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Blame the victim: Religious leaflet claims ‘ungodly’ dressed women provoke rape
TriCities.com ^ | February 28, 2010 | By Claire Galofaro

Posted on 02/28/2010 3:17:45 PM PST by freed0misntfree

BRISTOL, Va. – Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger’s drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: “Women & Girls” it said across the top. “Even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly,” Canter recalled the woman telling her. “You make men want to be sinful.” Canter was wearing boots pulled up over jeans, a pink zebra-print shirt with a black jacket zipped up over it. She has blond hair, dark eye make-up and a little red lip ring. “I just asked if she needed any salt, pepper or ketchup,” Canter said. “I mean, how do I respond to that?” Minutes later, Canter’s mother, Pam Yates, who owns the restaurant, returned from the bank. Canter handed her “Women & Girls” and Yates started reading. “You may have been given this leaflet because of the way you are dressed,” it begins. “Have you thought about standing before the true and living God to be judged?” It continues with one essential theme: The sins of men are, in part, the fault of women, specifically women in tight-fitting clothing. Yates was annoyed. Then she got to a section on page two: “Scripture tells us that when a man looks on a woman to lust for her he has already committed adultery in his heart. If you are dressed in a way that tempts a men to do this secret (or not so secret) sin, you are a participant in the sin,” the leaflet states. “By the way, some rape victims would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. So can we really say they were innocent victims?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: assault; burqabrigade; burqaburqa; religiouskooks; sheaskedforit
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1 posted on 02/28/2010 3:17:45 PM PST by freed0misntfree
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To: freed0misntfree

This makes the news?


2 posted on 02/28/2010 3:19:28 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: freed0misntfree

An offended woman is as hard to win as a walled city, too.


3 posted on 02/28/2010 3:20:46 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: freed0misntfree

How islamic.


4 posted on 02/28/2010 3:20:53 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: freed0misntfree

Sounds illogical and warped enough to have come from the muzzie who must not be named.


5 posted on 02/28/2010 3:21:04 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: freed0misntfree

So is she being targeted by some Muslim pervert.


6 posted on 02/28/2010 3:21:12 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: freed0misntfree

The negative attracts negative crowed trying again to make 2+2=5.


7 posted on 02/28/2010 3:21:45 PM PST by Track9 (Old worn out suits and shoes,..)
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To: freed0misntfree

Sounds like a Muslim stunt.


8 posted on 02/28/2010 3:22:30 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: Marty62

Noooo...gotta disagree here. My MIL was the type of person who would do this, although a little less kindly. When reading I had to double-check because my first guess was it happened in Florida.


9 posted on 02/28/2010 3:25:07 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Virginia ping.


10 posted on 02/28/2010 3:25:12 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: freed0misntfree

Outside of Islam, this belief — that some women deserve to be raped — is held by .0000000000001% of the population.

Inside Islam, this belief — that some women deserve to be raped — is held by 49.999999999% of the population.

So if you’re going to cover this story — that there are men who believe that some women deserve to be raped — and you’re not going to mention Islam, then you’re a liar, a coward and a waste of everyone’s time.


11 posted on 02/28/2010 3:25:27 PM PST by samtheman
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To: freed0misntfree

Whacked.

But the “boys will be boys” defense is as old as time itself.


12 posted on 02/28/2010 3:25:46 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: freed0misntfree

Most women are raped in their own homes at night. So does that mean they are supposed to watch how they dress in their own abode? How stupid are these people? Oh wait, they pray with their ass in the air. Can’t really be more stupid than that.


13 posted on 02/28/2010 3:25:57 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Kieri

What does MIL refer too.


14 posted on 02/28/2010 3:26:39 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: darkangel82
How islamic.

Is his from the Koran or from the Bible? Knowing one way or the other would certainly help in identifying the affiliation of the leaflet passer.

“Scripture tells us that when a man looks on a woman to lust for her he has already committed adultery in his heart. If you are dressed in a way that tempts a men to do this secret (or not so secret) sin, you are a participant in the sin”

15 posted on 02/28/2010 3:26:57 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: Kieri

I’ve encountered the type. Its no big deal and really isn’t anywhere near newsworthy. It should have been ignored and forgotten.


16 posted on 02/28/2010 3:28:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Marty62

MIL=Mother-in-law


17 posted on 02/28/2010 3:28:15 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Marty62
What does MIL refer too.

Mother In Law.

18 posted on 02/28/2010 3:28:36 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“Canter was wearing boots pulled up over jeans, a pink zebra-print shirt with a black jacket zipped up over it.”

She seemed to be covered up. Stange she was handed this.
Some people think they have the right to tell others how to live.
If this was suppose to be an attempt at conversion, big no no.
Seems to be more like a threat.


19 posted on 02/28/2010 3:32:16 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: freed0misntfree

Tell me what’s wrong with modesty.


20 posted on 02/28/2010 3:35:15 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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