Muslim Rapist Avoids Jail Because He "Didn’t Know" Sex With 13-Year-Olds Is Illegal

Pundit Press ^ | 1/31/13 | Aurelius

[thackney]

I've never heard that in Muslim countries any man can grab any child off the street and rape her.

When I worked in Yemen, we had a document control clerk who was from Somalia. One of the stories he told me was of he and 3 friends gang raping a girl a few years younger than they were as teenagers. He thought she was 13 and he was 16 if he remembered it correctly. The girl was someone from his village and they all knew each other.

The guy had gone on to be quite educated, he had been veterinarian before Muhammad Siad Barre fled Mogadishu and the rebels took over. He fluently spoke and wrote in Arabic, French, English and another that I forget. He was devote in his Muslim faith and we talked about differences from Christianity and Judaism.

I am trying to explain, that although I didn't agree with his beliefs, at the time (1993), I respected the man. He worked hard, he worked at a job well beneath his abilities because it was all the work he could get where he was.

When he told me that story, after we had worked around each other for many months, he laughed. He, now in his 40's, still thought it was a funny story. It is hard to convey in words how strange a dichotomy that he thought that a normal thing that kids might do.