Islam, with all of its laws, rules and regulations, does seem to work wonders on making its menfolk behave in upstanding ways toward women, doesn't it?
According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants. In Norway and Denmark, we know that non-Western immigrants, which frequently means Muslims, are grossly overrepresented on rape statistics. In Oslo, Norway, immigrants were involved in two out of three rape charges in 2001. The numbers in Denmark were the same, and even higher in the city of Copenhagen with three out of four rape charges. Sweden has a larger immigrant, including Muslim, population than any other country in northern Europe. The numbers there are likely to be at least as bad as with its Scandinavian neighbors. The actual number is thus probably even higher than what the authorities are reporting now, as it doesn't include second generation immigrants. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents.
I can just hear it now! "Rape is unIslamic!" Well, then why aren't the Allah-fearing traditionalists that Dinesh D'Souza thinks we need on our side coming out and taking matters into their own hands if necessary to stop these men? Where are the mujahadeen who risk life and limb to slay those who profane Islam's name by viciously attacking infidel women? Where are the dashing modern Saladins who ride into the rescue, sword in hand, to bring the supposed peace and justice of Sharia to areas where lawless men rape and murder with abandon? I can speak for most Jews and Christians when I say that if the roles were reversed, we would put the fear of Yaweh into the heart of a "coreligionist" who we knew was doing such things while the state refused to act. Right or wrong, we'd do it to protect the non-believer women and defend our god's honor.
There is only one solution that I can think of here, and that is for private citizens to act according to their religion's laws. Jews and Christians in Europe ought to fall back on the Mosaic Law for handling rapists where the state won't deal with it. I know this may seem like a departure from an old stance of mine, but it isn't. I never said that religious law cannot be enforced when the state refuses to act. I said that you cannot enforce it when the state is capable and willing to act. If the police won't even investigate a rape claim, let alone bring it to court and lock up the perpetrator, I see no evil in private citizens punishing rapists according to the Mosaic Law or Sharia. This is the last resort, the last civilized response. The amount of crime and violence that will be caused by people reacting to the lawlessness and the pervasive fear of knowing that every woman around them could be brutally raped without any state retaliation would make the occassional use of religious law to stop lawlessness seem idyllic by comparison.
I for one will not hold out for such an uprising from the Islamic communities because of attitudes like this:
"A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister."
Who wrote this, after having sexually abused a girl who was 4-5 years old at the time? None other than Ayatollah al-Khomeini, the original Grand Ayatollah and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A man of great authority and influence as a spiritual leader. Chew on that one for a moment, and think that if a man who could lead such a large uprising, while openly making statements like that, there must be popular acceptance of his ideas.
The irony is that for all of their bluster about how Sharia makes Muslims righteous before God, it has a funny habit of being permissive about what everyone knows in their heart is part of the spirit of the moral requirements of God. There is no holiness in a religion whose law can condemn a man for having consensual sex with a grown woman, but whose law can be convincingly construed to permit all sorts of sexual deviancy with small children. This is not an academic point, like how some people talk about "tolerance" in Judaism and Christianity, but a fundamental point. This is why I say that Islam is illegitimate among the abrahamic faiths. Its laws were clearly made by man to justify certain behaviors, including its founder's fondness for very young, pre-pubescent girls.
The good Ayatollah also raised the question, in his book, can a you eat a chicken that you had sex with? His answer? No you cannot, nor can your next door neighbor, but your neighbor one more house over can eat that chicken.
Now in Western society, the question would be who the F&$W is having sex with a chicken? And lets lock him up for his own good!
I cant even imagine coming up with such a question, but Ayatollah al-Khomeini came up with it but answered it as well.
The Pakistani that I lived with for a semester in college put it this way about Islam and morality. He said that Islam is better to Christianity because it is much easier for people to follow; it's more in line with human nature. I wasn't a Christian at the time, but that really struck me as an odd thing. I remember thinking that that is sort of a self-defeating thing since the purpose of morality itself is to define a code of conduct that elevates human behavior to a higher level of character.
Stuff like this only brings me back to that, and makes me realize how much of a fundamental problem that is for Islam.