Kawan Omar Ahmed,
29, of Sheffield, is charged with one count of rape.
Saman
Mohammed, 41, of Sheffield, is also charged with one count of rape. Jasim
Mohammed, 37, of Sheffield, faces charges of three counts of rape.
Nzar Anwar, 40, also from Sheffield, is charged
with one count of rape and one count of conspiracy to pervert the course of
justice.
And Saba
Mohammed, 40, from Sheffield, is charged with one count of conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice.
At a pre-trial
review yesterday, Sheffield Crown Court heard four of the men will require an
interpreter for their trial, which will start on January 6.
Kamaran Mahmoodi and Soran
Ali Karim were both charged with one count of rape, but failed to appear at an
earlier magistrates' court hearing.
Judge Michael
Slater told the nine in the dock: 'You will next be required to attend before
the court on December 16.
'Should you fail
to do so without a good excuse, a bench warrant will be issued for your arrest.
'I reiterate,
the trial date is January 6, with an estimate of six weeks. If you fail to
attend your trial, a warrant will be issued for your arrest and it will be very
damaging for you.'
Muslim
scholar and his two brothers 'raped their child sister and told her to keep
quiet in the name of the Koran' in Pakistan
•
Police in Islamabad have taken three men aged between 22 and 30 into custody
•
They allegedly raped their 15-year-old sister, the first assault was two years
ago
• One of the brothers - a Muslim scholar - allegedly raped
her at the mosque
• The girl had been living with her brothers after their
parents died
By
ROSS IBBETSON
FOR
MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED:
11:55 EDT, 29 March 2019
A
Muslim scholar and his two brothers have been arrested for allegedly raping
their child sister and swearing her to silence on the Koran in Pakistan.
The
religious scholar is alleged to have raped his 15-year-old sister at a mosque
last Friday, police in Islamabad said.
Police
said the three brothers - aged between 22 and 30 - told their sister to stay
quiet in the name of the Koran.
They
were hauled into custody and remanded at the Adiala
jail on Thursday.
Inspector
Arshad Ali said a friend of the victim's late father - a doctor - had summoned
them to his clinic, Dawn reported.
The police took a statement from the victim there and accounts from doctors and
local elders who claimed the three men had confessed to the crime.
According to the authorities, the victim - the youngest of nine siblings from Bannu - lived with her brothers after their parents died.
She
was said to have first been raped two years ago by one of the suspects, the
Karachi daily reported.
The girl
was subsequently raped three times by another suspect and then most recently at
the mosque, the police claimed.
After
the alleged rape at the religious seminary she
absconded and visited her father's friend for treatment.
When
he inquired about her disappearance she informed him
of the alleged assaults.
A
civil court has ordered that the victim be taken to a protection centre until further notice.
Five-year-old
gang-raped in Peshawar
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
Published:
June 25, 2018
A five-year-old boy has been allegedly gang-raped by three teenaged students of
a seminary in the Mattani area of the city.
Police say they have registered a case but it was not immediately clear if they
had arrested the culprits. A local resident said that the five-year-old boy was
near his house in the Gulshanabad area when three
seminary students forced him into the nearby seminary where they gang-raped
him.
“The child is a resident of Darra Adam Khel but the family has been living in
the Mattani area,” the local said, adding that the
incident took place around a week ago. He further claimed that the police,
despite being informed of the crime, were reluctant to register an FIR.
“All three suspects are locals and residents of Adezai
area within the remits of the same police station,” he said. Police, however,
say they have lodged an FIR in the case and have sent the child for a medical
examination in line with set procedure.
“The poor child was overpowered by the three suspects and he was injured as he
struggled to run away,” the police officer said. Police added that all three in
the case were also juveniles.
Talking to The Express Tribune, rights activist Taimur
Kamal said that it was unfortunate that despite all efforts by the civil
society and an increase in child abuse cases, there was no proper child
protection mechanism in place in Peshawar. Another right activist Imran Takkar said that children were the future of the nation and
they should be protected at all cost from such situations and it was possible
only if proper awareness is created and a mechanism is evolved.
Imam claims he 'didn't rape teenager during spiritual healing'
He says he cannot account for his
DNA on swabs taken from the woman, and it must be 'a mistake'
BY SUZY GIBSON
10:04,
26 APR 2018
LEICESTER
MERCURY
An imam, accused of twice raping a teenager during spiritual healing, told a
jury she had urged him to have sex with her – but he turned her down.
Komar Uddin (68), a dad of 11 and a grandad, said the
young woman became annoyed at being spurned then threatened to expose him as an
illegal immigrant.
He told Leicester Crown Court that he had been an imam at various English
mosques, since 2006, and had successfully healed people in the community.
He said the woman’s father asked him to perform a ceremony at their Leicester
home, because his daughter was concerned about evil spirits.
The father suggested a private ritual in her bedroom, he claimed, which went
ahead with candles, incense, holy oil and prayers, in February 2015.
Uddin claimed the young woman confided in him fearing she was pregnant and was
worried her boyfriend would not marry her – and asked him for help.
He offered to discuss the matter with her father – but she insisted he must not
tell him.
Uddin claimed that after holy oil was rubbed on to her stomach, she made a
sexual pass at him and placed his hand on her private parts.
He said he removed his hand and refused, saying she was the same age as his
grandchildren.
The defendant told the court they did not have sex and she was a liar.
He claimed he was impotent and could not have committed the alleged sexual acts
in any event.
Uddin claimed not to understand why his DNA was allegedly found on two swabs
taken from the woman.
He told the jury: “It might have been a mistake or an accident – it’s not
mine.”
Uddin, formerly of Lincoln Street, Leicester, denies sexually assaulting the
teenager, causing her to engage in sexual activity and two counts of rape.
Giving evidence in his defence, he told the court he
was educated in Bangladesh, where he was also an imam, and a successful faith
healer since 1985, having cured people with epilepsy.
He came to the UK on a six-month visa in 2006 and overstayed without
permission.
He said that while performing the healing ceremony, her family were in the
house, with her father coming into the bedroom several times to check that she
was all right. He said that no-one had ever complained about him before.
He was arrested and bailed two days after the alleged rapes.
Uddin said he was asked to leave his accommodation a month later and went to
stay in various areas, including at a London mosque, before going to France and
then Germany.
Uddin was extradited back to the UK last November to face trial,
the jury was told.
Under cross-examination, Richard Thatcher, prosecuting, accused Uddin of
changing his account and telling lies to the jury, which he denied.
Mr Thatcher said: “You’re saying this 19-year-old
girl wanted sex with you, and forced your hand on to her, whilst her father was
in the next room, in the same house?”
Uddin replied: “She wanted to make me happy.”
Rape-accused Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan detained in Paris
Al Arabiya English
Wednesday,
31 January 2018
Rape-accused Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan has been detained in Paris, on
Wednesday, reported AFP. A complaint was filed in France against the Islamist
philosopher and theologian Tariq Ramadan, October 2017, for rape and sexual
assault, following accusations of raping Salafist-turned secular liberal
activist Henda Ayari.
This complaint was filed with the public prosecutor's office in Rouen,
north-west of France for "criminal acts of rape, sexual assault, violence,
harassment, threats", according to AFP.
Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood Hassan al-Banna and currently a professor of contemporary Islamic
studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
Islamist Tariq Ramadan investigated for rape and sexual aggression
Henda Ayari, 40, president
of the association Libératrices, said on her Facebook
page that she has been a victim of something very serious which took place
several years ago, but did not want to reveal the name of her attacker because
of "threats on his part".
In her book “I chose to be free” about her escape from Salafism in France, Ayari mentions an Islamic intellectual who raped her and
referred to him as “Zubair”.
It turns out that the mentioned - according to her - is Tariq Ramadan, as per
explosive claims she made on her Facebook page in recent days.
Ayari has published the book to tell her story of how
she decided to abandon the Salafi approach and take off her hijab to live as a
“free” Muslim more than a year ago.
Hind said that she followed the 55-year-old Oxford university professor of
Contemporary Islamic Studies and listened to his religious and social advice on
social media.
In her memoir, Ayari details how her alleged
assailant invited her to meet him at a hotel in Paris in 2012, where he was
taking part in a conference.
Ramadan gave a lecture aside of the Federation of Islamic Organizations
conference in Paris, then invited Ayari to his room
in the hotel, she said that he took advantage of her weakness to hug and kiss
her. When she refused – as per her story – he slapped her violently.
Her book reads: ‘When I resisted, when I told him to stop, he insulted and
humiliated me. He slapped me and was outright violent. I saw someone who was no
longer in control of himself. I was scared he would kill me. I wanted to escape
but at the same time I couldn’t believe what was happening.
“I started to cry and he said to me: ‘So honey, you’re whining
are you? Stop pretending you don’t like it. You didn’t know what a real man was
like before. Well, now you do.”
According to AFP, Tariq Ramadan could not be reached by AFP and did not react
on social networks.
Grooming gangs 'are abusing girls across the country', victims and
investigators warn
Call for action comes as Bradford
records 62 per cent rise in the number of referrals to its specialist child
sexual exploitation service
Lizzie Dearden Home Affairs Correspondent
Sunday
8 October 2017 21:30 BST
Independent
Grooming gangs across the country are repeating the horrific abuse exposed in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and most recently Newcastle,
victims and investigators have warned.
There are mounting calls for nationwide action to combat sexual exploitation,
with authorities accused of playing catch-up after ignoring victims “for
decades and decades”.
Sammy Woodhouse, who was abused as a teenager by the Rotherham
ringleader Arshid “Mad Ash” Hussain and has waived
her right to anonymity, said abuse was underway “all over the country”.
“It’s an issue for every town and city, more people are being failed,” she told
The Independent. “I’m hearing a lot of new complaints from survivors.
“Some are saying they have been to the police and didn’t get taken seriously,
others are getting support.
“But I think the Government is still trying to play this down and make out it’s
not a major issue – they are not doing enough.”
Her calls for action came as figures show that in Bradford 1,153 referrals were
made to its child sexual exploitation team in 2016/17 – a 62 per cent increase
on the year before.
Bradford Metropolitan District Council’s specialist hub launched interventions
for 861 children – including many who were referred more than once. The vast
majority of possible victims are girls.
Ms Woodhouse said she had also noted a growing number
of grooming victims contacting her who were from the city.
Authorities behind an investigation that identified more than 700 women and
girls as potential victims of sexual exploitation in North East England believe
the abuse is happening far beyond areas where perpetrators have been caught.
Pat Ritchie, the chief executive of Newcastle City Council, said “any area that
says it does not have a problem is simply not looking for it”, while chief
constable Steve Ashman of Northumbria Police told The
Independent: “I think there’s every likelihood that this is happening in every
town and city across the country.”
Dame Vera Baird, victims lead for the Association of Police and Crime
Commissioners (APCC), also fears grooming is taking place nationwide.
She told The Independent that investigators in Newcastle found that women and
girls were being trafficked beyond the city, suggesting “there is a market”
elsewhere.
Dame Vera, who is the Northumbria Police and Crime
Commissioner, said the race or religion of perpetrators did not “make the
slightest bit of difference” to investigators.
“I think an important point to make is some of the victims were Asian as well,”
she added.
“This is about misogyny, and young women are in vulnerable situations whatever
their race or anything related to that.”
Ms Woodhouse said her abusers and all those reported
to her by other victims were from Muslim backgrounds.
“Nobody is saying that all Muslims commit abuse, but by saying it’s not an
issue you’re silencing the victims,” she added.
Ms Woodhouse, who is now 32, said she knew one girl
who was “read statements from the Quran” while being raped and said she was
made to eat halal, while Mad Ash wanted to make her his second wife under
Sharia law.
The proportion of white British victims of sexual exploitation prompted intense
national debate in August, where the former director of public prosecution Lord
McDonald called grooming a “profoundly racist crime”, despite a judge later
finding victims in Newcastle were not targeted by race.
Men from a wide range of nationalities, races and religions have been
prosecuted as part of grooming gangs but the prevalence of abusers from
Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds has been a point of controversy.
Ms Woodhouse was outraged by the sacking of Rotherham MP Sarah Champion from the Shadow Cabinet over a
newspaper article in her name that claimed “Britain has a problem with British
Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.
She warned that if British society does not have “open and honest
conversations” on the factors and attitudes driving grooming, the far-right
will be able to control the debate.
“There’s more than the religion factor involved,” Ms
Woodhouse added. “Abusers see girls and women are there to have sex, like we’re
their property.
“There’s so much controversy but we need to talk about it.”
Lawyers defending alleged abusers in court have stated that several
perpetrators were in forced marriages or under cultural restrictions that made
them unable to have normal or varied relationships.
Dipu Ahad, a councillor in Newcastle, said grooming was not just an
issue for South Asian communities, adding “the only box they fit into is of
abusers”.
“In the biggest cases we’ve seen recently, we can’t deny they’re Asian men,” he
told The Independent.
“This is an opportunity to look at how we use our communities, our culture, our
religion to combat these issues.”
Mr Ahad said the grooming
gangs in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and Newcastle
were “not followers of Islam but were from Muslim communities”.
He called for ethnic minority groups to be given the tools to debate views on
women and relationships without making them feel targeted, adding: “Discussions
need to happen now because God forbid there might be another city or another
town.”
In Bradford, white children were over-represented in the latest figures among
those affected compared to the general population, making up 70 per cent of
open cases, compared to 16 per cent Asian and 7 per cent mixed.
The council is running a number of safeguarding initiatives and is training
teachers, taxi drivers, shopkeepers and bar owners to spot suspicious behaviour, while running education programmes
in schools.
Local groups have also started a project running sessions with men and boys
from Pakistani backgrounds, including imams and Islamic schools.
Meanwhile, West Yorkshire Police is running a dedicated investigation,
Operation Dalesway, with 66 suspects arrested so far,
10 charged and eight ongoing investigations.
Assistant chief constable Catherine Hankinson said child sexual exploitation
was a “top priority” and proactive work was ongoing to identify those at risk.
“All reports alleging child abuse in West Yorkshire are investigated by
specially trained officers to identify offences and those suspected of
committing them,” she added.
“Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and I would urge anyone
with concerns over a vulnerable child to contact the police so swift action can
be taken to address the issue.”
Ms Woodhouse said police have drastically improved
training on grooming, which aims to eradicate the kind of treatment that saw
her arrested after being found in bed with her much older abuser, as he walked
free.
She is working with the Department of Education on relationship advice and
helps authorities conduct specialist training, and is also proposing a law to
pardon victims for crimes committed under duress.
Ms Woodhouse said “victim blaming” needed to be
combated and urged the criminal justice system to implement measures making it
less distressing for girls to come forward, adding: “The response is getting a
lot better but there’s still a lot of work to be done.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “This Government has done more than any other
to tackle child sexual exploitation, declaring it a national threat and
investing millions of pounds to enable officers to actively seek out and bring
offenders to justice. This has led to a huge increase in police activity and a
marked rise in prosecutions and convictions.
“We are continuing the urgent work of overhauling how our police, social services
and other agencies work together to protect vulnerable children, especially
from the kind of organised grooming and sexual
exploitation that has come to light in towns and cities across the UK.
“The Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Progress Report, published in February
2017, details our delivery of the ambitious programme
of work we set out in the original 2015 report, and signals a step change in
our national response to sexual violence against children and young people.”
Denmark: Rapes Soared 196 PERCENT Since Liberal Government Took Power, Invited
Refugees
August 2, 2017
10News
Update
Since the self-proclaimed Conservative party Venstre
(meaning “Left”) with their slogan “Denmark’s Liberal party” took power in June
2015, the number of rapes reported to the police has soared by a shocking 196
percent, according to the Danish state’s bureau of statistics.
This rise in rape attacks coincides with the liberal government’s opening of
Danish national borders to refugees that primarily are from Islamic countries.
In Denmark, there are no official statistics on the rapists’ ethnicity or
nationalities, but according to a report from the Danish Ministry of Justice,
“There is a clear overrepresentation of immigrants from non-western countries
when looking at the statistics of convicted rapists.”
Surveying neighbouring countries, one might get an
idea of just how big a share of these rapes are
committed by non-Western migrants and refugees. In Sweden, 92 percent of all
severe rapes (severely violent rapes) are committed by migrants and refugees.
100 percent of all attack rapes (where victim and attacker had no previous
contact) are committed by that same group. 100 percent of attack rapes in Oslo
are committed by foreign men, often asylum seekers.
Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them,
claims Islamic professor
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Zee
News
Washington: A female Islamic professor has claimed that Allah has allowed
Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to 'humiliate' them, report
stated.
Suad Saleh, who is a professor from the renowned
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, made the claims during an interview to a
TV channel.
According to The Inquisitr News report, in the video posted by LiveLeak, Saleh says that Allah has given the Muslim men a
way to have sexual relations with slave women that is 'legitimate'.
Saleh suggests that the only time it is acceptable for Muslim men to enslave a
woman for sexual purposes is during a 'legitimate war' between Muslims and
their enemies such as that with Israel.
Therefore, the female Islamic professor says that enslaving Israeli women and
raping them would be entirely acceptable and encouraged, states The Inquistr News report.
“The female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own.’ In order to humiliate
them, they become the property of the army commander, or of a Muslim, and he
can have sex with them just like he has sex with his wives,” reads the
transcript of the interview provided by The Middle East Media Research
Institute.
However, after her interview went viral many including members of Muslim
community condemned her claims and termed them false propaganda of Islam.
Freed Yezidi teen tells of life as ISIS sex
slave
By Simav Mazher
October 28, 2015
Rudaw.net
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A young Kurdish Yezidi woman who became pregnant
while being held as a sex slave of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, for
more than three months, has brought her exclusive story to Rudaw.
The woman, 15, is originally from Shingal. Her name
has been changed to Hind in this account to preserve her safety. She was
abducted when ISIS fighters overran the Yezidi’s ancestral homeland.
“On August 3 at 2am, the war started in Shingal. The
fight lasted until 9am and then the Yezidis and Peshmerga were defeated. I left
with my brother’s wife to my uncle’s house. I had my little sisters with me and
my aunts had their daughters, and we managed to find a car. My father and
mother along with my uncle walked to the mountain. Those who walked towards the
mountain managed to escape but those who took a car were stuck and ISIS caught
them,” she told Rudaw.
Hind said she distrusted some local Arabs and suspected they had waited for
this moment to attack the Yezidis.
She said most of the families who failed to escape were caught on the Syrian
border and then taken to a camp in Khansor.
Hind had said she and two of her sisters were taken to Baaj
and then transferred to Tal Afar. After Tal Afar, they were taken to Badoosh prison where they stayed for 25 days.
“They took us again to Tal Afar and we stayed in a school. They separated the
families with the young girls. We were around 700 girls,” she said.
She said she stayed at a three-storey house in Mosul
and one day one an ISIS emir came and took her and one of her friends.
“At 3am he raped me. That ugly monster,” she told Rudaw.
“For more than three months, I cried myself from the morning until the night.”
Hind and her friends never lost hope. They tried to escape but they were caught
by the militants and taken to base where hundreds of other Yezidi girls were
held as hostage.
“My friend and I were taken to a basement and stayed there for one week with no
water and food,” she said.
Hind and her friend were continuously transferred between places. She said they
were even taken to Syria and then returned to the basement.
“I still live in fear and have nightmares every night,”
she said.
“The first one who raped me was tall and had a long beard. He was originally
from Syria,” she told Rudaw.
Hind said she was sold once for $200 and once given as a gift from one ISIS
fighter to another.
Finally, she was forced to marry an ISIS member who eventually took her to a
Christian house.
"We managed to find a cell phone and gave the phone to my friends and they
charged it. I talked with my family and they helped us find a smuggler who was
secretly working to buy the girls who were in ISIS captivity," she said.
“At 3am, my friends and I jumped from the second floor. A car arrived and took us
to a house in Mosul. We stayed there for three days. Another smuggler came to
take us to Jazira near Mosul,” she said.
Hind managed to return back to the Kurdistan region in November 2014. Four of
her siblings are still held by ISIS.
“I would look them in the eye and ask, ‘Why are you doing this? Don’t you fear
God?’ I told them, ‘We are the same age as your daughters. There is no mercy in
your hearts. You hit me. You rape me’.”
She said the ISIS fighters would say, “Islam allows it and we will do it.”
“They forced me to read Quran and pray in front of them. And I had no choice
but to obey,”
Hind said most ISIS members are foreigners and some spoke English. She said
some were from Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United
States, China and other countries. She said the foreigners mostly stayed in
Syria and did not come to Iraq.
During her captivity, she noticed that the militants were eager to pray and
fast. She said they frequently mentioned heaven.
Hind said that some ISIS members drank alcohol, but only in secret because it
is not allowed in Islam.
Hind said some of the foreign women who joined ISIS were very happy. She said a
woman from the UK told her, “ISIS is very good. They provide us with
everything: money, houses and guards.”
Hind said went to school and learned how to read and write, but after what ISIS
did to her she remembers nothing.
“I was raped by three different ISIS members with different nationalities. I
had no idea I was pregnant. I felt sick all the time and one day I started to
bleed. I was taken to the doctor and they told me I was pregnant. I lost the
child because the child was threatening my life,” said the woman.
“I am just happy that I did not carry an ISIS child into this world,” she said.
Hind was also left heartbroken and ashamed.
“Before ISIS attack, I was in love with a guy. After I returned, he told me
that he is not interested in me anymore because I was raped,” she said.
Hind said that she has no desire to get married.
Hind now lives at a camp with her family in Erbil.
“Life at the camp is very hard,” she said.
“Soon, I will leave to Europe and will never come back, even if this place
becomes a heaven on earth.”
ISIS
Enshrines a Theology of Rape
Claiming the Quran’s support, the
Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and
uses the practice as a recruiting tool.
Written by RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
AUG.
13, 2015
The
New York Times
QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic
State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a
sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran
not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he
insisted.
He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated
himself in prayer before getting on top of her.
When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of
religious devotion.
“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so
small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that
according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping
me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family
in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.
The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has
become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the
Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as
an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls who recently escaped the
Islamic State, as well as an examination of the group’s official
communications, illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group’s
core tenets.
The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure,
with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where
they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to
transport them.
A total of 5,270 Yazidis were abducted last year, and at least 3,144 are still
being held, according to community leaders. To handle them, the Islamic State
has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales contracts
notarized by the ISIS-run Islamic courts. And the practice has become an
established recruiting tool to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim
societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating is forbidden.
A growing body of internal policy memos and theological discussions has
established guidelines for slavery, including a lengthy how-to manual issued by
the Islamic State Research and Fatwa Department just last month. Repeatedly,
the ISIS leadership has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran
and other religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to elevate
and celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial, even virtuous.
“Every time that he came to rape me, he would pray,” said F, a 15-year-old girl
who was captured on the shoulder of Mount Sinjar one year ago and was sold to
an Iraqi fighter in his 20s. Like some others interviewed by The New York
Times, she wanted to be identified only by her first initial because of the
shame associated with rape.
“He kept telling me this is ibadah,” she said, using a term from Islamic
scripture meaning worship.
“He said that raping me is his prayer to God. I said to him, ‘What you’re doing
to me is wrong, and it will not bring you closer to God.’ And he said, ‘No,
it’s allowed. It’s halal,’ ” said the teenager, who
escaped in April with the help of smugglers after being enslaved for nearly
nine months.
Calculated Conquest
The Islamic State’s formal introduction of systematic sexual slavery dates to
Aug. 3, 2014, when its fighters invaded the villages on the southern flank of
Mount Sinjar, a craggy massif of dun-colored rock in northern Iraq.
Its valleys and ravines are home to the Yazidis, a tiny religious minority who
represent less than 1.5 percent of Iraq’s estimated population of 34 million.
The offensive on the mountain came just two months after the fall of Mosul, the
second-largest city in Iraq. At first, it appeared that the subsequent advance
on the mountain was just another attempt to extend the territory controlled by
Islamic State fighters.
Almost immediately, there were signs that their aim this time was different.
Survivors say that men and women were separated within the first hour of their
capture. Adolescent boys were told to lift up their shirts, and if they had
armpit hair, they were directed to join their older brothers and fathers. In
village after village, the men and older boys were driven or marched to nearby
fields, where they were forced to lie down in the dirt and sprayed with
automatic fire.
The women, girls and children, however, were hauled off in open-bed trucks.
“The offensive on the mountain was as much a sexual conquest as it was for
territorial gain,” said Matthew Barber, a University of Chicago expert on the
Yazidi minority. He was in Dohuk, near Mount Sinjar, when the onslaught began
last summer and helped create a foundation that provides psychological support
for the escapees, who number more than 2,000, according to community activists.
Fifteen-year-old F says her family of nine was trying to escape, speeding up
mountain switchbacks, when their aging Opel overheated. She, her mother, and
her sisters — 14, 7, and 4 years old — were helplessly standing by their
stalled car when a convoy of heavily armed Islamic State fighters encircled
them.
“Right away, the fighters separated the men from the women,” she said. She, her
mother and sisters were first taken in trucks to the nearest town on Mount
Sinjar. “There, they separated me from my mom. The young, unmarried girls were
forced to get into buses.”
The buses were white, with a painted stripe next to the word “Hajj,” suggesting
that the Islamic State had commandeered Iraqi government buses used to
transport pilgrims for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. So many Yazidi women and
girls were loaded inside F’s bus that they were forced to sit on each other’s
laps, she said.
Once the bus headed out, they noticed that the windows were blocked with
curtains, an accouterment that appeared to have been added because the fighters
planned to transport large numbers of women who were not covered in burqas or
head scarves.
F’s account, including the physical description of the bus, the placement of
the curtains and the manner in which the women were transported, is echoed by a
dozen other female victims interviewed for this article. They described a
similar set of circumstances even though they were kidnapped on different days
and in locations miles apart.
F says she was driven to the Iraqi city of Mosul some six hours away, where
they herded them into the Galaxy Wedding Hall. Other groups of women and girls
were taken to a palace from the Saddam Hussein era, the Badoosh
prison compound and the Directory of Youth building in Mosul, recent escapees
said. And in addition to Mosul, women were herded into elementary schools and
municipal buildings in the Iraqi towns of Tal Afar, Solah,
Ba’aj and Sinjar City.
They would be held in confinement, some for days, some for months. Then,
inevitably, they were loaded into the same fleet of buses again before being
sent in smaller groups to Syria or to other locations inside Iraq, where they
were bought and sold for sex.
“It was 100 percent preplanned,” said Khider Domle, a Yazidi community activist who maintains a detailed
database of the victims. “I spoke by telephone to the first family who arrived
at the Directory of Youth in Mosul, and the hall was already prepared for them.
They had mattresses, plates and utensils, food and water for hundreds of
people.”
Detailed reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reach the same
conclusion about the organized nature of the sex trade.
In each location, survivors say Islamic State fighters first conducted a census
of their female captives.
Inside the voluminous Galaxy banquet hall, F sat on the marble floor, squeezed
between other adolescent girls. In all she estimates there were over 1,300
Yazidi girls sitting, crouching, splayed out and leaning against the walls of
the ballroom, a number that is confirmed by several other women held in the
same location.
They each described how three Islamic State fighters walked in, holding a
register. They told the girls to stand. Each one was instructed to state her
first, middle and last name, her age, her hometown, whether she was married,
and if she had children.
For two months, F was held inside the Galaxy hall. Then one day, they came and
began removing young women. Those who refused were dragged out by their hair,
she said.
In the parking lot the same fleet of Hajj buses was waiting to take them to
their next destination, said F. Along with 24 other girls and young women, the
15-year-old was driven to an army base in Iraq. It was there in the parking lot
that she heard the word “sabaya” for the first time.
“They laughed and jeered at us, saying ‘You are our sabaya.’
I didn’t know what that word meant,” she said. Later on, the local Islamic
State leader explained it meant slave.
“He told us that Taus Malik” — one of seven angels to
whom the Yazidis pray — “is not God. He said that Taus
Malik is the devil and that because you worship the devil, you belong to us. We
can sell you and use you as we see fit.”
The Islamic State’s sex trade appears to be based solely on enslaving women and
girls from the Yazidi minority. As yet, there has been no widespread campaign
aimed at enslaving women from other religious minorities, said Samer Muscati, the author of the recent Human Rights Watch
report. That assertion was echoed by community leaders, government officials
and other human rights workers.
Mr. Barber, of the University of Chicago, said that the focus on Yazidis was
likely because they are seen as polytheists, with an oral tradition rather than
a written scripture. In the Islamic State’s eyes that puts them on the fringe
of despised unbelievers, even more than Christians and Jews, who are considered
to have some limited protections under the Quran as “People of the Book.”
In Kojo, one of the southernmost villages on Mount Sinjar and among the
farthest away from escape, residents decided to stay, believing they would be
treated as the Christians of Mosul had months earlier. On Aug. 15, 2014, the
Islamic State ordered the residents to report to a school in the center of
town.
When she got there, 40-year-old Aishan Ali Saleh
found a community elder negotiating with the Islamic State, asking if they
could be allowed to hand over their money and gold in return for safe passage.
The fighters initially agreed and laid out a blanket, where Ms. Saleh placed
her heart-shaped pendant and her gold rings, while the men left crumpled bills.
Instead of letting them go, the fighters began shoving the men outside, bound
for death.
Sometime later, a fleet of cars arrived and the women, girls and children were
driven away.
The Market
Months later, the Islamic State made clear in its online magazine that its
campaign of enslaving Yazidi women and girls had been extensively preplanned.
“Prior to the taking of Sinjar, Shariah students in the Islamic State were
tasked to research the Yazidis,” said the English-language article, headlined
“The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour,” which appeared in the October issue
of the magazine, Dabiq.
The article made clear that for the Yazidis, there was no chance to pay a tax
known as jizya to be set free, “unlike the Jews and Christians.”
“After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to
the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the
Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the
Islamic State’s authority to be divided” as spoils, the article said.
In much the same way as specific Bible passages were used centuries later to
support the slave trade in the United States, the Islamic State cites specific
verses or stories in the Quran or else in the Sunna, the traditions based on
the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, to justify their human
trafficking, experts say.
Scholars of Islamic theology disagree, however, on the proper interpretation of
these verses, and on the divisive question of whether Islam actually sanctions
slavery.
Many argue that slavery figures in Islamic scripture in much the same way that
it figures in the Bible — as a reflection of the period in antiquity in which
the religion was born.
“In the milieu in which the Quran arose, there was a widespread practice of men
having sexual relationships with unfree women,” said Kecia Ali, an associate
professor of religion at Boston University and the author of a book on slavery
in early Islam. “It wasn’t a particular religious institution. It was just how
people did things.”
Cole Bunzel, a scholar of Islamic theology at
Princeton University, disagrees, pointing to the numerous references to the
phrase “Those your right hand possesses” in the Quran, which for centuries has
been interpreted to mean female slaves. He also points to the corpus of Islamic
jurisprudence, which continues into the modern era and which he says includes
detailed rules for the treatment of slaves.
“There is a great deal of scripture that sanctions slavery,” said Mr. Bunzel, the author of a research paper published by the
Brookings Institution on the ideology of the Islamic State. “You can argue that
it is no longer relevant and has fallen into abeyance. ISIS would argue that
these institutions need to be revived, because that is what the Prophet and his
companions did.”
The youngest, prettiest women and girls were bought in the first weeks after
their capture. Others — especially older, married women — described how they
were transported from location to location, spending months in the equivalent
of human holding pens, until a prospective buyer bid on them.
Their captors appeared to have a system in place, replete with its own methodology
of inventorying the women, as well as their own lexicon. Women and girls were
referred to as “Sabaya,” followed by their name. Some
were bought by wholesalers, who photographed and gave them numbers, to
advertise them to potential buyers.
Osman Hassan Ali, a Yazidi businessman who has successfully smuggled out
numerous Yazidi women, said he posed as a buyer in order to be sent the
photographs. He shared a dozen images, each one showing a Yazidi woman sitting
in a bare room on a couch, facing the camera with a blank, unsmiling
expression. On the edge of the photograph is written in Arabic, “Sabaya No. 1,” “Sabaya No. 2,”
and so on.
Buildings where the women were collected and held sometimes included a viewing
room.
“When they put us in the building, they said we had arrived at the ‘Sabaya Market,’” said one 19-year-old victim, whose first
initial is I. “I understood we were now in a slave market.”
She estimated there were at least 500 other unmarried women and girls in the
multistory building, with the youngest among them being 11. When the buyers
arrived, the girls were taken one by one into a separate room.
“The emirs sat against the wall and called us by name. We had to sit in a chair
facing them. You had to look at them, and before you went in, they took away
our scarves and anything we could have used to cover ourselves,” she said.
“When it was my turn, they made me stand four times. They made me turn around.”
The captives were also forced to answer intimate questions, including reporting
the exact date of their last menstrual cycle. They realized that the fighters
were trying to determine whether they were pregnant, in keeping with a Shariah
rule stating that a man cannot have intercourse with his slave if she is
pregnant.
Property of ISIS
The use of sex slavery by the Islamic State initially surprised even the
group’s most ardent supporters, many of whom sparred with journalists online
after the first reports of systematic rape.
The Islamic State’s leadership has repeatedly sought to justify the practice to
its internal audience.
After the initial article in Dabiq in October, the
issue came up in the publication again this year, in an editorial in May that
expressed the writer’s hurt and dismay at the fact that some of the group’s own
sympathizers had questioned the institution of slavery.
“What really alarmed me was that some of the Islamic State’s supporters started
denying the matter as if the soldiers of the Khilafah
had committed a mistake or evil,” the author wrote. “I write this while the
letters drip of pride,’’ she said. “We have indeed raided and captured the kafirah women and drove them like sheep by the edge of the
sword.” Kafirah refers to infidels.
In a pamphlet published online in December, the Research and Fatwa Department
of the Islamic State detailed best practices, including explaining that slaves
belong to the estate of the fighter who bought them and therefore can be willed
to another man and disposed of just like any other property after his death.
Recent escapees describe an intricate bureaucracy surrounding their captivity,
with their status as a slave registered in a contract. When their owner would
sell them to another buyer, a new contract would be drafted, like transferring
a property deed. At the same time, slaves can also be set free, and fighters
are promised a heavenly reward for doing so.
Though rare, this has created one avenue of escape for victims.
A 25-year-old victim who escaped last month, identified by her first initial,
A, described how one day her Libyan master handed her a laminated piece of
paper. He explained that he had finished his training as a suicide bomber and
was planning to blow himself up, and was therefore setting her free.
Labeled a “Certificate of Emancipation,” the document was signed by the judge
of the western province of the Islamic State. The Yazidi woman presented it at
security checkpoints as she left Syria to return to Iraq, where she rejoined
her family in July.
The Islamic State recently made it clear that sex with Christian and Jewish
women captured in battle is also permissible, according to a new 34-page manual
issued this summer by the terror group’s Research and Fatwa Department.
Just about the only prohibition is having sex with a pregnant slave, and the
manual describes how an owner must wait for a female captive to have her
menstruating cycle, in order to “make sure there is nothing in her womb,”
before having intercourse with her. Of the 21 women and girls interviewed for
this article, among the only ones who had not been raped were the women who
were already pregnant at the moment of their capture, as well as those who were
past menopause.
Beyond that, there appears to be no bounds to what is sexually permissible.
Child rape is explicitly condoned: “It is permissible to have intercourse with
the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty, if she is fit for intercourse,”
according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute of a
pamphlet published on Twitter last December.
One 34-year-old Yazidi woman, who was bought and repeatedly raped by a Saudi
fighter in the Syrian city of Shadadi, described how
she fared better than the second slave in the household — a 12-year-old girl
who was raped for days on end despite heavy bleeding.
“He destroyed her body. She was badly infected. The fighter kept coming and
asking me, ‘Why does she smell so bad?’ And I said, she has an infection on the
inside, you need to take care of her,” the woman said.
Unmoved, he ignored the girl’s agony, continuing the ritual of praying before
and after raping the child.
“I said to him, ‘She’s just a little girl,’” the older woman recalled. “And he
answered: ‘No. She’s not a little girl. She’s a slave. And she knows exactly
how to have sex.’’’
“And having sex with her pleases God,” he said.
Saudi Cleric Suggests Baby Girls Wear Burqas to
Prevent Rape
By Lina Batarags,
Mon, February 03, 2014
Opposing View Points
A Saudi cleric has proposed this solution to
molestation of young girls: they should be required to wear burqas.
While no law or practice in Islam requires that
baby girls wear burqas, Sheik Abdulla Daoud suggested that covering the babies
in burqas would keep them from being raped. Daoud made the controversial
comment on TV last year, stating that babies were being molested in Saudi
Arabia.
The video recently surfaced on social media,
and elicited shocked and indignant response from fellow Saudis.
“Now the baby victims are blamed for men’s
crimes. Allah help us stop the ignorance, stupidity,” tweeted Masleeza Othman.
Othman later followed up the original tweet
with another condemning those who “abuse, molested and sexually assaulted or
harassed the babies, children.”
“They aren’t supposed to even live!!” Othman continued.
Senior Islamic officers have also been highly
critical of Daoud’s comments, noting that they “made Islam and Sharia law look
bad.”
Daoud’s comment comes as a contrast to online
activists’ recent calls for the Saudi kingdom’s rulers to impose harsher
punishments on child abusers. Most notably, Fayhan
al-Ghamdi, a prominent preacher, received a light
sentencing after confessing to raping and beating his 5-year-old daughter to
death.
Startlingly, al-Ghamdi
is protected by Saudi Arabia’s Islamic law, under which a father cannot be
executed for murdering his children or his wife.
Reports indicate that Saudi Arabia plans to
launch a 24-hour hotline, specifically for reporting violence against children.
Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain
TUESDAY,
22 MAY 2012 12:26
SOEREN KERN
It recently emerged that British police had known for more than a decade that
Muslim rape gangs were targeting young girls, but they ignored the evidence of
rapes because "they were petrified of being called racist." Rather
than acknowledge that there is a problem, Muslim groups have decided to play
the victim card instead.
They are working overtime trying to silence public discussion about Muslim sex
crimes by branding critics as "far-right racists" and
"Islamophobic." Several of the men on trial in Liverpool apparently
told their victims that it was all right for the girls to be passed around for
sex with dozens of men "because it's what we do in our country."
Nine Muslim men belonging to a child-rape gang in northwestern England have
received hefty prison sentences for trafficking and raping young British girls.
The three-month sexual grooming trial at a
court in Liverpool, which ended on May 9, has drawn nationwide attention to the
sexual abuse of children and women by Muslim immigrants, and British police are
currently investigating at least 40 other cases of child rapes perpetrated by
Muslims in northern England.
While Muslim groups have sought to discredit the police investigations by
accusing British authorities of "racism" and
"Islamophobia," it recently emerged that British police had known for
more than a decade that Muslim rape gangs were targeting young girls in
England, but they ignored evidence of the rapes and failed to act because they
were afraid of being accused of racism.
The Liverpool Crown Court heard horrific
testimony from five victims -- the youngest was 13 when the abuse began -- who
were plied with alcohol, drugs and gifts so they could be "passed
around" among a group of men aged between 24 and 59 for sex in apartments,
houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops.
The nine defendants -- eight are from Pakistan
and one is from Afghanistan -- were sentenced to a total of 77 years in prison
after being convicted of rape, aiding and abetting rape, conspiracy to engage
in sexual activity with a child, sexual assault and trafficking for the purpose
of sexual exploitation.
All of the Muslims live in Rochdale, a grimy
suburb of Greater Manchester in northwestern England. Some of the men were
regarded as pillars of their community.
One of the men, Abdul Rauf, 43, is a married
father-of-five and an Islamic studies teacher at a local mosque. According to
court testimony, Rauf asked a 15-year-victim if she had any younger friends and
he drove some of the girls to other men who would use them for sex, even though
he knew the girls were minors. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
Another man, Adil Khan, 42, who is married with
one child, fathered the child of a 13-year-old victim; he received an
eight-year sentence. Hamid Safi, 22, an illegal immigrant with no fixed
address, will be deported to Afghanistan at the end of his four-year sentence.
Mohammed Sajid, 35, was sentenced to 12 years
for rape, six years for conspiracy, one year for trafficking and six years for
sexual activity with a child. Known as "Saj,"
he would regularly ply victims with alcohol before having sex with them at his
apartment, where groups of men would gather and "pass around" the
girls.
Judge Gerald Clifton said: "One of the
factors leading to that [rape] was the fact that they [the victims] were not
part of your community [Pakistani] or religion [Muslim]. Some of you, when
arrested, said it [the prosecution] was triggered by race. That is nonsense.
What triggered this prosecution was your lust and greed."
Clifton said that in some cases, the girls had been raped "callously,
viciously and violently" at a time when they were going through difficult
periods in their lives. "One had left her parents' home,
another had been in [foster] care for many years. You attracted them to your
company by flattery, free food, and alcohol. Some of you acted to satiate your
lust, some to make money out of them. All of you treated them as though they
were worthless and beyond all respect."
The guardians of British multiculturalism have
been quick to argue that it is merely coincidental that the rapists in the
Rochdale case are Muslims and that sex abuse also occurs in white gangs. Some
in British have also sought to portray the Muslims as the true victims in this
case.
Defense attorney Simon Nichol told the BBC that
his client "has objected from the start for being tried by an all-white
jury, and subsequent events have confirmed his fears. He believes his
convictions have nothing to do with justice but result from the faith and the
race of the defendants. He further believes that society failed the girls in
this case before the girls even met them and now that failure is being blamed
on a weak minority group."
But Simon Danczuk, Labour Party MP for Rochdale, said in an interview that
"it would be daft not to believe that race plays a part." He added:
"There is a subculture of a small group of males that are Asian, that are
collaborating to abuse young white girls who are vulnerable. The subculture is
under the radar. Some people in communities are in denial about it but we need
some home truths if we are going to address this."
According to experts interviewed by The
Telegraph, while white pedophiles generally operate in isolation, the
Muslim-led grooming is being done mostly by large numbers of men acting as a
group. Several of the men on trial in Liverpool apparently told their victims
that it was all right for them to be passed around for sex with dozens of men
"because it's what we do in our country."
Baroness Sayeeda
Warsi, Britain's most senior Muslim politician, told the London Evening
Standard that there are "Pakistani men who believe that white girls are
fair game. And we have to be prepared to say that. You can only start solving a
problem if you acknowledge it first."
Warsi said the color of the victims' skin, as
well as their vulnerability, helped to make them a target. She also said that
some Pakistani men "see women as second class
citizens and white women probably as third class citizens" and that these
men "are to be spoken out against."
Warsi called on British authorities to stop
being squeamish about investigating allegations involving Muslims.
"Cultural sensitivity should never be a bar to applying the law," she
said.
Greater Manchester Police and the Crown
Prosecution Service [CPS] have apologized for failing to protect the first
victim -- a 15-year-old known as Girl A -- following her plea for help in
August 2008.
Girl A told police that she had been raped and
provided DNA evidence from her attacker, but the CPS twice decided not to
prosecute him.
Girl A's abuse intensified and she was being
driven to apartments and houses to be raped by up to five men a night, four or
five days a week. She was singled out because she was white, vulnerable and
under-age. Her ordeal only ended when her teachers forced social workers to
intervene after she became pregnant and they became concerned by the number of
Muslim men picking her up from school.
Girl A said that in a six-hour interview she
gave police details about her abusers and where the attacks took place. She
said: "I hoped they were going to do something and it would stop. But it
just carried on. It just started again with different men and more men this
time, and that's when it started becoming up to five men a day."
When the Greater Manchester Police finally
forwarded a file on Girls A's rape to the CPS in 2009, a government lawyer
decided not to charge anyone because he said she would not be a sufficiently
credible witness to put before a jury. A second CPS lawyer backed that opinion.
It was only after social workers noticed an
upsurge in cases of "child grooming" – pretending to befriend
children with attention and gifts to gain their trust, and eventually lead them
to think that underage sexual activity is "normal" -- that police
reinvestigated and made a series of arrests which led to the convictions on May
9.
According to Ann Cryer, a former Labour MP for the town of Keighley, who has campaigned to
draw public attention to the issue of Muslim sex gangs, complaints to social
workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being
called racist."
Cryer said: "This is an absolute scandal.
They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political
correctness. They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in
dealing with the issues in front of them."
Rather than acknowledge that there is a
problem, Muslim groups in Britain have decided to play the victim card instead.
They are also working overtime to try to silence public discussion about Muslim
sex crimes in Britain by branding critics as "far right racists" and
"Islamophobic."
The Muslim Council of Britain has complained
about a "climate of hate" against Muslims and it has warned Muslims
to brace themselves for "Islamophobic" attacks on Muslims and
mosques.
Faith Matters, a pro-Muslim "inter-faith
think tank" which established a helpline called Tell Mama to monitor
"Islamophobia" when the Liverpool trial began in February, said the
"Islamophobic hatred" prompted by the case has added to the
"poison" against Muslims.
Fiyaz Mughal, a spokesman
for Faith Matters, said: "This is dangerous for community relations.
There's lots of discussion about 'Muslim paedos,' like saying the prophet
Mohammed married a young girl. All of this disgusting talk is adding to the
poison against Muslims."
Although five girls testified at the trial in
Liverpool, British police are pursuing leads that the Rochdale gang exploited
at least 50 other girls.
On May 12, just three days after the nine
Muslims from Rochdale were sentenced to prison, Greater Manchester Police
arrested another nine Muslims, aged between 24 and 38, on suspicion of sexually
abusing a child. And on May 19, police arrested two more Muslims, both aged 33,
on suspicion of sexual assault and rape.
In January 2011, researchers at The Times
newspaper identified 17 prosecutions in Britain since 1997 -- 14 of them in the
past three years -- involving the on-street grooming of girls aged 11 to 16.
The victims came from 13 towns and cities and
in each case two or more men were convicted of offenses. In total, 56 people,
with an average age of 28, were found guilty of crimes including rape, child
abduction, indecent assault and sex with a child. All but three of the men were
Muslim.
Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow
for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios
Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on
Facebook.
SOURCE: Gatestone
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Cairo mob brutally assaulted CBS reporter Lara
Logan
By Michael Winter, USA TODAY
Feb 15, 2011
A mob in Tahrir Square brutally beat and sexually
assaulted CBS News' chief foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, who was covering
Friday's celebration of the departure of former president Hosni Mubarak, the network says. She is
in a U.S. hospital recovering.
CBS says Logan, who was reporting for 60 Minutes, was
surrounded by more than 200 people "whipped into frenzy." She then became
separated from her TV crew and security and then suffered a "brutal and
sustained sexual assault and beating." She was saved by a group of women
and about 20 Egyptian soldiers, and reconnected with her colleagues CBS says. Saturday she flew back to the United States and is now in a
hospital. The network said it would have no further comment.
The
Washington Post notes that 39-year-old Logan, who joined
CBS in 2002, is the mother of two young children. She met her husband, Joe
Burkett, a defense contractor, in Baghdad while covering the war.
The attack highlights the risks female
journalists face, The
Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta writes.
Most mainstream American news outlets have a
policy of not naming the survivors of sexual assault and it is hard to imagine
that CBS would have issued this statement, which landed like a thunderbolt in
the close-knit media world, without Logan's permission. That makes her one very
brave woman, as news of the attack ricocheted across Twitter and newspapers
with lightning speed.
Rapists stalk women in Somali refugee camps
(AP) – Dec 7, 2010
GALKAYO, Somalia (AP) — The three masked gunmen
burst into Asha Muse Ali's tent at night and grabbed every item of value they
could find: $85 in cash, a cell phone and a gold ring.
Then the attackers embarked on a crime that
carries a severe social stigma in this conservative Muslim country: They raped
Ali and her aunt.
Ali and her family are among almost 60,000
internally displaced people in the central Somali town of Galkayo, where
hundreds of families have sought refuge from violence in Mogadishu and in
south-central Somalia. But once there, the women risk being raped.
Aid workers say the number of rapes are alarming and that in some cases, they are fueled by
young men watching pornographic videos.
The Galkayo Education Center for Peace and
Development said it has documented 51 cases of rape against women in Galkayo
this year. Last year the center recorded 104 cases, most of them inside the
refugee camps. Many more cases go unreported.
"The number is bigger than what we
recorded because there are women who suffer in silence for fear of reprisals,
divorce or allegations that they consented to the act," said the center's Saado Mohamed Ise.
Antonio Guterres, the head of the U.N.'s
refugee agency, expressed outrage about the rapes as he toured camps in Galkayo
and Bossaso last week.
"That is a heinous crime and it needs to stop.
It is a central human rights question," Guterres said. Refugees also told
him they lack food, education, health care and proper shelter.
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 12,000
people have fled Mogadishu since Oct. 1. Somalia hasn't had a central
government for nearly 20 years. Much of Mogadishu is ruled by violent Islamist
militias who impose conservative social rules on families and mete out harsh
punishments for violations of the social code.
Rape as a weapon of war has occurred in many
countries across Africa, most notably in Congo. Rape and other kinds of sexual
violence are a reality in Somalia as well, although rapists are widely despised
here. Al-Shabab, the country's most powerful Islamist militia, has sentenced
men to death for sexual assaults.
Violence against women in Somalia can trigger
clan wars. The family of an accused rapist will pay monetary or livestock
compensation for sexual assaults. Somali families have also arranged marriages
between the rapist and the victim to clear the victim from the stigma
associated with rape.
Some camp residents and aid workers blamed some
of the sexual assaults on a new prevalence of pornography, which can even be
seen on cell phones. The top official in Somalia for the U.N. refugee agency
said he has received reports that youths "first heat up themselves before
they go out and hunt down women."
"It is appalling that the women in the
camps are raped by youth gangs with total impunity after watching pornographic
films," Bruno Geddo said.
Ise said three rapists were arrested last month
but freed after their victims left Galkayo, a sprawling city jammed with tents
and tin shacks and that lacks a proper judicial system to try rapists and
social resources to help victims.
Ali, 45, whose tent was broken into, said she
won't alert authorities about the masked men who raped her even if she
recognizes them. Ali's aunt, Muna Aden, who was also
raped during the Nov. 26 attack, nodded.
"No. I won't inform on them because I'm
afraid for my life," Ali recounted in an interview.
The Associated Press does not identify victims
of sex crimes as a matter of policy but both women gave permission to use their
names and take their photographs in order to publicize the dangers they face
and the poverty they live in.
Women who collect firewood in the bush or walk
in darkened refugee camps risk being attacked.
When the men armed with pistols, a dagger and
an AK-47 rifle broke into her tent, Ali, who earns $1.50 a day washing clothes
and cleaning houses, dragged her sleeping children — ages 10 and 8 — out of the
way. The gang ransacked the tent. Ali implored them: "Brothers, you've got
what you wanted, can you please go away and leave us alone? Please don't rape
us."
Instead, the three gunmen took turns raping
her.
Next Muna, 35, was
raped. Her husband, pinned down by the assailants, could do nothing. The
assault ended with Muna being stabbed in the thigh.
"Allah! Allah!" she screamed. The
attackers ran away.
The police arrived a half-hour later, asked a
few questions and left. In the morning, Ise's aid group took the women to the
hospital.
"I have experienced enough hell on this
world," said Ali, whose husband was shot dead two years ago in Mogadishu.
The attackers who raped Asha and Muna are not likely to be punished, said Ise.
"It is not uncommon to have a criminal
walking freely in the streets of the town the day after the night he raped a
woman," she said.
UK court sentences prince to at least 20 years
LONDON (AP) — A British court sentenced a Saudi
prince to at least 20 years in prison Wednesday for beating and strangling one
of his servants at a swank British hotel in a case that featured days of lurid
testimony about their abusive relationship.
Justice David Bean sentenced Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud to a life sentence without the
possibility of parole for 20 years for the brutal assault at the Landmark Hotel
in London on Feb. 15. The sensational case featured CCTV images of the shaven-headed
prince throwing a punch at his aide in a hotel elevator — the set piece in a
prosecution case that alleged the suave playboy prince battered his lover in a
rage following years of abuse.
"No one in this country is above the
law," Bean said. "It would be wrong for me to sentence you either
more severely or more leniently because of your membership of the Saudi royal
family."
The jury had deliberated just 95 minutes before
returning its verdict. The prince was convicted of both murder and a second count
of grievous bodily harm with intent relating to the attack in the elevator.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw described a
flamboyant lifestyle with a dashing prince who lived the luxury life — dining
in fine restaurants and receiving erotic massages from a masseur who compared
him to Hollywood actor Omar Sharif.
The prince's lawyers attempted before the trial
to stop evidence of his homosexuality from being made public.
"Beneath the surface this was a deeply
abusive relationship which the defendant exploited for sadistic reasons, for
his own personal gratification," Laidlaw said. He described the assault
leading to the aide's death as being "a really terrible, a really brutal
attack."
Saud originally told police that he and Bandar Abdulaziz had been swigging champagne into the early hours
of the morning, and that when he awoke at 3 p.m. he could not rouse Abdulaziz.
Jurors rejected a claim by his defense lawyer,
John Kelsey-Fry, that the prince was guilty only of manslaughter. Defense
lawyers had attempted to shield the prince's sexuality during the bail
application process, but failed.
Since the prince's arrest, Saudi officials have
said nothing about the case, and Saudi newspapers and television have not even
mentioned it, a sign of how embarrassing the trial and sentencing are for the
royal family.
Media in the kingdom strictly avoid any
discussion of the private lives of members of the royal family — particularly
of anything that casts them in a negative light.
The prince's grandfather is the half brother of the current king.
Britain has no prison transfer agreement with
Saudi Arabia, so there is no possibility the prince could serve his sentence
there.
Associated Press Writer Maggie Michael in Cairo
contributed to this story.
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.