Calanen wrote on Dec 19
th, 2008 at 4:19am:
[quote]first of all a tenuous link is given between immigration and increased reports of rape. I tend to agree with the woman quoted that a lot of his is probably due to the fact that rape is taken a lot more seriously nowadays and women feel more comfortable reporting it.
That cant account for the differential in who is committing the rapes.
Quote:Do you think that muslim immigrants have a monopoly on being poor? There are loads of poor people around, even white poor people.
that's not what I said- you might want to read it again
Quote:It is very hard to get 'muslim' based statistics because no one collects them, or actively suppresses them as Fjordman found. I have it on very good authority that a certain government prepared a comprehensive report to disprove the link between certain ethnic groups and crime. It proved it convincingly - so they buried the report and wont release it.
well I guess we'll just have to take your word for it Calanen seeing as you can provide no actual proof
Quote:In terms of gang rape under NSW law, most of the cases end up in the lower courts and so are not reported. Of the ones that end up in the higher courts, Skaf, MSK, and Eken were all of this particular much oppressed and discriminated against group. There is a belief that because such women are not dressed appropriately, and are not wearing burquas or hijabs, they are fair game. There is also a tradition in Islam which says that in jihad against infidels, one of the prizes you get is to rape infidel women in the Dar al Harb. Given we live in the Dar al Harb, couldnt this be at least one explanation for the very real problem?
I agree that misguided religious ideals can contribute to rape. however- this can be applied to other religions as well, it is not exclusively muslim territory. rape used to be used by catholics as a way of teaching local girls a lesson if they were seen to stray from the path of their religion (I'm referring to ireland here), rape was also a part of exorcist rituals. Not to mention the christian ideals that informed the treatments for 'sexual insanity' in women in the victorian era.
however if you ask me- a rapist is a rapist and they will use any excuse or influence to commit rape. as far as I'm concerned the muslims in those cases would have committed gang rape even if they weren't muslim. They may have used their religion to justify what they did in their eyes, but anyone who enjoys the degradation and humiliation of another human being, anyone who has such a basic lack of respect for someone else- will not even need an excuse- because they just enjoy what they were doing.
I"m not saying their background didn't have an effect on what they did- I'm saying it doesn't matter because even if they came from a different background they would have done the same thing. either you're capable of rape or you're not. and the extreme nature of their crimes suggest that they weren't just doing it reluctantly as some kind of 'jihad' mission- they were going out of their way to do something that fulfilled some kind of perverted pathological need in their sick little minds.
the belief you mentioned about uncovered women being 'fair game' - is not a common one in the muslim community in my experience. (I have heard similar statements, but note I have also heard these statements from non-muslims also) and certainly, is not enough to propel someone towards being a rapist. can you honestly imagine some regular bloke hearing this, believing it and then deciding that he's just going to start committing rapes en masse? it doesnt make sense. there's got to be something fundamentally wrong with that person that supercedes their religion, ethnicity etc