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http://atimes.com/2015/10/more-horrible-than-rape/More horrible than rape: Spengler
By David P. Goldman on October 14, 2015
The body of a 20-year-old Syrian woman, Rokstan M., was unearthed from a shallow grave in the small Saxon town of Dessau last week. Her father and brothers stabbed her to death on her mothers orders, after she was gang-raped by three men. The rape left her unclean and the mother allegedly demanded the killing to restore the familys honor. German police are seeking the father and brothers. That by itself is not newsworthy; what is newsworthy is the news itself, which appeared in not one of Germanys major daily newspapers or websites. The tabloid Bild-Zeitung ran the story, along with the regional press, while the arbiters of enlightened opinion buried it. Der Spiegel, the countrys biggest news site, and the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, the newspaper of record, made no mention.
The case of Rokstan M. is heart-rending. She had found work in Germany as a translator for the government, but she knew her family would track her down and kill her. I am awaiting death. But I am too young to die, she had written on a social media profile. Her story deserves a line or two in the quality press. But its one of many that German leaders want to ignore.
Political leaders in Germanywhich may absorb 1.5 million migrants this yearare struggling to respond to reports of a sex crime epidemic among newly-arrived Muslims. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere urged Germans not to believe rumors of widespread rape at refugee centers, while Germanys police union chief Rainer Wendt warned, There is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesnt represent reality. Wendt added, It is understandable that there is the desire to calm things down politically.
Germanys elite knows perfectly well that the migrants bring social pathologies, because they have already seen the worlds worst sex crime epidemic unfold in Scandinavia. Sweden now has the highest incidence of reported rape outside of a few African countries, and nearly ten times the rate of its European peersand all this has happened in the past ten years. Sweden ranks near the top of the World Economic Forums Gender Gap Index, yet it has become the most dangerous country for women outside of Africa, with an incidence of rape ten times that of its European peers. Swedens political leaders not only refuse to take action, but have made it a criminal offense to talk about it.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Talkimg about this will be highly discouraged. I won't say what I really think about these culturally misunderstood family values. We need to understand the family's delima from their perspective or say nothing at all. Speaking of this shows evil anti-immigration, right-winged nastiness since western culture hates women worse, of course.
whathehell
(29,034 posts)What a sickening, psychopathic "culture".
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)You hit the nail on the head... So very sad for the young lady
whathehell
(29,034 posts)Can one even imagine her horror of being victimized by gang-rape, then murdered by your own family?
From what circle of Hell did these perverts aquire this monstrous 'culture'?
Demeter
(85,373 posts)what could the authorities do? It's not as if education would be an instant cure for what ails a society that thinks so little of women.
whathehell
(29,034 posts)and the PC crowd can flame away at me, I don't care.
The UK has had to form a police unit dedicated solely to the prevention of Islamic "honor' killings.
bullsnarfle
(254 posts)of women killed in the U.S. every year are murdered by their male domestic partners.
Over 450 children in the U.S. are murdered by their own parents every year.
And that's not to mention rapes, incl. child rapes, and lots of other heinousness committed on Americans, by Americans, every day.
I'd say we have quite a large mote to remove from our own eye.
whathehell
(29,034 posts)They are profoundly discouraged, , not encouraged by some perverse
code of family "honor" -- THAT is the difference.
In western societies, murdering one's own daughter -- especially for something like, um, getting raped?
is viewed as an appalling, almost inhuman crime. That is another profound difference.
I know of NO other religion/culture that encourages parents to murder their own
children out of some warped sense of 'honor' and I doubt you do either.
bullsnarfle
(254 posts)How's this for "warped"?
This past Sunday, two teenage brothers were brutally beaten, one of them to death, in a church (church!) in New York, by their parents and other family members who were trying to get them to confess their sins.
Jeez, they tortured and murdered their own son! Maybe not for "honor", but for some nut-cake reasoning just as appalling. And I am sure those people (those "WESTERN" people) believed they were in the right!
Awful shit happens in ALL cultures, all over the world, and it is a HORROR, and a CRIME, and just EFFING WRONG no matter where it is done, or if it is done by a Muslim, or a Catholic, or a damned druid.
whathehell
(29,034 posts)Of course horrible things happen in every country, but, as has been noted,
these "horrible things" are DEVIATIONS from the cultural code in western societies,
not its substance. If you don't understand that distinction, I can't help you.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... for that entire family of swine. Honor, my ass. THEY brought dishonor on not only themselves and Islam, but the whole human race.
WAIT A MINUTE! Sweden has made it illegal to discuss their skyrocketing rape statistics?!!? WTF? THAT cannot go unchallenged! The Swedish Parliament must be controlled by their equivalent of our Republican Party. I've got to dig into that a little further; that's disgusting.