Why do South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland have the highest rates of rape when most of their population aren't Muslims? I thought only Islamic societies had high rape rates.
Who ever said that only Muslims rape? The problem we have with Islamic societies and rape though is something that no Western country has. Rape is freely reported and rapists are regularly charged and convicted of rape in the West so of course, the statistics are quite accurate and yes, it’s damning.
But one thing it doesn’t take into account is how can you get an accurate number of rape from Islamic countries when rape there is as easy and common as blinking? Western women have every right to report their rape and each time they do it gets marked as a statistic, Muslim women on the other hand have no so such privilege and this is what you’re ignoring right now.
Imagine a world where it is illegal for women to drive or talk in public with males that are not related to them. Where it is illegal for a woman to go out in public without a male relative or husband to escort her or to never be able to go out in public without wearing her hijab.
There is no penal code in these countries and there is no written law which specifically criminalizes rape or prescribes its punishment. If the rape victim first entered the rapist’s company, she also stands to be punished. In addition, there is no prohibition against raping your wife and rape against minors.
While there are some loose laws against rape, the actual conviction of rapists is extremely rare. In order for a perpetrator to be convicted he must confess or there must be four witnesses of the rape. Usually in these certain circumstances, there are only two witnesses present, the perpetrator and the victim. Since it’s almost impossible for a victim to find four witnesses, it is very unlikely that a perpetrator would admit to such a heinous act and he walks away freely.
in most cases, women are unable to speak for themselves in court. They must be represented by a male-relative or lawyer. It is considered shameful for a woman to speak to the judge and is only sometime allowed to do so if her face is covered. Because of this, if a woman is raped, and a man’s honor is based on her virtue, what male relative would want to shed further light on the subject by representing her? Also a man’s testimony is worth two women’s testimonies. So even if a woman had four witnesses to testify against the perpetrator, if some of them were women, the number of females would have to be doubled for the accusation to be considered.
In these societies, rape cases usually target the victim and the victim can be sentenced to even harsher punishment than the assailant. Human Rights Watch has investigated the situation, and their report concludes that the rape victim is punished when they speak out against the crime. In one case, the victim’s sentence was doubled for speaking out, the court also harassed the victim’s lawyer, going so far as to confiscate his professional license. A 23-year-old, unmarried woman was sentenced to one year in prison and 100 lashes for adultery. This woman had been gang-raped, became pregnant, and had tried (unsuccessfully) to abort the fetus.
If it’s not clear by now how impossible it is for Muslim women to file rape charges, there are many social stigmas that scare these women away from reporting a rape to the police. One social stigma is that in many instances the law enforcer will accuse the woman of having illicit sex instead of accusing the man of the crime. As a consequence of this accusation, societal reprisals take place such as a woman being seen as unfit for marriage or even violently punished for bringing shame to the family, this is why we see so many honor killings being committed against women who have been raped.
There is another cultural stigma that plays a role here. In Islamic society, a family’s honor, particularly the male family member’s honor is based on the purity and virtue of the women in their family. If a woman in the family becomes “violated” either by choice or by force, the family’s honor is seemingly stripped from them. It is not so much about the concern over the woman but over the honor of the men. Because of this engrained belief, already victimized women are sometimes further victimized by their own family members. This causes great fear among the women in these types of societies and if one is raped, it is very unlikely that she will report it based on the potential ensuing consequences.
So while you like to pretend that rape isn’t as serious in Muslim countries as other countries, you’re totally disregarding facts and rational analysis. The lack of conviction of rapists in Islamic societies isn’t because it doesn’t happen as often as the examples you have given, it’s due to the taboos and risk against reporting rape as a Muslim woman and their ineffective, misogynist judicial system. If perpetrators are not being punished then there is little incentive to not rape woman if that is the desire. Look at the child marriages, the cases where the rape victim is forced to marry her rapist, the mass rape against Yezedi girls. To illustrate how low the conviction rate actually is, in 2002, there were 59 reported rapes out of a population of 26,534,504 in Saudi Arabia.
Also, is it any surprise that the European countries who have the largest Muslim migrant influx are seeing an epidemic rise in rape and sexual assault? These men are coming from these extreme misogynist, ruthlessly oppressive Muslim countries and all of a sudden you believe that their attitudes towards women, young girls and sex automatically changes to fit Western culture and laws? There’s a rape epidemic in the West but nevertheless, European politicians and American mainstream media are refusing to acknowledge the obvious for reasons of political correctness. Islamic migrants are waging a real jihad on women in Europe - and government officials are collaborating.
For many years, in Sweden, for example, it has been possible to cover up the rapes, partly because the Swedish media chose to call the perpetrators “youth gangs,” and never mention that they were usually immigrants from Muslim countries. Ever since Sweden started accepting huge amounts of Muslim migrants, rape has risen by 1,472% and it’s now number two on the list. Why does Sweden have such a high rape rate compared to Muslim countries? Well because Swedish women don’t get killed for reporting it.
It was reported that 100 percent of rapes in Oslo, Norway were perpetrated by non-European migrants, with nine out of 10 of the targets being European women. Denmark’s rates are also alarming, with a majority of sexual assaults committed by Middle-Eastern migrants. And Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, with 77 percent of rapes in the country committed by the two-percent Muslim population. The rape epidemic in Scandinavia has gotten so bad that some blonde women are dying their hair black and only going out in groups in order to avoid being targeted by Muslim men. Sexual violence in Germany has skyrocketed too since Angela Merkel allowed more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the country.
But Islam is the religion of peace, they say. It’s like that Italian social justice warrior who hitch-hiked her way through the Middle-East to prove that Muslims are peaceful. She only made it to twelve days before she was raped and murdered.
In the United Kingdom, 1400 young non-Muslim British girls were raped, abused, abducted, tortured and trafficked by a group of Muslim men and what did the police do? They refused to investigate as they didn’t want to be seen as racists, or as one British MP called “not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat”.
In Stockholm, Sweden, 38 young girls, mostly under the age of 15, were sexually harassed and assaulted by a group of Muslim teenagers (which the police and media kept a secret as they too were scared of being racists). In Germany, 2000 Muslim men organized and committed mass sexual assaults on 1200 women. One woman refused to reveal her attackers ethnicity as she didn’t want to be seen as a racist. Even a Norwegian man who was raped by a Muslim Somalian asylum seeker said he feels guilty and responsible that his attacker will be deported.
A YouGov poll for Muslim students was conducted across 12 universities in the United Kingdom and it found 40% support the introduction of sharia into British law. A third support the notion of a worldwide Islamic state based on sharia law. 40% feel it is unacceptable for Muslim men and women to mix freely. A quarter have little or no respect for homosexuals and that men and women aren’t equals. While 32% of them said that killing in the name of religion was acceptable. These aren’t the ISIS terrorists giving these answers, these are your everyday Muslim students who have come to what is supposed to be one of the most tolerant, free and diverse countries of the world.
So to answer your question, no, of course it’s not only Islamic societies who have high rape rates but it’s only Islamic societies who legalize it, who ban women from reporting it and who punishes and often murders the victim, once you take all of this into account, just as The Womansstats Project has done, it’s undeniable that Islam has a real problem with not only rape but with women and they have some of the highest rates of rape in the world.
Once you be honest with your information and start talking about real issues instead of protecting political correctness at all costs with anti-West nonsense, we may start to actually make a difference.