Multiculturalists to Rape Victims: You Had It Coming

Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | 7/25/02 | Taranto

[pabianice]

Yesterday we noted a New York Times article in which reporter Sarah Lyall opined that a Turkish immigrant's murder in Sweden of his 26-year-old daughter because she "dishonored" the family by adapting to Swedish mores is a "tragic emblem of a European society's failure to bridge the gap in attitudes between its own culture and those of its newer arrivals"--not of Islamic immigrants' failure to conform to civilized norms. Writing in Partisan Review, Bruce Bawer tells a story that shows where this kind of thinking leads:

In September 2001 (only five days, in fact, before the destruction of the World Trade Center), 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 (who was described as having "lived for many years in Muslim countries") as saying that "Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes" because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative.

One reason for the high number of rapes by Muslims, explained the professor, was that in their native countries "rape is scarcely punished," since Muslims "believe that it is women who are responsible for rape." 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."

[pabianice]

The silence from NOW is deafening. Clearly, to them, rape is just fine when practiced by third world barbarians as part of their "cultural heritage."

Double standard, anyone?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Heck...you can't even insult NOW after Ted Kennedy, Clinton, the other Kennedys, etc.

[SternTrek]

we are all doomed.........., arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

[camle]

maybe Muslims are also Democrats!

[FITZ]

Amazing. The feminists must know that their rank in the multicultural politically correct world is quite below the Islamics' rank. Rape is the woman's fault if she's raped by a Muslim because she wasn't wearing a burka.

[dirtboy]

The silence from NOW is deafening. Clearly, to them, rape is just fine when practiced by third world barbarians as part of their "cultural heritage." Double standard, anyone?

Imagine if Jerry Falwell had said this instead of a Norwegian professor. NOW would be baying like rabid hounds for his head...

[Blood of Tyrants]

NOW doesn't distinguish among the "types" of rape since they believe that ALL M/F sex is rape.

[maximus@Nashville]

It was this week that the UN named Sweden as 1st or 2nd (Canada was 3rd) as the best place to live. I wonder if sexual assault by swarthy men and an attitude of acceptance toward it was considered in those deliberations.

[Savage Beast]

In their eagerness to eradicate Christian fundamentalism, "Liberals" have decided to replace it with Islamic fundamentalism. They've been watching too many old movies:

"When I'm face with the choice between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't tried yet."

--Mae West

[cardinal4]

One reason for the high number of rapes by Muslims, explained the professor, was that in their native countries "rape is scarcely punished," since Muslims "believe that it is women who are responsible for rape." 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."

PC be damned; Muslims, Arabs, Islam, or whatever you want to call these thugs, suck.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes" because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative.

What about all the ballyhoo about rape being a crime of violence, not a sexual crime?

Is that only true if the perp is a non-Muslim?

[Green Knight]

"Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it."

Apparently dressing like this is the only way for Norwegian women to avoid rape.



This professor's an idiot. He isn't advocating multiculturalism. He's advocating that Norwegians assimilate into Muslim society, rather than the other way around.

[joesnuffy]

you would have to give you govt. the power to round them all up... unfortunately (and since citizenship is so wontonly given away)...once the govt. has that power who else might they apply the roundup to?

[Red Jones]

arab immigrants to the US are the only immigrant group that votes predominantly republican. They generally don't like democrats. Indian immigrants vote overwhelmingly democrat as do japanese, chinese, latin american and even european immigrants.

But I will agree that it is completely unacceptable for them to think that raping white women is a good idea.

[jimtorr]

""He isn't advocating multiculturalism. He's advocating that Norwegians assimilate into Muslim society, rather than the other way around.""

Precisely. Apparently, he doesn't think that Muslim immigrants need to obey the law in Norway.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Suppose a few Norwegians left to live in Saudi ??

[Maceman]

It was this week that the UN named Sweden as 1st or 2nd (Canada was 3rd) as the best place to live.

Maybe they didn't see THIS article.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it."

All righty, then.

[gilor]

Ruger MKII hbar BUMP!!!

[ArrogantBustard]

"Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it."

Sam Colt, John Browning, et al. have provided us with numerous tools for 'adapting' to this issue. They allow us to provide a valuable service to these poor, misunderstood rapists. A .45 cal vasectomy costs about 15 cents.

AB