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		<title>America&#8217;s Rape Hoax Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we must refuse to let the UVA rape hoax story be sent down the memory hole. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800-450x337.jpg" alt="uva-2-800" width="346" height="259" /></a>In response to the total implosion of Rolling Stone&#8217;s preposterous story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia, the media have reverted to their Soviet-style reporting. They&#8217;re not even saying: We&#8217;re choosing not to talk about UVA because it&#8217;s a side show. It&#8217;s more like: UVA? That&#8217;s a school?</p>
<p>Not only did the UVA gang rape turn out to be a hoax, but then President Obama&#8217;s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5.</p>
<p>Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault &#8212; 0.6 percent to be exact &#8212; not to be confused with the 20 percent, or &#8220;one in five,&#8221; claimed by feminists and President Obama.</p>
<p>But neither the DOJ report, nor the UVA rape hoax have dissuaded Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill from pushing their idea that the nation is in the grip of a college rape epidemic.</p>
<p>This week, Gillibrand dismissed the UVA outrage, saying, &#8220;Clearly, we don&#8217;t know the facts of what did or did not happen in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, we know quite well what happened in this case. A disturbed young woman invented a fake boyfriend and a fake gang-rape to get attention, and an incompetent journalist acted as her transcriber. It was a total hoax &#8212; just like the Duke lacrosse case, the Jamie Leigh Jones case, the Tawana Brawley case, and every other claim of white men committing gang-rape.</p>
<p>Gillibrand and McCaskill: Perhaps the accusations against Dreyfus were overblown, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not an epidemic of Jews selling secrets to the Germans!</p>
<p>We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that &#8220;women never lie about rape!&#8221; But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.</p>
<p>To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.</p>
<p>So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!</p>
<p>That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller&#8217;s 1975 book, &#8220;Against Our Will&#8221; &#8212; which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.</p>
<p>In Women&#8217;s Studies classes, that figure is called a &#8220;home run.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone&#8217;s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the fraternity gang-rape culture.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crucial that we get a letter in the file that says, &#8220;This was total B.S.&#8221; Otherwise, the UVA hoax will remain in an open file, marked &#8220;unresolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>All we&#8217;re hearing now is, Enough! Enough! Don&#8217;t be a bad winner. All this coverage is putting Jackie in a precarious emotional state. If you were a gentleman, you would drop the subject.</p>
<p>Then in three months, they&#8217;ll be bringing up the UVA gang rape as proof of a college rape epidemic. In six months, the case will show up in feminist textbooks.</p>
<p>Wait a minute! That was a hoax!</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t agree it was a hoax. We conceded nothing.</p>
<p>The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that gang-rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared &#8220;innocent.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.</p>
<p>A few years went by, and then, this year, some douchebag wrote a book that claims &#8220;something happened&#8221; in the Duke case between the players and the stripper (who has since been convicted of murder). The book got a rave review from The New York Times.</p>
<p>With feminists, either you lose or the game was rained out.</p>
<p>So before anyone moves on from UVA, we need to get it in writing that this case was a hoax. Jackie&#8217;s got to apologize to the fraternity; UVA&#8217;s president has to not only apologize, but pay restitution to the Greek system for shutting it down for an entire semester; and Rolling Stone authoress Sabrina Rubin Erdely has got to swear that she will never, ever write again.</p>
<p>She cannot be an &#8220;investigative journalist.&#8221; She cannot even write movie reviews. Remember, Sabrina: No means no.</p>
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		<title>Leftist Lynch Mobs from Ferguson to Rolling Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left has become America’s biggest hate group.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247109" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest-425x350.png" alt="protest" width="328" height="270" /></a>Did you bury a teenage girl alive after shooting her? Are you on death row after a string of crimes too gruesome to describe? Or are you just a member of Al Qaeda dedicated to destroying America?</p>
<p>If so progressives will fight for you. Just dial 1-800-IAM-VICTIM and the leftist waiting to take your call will insist on your presumption of innocence. Its activists, reporters and lawyers will exploit every pretext to get you off the hook and they will call that justice.</p>
<p>The judicial process, they will say, matters more than public safety, public outrage or the victims.</p>
<p>When the crime wave set loose by their own activism flooded the country they clung to Blackstone’s formulation of “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”  As murders, rapes and robberies rose, the value of that formulation went up from ten to ten thousand.</p>
<p>But it had to be the right ten thousand.</p>
<p>Leftist lynch mobs rioting in Ferguson, marching through Manhattan and screaming in Oakland assert that the presumption of innocence doesn’t apply to police officers or white Hispanics. Their poses of victimization with their cries of “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe” disguise what they really are.</p>
<p>They were protesting before the case moved forward. They have continued protesting after the verdict was in. That’s not a call for justice. It’s a lynch mob that knows what the verdict should be and seeks to intimidate the authorities into giving it to them by taking the law into their own hands.</p>
<p>Rolling Stone’s rape story was cooked out of the same ingredients; a presumption of guilt and a lynch mob demanding its own brand of justice. The facts never mattered.</p>
<p>The assistant managing editor at the University of Virginia’s student paper admitted that when she argued, &#8220;To let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was never about the facts. It was about the narrative. And the narrative was not only the guilt of a few men, but the way that their guilt stood in for the guilt of all men or all white people. The factual question of whether Officer Darren Wilson or a few UVA students committed a crime was a technicality.</p>
<p>Since the racist and sexist narrative states that all white people or all men are inherently guilty, the factual question of whether a few men actually raped someone doesn’t matter. The factual question of whether a police officer is actually guilty under the law is so obscure that it isn’t worth discussing.</p>
<p>Fact checking just obstructs the narrative that all white people or all men are guilty.</p>
<p>The old lynch mobs presumed that a black man was guilty on account of his race. So do the new lynch mobs.</p>
<p>Wilson’s crime wasn’t shooting Michael Brown. It was shooting him while being white. If he had been black, we wouldn’t be talking about it now. If the black sergeant supervising the takedown of Eric Garner had been the one to restrain him, there would be no protesters shouting “I can’t breathe”.</p>
<p>Subtract the race of the perpetrator and the case wouldn’t exist. That’s what makes the case racist.</p>
<p>A lynch mob brought into existence by the race of the man they want lynched is a racist lynch mob.</p>
<p>At Ferguson and the University of Virginia not only was the crime assumed into existence before the verdict was in, but the action of one police officer in Ferguson was used to indict all police officers and then all white people. The actions of a few men at the University of Virginia were used to indict the entire fraternity and then all fraternities and then all men.</p>
<p>Classic lynch mobs treated the actions of one black rapist as a justification for repressing all black people. The leftist lynch mobs at Ferguson and the University of Virginia used the accusation of an individual crime to call for the repression of entire groups, to attack all white people and all men.</p>
<p>Even if these crimes had turned out to be substantiated, indicting hundreds of millions of people for the actions of a few is the narrative of a hate group. And that’s what progressives have shown that they are; a respectable establishment hate group that demonizes millions of people and leads lynch mobs.</p>
<p>One of the greatest lies of the left is that it believes in civil liberties. The ACLU’s civil libertarian colors were a convenient costume. It never existed to protect the rights of the people against leftist governments. It existed to protect the privileges of leftists.</p>
<p>That’s a direct quote from its co-founder.</p>
<p>Roger Nash Baldwin wrote, “If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship, it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties&#8230; When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever.”</p>
<p>When Baldwin wrote these words, he was speaking of a Soviet Union led by Stalin which was maintaining its dictatorship of the proletariat through a secret police, torture and mass murder.</p>
<p>The co-founder of the ACLU was not only endorsing Stalin’s crimes, but he was also looking forward to an American Stalin rounding up enemies of the state and shooting them with the support of the ACLU.</p>
<p>The presumption of innocence is an idea that leftists only believe in when they aren’t in power.</p>
<p>When the left isn’t in power, then it may protect civil liberties to protect itself. When one of its own radicals is sitting in the White House, then it leads lynch mobs through the streets. The protests aren’t acts of weakness by victims, but signs of strength by oppressors.</p>
<p>The left is rejecting the democratic results of the midterm elections and turning to street violence. Their confidence is derived from the support of the establishment from the White House to the media. Never have lynch mobs received such universal acclaim from all the powers of the United States of America.</p>
<p>The progressive lynch mobs in Ferguson and at the University of Virginia contend that some crimes are too hurtful to a particular population to be protected by the presumption of innocence. Some suspects should be presumed guilty because of the combination of their race and gender with a national crisis.</p>
<p>After fighting for Al Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo, the left hypocritically decided that the presumption of innocence should apply to Muslim terrorists but not to police officers. The civil libertarians of the left went from championing the rights of criminals over those of victims to embracing the conservative position of victim rights… as long these rights are reserved for only the right sorts of victims.</p>
<p>The activists of the left must be forced to admit whether they are for or against the presumption of innocence. If they want to dispense with the presumption of innocence when it comes to enemies of the people like police officers and fraternity members, it will also go away for Islamic terrorists and violent thugs. Not to mention Weather Underground terrorists teaching at prestigious progressive colleges.</p>
<p>We cannot have a presumption of innocence for some people and not others. The left is not entitled to create two justice systems for two types of people. One group will be lynched with a formality of a trial manipulated to produce a verdict that not only damns one defendant, but also his entire race or gender. The other will receive every possible defense no matter how obvious his guilt may be.</p>
<p>America is a nation of laws, not of racist lynch mobs. Its trials are based on facts, not on narratives. The presumption of innocence matters more than the narrative and the social justice hashtag. Without it all we have left are racist lynch mobs with smartphones marching through Manhattan.</p>
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		<title>To the Left, Lying About Rape Is Just Dandy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Lena Dunham and the Rolling Stone do harm to actual rape victims. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247112" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227-389x350.jpg" alt="UVa Fraternity" width="319" height="287" /></a>This week, Rolling Stone printed an editor&#8217;s note retracting one of the most highly praised pieces of investigative journalism in its history. That piece, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, alleged that several members of the University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, had raped a 19-year-old student named Jackie, including with foreign objects, as she lay on a floor covered with broken glass. The article resulted in the university suspending the fraternity&#8217;s activities, and national outrage over the so-called &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on campus.</p>
<p>That rape culture supposedly leads to one in five women being sexually assaulted on campus — a faulty statistic from a poll that didn&#8217;t even ask women if they were raped or sexually assaulted, and instead defined sex while inebriated at any level as rape. With regard to reported rape, the federal government reports a rate of just 1.3 per 1,000 Americans. That is, of course, far too high. But it is not a rape culture by any plausible definition.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the narrative of women as victims of brutish male society must be forwarded at all costs, for political purposes. If Americans are brutish sexists waiting to rape unsuspecting women, bigger government becomes a necessity. That&#8217;s why President Obama has cited that one-in-five statistic, and suggested that America experiences &#8220;quiet tolerance of sexual assault.&#8221;</p>
<p>In order to forward that narrative, all rape stories are treated as fact sans investigation of any kind. And so Jackie&#8217;s story of gang rape received plaudits across the media landscape.</p>
<p>Then it fell apart.</p>
<p>The Washington Post quickly debunked the story. According to the Post, the fraternity says there was no event the night Jackie was allegedly raped, Jackie&#8217;s friends &#8220;have not been able to verify key points in recent days,&#8221; and one of the men named in Jackie&#8217;s report stated that &#8220;he never met Jackie in person and never took her out on a date.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the Rolling Stone report collapsed, members of the left jumped to defend Jackie.</p>
<p>Sally Kohn of CNN.com tweeted that people should stop questioning Jackie&#8217;s story: &#8220;While aspects of UVA rape story now in question, still unsettles me that pouncing by skeptics mirrored sort of doubt rape victims often face.&#8221; Feminist Melissa McEwan wrote, &#8220;If Jackie&#8217;s story is partially or wholly untrue, it doesn&#8217;t validate the reasons for disbelieving her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under this logic, Atticus Finch was the villain in &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221; After all, how dare he question the rape allegations of a victimized woman and defend Tom Robinson?</p>
<p>But for the left, it&#8217;s narrative first, facts second.</p>
<p>The same holds true regarding allegations made by HBO star Lena Dunham, who wrote of her own alleged rape at the hands of an Oberlin &#8220;college Republican&#8221; named Barry. When it turned out that Barry, a readily identifiable person from Dunham&#8217;s days at Oberlin, did not rape her, the media largely went silent; Dunham still has not spoken on the issue.</p>
<p>Narrative first. Facts second.</p>
<p>Here is the reality: All decent human beings believe that rape is evil. They also believe that false allegations of rape are wrong. These two positions are not mutually exclusive. They complement one another. False rape allegations do actual rape victims a tremendous disservice: to lump in false accusations of rape with true accusations of rape makes people more skeptical of rape victims generally, a horrible result. Rape should be taken seriously; rape accusations should be taken seriously. That means taking factual questions seriously, not merely throwing the word &#8220;rape&#8221; around casually, without evidence, and without regard for truth.</p>
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		<title>The End of Feminism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utopian criminalization of young adults’ sexual experiences has arrived.]]></description>
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<p style="color: #000000;">California recently passed a law requiring that sexual encounters between students in universities and colleges can proceed only on the basis of “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement.” Failure to resist or to ask the partner to stop the encounter can no longer be taken as consent. Institutions that wish to receive state funds or financial aid must adhere to this standard when investigating charges of “sexual assault,” a phrase redefined to include behaviors once considered boorish or insensitive, but not legally actionable. The California law follows on the 2011 Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights’s “dear colleague” <a style="color: #007c93;" href="http://www.ncherm.org/documents/ocrdearcolleagueletter4.4.11.pdf">letter</a> that instructed schools investigating sexual assault complaints to use the “more likely than not” or “preponderance of the evidence” standard of evidence rather than the “clear and convincing” one.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The dangers to individual privacy and accountability that follow such regulatory intrusions into sexual intimacy between legal adults have been well documented, not the least being the violation of the rights of the accused, who now enter a hearing with a presumption of guilt rather than of innocence. Also problematic is the double standard inherent in such rules, particularly when both accuser and accused are drunk or otherwise incapacitated.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But the main problem with the California law is the corruption of feminism that it represents. When it comes to sex, the old feminist claim to equal treatment based on a woman’s equal capacity to control her sexual choices has been transformed into an old-fashioned Victorian notion of women as weak creatures who need to be protected from sexually feral males, and who lack agency and thus should not be held accountable for their choices.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The feminists’ championing of sexual autonomy for women reached a head in the 1960s. Before the modern age, sex was seen as a necessary but dangerous force that, if left uncontrolled, not just impaired the mind, but also destroyed whole civilizations. It was the illicit sexual passion of Paris and Helen that “burnt the topless towers” of Troy, as Christopher Marlow wrote. As such, sex had to be contained and channeled by social practices and cultural institutions. Virtues, taboos, and especially marriage all attempted to direct sexual energy to its most socially important goal, procreation and the family. Christianity inherited these assumptions and put them in the context of the theology of man’s fallen nature and the need for the soul to be redeemed from the passions of the transient body.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">By the late nineteenth century, many social and cultural developments had undermined this traditional sexual realism. Over the following decades, in the work of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Norman O. Brown, Herbert Marcuse, and numerous others, sex was removed from the context of religion, custom, and taboo, and made a natural phenomenon that science could understand and hence make more enjoyable and less damaging. The destructive effects of sex, in this view, were not inherent, but the consequence of repressive social institutions and religious superstition perpetuated by the ignorant and narrow-minded. In the sixties, Cultural Marxism interpreted traditional limits on sexual behavior as the instruments of oppression and conformity, reinforcing the “false consciousness” that perpetuated the ruling class and its power. Breaking sexual taboos and experiencing sexual pleasure thus became acts of liberation, leading to self-fulfillment and personal freedom.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Feminism embraced this notion of sexual liberation. The autonomy of women depended on their casting off the shackles of patriarchal misogyny most evident in male control of women’s sexuality––“our bodies, ourselves” became the battle cry. Women should have the equal power to choose sexual experiences and pleasure, and the unjust double standards that gave men but not women sexual autonomy should be discarded. The biological differences between men and women, especially nature’s subjection of women’s bodies to the relentless imperatives of procreation, were now discarded as arbitrary, unjust impediments to women’s freedom and autonomy. This process was moved along by the new technologies of reliable birth control and accessible and safe abortion.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In the ensuing decades, however, the malign consequences of sexual liberation became increasingly manifest––the proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases, the wider access to demeaning pornography, and the explosion of out-of-wedlock childbirth and the attendant social dysfunctions that follow from children being raised without fathers. Even for more privileged women, there were psychological costs to be paid for contending with male sexual predators and absolving them of responsibility for their behavior, given that now men and women were equally in control of their sexual choices, and that the traditional mores once enshrining male responsibility, such as chivalry, had been dismissed as patronizing and sexist.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But as the years passed, many women began to discover that there are indeed differences between men and women and their experiences of sex. Liberation did not lead to the sexual utopia of carefree and cost-free pleasure, but to the guilt, regret, and humiliation that follow being used as an object for somebody else’s transient enjoyment.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The response to these ill effects was to create rules and codes designed to eliminate the negative consequences of sexual freedom. But contrary to the assumptions of lawmakers who want to regulate sexual behavior, sex is not a game like tennis that can be pleasurable for the players provided the rules are followed. As Camille Paglia has pointed out, when it comes to sex, the more appropriate metaphor is to the old Roman arena, where there was no law. An act that is so physically and psychologically complicated, and that exposes our most intimate longings and hidden selves, cannot be rationalized and made cost-free, or its unpleasant effects neutralized, by reducing it to a “voluntary agreement” in which the terms and conditions are spelled out and followed as in a contract. Shakespeare’s Prospero is wiser: “The strongest oaths are but straw to the fire in the blood.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Faced with the costs of sexual liberation, contemporary feminism has betrayed its devotion to personal freedom and equality, choosing instead to demand that the state use its coercive power to protect women not just from insensitive men, but from the consequences of their own choices. Sexual harassment law is the most widespread expression of this impulse to use the tutelary state to defend women from a “hostile and intimidating” environment. The vulgar joke or boorish innuendo is now not just a violation of social decorum, but a crime subject to law and punishment.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But nothing infantilizes women more than the sexual codes promulgated by numerous universities. Obviously, sexual assault properly defined is a crime that should be investigated and the guilty punished. But getting drunk and then sleeping with an equally intoxicated partner is not a crime. It’s a learning experience about taking responsibility for one’s actions, and practicing the virtues of prudence and self-control.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">By criminalizing young adults’ complicated sexual experiences, feminism is betraying its original call for sexual equality and autonomy by making women perpetual victims too weak to be held responsible for their choices, and too incapable of painfully learning from their mistakes and thus developing their characters. At the same time that feminists still call for unlimited sexual freedom, they treat women as Victorian maidens who lack agency and resources of character, and thus must be defended against sexual cads and bounders. As the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald puts it, this “new order is a bizarre hybrid of liberationist and traditionalist values. It carefully preserves the prerogative of no-strings-attached sex while cabining it with legalistic caveats that allow females to revert at will to a stance of offended virtue.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This strange demand for absolute freedom without responsibility for one’s choices is not just a symptom of feminism. It reaches into our broader culture. It has become the enabler of the entitlement state, which justifies its growing size and regulatory power over people’s lives by promising to protect them not just from the vicissitudes of life, but from the consequences of their own choices, even as they enjoy more freedom to make even more choices. Thus the feminist demand for government-subsidized birth control and abortion is of a piece with government bailouts for homeowners who over-borrowed on the equity of their homes or lied on their mortgage applications.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The demand for personal freedom without accountability contradicts the foundational philosophy of our republic. The right to liberty is not the right be absolved from the consequences of one’s actions. Taking that responsibility is what makes one worthy of freedom and equal to others who likewise must be accountable for their actions.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Democratic freedom and equality are both compromised without responsibility and accountability. As Alexis de Tocqueville said about the necessity of self-reliance for democratic freedom, “It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.” Many Americans, including the feminists, have accepted the loss of freedom as the trade-off for shedding the burden of responsibility for their own lives.</p>
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		<title>WaPo: Believe Rape Accusations Even If They’re False</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246933" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400-450x343.jpg" alt="uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400" width="367" height="280" /></a>As the shocking allegations of a fraternity party gang rape at the University of Virginia come unraveled, progressives whose cause is to condemn America for a so-called “rape culture” have chosen to double down in defense of the apparent falsehood. The <i>Washington Post</i> even ran an astoundingly un-American piece that suggests we should believe rape accusations, <i>regardless of whether they are true</i>.</p>
<p><i>Rolling Stone</i>, the music and politics magazine that can stay relevant only by sexualizing everyone (including terrorists – remember its <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/17/rolling-stone-features-boston-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-on-cover/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dreamy cover photo</span></a> of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?), broke the lurid story only to have it fall apart thanks to <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/05/rolling-stones-botched-account-of-a-uva"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unconscionably sloppy journalism</span></a>. But progressives cannot let the truth get in the way of the agenda, so Zerlina Maxwell rushed to fill the breach with the aforementioned <i>WaPo </i>piece initially entitled “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/no-matter-what-jackie-said-we-should-automatically-believe-rape-claims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">No matter what Jackie said, we should automatically believe rape claims</span></a>” (“Jackie” is the victim’s pseudonym).</p>
<p>The thrust of Maxwell’s piece is that “the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.” She begins by saying that many people</p>
<blockquote><p>will be tempted to see [the collapse of the UofV gang-rape allegation] as a reminder that officials, reporters and the general public should hear both sides of the story and collect all the evidence before coming to a conclusion in rape cases. This is what we mean in America when we say someone is “innocent until proven guilty.” After all, look what happened to the Duke lacrosse players.</p></blockquote>
<p><i>Exactly</i> – look at what happened to them. But then she goes on to reject that reasonable restraint: “In important ways,” she wrote, “<i>this is wrong</i>. We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says” [emphasis added] – after all, false accusations are “exceedingly rare,” she claims. But then she quotes an FBI statistic that 2-8% of allegations are false; that is not “exceedingly rare.”</p>
<p>In any case, it wouldn’t matter if the figure were only 1% &#8211; in this country we don’t suspend the presumption of innocence just “to offer our hand of support to survivors.” Maxwell disagrees: “The time we spend picking apart a traumatized survivor’s narration on the hunt for discrepancies is time that should be spent punishing serial rapists.”</p>
<p>It should go without saying, especially to someone with a law degree like Maxwell, that we shouldn’t be “punishing serial rapists” if they haven’t yet been proven to <i>be</i> serial rapists. She has created a false choice between believing and disbelieving the accused. It is not the job of law enforcement to believe or disbelieve a victim’s story; it is their job to determine if a crime has been committed, to investigate it, to examine the evidence, and then to act accordingly. Maxwell wants to reverse that process; too bad if the accusation falls apart under later scrutiny.</p>
<p>And what of the man she’s willing to falsely if temporarily accuse of the ugly crime of rape? Well, he would have “a rough period” for the duration of the investigation, Maxwell generously concedes. For example, he might lose some Facebook friends – yes, she actually wrote that. But when his name is cleared everything will return to normal. Certainly no one would suggest that a real rape victim’s trauma is not significant, but Maxwell is willfully ignoring the damage done to a man falsely smeared as a sexual predator.</p>
<p>Her op-ed was so stunningly and self-evidently wrong that it <a href="http://soopermexican.com/2014/12/06/why-wapo-changed-headline-to-zerlina-maxwells-insane-rape-allegation-opinion-article/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">incurred a wave of Twitter wrath</span></a> and negative comments, resulting in either Maxwell or the <i>WaPo</i> editors backing off and replacing “automatically” in the headline with “generally,” which is little improvement.</p>
<p>“Democratic strategist” Maxwell is of the school of thought, and I use that word loosely, that we live in a rape culture and if only we taught men not to rape, then women would be relieved of the burden of having to protect themselves from it (“strategist,” by the way, is the title given to someone has no official authority or function except to serve as a media mouthpiece for talking points).</p>
<p>Rape culture is the theory that sexual assault becomes normalized when a culture condones the objectification and trivialization of women. Radical feminists have managed to push the term to the forefront of our conversations about the sexes today, promoting the ugly notion that all men are literal or latent rapists who need to be deprogrammed out of their acculturated misogyny.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mark-tapson/miss-usas-self-defense-empowerment/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">I’ve written before for FrontPage</span></a>, America doesn’t have a rape culture any more than we have a murder culture. We have a culture that considers both to be heinous violent crimes. We have a culture so unforgiving of rape that even <i>false</i> accusations of it ruin men’s lives. We don’t “teach” men to rape, and the vast majority of American males would never even consider such a depraved act.</p>
<p>According to 2013 Bureau of Justice <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=4594"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statistics</span></a>, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault victimizations in this country declined 58% from 1995 to 2010. To cite this is absolutely not to trivialize the terrible violation that is rape; it is not to suggest that anything more than zero sexual assaults is acceptable; and it is not to encourage complacency. It is only to emphasize that not only are we not enmeshed in a rape culture, but things seem to be improving significantly.</p>
<p>However, there are violent deviants who will and do rape, and the world will never rid itself of that evil minority. That’s just reality, but it’s not the utopian reality that progressives insist upon. To believe that we can simply teach that rape is unconscionable – which we already do – and that the crime will then disappear is a childish and useless utopian fantasy.</p>
<p>When a pregnant teenager in the Sudan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/sudan-pregnant-alleged-rape-victim-charged-adultery"><span style="color: #0433ff;">faces death</span></a> by stoning for being gang-raped, <i>that</i> is a rape culture. But a privileged Western woman like Zerlina Maxwell is insanely focused on smearing innocent men in order to peddle the myth that American culture is little better.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/feminist-facebook-800x430.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244457" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/feminist-facebook-800x430-450x328.jpg" alt="feminist-facebook-800x430" width="328" height="239" /></a>In Nigeria and Iraq, Muslim armies are selling women as slaves. Iran hanged a woman for fighting off a rapist. ISIS was more direct about it and beheaded a woman who resisted one of its fighters.</p>
<p>But we don’t have to travel to the Middle East to see real horrors. The sex grooming scandal in the UK involved the rape of thousands of girls. The rapists were Muslim men so instead of talking about it, the UK’s feminists bought $75 shirts reading, “This is what a feminist looks like” which were actually being made by Third World women living sixteen to a room.</p>
<p>This was what a feminist looked like and it wasn’t a pretty picture.</p>
<p>The same willful unseriousness saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a survivor of genital mutilation and an informed critic of Muslim misogyny, booted from Brandeis by self-proclaimed feminists. Meanwhile the major feminist cause at the moment is Gamergate, a controversy over video games which can be traced back to a female game developer who slept with a video game reviewer.</p>
<p>Professional feminists have spent more time and energy denouncing video games than the sale and rape of girls in Nigeria and Iraq.</p>
<p>That is what feminism looks like and there is something seriously wrong with that.</p>
<p>Women Against Feminism touched a nerve because professional feminists know that few women want to identify as feminists. Polls have found that the majority of women view feminism negatively. Even among young women, the feminist label doesn’t come close to breaking the halfway mark.</p>
<p>Professional feminists respond to the negative feedback by claiming that feminism is simply equality. But if feminism were equality, women, and for that matter men, wouldn’t dislike it so much.</p>
<p>A feminist looks like a professional activist wearing a $75 t-shirt made by slave labor while proclaiming that she is a feminist. It isn’t fighting for the rights of women that makes her a feminist. It’s the pricey fashion statement of someone who toots their own horn while exploiting less fortunate women.</p>
<p>The professional feminist is not there to help women, but to promote the agenda of the institutional left. She will turn campus rape into a political cause while criticizing every rape prevention measure, from a rape drug detecting nail polish to self-defense for women, for not dealing with rape culture. Stopping rape doesn’t interest her. Exploiting the abuse of women to fight a culture war does.</p>
<p>Her concerns are limited to causes affecting upper class young women and the overall political organizational needs of the left. That’s why she will veer erratically from inflating college rape statistics to arguing for illegal alien amnesty despite the high number of rapes committed by migrants.</p>
<p>But the women being raped generally won’t be found on an Ivy League campus.</p>
<p>And that’s also what a feminist looks like.</p>
<p>The institutional left can’t call out Islam for sexism, homophobia and racism because it has already inducted it into its political coalition. And that’s why feminists can’t talk about the mass rape of young girls in the UK without stepping on a political landmine. Those courageous women who do talk about it, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Pamela Geller, represent the principles that feminists only claim to stand for.</p>
<p>It’s easy to take shots at gamers, but discussing the rise of honor killings, genital mutilation and domestic abuse among Muslims migrating to the West is dangerous territory. That is why Ayaan Hirsi Ali had to be silenced so that she wouldn’t show up the professional feminists trying to pretend that their mass distractions of video games, subsidized birth control or celebrating “sex workers” are real feminism.</p>
<p>Modern feminism is defined by talking non-stop about the things that don’t matter to avoid talking about the things that do. It long ago stopped being a movement and became a series of distractions. When feminists actually hit on a relevant issue they quickly scramble to avoid talking about it. That’s what happened with the viral Hollaback video of a woman walking around New York City and being harassed by minority men. The video quickly went from a hit to an embarrassment as feminists realized that they had unintentionally documented something that they could not talk about.</p>
<p>Feminism is filled with things that it can’t talk about. That’s why it long ago hit a dead end. It is too afraid of being politically incorrect to be relevant. It can’t advocate for women and so it frantically stirs up micro-controversies that are irrelevant to 99.99% of women. Its obsession with Gamergate as the biggest threat to women since the time that Miss USA suggested that women should take self-defense classes is another reminder of its inability to meaningfully address the problems facing women today.</p>
<p>Professional feminists don’t want to fight rape; they want to fight an intangible “rape culture”. They don’t want to help women. Instead they want to exploit the problems facing women to advance their own agendas and careers. They are part of a movement cut off from ordinary people and rooted in academia. Few women want to identify as feminists, because feminism doesn’t identify with them.</p>
<p>Feminism can’t talk about the problems facing women because it is a prisoner of the left. It’s a fundraising gimmick, an election turnout gimmick and a way to sell pricey shirts.</p>
<p>The War on Women meme has jumped the shark. Senator Mark Udall was mocked, ridiculed and written off by his own Democrats for his cynical abuse of the meme. An attempt by a congressional candidate to invoke it during a debate in New York was met with uproarious laughter.</p>
<p>The last election cycle had reduced feminism to subsidized birth control. This cycle wiped it off the map entirely. The next election cycle will bring us Hillary Clinton as the ultimate feminist candidate. Hillary built her career and won elections on the strength of her husband’s name. Polls show that she appeals to voters because they think her husband is part of the package deal.</p>
<p>If Hillary wins, the first female president will be a woman who got the job only because she refused to divorce her husband after he cheated on her because she hoped to exploit his political connections.</p>
<p>That too is what a feminist looks like.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton laughing at her client’s rape of a 12-year-old girl from a working class family or Carol Costello chuckling over the assault on Bristol Palin reminds ordinary women what feminists really think of them.</p>
<p>Feminism no longer speaks to women. It has become a privileged sorority for actresses, politicians, media types and academics who don’t actually like women. Especially working class women.</p>
<p>The public face of feminism should be Ayaan Hirsi Ali, but instead it’s the neurotic privileged pettiness of Lena Dunham. Feminism has become a lightweight movement heavy on pop culture and phony outrage and unbelievably light on content. It speaks all the time, but it no longer has anything to say.</p>
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		<title>UK: Child Sex Exploitation Now the &#8216;Norm&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang1.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244193" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang1-450x281.png" alt="UKMuslimrapegang" width="318" height="199" /></a>The UK’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/child-sexual-exploitation-norm-greater-manchester-ann-coffey-report?CMP=twt_gu"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Guardian</span></a> reported Wednesday that “sexual exploitation of vulnerable children has become the social norm in some parts of Greater Manchester,” and the denial and obfuscation about what is really causing this problem is thicker than ever.</p>
<p>In the very same sentence in which it broke this terrible news, the Guardian stated that this phenomenon is “fuelled by explicit music videos and quasi-pornographic selfies, an MP has warned.” The MP in question, former social worker Ann Coffey, has issued a report on the sexual exploitation of children in Britain that she said would “make painful reading for those who hoped that Rochdale was an isolated case.”</p>
<p>It was in Rochdale that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9239126/Rochdale-grooming-trial-gang-convicted-for-sex-trafficking.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a group of Muslims were involved in a large-scale sex trafficking ring</span></a> involving young non-Muslim girls. Coffey is right: there is already abundant evidence that it was not an isolated case, as <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped</span></a> and brutalized by Muslims in the British city of Rotherham alone, and there are numerous other documented cases in Britain of Muslim sex trafficking and rape gangs, of which the victims were non-Muslim girls.</p>
<p>Why has this been happening, and on such a massive scale? According to the Guardian, it’s all because social workers and others in positions of authority just don’t like troubled young people: “Coffey said police, social workers, prosecutors and juries are often inherently (albeit unconsciously) prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers – perhaps explaining why, out of 13,000 reported cases of major sexual offences against under-16s in the past six years in Greater Manchester, there have been only 1,000 convictions.”</p>
<p>Social workers, prosecutors, and juries are inherently prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers? With that, Coffey could win the prize for the most preposterous evasion offered this year to try to exonerate Islamic doctrine from responsibility for the evils done by those who act upon that doctrine – although she will, as in every year, face stiff competition.</p>
<p>In reality, social workers are not prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers; they’ve dedicated their lives to aiding people such as vulnerable teenagers. No, what social workers, in the U.S. as well as in Britain, are prejudiced against is being called “racist.” In Rotherham, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">British officials</span></a> “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”</p>
<p>And what were the ethnic origins of those perpetrators? Wednesday’s Guardian report doesn’t mention it (which in itself is telling), but <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-midlands-police-report-reveals-7948902"><span style="color: #0433ff;">75%</span></a>, and probably more (since it is so politically unacceptable to report such things) of these rape and sexual exploitation gangs are “Asian,” which is British Newspeak for “Muslim.” Despite the continuing horror of these revelations, the British continue to take all this with equanimity, for to resist it would be “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>If Ann Coffey and others who are horrified at these rape gangs and the exploitation of children really want to stop this practice, sooner or later they are going to have to stop kidding themselves and their supporters, and confront the politically correct elites who hurl such charges at anyone who ventures any criticism of Islam and Muslims. For the unpleasant truth is that these rape gangs have become “the norm” in all too many cities in Britain because Muslims are taking seriously material from the Qur’an and Sunnah that justifies those practices.</p>
<p>According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).</p>
<p>The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition:</p>
<blockquote><p>Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa’id al Khadri (Allah he pleased with him): 0 Abu Sa’id, did you hear Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) mentioning al-’azl? He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi’l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing ‘azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah’s Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. (Muslim 3371)</p></blockquote>
<p>The twentieth-century Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days when Muslims took sex slaves (days that appear now to have returned):</p>
<blockquote><p>During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph -- an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).</p></blockquote>
<p>He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:</p>
<blockquote><p>None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari’ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari’ah. Amen!</p></blockquote>
<p>This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared in May 2011</span></a> that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-shaykh-al-huwayni-when-i-want-sex.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a subsequent interview</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>…Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars–there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p>When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point–there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</p></blockquote>
<p>Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">also spoke out</span></a> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</p>
<blockquote><p>…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</p>
<p>The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</p>
<p>“Is this forbidden by Islam?” I asked.</p>
<p>“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community and the mainstream media cravenly ignore. And even when the devastation that this practice has caused is staring them in the face, British officials tell themselves and the public that it’s all because social workers don’t like teenagers.</p>
<p>As Britain descends into madness, we can only hope its demise will serve as a cautionary tale for other countries in the West.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss<strong> The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series on<strong> Muslim Rape Gangs in the UK</strong>:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>Ben Shapiro: Women Are Winning the War on Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Ben Shapiro takes on the enormous falsehood that women are under assault in America. Reality check: The wage gap, the war on reproductive rights and the explosion of sexual assault on campus are all just lies made up by Democrats to hang on to power. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">REALITY CHECK: WOMEN ARE WINNING THE WAR ON WOMEN</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Are you ready gang? The stage has been set for Hillary Clinton’s big presidential run. For months, leftists in politics and the media have told Americans that the nation’s women are under unprecedented threat: they’re in danger of being raped on our college campuses, assaulted in their homes, and underpaid in the workplace.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Presumably, the only one who can save us is a woman who grew up rich, married a famous politician, rode his coattails to First Lady status, became a senator because of her husband, became Secretary of State because of her husband and now will save us because of her husband.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Here’s the reality: things have never been better for women in the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Let’s start with the supposed income gap. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, like all the other Democrat leaders, says that women make $0.78 for every dollar a man makes.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is nonsense. Reality &#8211; Women work less hours than men. Women who work 40 hour weeks earn 88% of what men make.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s also nonsense, by the way, that women and men who work more than 40 hours per week work the same number of hours overall. Women who are married and have children, it turns out, often take time out to have their kids. Which is what my wife did. She&#8217;s in medical school. She took a year off to have our baby. Which is why single women who haven’t married earn 96% of what men make.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That other four percent gap includes the fact that men work riskier jobs, and take on jobs with higher risk of firing. Statistically, men actually prefer risk while women prefer security when it comes to labor. Men also tend to spend their college years on non-liberal arts subjects in greater numbers than women, and are more likely to ask the boss for a raise.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Actually, the numbers are better than that for women. As Time magazine reported in 2010, “in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the United States, the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% <em>higher</em> than those of the guys in their peer group.” 58% of those who have post-bachelors degrees are women.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As Mark Perry and Andrew Biggs write in the Wall Street Journal, the numbers President Obama and his allies cite are “fundamentally misleading and economically illogical.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Okay, now as for the notion that women are battling against on so-called “war on reproductive rights.” First, nobody has the right to kill an unborn child. Second, contraception has never been cheaper or more widely available. Congratulations! Condoms cost $0.20 per pop. So let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re really randy and that means that you want to go at it five times a week. That&#8217;s a buck a week folks. That&#8217;s four bucks a month. Are you really going to go broke on four bucks a month? Birth control pills cost no more than $50 per month. Requiring a nun to pay for your birth control is not, it turns out, a right. It’s more like a violation of the nun’s rights to religious freedom.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">On to sexual assault. Public awareness of sexual assault and domestic abuse is obviously a worthwhile cause with which everyone agrees – although it&#8217;s worth noting that there has never been a rapist in human history who decided not to rape thanks to a public service announcement from Joe Biden. But the implication that sexual assault is on the rise, that&#8217;s nonsense too. From 1995 to 2010, sexual assault victimizations declined 58%. Domestic violence fell by 63% between 1994 and 2012, and serious intimate partner violence against women dropped 72% from 1994 to 2011.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So, here&#8217;s the deal, it’s a great time to be a woman. Which means that we don’t need Hillary Clinton and her magical X chromosomes to save the day.</p>
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<p>Dr. Durie joined the show to discuss <strong>&#8220;<i>Islam vs. Human Conscience,&#8221; </i></strong>analyzing how Islam wages war on humans moral judgment and intuition <strong>[starts at 5:30 mark].</strong> The dialogue transpired within the context of Boko Haram&#8217;s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Islamic roots of that barbaric act. Dr. Durie shed light on the Islamic theology that inspires and sanctions Muslims to enslave and rape kafir women.</p>
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<p>Also this week: In response to<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mark-tapson/maher-and-harris-educate-affleck-about-islam/"><strong> Ben Affleck&#8217;s recent appearance</strong> </a>on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Real-Time,&#8221; in which he denied that Islam has any connection to ISIS or any other form of Islamic terrorism, Frontpage is running <em>The Glazov Gang’s </em><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">special episode in which <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1258545911">Ann-Marie Murrell</a></strong> interviewed Frontpage Editor <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov.7?fref=photo" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100007973340608">Jamie Glazov</a></strong> about<em><strong> &#8220;The Nature of Jihad-Denial&#8221;</strong></em> and why leftists reach out in solidarity to Islam:<br />
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		<title>Islamic State Rape: ‘Just Another Form of Warfare’?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in "Foreign Policy" magazine demonstrates why U.S. Mideast policy is a disaster. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lm.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241727" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lm-450x298.jpg" alt="lm" width="299" height="198" /></a>In light of the ongoing nightmare that is the Islamic State, <em>Foreign Policy</em>, a magazine somewhat reflective of the establishment, has published an article that <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/foreign-policy-magazine-covers-up-syrian-sex-jihad/">once again</a> demonstrates why U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is a disaster: because analysts and policymakers, unable or unwilling to grapple with foreign concepts, opt to articulate them through familiar Western paradigms.</p>
<p>Titled “<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/16/the_islamic_state_of_sexual_violence_women_rape_iraq_syria">The Islamic State of Sexual Violence</a>” and written by Aki Peritz and Tara Maller—“We both worked as CIA analysts focused on Iraq’s insurgency and counterterrorism during much of the war”—the <em>Foreign Policy</em> (<em>FP</em>) article opens with this telling sentence: “Of the many terrifying stories emerging from Islamic State-occupied Iraq and Syria, the violence directed toward women is perhaps the most difficult to contemplate.”</p>
<p>This is an odd assertion. Of all the atrocities committed by the Islamic State, is sexual violence against women <em>really</em> “the most difficult to contemplate”? After all, deplorable as sexual violence against women is, it is also one of the most common features of warfare since the beginnings of recorded history. It should not be too “difficult to contemplate.”</p>
<p>Instead, one would think that public beheadings and mutilations—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/beheading-infidels-how-allah-heals-the-hearts-of-believers/">with sadistic pictures of the victims posted online</a>—would be more “difficult to contemplate.” One would think herding off 1500 “infidel” men and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/graphic-video-islamic-terrorists-executing-civilians/">coldly shooting them in the head</a> to cries of “Allahu Akbar” would be more “difficult to contemplate.” One would think that forcing religious minorities <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">to convert to Islam or die</a>—with <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/christians-crucified-again-for-refusing-islam/">Christians crucified for refusing to embrace Islam</a>—would be more “difficult to contemplate.”</p>
<p>But in the very next paragraph we encounter the reason why <em>FP</em> highlights female sexual abuse while ignoring the truly more “difficult to contemplate” atrocities committed by the Islamic State: to exonerate Islam from the deeds of the Islamic State:</p>
<blockquote><p>IS claims to be a religious organization, dedicated to re-establishing the caliphate and enforcing codes of modesty and behavior from the time of Muhammad and his followers. But this is rape, not religious conservatism. IS may dress up its sexual violence in religious justifications, saying its victims violated Islamic law, or were infidels, but their leaders are not fools. This is just another form of warfare….</p></blockquote>
<p>That last sentence is what <em>FP</em> wants readers to leave with—“This is just another form of warfare.” The authors chose the most generic atrocity committed during war, one that is common to all cultures and civilizations—sexual violence, enslavement, and rape—to condemn the Islamic State with. The result is that the Islamic State looks like “just another” enemy combatant.</p>
<p>While the authors are correct in saying that the Islamic State is “dedicated to re-establishing the caliphate,” the follow up assertion, “and enforcing codes of modesty and behavior from the time of Muhammad and his followers” is immensely loaded and misleading. So is the statement “But this is rape, not religious conservatism.”</p>
<p>The authors invoke Western standards of “modesty and behavior” without letting readers know that Islamic notions of “modesty and behavior” differ significantly and are wholly based on Islamic law, not “natural” law.</p>
<p>And Islamic law, or Sharia, permits the enslavement, selling, and rape of infidel women captured during the jihad, as they are seen as legitimately gained booty, or in the Koran’s phraseology, “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/are-slave-girls-in-islam-equivalent-to-animals/">what your right hands possess</a>” (another teaching that might be more “difficult to contemplate” than generic wartime rape itself).</p>
<p>Here is how the late <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/05feb07/05obit.html">Majid Khadduri</a>, “internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic law and jurisprudence,” explained the idea of “spoils” in his <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=UHWd6gLZsFIC&amp;q=ghanima#v=snippet&amp;q=ghanima&amp;f=false"><em>War and Peace in the Law of Islam</em></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The term spoil (<em>ghanima</em>) is applied specifically to property acquired by force from non-Muslims. It includes, however, not only property (movable and immovable) but also persons, whether in the capacity of <em>asra</em> (prisoners of war) or <em>sabi</em> (women and children).… <em>If the slave were a woman, the master was permitted to have sexual connection with her as a concubine</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Accordingly, Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni  says that Muslims fighting to topple “infidel” president Bashar Assad in Syria are permitted to “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">capture and have sex with</a>” all non-Sunni women, including Shia Muslims, Alawites, Christians, Druze, and Yazidis.</p>
<p>Before him, Egyptian <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/raped-and-ransacked-in-the-muslim-world/">Sheikh Ishaq Huwaini</a> lamented how during the heydays of Islam, “You [could] go to the market and buy her [enslaved, infidel concubines for sale]….  In other words, when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her.”</p>
<p>Kuwaiti political activist <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-woman-seeks-to-revive-institution-of-sex-slavery/">Salwa al-Mutairi</a> advocated for the formal reinstitution of sex-slavery.  She said on video that Islam’s greatest authorities from Mecca, the city of Islam, all confirmed the legality of sex-slavery to her.  According to the Kuwaiti woman:</p>
<blockquote><p>A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state—sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state—and they [the women, the future sex-slaves] must be captives of the raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to Islam, sex slaves are not at all forbidden…. the free [Muslim] woman has to be married properly to her husband, but the sex-slave—he just buys her and that’s that….  For example, in the Chechnya war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations. I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some years back, when Sheikh Gamal Qutb, former Grand Mufti of Al Azhar, the most authoritative Islamic institution, was asked on live Arabic-language television if Islam permits sex slaves, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islams-public-enemy-1/">he refused to give a direct answer</a>, preferring to prevaricate.  When pressed for a clear answer by the determined host, he became hostile and stormed off the set.</p>
<p>Moreover, recall that only a few months ago, Boko Haram—a Nigerian Islamic organization that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/nigerian-sex-slaves-disrupt-obama-narrative-on-islam/">also believes Allah permits sex slavery</a>—made headlines when it abducted nearly 300 “infidel” schoolgirls to be sold on the sex slave market. Its leader <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/index.html">declaring</a> on video, “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”</p>
<p>Nonetheless, <em>FP</em> continues casually invoking Western standards to explain distinctly Islamic phenomena:</p>
<blockquote><p>IS claims to be a group of holy warriors, crafting a new world order. But the rampant sexual criminality exposes its hypocrisy and extreme brutality…. It gives the lie to the group&#8217;s claim that they are pure of heart.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Islamic State’s “rampant sexual criminality exposes its hypocrisy and extreme brutality”? “Pure of heart”? Really?</p>
<p>As mentioned, Islamic law makes crystal clear that conquered “infidel” sex slaves are one of the rewards for those waging jihad.   It’s not open to debate. It’s in the Koran, was practiced by the prophet of Islam—whom Muslims are encouraged to emulate in all ways—and is a common fixture of Islamic history. Exercising their Islamic right to own and copulate with slaves taken as booty during the jihad is hardly seen as “rampant sexual criminality,” “hypocrisy and extreme brutality,” nor does it have anything to do with “pure hearts.”</p>
<p>The naivety of this <em>FP</em> article is astounding and displays a staggering level of ignorance concerning Islam’s rules of war. Of course, that it was written by two former CIA analysts focused exclusively on Iraq, a Muslim nation, helps explain why that nation is in the deplorable state it’s in.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241631" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b-450x280.jpg" alt="Rotherham-abusers_3018211b" width="350" height="218" /></a>The umpteenth case of child sex abuse in Britain perpetrated by Muslims, the <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dennis-prager/1400-english-girls-raped-by-multiculturalism-1/">Rotherham abuse case</a></span>, has understandably left the self-proclaimed “progressives” and multiculturalists in disarray. The Leftist media outlets are on the defensive but still trying to maintain their ground.</p>
<p>Their best weapons are to distract public attention by diverting it to whatever has not been committed by Muslims, and the use of double standards, of which the most shocking example is the differential treatment of Muslims versus the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>The same people, assorted Leftists and secularists, who immediately jumped to the conclusion that all Catholic clergymen are either directly involved in paedophile abuse or in its cover-up are now bending over backwards to deny any connection between the Muslim grooming and sex-slavery gangs and Islam.</p>
<p>An article in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/01/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-difficult-questions"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Guardian</i></span></a> by Slovenian Marxist psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, included by <i>Foreign Policy</i> in its 2012 list of Top 100 Global Thinkers (no less), seems to condemn but in fact displays this behaviour. Deceitfully entitled “Rotherham child sex abuse: it is our duty to ask difficult questions,” it covers just about everything but Rotherham – and generally Muslim &#8212; child sex abuse.</p>
<p>The word “Muslim” appears twice, “Islam” once, “Islamophobic” once, “Catholic” three times (the same number as “priests” and “racism”), plus assorted uses of “Christian” and “Christianity”.</p>
<p>It doesn’t talk about Islam at all, except to briefly mention women’s second place within it, but immediately prevents the reader from dwelling on the subject too much: “Without blaming Islam as such (which is in itself no more misogynistic than Christianity)…”</p>
<p>The most ironic part of the piece is where Žižek blames his comrades for doing the same thing as he does:</p>
<blockquote><p>The left exhibited the worst of political correctness, mostly via generalisations: perpetrators were vaguely designated as “Asians”, claims were made that it was not about ethnicity and religion but about the domination of men over women, plus who are we – with our church paedophilia and Jimmy Savile – to adopt a high moral ground against a victimised minority.</p></blockquote>
<p>The double standard in this kind of coverage and comment is so gigantic that it’s better described as a total reversal of the truth.</p>
<p>We have on one hand Muslim paedophile and sex-slave gangs who act <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/there-is-link-between-islam-paedophilia.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in total accordance with Islam</span></a> on many levels. To begin with, Muhammad, the model man for all Muslims worthy of the name, gave the good example by marrying a 6-year-old, Aisha, and consummating their marriage when she was 9. He also owned sex slaves. Both sex with underage, even pre-menstruating, <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/065-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">girls</span></a> and <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/10382"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex slavery</span></a> – both relevant to the Rotherham case &#8212; are permissible in Islamic Scriptures and law. Even today, child marriage is <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Contemporary_Pedophilic_Islamic_Marriages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commonly practised</span></a> in the Muslim world.</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/434512/underage-victims-to-stop-child-marriages-state-needs-to-step-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in Pakistan</span></a> – the country of origin of most of the UK child groomers or their families –</p>
<blockquote><p>according to UNICEF, <b>child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages</b> in the country from 1987 to 2005…</p>
<p>Around 100 million girls are expected to enter into child marriage in the next decade. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Pakistan has or has had the world record for paedophilia-related Internet searches, such as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/12/data-shows-pakistan-googling-pornographic-material/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;child sex video.&#8221;</span></a> Child molestation in <a href="http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/lahore/30-Jul-2010/paedophilia-in-punjab-reaching-alarming-levels"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Punjab</span></a>, a region of Pakistan where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_(Pakistan)"><span style="color: #0433ff;">97.21%</span></a> of the population is Muslim, has reached alarming levels, and “68 percent [of] girls and 32 percent [of] boys have been the victims of paedophilia.”</p>
<p>Add to all this the contempt which Muslims have for white women, considered as “easy meat” due to the way they dress and their drinking habits, and you can easily see that the disproportionate representation of Muslims among those convicted for child rape, grooming of girls for sex, and child prostitution in the UK – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pge53WOIcrY&amp;ytsession=EhszDM1qfM7jYVMu2LBvv1FhdpQ3mcibbmlAvqgkSWW93HAaDoq3I-ABmSd-pr5nO9_5jZYrWat3b7cIi0MdWRwn6g4x6IJuaOBHRezVaHz3zOK_PZj2MiOBuSbRd2y3cXjjpLvbzNDtkGMduDs1cHw9JtJ93wo86J4I1nfbLJeFGiiHhWl-eIzLrH_JwQ5yuYiMtla6XbbxkAIQkZojMn9ni3cZ0tXX7wtjdKSbn-w6s0-gYB7_yy5paIJUt6WqaS3ugA6VzLfxR_98mRukBJPeT0FEKHgZ_RcjYtHHj37skGo9QKYU9rpzOkrKjICt5op_vkCqfq0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">91%</span></a>, while Muslims are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">4-5%</span></a> of the total population – is not coincidental.</p>
<p>The arguments for linking the epidemic of paedophile rings in Britain with its Muslim immigrant population are strong, solidly founded and well-reasoned. The bias and distortion of the facts are on the part of those who deny them, contrary to all evidence.</p>
<p>We then have on the other hand an extensive media treatment, that lasted for a very long time, of the Catholic Church as a hotbed of paedophilia, vigorously connecting it to its preaching, including chastity, whereas in fact the overwhelming majority of sex offenders have wives or girlfriends.</p>
<p>In reality, research on the subject shows exactly the opposite of the Left&#8217;s claims. These are the main findings in the USA: Catholic priests who ever abused minors are less than 2%, the same figure for Protestant clergy is 2-3%, and most of the abusers are not clergy or staff, but Church volunteers; the figure for rabbis within organised Judaism is 2-3%.</p>
<p>In secular institutions the abuse is <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/lies-about-catholic-church-abuse-scandal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even more widespread</span></a>.</p>
<p>The most reasonable conclusion is that the Catholic Church, far from being especially connected to paedophilia – which it condemns &#8212; has itself partly succumbed to the ethos of our age, although greatly less than other institutions dealing with children.</p>
<p>While the Left was caught unaware, the British political Right and its warnings about the dangers of Islam have been vindicated by the Rotherham outrage. The UK public, in the middle, may be – ever so slightly – waking up to the reality of the “religion of peace”.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29204170"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC</span></a> says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamic State extremism and the Rotherham abuse scandal are fuelling a far-right backlash in the UK, one of the Home Office&#8217;s most senior advisers on right-wing extremism has said…</p>
<p>But the Institute for Strategic Dialogue claims the government must engage more with the far right.</p></blockquote>
<p>After what former Rotherham MP <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11059643/Denis-MacShane-I-was-too-much-of-a-liberal-leftie-and-should-have-done-more-to-investigate-child-abuse.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Denis MacShane</span></a> admitted:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perhaps yes, as a true Guardian reader, and liberal leftie, I suppose I didn’t want to raise that too hard…</p>
<p>[I] should have done more to investigate child abuse…</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe “liberal leftie,” “Guardian reader” and “multiculturalist” should finally become dirty words, insults of the same grade as “fascist”?</p>
<p>Saturday 20th September the English Defence League (EDL) held a demonstration in Downing Street in front of the Prime Minister’s residence over this scandal, which I attended.</p>
<p>I had never been to an EDL demo before. Yes, they are working class, heavily tattooed, and &#8212; with their flag waving, slogan chanting and raucous singing &#8212; closely resembling beer-drinking football fans in appearance and behaviour. But they are decent folks doing their bit in a legal and peaceful way for their own country and all ours, for the survival of Western civilisation. Their courage and commitment are unfortunately not widely matched in the general population.</p>
<p>The EDL&#8217;s bad reputation in the public perception is largely due to the kind of media reporting we are well used to. In the same way as Christians being slaughtered all over the Islamic world is for the media equally-balanced &#8220;sectarian violence,&#8221; and Israel&#8217;s reaction to Hamas rockets is &#8220;indiscriminate bombing of civilians,&#8221; so the throwing of stones and bottles at EDL crowds by the Leftist thugs of UAF (Unite Against Fascism, an offshoot of the Socialist Workers Party) becomes for the BBC and mainstream press &#8220;clashes between the UAF and the English Defence League.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just witness this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5oXAhA9xCA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ABC News report</span></a> in which the “hate next door” in the title incongruously doesn’t refer to radical Islam, but to the EDL that tries to protect us from it.</p>
<p>The leader of my party, Liberty GB, Paul Weston, looking at some litter from the food and drinks consumed by the 400-500 people attending the demonstration, tidily kept in a corner, pointed out to me how you never see that at events organised by the “liberals,” where garbage is left all over the place.</p>
<p>Liberty GB is considering fielding as a candidate in Rotherham at the 2015 British Parliament elections a former Muslim who converted to Christianity.</p>
<p>Paul Weston gave a brilliant, passionate <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6575-cameron-is-a-traitor-paul-weston-at-downing-street-20-09-2014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">speech</span></a> in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, culminating in “Cameron, you&#8217;re a liar and you&#8217;re a traitor!”</p>
<p>From the pen (a cage would have been better) in which the police wisely kept them, the only contribution to the subject of the Rotherham child-grooming gangs coming from the “counterdemonstration” of the UAF was &#8220;Nazi scum!&#8221; which is more or less their only &#8220;argument&#8221; against the critics of Islam.</p>
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		<title>Raped and Slaughtered: Muslim Persecution of Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another month, another endless list of atrocities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240628" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution.jpg" alt="pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution" width="315" height="262" /></a>Originally published by the </i><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">Gatestone Institute</a>.</i></span></p>
<p>From one end of the Islamic world to the other, the abduction and rape of Christian girls at the hands of Muslims—both terrorists and laymen—was a dominant theme in April.</p>
<p>On Easter Sunday Morning, for instance, <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-clan-gang-rapes-seven-year-old-Christian-and-kidnaps-father-to-stop-him-reporting-them-30906.html">four Muslim men raped a 7-year-old Christian girl</a> named Sara in a Punjabi village.  Last reported, the child was in an intensive care unit in “critical.” According to Asia News, “the police, instead of arresting the culprits, helped the local clan to kidnap the girl’s father; Iqbal Masih was taken and hidden in a secret place to ‘force the family not to report the story, to reach an agreement with the criminals and to avoid a dispute of a religious background.’”</p>
<p>According to a human rights lawyer involved in the case: “Such cases are <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35620-ASIA_PAKISTAN_A_7_year_old_Christian_Girl_raped_on_Easter_Sunday">frequent</a>: abuse against women and girls by Muslim men are examples of how the minorities in Pakistan live under constant fear of persecution. We believe that many cases of violence go unreported.”  Similarly, a new report appearing in April by the Solidarity and Peace Movement—a coalition of NGOs, associations and institutions including the “Justice and Peace” Commission of the Pakistani Bishops—<a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35548-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Every_year_thousands_of_Hindu_and_Christian_girls_kidnapped_and_forced_into_Islamic_marriage_new_Report">confirmed</a> that “an estimated 700 cases per year involve Christian women, 300 Hindu girls.” Even so, “the true extent of the problem is probably much bigger, since many cases are not reported.”  (<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/the-rape-and-murder-of-pakistans-christian-children/">Click here</a> for a better understanding of the extent of this tragedy.)</p>
<p>The biggest story, however, came from Nigeria, where the Islamic terrorist organization known as Boko Haram abducted nearly 300, <a href="https://barnabasaid.org/Over-200-schoolgirls-kidnapped-from-Christian-town-in-Nigeria.html">mostly Christian</a>, teenage schoolgirls.  The group justified its actions in Islamic terms; its leader <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/index.html">declared</a> on video that “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”</p>
<p>The so-called mainstream media, which <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/how-the-media-whitewashes-muslim-persecution-of-christians/">generally downplays</a> or ignores Boko Haram’s terror campaign, actually reported on this particular atrocity, prompting Western authorities—who are much more accustomed to, and comfortable with, pretending these sorts of things don’t exist—to respond in awkward, hypocritical and, in a word, foolish, ways.</p>
<p>Thus, Secretary of State <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nigeria-accepts-us-help-to-rescue-girls-kidnapped-by-boko-haram-too-late/">John Kerry</a>, saying the U.S. had been in touch with Nigeria “from day one” of the crisis, asserted “I think now the complications that have arisen have convinced everybody that there needs to be a greater effort.  And it will begin immediately. I mean, literally, immediately.”</p>
<p>It is not clear whom Kerry was referring to when he said “convinced everybody”—unless he was referring to himself.  After all, there might not have been any need for “greater effort,” the need to act “immediately. I mean, literally, immediately” had Kerry only let the Nigerian government do its job one year ago, when they were waging a particularly strong and successful offensive against Boko Haram in the very same region that the schoolgirls were recently kidnapped.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-calls-for-the-human-rights-of-jihadi-murderers/">Back then</a>, in May 2013, soon after Nigerian forces killed 30 Boko Haram members, Reuters reported that “U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a strongly worded statement [to the Nigerian president] saying: “We are … deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko Haram.</p>
<p>As for Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, who publicly bemoaned the lot of the kidnapped girls—<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html">saying</a> it’s “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible”—when she was Secretary of State and in a position to help offer “the fullest response possible” she repeatedly <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html">refused</a> to designate Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organizations,” despite the countless atrocities it had already committed, despite the fact that under her tenure Boko Haram had <a href="http://www.kkms.com/11666938/">boasted</a> it would “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women,” and despite urging from the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and several congressmen and senators.</p>
<p>Her logic was once voiced by her husband, former U.S. president Bill Clinton.  Back in February 2012, Clinton declared that “inequality” and “poverty” are “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/clinton-blames-jihad-on-poverty/">what’s fueling all this stuff</a>”—a reference to Boko Haram’s terror—and warned the Nigerian government that “It is almost impossible to cure a problem based on violence with violence.”</p>
<p>The rest of April’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p><b>Muslim Slaughter of Christians</b></p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/32723-afghan-christians-mourn-americans-killed-at-hospital">Three Americans were shot and killed</a> at a Kabul hospital funded by an American Christian charity.  The murderer was a policeman employed as a security guard at the hospital.  The Taliban have claimed responsibility for similar attacks this year, but issued no comment.  Those killed were a doctor and a father and son visiting the hospital. “As they were walking out of the hospital, the security guard opened fire on them, killing three and wounding another one,” said the Interior Ministry.  The attack comes amid growing attacks against Christians and Westerners in the country. Three weeks earlier, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and reporter Kathy Gannon, 60, wounded while they were sitting in the back of a car in the east of the country.  Also in March, a gunman shot dead Swedish journalist Nils Horner, 51, outside a restaurant in Kabul.</p>
<p><b>Central African Republic</b>: Father Labbe Christ Formane Willbona was slaughtered by Muslim herdsmen believed to be close to the Islamic rebel organization, Seleka.  Local security sources reported that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/centra-african-republic-islamic-jihadists-murder-catholic-priest-mutilate-corpse">the corpse was mutilated before being buried</a>.</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Coptic Christian teacher in Marzouk prep school in Minya province <a href="http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=1085&amp;A=13791">was shot in the head</a> by a student belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Eyewitnesses said that the student was caught smoking in class and was reprimanded. Apparently he decided to show his “infidel” teacher his place, and so shot him in the head while he was returning home. <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35640-AFRICA_EGYPT_Sectarian_clashes_in_Assiut_Two_Christians_killed">Two more Christian Copts were killed</a> due to, according to Agenzia Fides, “sectarian clashes” which broke out in villages near Asyut over land disputes between a Coptic family and local Muslims. On the same day of the Coptic funeral, a young Coptic entrepreneur, Mohsen Morris, was also kidnapped near Asyut. The kidnappers extracted a ransom of 250,000 Egyptian pounds from his family.</p>
<p><b>Libya</b>:  Three more Coptic Christians—all cousins—were targeted in post “Arab Spring” Libya.   One was <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/three-egyptian-cousins-go-to-libya-none-comes-back-alive/">slaughtered</a> and brought back to Egypt to be buried in a Coptic cemetery; another was carried back home in an ambulance, half dead with a bullet lodged in his skull; another cousin disappeared and is believed to have been killed by Islamic militants.  Islamic enmity for Christians has been expressing itself regularly in Libya after the U.S. supported “Arab Spring” came there: Christians—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a>—have been <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a> and killed (including <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a>) and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a>. It’s “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/open-season-on-christians-in-libya/">open season</a>” on Copts, as jihadis issue a reward to Muslims who find and kill Christians. This was not the case under Gaddafi.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: A Muslim security guard is accused of <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/family-of-christian-shot-dead-in-pakistan-doubts-suicide-claim/">murdering a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam</a>.   According to Morning Star News,<b> “</b>Sunny Masih, a father of two, was working as a cleaner at a branch of Bank Islami under construction on Nisbat Road in Lahore. On Wednesday morning (April 16), the bank security guard informed police that Masih had shot himself in the forehead with a pump-action shotgun that the guard had left unattended before going to the washroom. The guard, Omar Farooq, of Khushab District in central Punjab Province, told police that Masih ‘looked depressed’ when he arrived at the bank.”  However, all close family members insist that Sunny was, far from depressed, lively and happy.  According to the father, “On April 15, my son told me that Farooq [the guard] had mocked his Christian faith and had asked him to ‘embrace’ Islam. He told my son, ‘You are a good-looking boy, and I don’t like to see you sweeping floors and cleaning the washrooms. If you embrace Islam, I’ll connect you with people who will take good care of you, provide you with a decent job and even get you married into a wealthy Muslim family.’”  Sunny told Farooq that he was satisfied with his Christian faith, and that he should stop nagging him. “My son told me that when he snubbed Farooq, the guard had threatened him that he would have to face the consequences for refusing the <i>Dawaat</i> [an invitation to accept Islam] said the grieving father. I took the matter lightly and told my son not to worry, as being Christians we have to face such people every second day. I told Sunny to avoid discussing religion with Farooq even if he brought up the matter and keep distance from him, and everything would be alright. Little did I know that my son would end up in a mortuary a day later.” According to a Christian activist involved in the case, Sunny “was hit on the forehead just above his eyes, and his skull and brain were completely blown away by the impact at point blank range.  The doctor said he found it hard to believe that Masih could have shot himself in the head with a big weapon such as a shotgun. This is what we want the police to find out, but instead they are trying to cover up the matter. We believe the police are showing bias in its probe because it involves a ‘righteous Muslim’ who was trying to convert a Christian.”</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: Frans van der Lugt—a 76-year-old Jesuit priest from the Netherlands who had established a community center and farm near the city of Homs where he had worked for over forty years for the betterment of people with disabilities and for Christian-Muslim harmony—was <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27155474">shot dead</a> in the garden of the community center.  After the Islamist-led siege of Homs, the priest continued to care for the sick and the hungry. In early 2014 he made a number of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQHg6ivGPg">YouTube videos</a>, asking the international community to help the besieged city.  Yet he chose to remain in Homs, struggling with the daily bombings and the lack of food, until he was slain.</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: The teenage daughter of a Muslim man managed to attend one church service after converting to Christianity before <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/muslim-in-uganda-kills-daughter-for-leaving-islam-sister-says/">her father killed her</a>. Abdul Hakim Ibanda severely beat his 17-year-old daughter and her 19-year-old sister with a blunt instrument after learning that they had attended a church service on April 6.  The surviving sister said, “On Sunday morning we arrived at the United Believers Church…  After prayers we then went to church, where the pastor introduced us to the church and that we were new members of the church. The church faithful were cheerful to receive us.”  However,</p>
<p>local Muslims who saw them enter the church immediately reported it to the father. He gathered a group of 32 “youths” to attack the church but the mob was eventually dispersed without incident.  When the girls returned home, the father, described as “furious,” began questioning and eventually beating them with a blunt object, killing the girl.  According to the pastor of the majority-Christian nation, where Muslims make some 11.5 percent, “The girl [surviving sister] is still traumatized as a result of the death of her sister and needs prayers and counseling.”<i> </i> Said the girl: “I know I cannot go back to my father because I have become a Christian.  I am grateful to the church for welcoming me and taking me as their child. I now have a new home.”</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches</b></p>
<p><b>Austria</b>: After reportedly listening to Muslim chants, a man, known only as Ibrahim A., went on a church vandalizing spree, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/vienna-muslim-vandalizes-four-churches-after-listening-to-islamic-chants">desecrating four churches</a>.  According to the Vienna Times, “the attack left Lazaristenkirche with all of its statues and side altars largely destroyed as well as statues damaged at St. Stephen’s, the Breitenfeld church in Josefstadt and the Neuottakring church in Ottakring.” The Archbishop of Vienna described the attack on churches as “so far the worst act of vandalism in my time as Archbishop….  I am shocked by the devastation in the churches.  I hope that the perpetrator or perpetrators did not know what they were doing.”  Ibrahim A., 37-years-old, was caught in the act of vandalizing St. Stephan’s but was released at the time because police did not realize it was one of many attacks that that had been carried out that day. Police have since been unable to find him.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>:  According to AP, “Witnesses and an official say <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2593552/Catholic-church-north-Nigeria-set-aflame.html">angry Muslim youths set ablaze a Catholic church</a> and tried to destroy an attached school in northern Nigeria over an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad.  Witness Tukur Musa says soldiers on Monday stopped the mob from setting ablaze the school in Funtua town in Katsina state, but they arrived too late to save St. Rita Catholic Church.  He says the town was in an uproar about an examination question last week which they considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. They reported the matter to district authorities. When no action was taken, young Muslims attacked.  Deputy Police Superintendent Aminu Abubakar Saddiq confirmed the church was burned and school damaged but said no one was injured.  Religious strife [code for “Islamic supremacism”] is common in central and northern Nigeria.”  Also, during early Easter Sunday morning, unknown gunmen, later attributed to the Islamic terrorist organization, Boko Haram, launched an attack on the Christian-majority regions of Taraba State.  <a href="http://www.spyghana.com/police-and-boko-haram-massacre-over-150-dead/">The Christian Church of Nigeria was burned down</a>, as well as many Christian homes. Some 15 corpses were seen littered on the streets.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>:    Gregorios III Laham, Greek-Melkite Catholic patriarch of Antioch, visited some of the dozens of Christian churches hit by Islamic rebels, particularly those in the historic town of Ma‘aloula, where the Christian inhabitants still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and where some were executed for refusing to convert to Islam.   (<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19118">Click here</a> for several pictures of the types of desecration that churches undergo if they fall into the hands of the Islamic terrorists.  In St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church alone,  icons had their faces scratched out, church pews broken, statues of the Virgin Mary and Christ smashed, and Bibles burned.)  In the prelate’s words: “An apocalyptic spectacle presented itself. Other churches have been destroyed in Syria, but I have never seen anything like this. I cried and I sought in vain a moment of solitude to pray. I am heartbroken.  Ma‘aloula's four historic churches were hit. Our parish church, dedicated to Saint George, is riddled with bullets. The convent’s dome was damaged in two places. The walls were ripped open by cannon fire. Some parts of the convent is in danger of collapsing and must be rebuilt. The icons are scattered on the floor, dirty, or stolen. It is currently completely uninhabitable.”  The patriarch further described the wanton destruction of churches as a “war crime.”</p>
<p><b>Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Malaysia</b>: An Islamic organization known as Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia <a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/now-muslim-group-complains-of-malay-language-in-easter-pageant">accused a Christian church of trying to evangelize to Muslims</a>, simply because they used Bahasa Malaysia, the national language, for an Easter pageant.  The organization’s website said that while freedom of religion for non-Muslims was guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, the open use of Bahasa Malaysia to promote the event outside the church compound was an abuse of this liberty.  The organization also called on Muslim officials “to closely monitor this Easter Musical.”  It further declared that “the notion of Easter was against Islam.”  In Malaysia—which is regularly portrayed in the West as an example of a moderate Muslim nation—any attempt to promote religions other than Islam is illegal.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Eight days after a court in Lahore sentenced <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/03/attorneys-rights-groups-blast-death-sentence-for-christian-in-pakistan/">Sawan Masih</a>, a Christian man, to death for allegedly insulting Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, another illiterate Christian couple in Punjab Province was <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/christian-couple-in-pakistan-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy/">sentenced to death</a> for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages.  Along with Asia Bibi, a wife and mother incarcerated since 2010, the number of Christians on death row in Pakistan for blaspheming Islam and/or its founder is now four.  Also, a Muslim landlord <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/32729-pakistan-christian-worker-beaten-for-observing-easter">almost beat to death</a> his Christian tenant and employee, Saleem Masih, for observing Easter.  According to Mushtaq Gill, a Christian activist and lawyer, because Saleem took time off to observe Easter, “the landlord became furious and beat him severely. He was eventually rescued and saved by some other villagers, otherwise he could have been beaten to death.”  Gill added that many other Christian field workers “are forced into bonded labour, denied minimum wages and harassed and implicated in fake cases if they try to resist the oppression of their influential masters.” As for Mushtaq Gill, the Christian lawyer who is representing the aforementioned Christians, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35508-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Threats_to_the_lawyer_who_defends_Christians_accused_of_blasphemy">he is facing death threats</a>.  In his own words: “On April 2, a stranger came to the Lahore Court and warned me that I might be attacked or involved in some fake criminal cases or even killed.” Nor are such threats limited to “extremists,” as he received information that he could also be expelled and barred from practicing law.  Said Gill: “What am I supposed to do, stop? Psalm 118 says: ‘The Lord is with me, I have no fear of anything. What can man do to me?’ My other colleagues and I have been threatened and attacked several times by strangers because of our work for human rights in Pakistan. But we are not afraid. We know that we could be killed because we support the campaign for the abolition of the blasphemy law. But this will not close our mouth and will not stop our work on human rights. The Lord tells us to have courage.”</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: Muslim relatives of a convert to Christianity <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/convert-from-islam-in-uganda-former-sheikh-says-muslim-relatives-poisoned-him/">tried to poison him to death</a>.  Hassan Muwanguzi converted to Christianity in 2003.  Soon thereafter, his wife left him and he was fired from his job as a schoolteacher.  Most recently, he was hospitalized after an aunt put insecticide in his tea.  According to Hassan: “After eating and taking tea, I started feeling stomachache, then I realized that she was the one responsible for it—and I believe she did not do it alone, since they have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much.  The reason they want to kill me is very clear—it is because of being a convert to Christianity; above all, to them it is like I brought shame by converting…” During the family meeting, when he started to feel ill, he telephoned a local Christian bishop, who advised him that he should leave secretly. “I knew if he were to mention to them that he was getting sick, they would harm him more,” said Bishop Kinyewa.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Christians are being prevented from burying their dead in the state cemeteries of the Muslim-majority nation.  There have been three known cases so far this year. Most recently, the family of Gayrat Buriyev, who died on 9 April, was told by officials<i>, </i>“The cemetery is state property, but is under the management of the local mosque, and if the imam is against the burial then it will not take place.”<i> </i>And the local imam said he was “acting in accordance with sharia law,” even though Uzbekistan is officially a secular state. The imam also cursed the family for being Christians, calling them “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-blocked-from-burying-dead-in-state-cemeteries-in-Uzbekistan.html">unclean and defiled infidels</a>.”  Although they took the matter to local authorities, officials refused to intervene, siding with the imam.  (According to Islamic teaching, being buried next to an “infidel” could cause the Muslim corpse to suffer the “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/jihad-martyrdom-and-the-torments-of-the-grave/">torments of the grave</a>.”)</p>
<p><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)    To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)    To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of <i>jizya</i> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <i>dhimmis</i>, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
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<p><em>Don't miss <strong>Raymond Ibrahim</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang</strong> discussing</em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations."><em><strong> ISIS's Islamic Inspirations</strong>:</em> </span></p>
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<p><b>Previous Reports on Muslim Persecution of Christians</b>:</p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/obama-administration-suppresses-talk-of-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2014/">March, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2014/">February, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">January, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/they-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013/">December, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">October, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">September, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/">July, 2011</a></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Diversity&#8217; Re-education for Rotherham Whistleblower</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How U.K. authorities abetted the abuse of hundreds of children by Muslim child rape gangs. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240315" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg" alt="or" width="314" height="235" /></a>For the despicable protectors of political correctness and multiculturalism, the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089"><span style="color: #1255cc;">systematic</span></a> sexual abuse of 1,400 girls over the course of a decade and a half &#8212; including some as young as 11 years of age &#8212; was the lesser of two evils that occurred in Rotherham, England. In a stunning testament to the bankruptcy of both ideologies, a researcher who blew the whistle on this appalling scandal more than a decade ago was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11069178/Rotherham-researcher-sent-on-diversity-course-after-raising-alarm.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sent</span></a> to an &#8220;ethnic and diversity course&#8221; by child protection authorities after she revealed the ethnic identity of the abusers.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The revelation emerged in a segment of <i>Panorama</i>, a current-affairs program broadcast by the BBC that produced a report on the scandal. The researcher, a person from the United Kingdom’s Home Office who wished to remain anonymous, explained that she began encountering victims while working at Risky Business, a youth outreach organization set up by the Council, aka the local government. &#8220;The workers in that project were the only people that those young people trusted, that they were telling the complete story to,&#8221; the researcher <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-29012571"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> <i>Panorama</i>’s Alison Holt. &#8220;And some of the stories that I heard very early on were just so graphic that I don&#8217;t think I will ever forget them. I was collecting data on who the perpetrators were, what cars they were using, their grooming methods, their offending methods, and what I was also collecting, was information on professional responses.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In 2002, the researcher documented that 270 young girls had been exploited in 2001. In the course of sharing her findings with the Council, she unwittingly violated a PC taboo: she revealed that the chief perpetrators of the abuse were men from the British Pakistani community.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response of the Council was shocking. &#8220;They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It gets worse. The researcher says she submitted her report to the Home Office and the Rotherham Council on a Friday. On either Saturday or Sunday, someone entered the offices of Risky Business where the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/02/rotherham-abuse-researcher-diversity-course_n_5750560.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">backup data</span></a> on her report were stored and took it. The researcher believes it was an inside job because there was no evidence of a break-in. &#8220;They&#8217;d gained access to the office and taken my data, so out of the number of filing cabinets there was one drawer emptied and it was emptied of my data. It had to be an employee of the council,&#8221; she contended. Adding insult to injury, the report was never published and according to Holt, &#8220;the council even tried unsuccessfully to get the researcher sacked.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“I was subjected to the most intense personal hostility,” the researcher revealed. “There were threats made from a range of sources. I’ve never seen back-covering like it, and I still feel extremely angry about that.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is likely that certain aspects of her report drove the efforts to suppress it. One chapter noted the &#8220;alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers&#8221; along with her contention that responsibility for the exploitation was &#8220;continuously placed on young people&#8217;s shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers.&#8221; &#8220;Had this report been treated with the seriousness it merited at the time by both the police and the council, the children involved then and later would have been better protected and abusers brought to justice,&#8221; the 2002 draft added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Prof. Alexis Jay, who wrote an independent report on the scandal, <a href="http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham"><span style="color: #1255cc;">The Independent Inquiry Into Child Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2003</span></a>, paints a devastating picture of determined ineptitude, noting that more than a third of the children affected were &#8220;previously known to services because of child protection and neglect.&#8221; He describes the &#8220;appalling nature&#8221; of the abuse these children endured. &#8220;They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated,&#8221; he reveals. &#8220;There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response by officials was equally appalling. Jay cites their &#8220;collective failures&#8221; despite &#8220;growing evidence&#8221; that child sexual exploitation (CSE) was occurring in Rotherham. He further notes that senior managers &#8220;underplayed&#8221; the problem and Police gave the CSE cases &#8220;no priority,” often treating the victims &#8220;with contempt&#8221; and &#8220;failing to act on their abuse as a crime.&#8221; He goes on to note that three separate reports from 2002, 2003, and 2006, known to both the Police and the Council &#8220;could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham,&#8221; further explaining that the 2002 report written by the whistleblower was &#8220;effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Martin Kimber, chief executive of Rotherham Borough Council, accepted the findings in Jay&#8217;s report, but claimed to know nothing about the alleged break-in at Risky Business. &#8220;The alleged &#8216;raid&#8217; on the Risky Business office is not something that I am aware of and having made appropriate checks within the council, I am unable to find anyone who recognises this series of events as they have been presented to us,&#8221; he said in a released statement. &#8220;Similarly, I have been unable to find any reference within the Alexis Jay report to the alleged incident and have no other independent means of corroborating the allegations that are being put forward. If further information is made available which enables me to do so, I would be happy to look into it.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">South Yorkshire Police have promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, and have increased the number of investigators on the case from 10 to 45. &#8220;A number of large-scale investigations looking at historical and current sexual offences in Rotherham are ongoing and involve a large number of victims,&#8221; it said in a statement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All well and good, but it can&#8217;t make up for the concerted effort to suppress this atrocity and the overriding reason for doing so. &#8220;Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so,&#8221; Jay’s report states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">British Parliament member Simon Danczuk, who is calling for a mandatory reporting law that would make officials criminally liable for failing to report child abuse, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/31/Lessons-learned-from-Rotherham-Simon-DanczukMP"><span style="color: #1255cc;">confirms</span></a> that assessment, noting that senior managers believed &#8220;political correctness and cultural sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,&#8221; and thus they were more interested &#8220;in ticking boxes in diversity training than protecting children.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to wonder if there is a lower depth to be plumbed than the suppression of child rape by the adherents of political correctness and multiculturalism. And make no mistake: at the heart of both concepts is the determined suppression and/or vilification of anyone who dares to defy these utterly bankrupt shibboleths. Bankrupt shibboleths that produce real victims. &#8220;I was a child and they should have stepped in,&#8221; a woman called &#8220;Isabel&#8221; to protect her identity, told <i>Panorama</i>. &#8220;No matter what&#8217;s done now&#8230; it&#8217;s not going to change that it was too late, it should have been stopped and prevented.&#8221;</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series with <strong>Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom Foundation</a> about Muslim rape gangs in the UK and how Islamic theology inspires and sanctions their barbaric crimes against helpless young girls:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>The &#8216;Central Park Five’: Still Guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Central-Park-Five.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238072" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Central-Park-Five-450x316.jpg" alt="The-Central-Park-Five" width="273" height="192" /></a>Twenty-five years ago, Trisha Meili—“the Central Park jogger”—was a 28 year-old employee for a prestigious Manhattan investment banker when she was mercilessly beaten, raped, and left for dead by thugs.</p>
<p>Meili lost approximately <i>80 percent </i>of her blood.  Her skull was fractured to the point that her one eye had popped out of its socket.  On the scale of 3 to 15 that neurologists use to gauge brain functioning, Meili’s was assigned a rating of 4.  She spent nearly the next two weeks in a coma, with experts expecting her to die.</p>
<p>This crime became a racially explosive issue, for Meili was white and her assailants were not: Of the 30 or so minority youths that had been randomly terrorizing park dwellers, four blacks and one Hispanic confessed to having engaged in the attack on Meili.  Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, and Yusef Salaam were arrested, tried, convicted, and issued prison sentences.</p>
<p>But in 2002, long after “the Central Park Five,” as documentarian and apologist for the convicts, Ken Burns has dubbed them, had done their time, and long after <i>the statute of limitations </i>on the 13 year-old crime <i>had expired</i>, convicted serial rapist and murderer, Matias Reyes, who was already serving a life term, confessed to being Meili’s lone assailant.   DNA testing confirmed that it was Matias’ semen—and his alone—that was found on Meili’s body and around the scene of the crime.</p>
<p>Shortly afterwards, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau prevailed upon his state’s Supreme Court to “vacate” the convictions of “the Central Park Five.”  Not unsurprisingly, the latter sued the City of New York for wrongful imprisonment to the tune of <i>$250 million.  </i></p>
<p>In June, courtesy of the ever illustrious Mayor DiBlasio, “the Central Park Five” discovered that they would receive <i>$40 million</i>.</p>
<p>Not since the O.J. Simpson acquittal have we witnessed this gross a travesty of justice.  Yet it’s also a travesty of intelligence, for only a fool—or perhaps a liar—could think that “the Central Park Five” were innocent of <i>anything</i>, much less the attack on Trisha Meili.</p>
<p>For starters, no one has ever disputed that the Harlem thugs had been in Central Park that fateful evening for the sole purpose of assaulting and mugging innocents (one of whom had been bludgeoned with a pipe).  As is the wont of cowards, “the Five” set upon only those who they outnumbered, those who were weaker and more vulnerable.  This they confessed from the moment they were in police custody.</p>
<p>To the present day, they have never retracted <i>this </i>confession.</p>
<p>Yet “the Five” also proceeded immediately to implicate themselves in the assault on <i>Meili</i>.  On <i>multiple</i> occasions, while alone with the police <i>as well as </i>when they were accompanied by their adult relatives, they left no doubts about their role in this act of barbarism:</p>
<p>Antron McCray: “We charged her.  We got her on the ground.  Everybody started hitting her and stuff.  She was on the ground.  Everybody stompin’ and everything. Then we got, each—I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm, and we grabbed her legs and stuff.  Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her.”</p>
<p>Kevin Richardson: “Raymond [Santana] had her arms, and Steve [Lopez] had her legs.  He spread it out.  And Antron [McCray] got on top, took her panties off.”</p>
<p>Raymond Santana: “He was smackin’ her, he was sayin’, ‘Shut up, bitch!’ Just smackin’ her…I was grabbin’ the lady’s tits.”</p>
<p>Kharey Wise: “This was my first rape.”</p>
<p>Ann Coulter reminds us that Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with Wise, <i>testified </i>that the latter told her by phone while he was incarcerated at Riker’s Island that even though <i>he </i>didn’t’ actually rape Meili, he <i>did </i>restrain the victim’s legs while Kevin Richardson “fucked her.”</p>
<p>Jackson, incidentally, informed the police of this exchange only because she thought that it would <i>help </i>Wise’s case.</p>
<p>Coulter also notes that one of the youths apprehended by police shortly after the attack against Meili insisted—<i>prior to being questioned</i>—that he knew “who did the <i>murder</i>.”  This is proof that, at the very least, the pummeling that Meili endured was witnessed by multiple people <i>and </i>that its severity was such that it was assumed that it was fatal.</p>
<p>Meili <i>was </i>left for dead.</p>
<p>But there is more.</p>
<p>This same punk—again, mind you, without even being asked about the attack, much less a murder—fingered none other than <i>Antron McCray </i>as “the murderer.”</p>
<p>Multiple videotaped confessions of “the Five”; the presence of semen, blood, and hair on all of the suspects; a scratch on Kevin Richardson’s neck that, <i>in the company of his father,</i> he<i> </i>admitted he received by Meili; and several witness accounts confirmed for the police that the vermin who Ken Burns would years later make into martyrs were as guilty as sin itself of initiating and facilitating an attack against Trisha Meili that nearly cost the poor woman her life.</p>
<p>Matias Reyes semen was the only attacker’s DNA found <i>on </i>Meili or at the crime scene.  However, neither this nor the word of this serial rapist and murderer that he acted alone goes any distance whatsoever toward proving the innocence of “the Central Park Five.”</p>
<p>Police have been prevented by the District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, who recommended that the convictions of “the Five” be vacated, from interrogating Reyes.</p>
<p>Linda Fairstein, the original prosecutor in this case, expressed her certainty that “the Central Park Five” are guilty.  Reyes, she believes, merely finished what they had started.  As for this notion that the NYPD “coerced” false confessions from the suspects, Mike Sheehan, one of the central detectives who investigated the crime, and who, in his own words, had spent decades taking “over 1,000 confessions, in 3,000 homicides,” has nothing but contempt. “All of this stuff about coercion really pisses me off,” Sheehan has said.  “Do you honestly think that we—detectives with more than 20 years in, family men with pensions—would risk all of that so we could put words in the mouth of a 15 year-old kid? Absolutely not.”</p>
<p>Even Morgenthau concedes that no police misconduct—like coercing the teens into admitting to a crime in which they had zero involvement—ever occurred.</p>
<p>Now “the Central Park Five” is $40 million richer.</p>
<p>But the taxpayers of New York City—including the victims of the “wilding” rampage visited upon Central Park 25 years ago—have suffered a loss far greater than this.</p>
<p>For that matter, the fortune of “the Central Park Five” is the misfortune of all decent people.</p>
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		<title>Dr. Mark Durie on &#8220;Islam vs. Human Conscience&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading scholar of Islam discusses Islam’s war on human moral judgment in a special two-part series. ]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Durie joined the show to discuss <strong>&#8220;<i>Islam vs. Human Conscience,&#8221; </i></strong>analyzing how Islam wages war on humans moral judgment and intuition. The focus on this phenomenon occurs in <strong>Part I</strong> below (<strong>starting at 5:30 mark)</strong>. The dialogue transpired within the context of Boko Haram&#8217;s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Islamic roots of that barbaric act. Dr. Durie shed light on the Islamic theology that inspires and sanctions Muslims to enslave and rape kafir women.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Turns Liberals into &#8216;Rape-Loving Scum&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A "feminist icon" who agreed to serve the same role for a child rapist as she did for her sex predator husband.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BqRjdFsIMAAEjVQ.jpg-medium.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BqRjdFsIMAAEjVQ.jpg-medium-450x300.jpg" alt="BqRjdFsIMAAEjVQ.jpg-medium" width="251" height="167" /></a>When the Roman Polanski rape case resurfaced, Whoopi Goldberg coined the term “rape-rape” to describe the difference between the kind of rape she opposed and the kind she was okay with because it had been perpetrated by someone she liked.</p>
<p>In the political world the cases of Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton showed how liberals delineated between the sexual harassment of men they approved of and disapproved of. Now the “rape-rape” distinction is back with Bill’s wife.</p>
<p>Last week liberal activists were denouncing George Will for questioning the lack of due process for accused rapists on campus. Then the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-tapes/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Washington Free Beacon posted a tape</span></a> in which Hillary Clinton had a good laugh discussing how she freed a child rapist she knew was guilty from prison.</p>
<p>Hillary had become the Democratic Party’s official “Role Model for Women” through her willingness to stand by her powerful husband during his affairs, cover up his sexual harassment of other women and even target those women for daring to speak out against her husband.</p>
<p>Now the face of the Democratic Party’s bid to make feminist history in 2016 was caught on tape cheerfully recollecting how she accused a 12-year-old girl, in formal legal language, of being a mentally ill slut. Or as the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservatives-are-making-hay-out-of-hillary-clintons-defense-of-an-accused-rapist/2014/06/16/7d087efa-f576-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Washington Post’s Melinda Henneberger</span></a> put it, “The ‘little bit nutty, little bit slutty’ defense has a long, ugly history. It’s jarring to see it trotted out against a kid by a future feminist icon.”</p>
<p>Suddenly the social justice warriors who were denouncing due process, such as access to legal counsel for campus rapists being tried by student committees, became big fans of due process for rapists.</p>
<p>As with Whoopi Goldberg, it was all about who was doing the raping and who the rapist’s lawyer was.</p>
<p>Amanda Marcotte, of <i>Slate</i> and <i>The Daily Beast</i>, as well a blogger for John Edwards, another noted defender of women, had called critics of the Duke Lacrosse case “rape-loving scum” and suggested that George Will was a “rape apologist” for questioning some questionable rape cases.</p>
<p>But when Hillary Clinton was outed as a “rape apologist” and “rape-loving scum,” Amanda became a “rape apologist” explaining why being “rape-loving scum” was actually a good thing.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton, Amanda explained, might have called a 12-year-old victim of child rape a mentally ill slut, but it wasn’t her fault.</p>
<p>It was society’s fault.</p>
<p>&#8220;While it’s always unpleasant to hear defense attorneys try to sow doubt about an accuser’s trustworthiness, the blame for this should not lay on the shoulders of those who have an obligation to defend their clients. The blame should lay on society for perpetuating the myth that false accusations are common,” she wrote.</p>
<p>Don’t blame Hillary Clinton for her horrible evil lie about a raped little girl. Blame a society that gave Hillary the idea that she could get away with it.</p>
<p>This is a good defense because it can be used for any of the many lies told by Hillary Clinton. Don’t blame her for lying about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire. Blame a patriarchal society which values military heroics over defending child rapists. Don’t blame her for lying about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Blame a society which prioritizes climbing large mountains over stealing White House furniture and covering up for your husband’s history of sexual abuses.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton’s defenders claim that she had no choice but to do what she did in support of a “constitutionally mandated right of the accused to an adequate defense.” But the Constitution did not mandate that Hillary had to defend a child rapist. That was her choice.</p>
<p>The child rapist already had a lawyer. He wanted a female lawyer.</p>
<p>Hillary agreed to serve the same role for the child rapist as she did for her husband by letting a sexual predator use her gender for political cover against the women he had victimized.</p>
<p>Hillary supporters at <i>Correct the Record</i> claimed that the rape tape was distracting from her record. But the rape is very much a part of her record. It shows how far she is willing to go to win and what tactics she is willing to use. It also shows her contempt for the gender that she claims to represent in politics.</p>
<p>&#8220;The desperate attempts to get Clinton’s name in a headline with the word ‘rape’ bespeak of a conservative movement that can’t imagine that rape as anything but a hot button word to try to damn political opponents with,&#8221; Amanda Marcotte writes in a convoluted coda to an article so morally convoluted that it ought to have its own law degree.</p>
<p>As her own behavior demonstrates, the social justice warrior crowd doesn’t really believe rape is wrong. It believes that rape is a useful political weapon. The pass that both Clintons have gotten is proof of that. Not to mention the same pass that another courageous liberal defender of women, Ted Kennedy, got. Marcotte jumps into a Pavlovian frenzy every time some Republican somewhere says something, but when it comes to Democrats who don’t just talk, but who actually abuse women, she defends them.</p>
<p>Like most of the left, she puts her ideology first and sisterhood last. And that was exactly what Hillary Clinton did when she put a child rapist ahead of his victim and her husband ahead of his victims.</p>
<p>&#8220;Feminists don’t criticize conservatives for rape-complacent or ever rape-apologetic statements or policies because they’re trying to score cheap political points. They very sincerely believe that these people stand in the way of justice for rape victims, often for very good reason. There is no reason to think that of Clinton,&#8221; Amanda Marcotte writes.</p>
<p>Aside from the time that Hillary Clinton prevented a child rapist from going to jail for raping a child, there is no reason to think that she stood in the way of justice for rape victims.</p>
<p>How many child rapists do you have to free before you officially stand in the way of justice for rape victims? One.</p>
<p>Marcotte has accused Christians of having beliefs that blame women for rape. It’s not a good description of Christians, but it is a surprisingly good description of Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-papers/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Blair Papers, also</span></a> turned up by the Free Beacon, Hillary blamed Bill Clinton’s affairs on her failure to be “sensitive enough” to him. She also appeared to believe that Bill’s behavior was the fault of being raised by two women.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton not only didn’t hold her husband responsible for his sexual harassment of other women, she blamed the women, she blamed the women who raised him and finally she blamed herself.  And that wasn’t a sexist worldview that she reserved for Democrats.</p>
<p>When Senator Bob Packwood, a liberal Republican, was accused of sexual harassment, Hillary dismissed the “whiney women” because she needed the famously pro-abortion senator on health care.</p>
<p>In public, Hillary Clinton mouths all the right platitudes about women, girls and sexual assault. In private, another Hillary comes out of the closet.</p>
<p>This is the Hillary who blames women for the abusive actions of powerful men; even when she is one of those women. Not only isn’t the real Hillary any kind of feminist icon, but she is much closer to the stereotype that leftist activists have of Christians and conservatives.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton blames women for being sexually assaulted and raped. Having tethered her career to a serial predator, she can only get ahead by tearing down women in private while talking them up in public. The real Hillary is a neurotic living a lie who hates herself and her own gender.</p>
<p>The real Hillary despises women and identifies with the men who victimize them.</p>
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		<title>Rape in Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood ‘Gets Even’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the media giving Islamists a pass for their atrocities against women and children? ]]></description>
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<p>Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers recently went on a sexual assault and rape spree in Egypt as a way of “getting even” with those women who dared to celebrate the presidential victory of Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi—the former army chief who overthrew Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt.</p>
<p>On June 8, when tens of thousands of Egyptians congregated in Tahrir Square to celebrate Sisi’s inauguration, dozens of women were sexually assaulted and many more harassed.  According to a statement later released by the Ministry of Interior, seven men between the ages of 15 and 49 were arrested for sexually assaulting “a number of women.”</p>
<p>One 19-year-old female student was especially brutalized—and videotaped as she was stripped naked and sexually assaulted by a throng of men.  (I saw the graphic video on YouTube, though it has since been removed; a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUEGZ878J1o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">much less graphic clip of the initial assault appears here</span></a>.)  A gun-waving police officer eventually managed to rescue the woman from her ordeal, though after sustaining injuries himself.</p>
<p>Sexually harassing or raping those supportive of Sisi by way of “retribution” is not uncommon in Egypt.  Earlier, a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-brotherhood-rape-boy-for-supporting-anti-brotherhood-revolution/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">six-year-old boy was raped by a Muslim Brotherhood member</span></a> who was “angered” at the child for singing praises to Sisi. He lured the boy into a shed, locked the doors, and proceeded to rape him, while saying, “You’re always holding pictures of this Sisi and singing his praises.  Come, I’ll humiliate and break you—and your Sisi.”</p>
<p>Although Western media never specify who is behind these sexual assaults—often citing “the mob”—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uzopMigE8"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hala Sarhan</span></a>, a popular TV host in Egypt alluded to the ultimate source that legitimizes sexual harassment and rape in Egypt, namely, Islamist preachers and leaders:</p>
<blockquote><p>What was said to these people [rapists] to brainwash them into think that such violations on the person and body of this young girl [the aforementioned rape victim] were permissible? …  I’ll tell you.  The one in parliament who said this, is the same as the man who did that…  And the one who told that girl that she is an <i>infidel</i>, is the same as the one in parliament who said that it’s permissible to marry a 9-year-old girl [based on the prophet of Islam’s example when he married the girl-child Aisha].   The ones who in the mosques told him that they [women] are in the pits of hell and the lures of Satan—adulteresses, that Satan lives in their bodies…  This is what they tell them in the mosques!  And they’re so upset now [Islamist preachers] because they can no longer continue to preach like this in the mosques! We thank you minister of religious endowments for stopping this mockery!  [The new Egyptian government has cracked down on radical preachers.] Before [under Morsi], every guy that yelled and stomped got himself a pulpit to preach such thoughts into the minds of the youth—and then they went out thinking they are doing jihad.  You see, they have this thing in their mind that says “If we curse or attack an infidel, that is jihad”….  Concerning the previous cases of sexual harassment, they [Islamist authorities] told people, “Why did she [any violated woman] leave her house in the first place?  She deserves what she got!”  They told them, “Your sister needs to be circumcised”; told them, “In the house, beat her and discipline her, break her bones; and if she refuses to have sex with you, saying she’s tired or sick, curse her with the angels till the sun rises.”  We allowed these people to fill their minds with such ideas!</p></blockquote>
<p>Such honesty is reminiscent of an Egyptian op-ed that appeared after a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-ultimate-source-of-islamic-hate-for-infidels/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">young Coptic woman was murdered by a pro-Brotherhood mob</span></a> because they identified her as a Christian:</p>
<blockquote><p>Those who killed the young and vulnerable Mary Sameh George, for hanging a cross in her car, are not criminals, but rather wretches who follow those who legalized for them murder, lynching, dismemberment, and the stripping bare of young Christian girls—without every saying “kill.”  [Islamic cleric] Yassir Burhami and his colleagues who announce their hate for Christians throughout satellite channels and in mosques—claiming that hatred of Christians is synonymous with love for Allah—they are the true killers who need to be tried and prosecuted.</p></blockquote>
<p>At any rate, using sexual harassment and rape to force people to comply with Islamist agendas has a long history, especially in Egypt.  In 2011, during the “Arab Spring,” when the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists were released from prison, legitimized and eventually rose to power, sexual harassment skyrocketed, as <a href="http://harassmap.org/?l=en_US"><span style="color: #0433ff;">one graph</span></a> showed.  Moreover, UN research done in 2013, when Morsi was president, suggested that <a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/28/99-3-of-egyptian-women-experienced-sexual-harassment-report/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">99.3% of Egyptian women had experienced sexual harassment</span></a>.</p>
<p>Indeed, in February, 2013, hundreds of Egyptian women took to the streets of Tahrir Square to protest this nonstop harassment.  They held slogans like “Silence is unacceptable, my anger will be heard,” and “A safe square for all; Down with sexual harassment.” “Marchers also shouted chants against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails,” wrote <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/64191/Egypt/Hundreds-march-against-sexual-harassment-in-downto.aspx"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Al Ahram Online</span></a>.</p>
<p>The response was more sexual harassment and rapes.  One woman was gang-raped for approximately 20 minutes and nearly died.  And as Hala Sarhan pointed out, elements from the then Islamist-heavy government under Morsi <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/shura-council-committee-says-female-protesters-should-take-responsibility-if-harassed"><span style="color: #0433ff;">blamed the women themselves</span></a>, saying that:</p>
<blockquote><p>women taking part in protests bear the responsibility of being sexually harassed, [and] describing what happens in some demonstrators’ tents as “prostitution.” Major General Adel Afify, member of the committee representing the Salafi Asala Party, criticized female protesters, saying that they “know they are among thugs. They should protect themselves before requesting that the Interior Ministry does so. By getting herself involved in such circumstances, the woman has 100 percent responsibility.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Likewise, popular Salafi preacher <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/07/264982.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Abu Islam</span></a>  sarcastically blamed the victims:</p>
<blockquote><p>“They tell you women are a red line. They tell you that naked women [i.e., not wearing veils or hijabs]—who are going to Tahrir Square because they want to be raped—are a red line! And they ask Morsi and the Brotherhood to leave power!”  Abu Islam added that these women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped.  “They have no shame, no fear and not even feminism. Practice your feminism, sheikha! It is a legitimate right for you to be a woman,” he said. “And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders [i.e. Christian Copts] and the remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them. You see women talking like monsters,” he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>The only silver lining in this cloud of Islamist rape that hovers over Egypt is that the differences between Morsi and his Brotherhood government, and Sisi and the post-Brotherhood government, are already apparent.  In response to the endemic sexual harassment in Egypt, the new government</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://egyptianstreets.com/2014/06/09/woman-stripped-beaten-and-sexually-assaulted-at-tahrir-square/">passed a law</a></span> criminalizing all forms of sexual harassment&#8230;  A new article, which has been issued into power, adds a harsh punishment to those found guilty of unwanted sexual contact…. Other amended laws, under article 306, declare that those found guilty of verbal sexual harassment in a private or public place will be sentenced to a minimum of six months in prison and fined no less than EGP 3,000 ($US 420).</p></blockquote>
<p>When I recently asked some analyst colleagues in Egypt if Morsi ever took any such measures against sexual harassment, the quip I received most was along the lines of “Take measures?  He was the one ordering sexual harassment against his female critics.”</p>
<p>Still, and in keeping with Western MSM journalism, Sisi, who at least appears to be trying to take some measures against sexual harassment, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/doubts-remain-in-egypt-despite-sisis-action-against-sexual-harassment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is now being portrayed by the Guardian in a cynical light</span></a>—while Morsi who did nothing and whose Islamist allies were responsible for inciting violence against women got a free pass—just like the New York Times recently tried to blame Sisi for the plight of Egypt’s religious minorities, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/the-new-york-times-propaganda-war-on-egypt/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">without mentioning that it was often Morsi and the Islamists who put them there in the first place</span></a>.</p>
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		<title>Miss USA’s Self-Defense Empowerment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And why leftist feminists are livid about it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hj67.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233632" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hj67-450x253.jpg" alt="hj67" width="333" height="187" /></a>For some reason, feminists who hold beauty pageants in contempt were watching the Miss USA Pageant the other night when Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez, a 4<sup>th</sup>-degree black belt in taekwondo, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7uFlWPS4Jw">responded</a> to a question about sexual assaults on campus. She had the temerity to recommend that women learn to defend themselves, and the resulting outrage reveals just how badly modern feminism is serving today’s young women.</p>
<p>The 24-year-old Miss Sanchez was asked why a “horrific epidemic” of campus sexual assaults has been “swept under the rug for so long” and what colleges can do to combat it. The question seemed designed to steer her toward discussing the “rape culture” in which feminists believe we live, but Miss Sanchez didn’t take the bait. Instead, she replied that perhaps colleges themselves have suppressed this reputation-damaging information, and that one thing women can do is be prepared to fight back: “I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that’s something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.”</p>
<p>This message of self-empowerment for women elicited a roar of approval from the audience, but didn’t sit well with feminists at home. They took to Twitter to express their horror and disappointment at what they considered, incredibly, to be “victim-shaming.” Here are some tweeted gems of self-delusion <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/06/09/rape-culture-wins-feminist-freakout-after-miss-nevada-dares-suggest-self-defense-training-for-women/">collected</a> at Twitchy.com:</p>
<blockquote><p>I’m sorry, but women shouldn’t need to take self defense classes to protect themselves from rape #MissUSA</p>
<p>Miss Nevada, who just reinforced victim-blaming rape culture to millions of viewers, is crowned #MissUSA 2014</p>
<p>Miss Nevada was asked about rape at colleges and answered that women need to learn to defend themselves… OR MEN COULD JUST NOT RAPE.</p>
<p>Not happy w/ Miss Nevada’s answer that to stop rape we should teach women to defend themselves&#8230;Why don’t we teach men to not rape?</p>
<p>Miss Nevada described how individuals need to protect themselves from rape, instead of teaching others not to rape. Stop the victim blaming.</p>
<p>Sick of hearing “women need to learn selfdefense from sexual violence” We need a culture we don’t have to defend ourselves from</p>
<p>Women shouldn’t need to learn to protect themselves against rape #missnevada educate and respect yourself as a woman #rapeculture</p>
<p>Really Miss Nevada? We should combat rape with self defense? Rape culture wins again</p>
<p>Hey Miss Nevada- how about instead of woman learning to protect themselves, men learn to not rape women?</p>
<p>Miss Nevada: How is it a woman’s responsibility to learn to protect herself from rape? #MissUSA2014 #getaburkatoo</p></blockquote>
<p>Where is the logic in such inane comments? Miss Sanchez trained in taekwondo for 12 years but doesn’t respect herself as a woman? Acquiring a 4<sup>th</sup> degree black belt is equivalent to wearing a burqa? Refusing to be a victim is the same as blaming the victim? Men should just be taught not to rape? The sheer brainwashed density of Miss Sanchez’s young critics – mostly female – is alarming confirmation that modern feminism is not about empowering women but about ensuring their victim status and attacking men instead.</p>
<p>What is rape culture? It is the feminist theory that sexual assault becomes normalized when a culture condones the objectification and trivialization of women. You almost cannot read anything about today’s strained standoff between the sexes without encountering the accusation that America has a rape culture and that all men are literal or latent rapists who need to be deprogrammed out of their acculturated misogyny.</p>
<p>Americans don’t have a rape culture. We have a culture that considers rape a heinous violent crime. We have a culture so unforgiving of rape that even false accusations of it ruin men’s lives. We don’t “teach” men to rape, and in any case the vast majority of American males would never even consider such a depraved act, unlike what misandrists insist.</p>
<p>According to 2013 Bureau of Justice <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=4594">statistics</a>, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault victimizations in this country declined 58% from 1995 to 2010. To cite this is certainly not to trivialize the terrible violation that is rape; nor is it to suggest that anything more than zero sexual assaults is acceptable. It is only to emphasize that not only are we not enmeshed in a rape culture, but things seem to be improving significantly.</p>
<p>However, there are violent deviants who will and do rape, and the world will never rid itself of that minority of evil men. That’s just the way the world is and always has been. For feminists to say that women shouldn’t <em>have</em> to live in a world where the threat of assault exists is like saying that we shouldn’t <em>have</em> to live in a world where murder and theft exist. The <em>reality is</em> that we <em>do</em> live in such a world, so you had better be prepared to do more than just soil yourself to ward off attackers, as some unhelpful feminists suggest. To believe that we can simply teach that rape is unconscionable – which we already do – and that the crime will then disappear is a childish and dangerous utopian fantasy.</p>
<p>I have two very young daughters. If the feminist solution to empowering them is to <em>dis</em>empower them, to keep them unprepared to resist assault, and to suggest they be patient until utopia arrives rather than confront reality head-on, then I won’t be raising feminists. I’ll be raising strong, confident young women like Nia Sanchez with the dignity and skills to refuse to be victims.</p>
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		<title>Islamic Fatwa: Husbands Should Abandon Wives to Rapists in Self-Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at Islamic egoism and the lure of Salafi Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/YasserBorhami.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-226470" alt="YasserBorhami" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/YasserBorhami.jpg" width="325" height="230" /></a>Islam permits Muslim husbands to abandon their wives to rapists in order to save their own lives—so says Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party, the nation’s premiere Islamist party since the Muslim Brotherhood was banned.</p>
<p>Burhami’s fatwa, or Islamic decree, is not altogether surprising. Earlier the Salafi sheikh said that, although a Muslim man may marry non-Muslim women, specifically Christians and Jews, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-husbands-must-hate-non-muslim-wives/">he must hate them</a>—and show them that he hates them—because they are “infidels” (even as he enjoys them sexually).</p>
<p>Indeed, the many fatwas of Dr. Burhami, a pediatrician by training, include banning Muslim cab and bus drivers from transporting Coptic Christian priests to their churches, which he depicted as “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/fatwa-bans-christian-priests-from-public-transportation-to-church/">more forbidden than taking someone to a liquor bar</a>”; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypt-2012-the-year-in-fatwas/">permitting marriage to minor girls</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-cleric-no-to-mothers-day-even-if-it-saddens-mothers/">banning Mother’s Day</a>—“even if it saddens your mother”—as a Western innovation; and insisting that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/alafi-leader-no-freedom-in-islam-apostates-must-be-persecuted/">Muslims cannot apostatize from Islam</a>—a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islam-appalling-and-abhorrent-in-the-eyes-of-a-blind-world/">phenomenon often in the news</a>.</p>
<p>Now in his most recent fatwa—that husbands are permitted to forsake their sexually-assaulted wives in self-interest—Burhami relies on <i>qiyas</i>, or analogy, based on the rulings of a prominent twelfth century jurist: according to Imam ‘Azz bin Abdul Salaam, a Muslim should abandon his possessions to robbers if so doing would safeguard his life.</p>
<p>Based on this logic, Burhami analogizes that the Muslim husband should abandon his wife if defending her jeopardizes his life—as she is just another possession that can easily be replaced.</p>
<p>In the words of a critical Arabic op-ed titled “<a href="http://www.ahram.org.eg/News/11166/59/279711/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A9/-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89--.aspx">Manhood according to Burhami!</a>” and written by one Amani Majed, a Muslim woman:</p>
<blockquote><p>So that which applies to abandoning one’s possessions to thieves and fleeing in fear of one’s life, applies—in Burhami’s view, sorry to say—to one’s wife and daughter.  So if the wife is ever exposed to rape, she is seen as a possession.  The husband is to abandon her to the rapists and escape with his life.  And why not?  For if he loses his possessions, he will replace them; and if his wife is raped, he will marry another, even if she remains alive!</p></blockquote>
<p>The op-ed goes on to consider the ramifications of Burhami’s logic should every Muslim man follow it: if a policeman patrolling the streets sees a woman—a stranger, not his wife or daughter—being gang-raped, should he intervene, as his job entails, and risk his own person, or should he think only of himself and flee?  Should the Egyptian soldier stand his ground and defend his nation against invaders, or should he flee to preserve his own life?</p>
<p>Three observations:</p>
<p><i>First</i>: Salafis like Burhami, who try to pattern their lives as literally as possible after Islam’s prophet Muhammad and his original companions—hence the ubiquitous beards and white robes—deserve attention for they are a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/an-ode-to-islamic-truth/">treasure trove of information on literal Islam</a>.  It’s always the Salafi-minded Muslims who evoke and uphold any number of things deemed absurd or evil in a Western context—from trying to enforce a canonical hadith that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-adult-breastfeeding-fatwas-return/">compels women to breastfeed adult men</a> (ironically, to protect their “chastity”), to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/shocking-video-muslim-women-drinking-camel-urine-for-good-health/">drinking camel urine for good health</a>, to calling for <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/saudi-mufti-destroy-churches/">the destruction of all churches</a>.</p>
<p>Of course, even this honesty is contingent on Muslim capability and advantage.  Thus Dr. Burhami himself once said that peace treaties with Israel and other infidels should be respected—that is, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/how-circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior/">until Muslims are capable of reneging and going on a successful offensive</a>.</p>
<p>Still, Salafis are much more frank and honest than other, less overt Islamists, namely the two-faced Muslim Brotherhood, which, now that it has been overthrown in Egypt, has shown its true face—terrorism—causing it to be banned in Egypt.</p>
<p><i>Second</i>: To be sure, many Muslims—perhaps the majority—reject Burhami’s latest “cowardly husband” fatwa, in agreement with the aforementioned op-ed.  The problem, however, and as usual, is that while they agree that such behavior is unbecoming of a husband, in the realm of Islamic jurisprudence, it is difficult to argue with the Salafi cleric’s logic.  He used <i>qiyas</i>, a legitimate tool of jurisprudence; and the imam whose logic he analogized is widely recognized as an authority in Sunni Islam.</p>
<p>Moreover and despite the sneering tone of the op-ed, women are, in fact, often depicted as little more than <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Women_in_Islam_-_From_Islam's_Sources#Women_are_mere_possessions">chattel for men in Islamic scriptures</a>.</p>
<p>This is the fundamental problem facing all moderate Muslims: despite what they like to believe and due to a variety of historical and epistemological factors, they are heavily influenced by Western thinking—protecting women and the weak in general, or chivalry, is a Christian “innovation”—so whenever they come up against Islamic teachings they cannot fathom, they collectively behave as if such teachings don’t really mean what they mean.</p>
<p>Yet the Salafis know exactly what they mean.</p>
<p><i>Third</i>: This latest fatwa exemplifies the lure of Salafism.  This brand of literal Islam does not offer anything profound or spiritually satisfying, but it does offer divine sanctioning for unabashed <i>egoism</i>—in this case, forsaking one’s wife to rape in self-interest.</p>
<p>Justifying egoism is not limited to preserving the self but also gratifying it—especially in the context of jihad.  One can go on and on about the other Salafi fatwas permitting <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">rape</a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sex-jihad-fatwa-permits-incest-in-syria/">incest</a>, and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-cleric-urges-destitute-women-to-become-sex-slaves/">prostitution</a> for those fighting to empower Islam.  Even renowned heroes like Khalid bin al-Walid—the “Sword of Allah”—celebrated in the Muslim world for his jihadi conquests, was, from a less hagiographic perspective, little more than <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/allahs-sword-of-terror/">a mass murdering, sadistic rapist</a>.</p>
<p>More generally, Salafi-minded Muslims believe that all non-Muslims can be deceived, cheated, robbed, exploited, enslaved and/or killed—all in the self-interest of the Muslim, seen as one with the self-interest of Islam.</p>
<p>Why do they believe this?  Because from a Salafi point of view, all free non-Muslim “infidels” who do not submit to Islamic law, or Sharia—Americans and Europeans for example—are natural born enemies, or <i>harbis</i>, and thus free game.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left’s cruel war against the death penalty.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nebraskas_electric_chair.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226256 alignleft" alt="Electric Chair Doctor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nebraskas_electric_chair.jpg" width="167" height="241" /></a>The return of the electric chair has death penalty opponents papering the walls with outraged press releases even though they’re the ones responsible for bringing ‘Old Sparky’ back.</span></p>
<p>Opponents of the death penalty made the most of Clayton Lockett’s prolonged death, but it wasn’t the state that made his death slow and painful. The liberal activists who rushed out to claim that Lockett’s death proved that the death penalty was a cruel punishment had deliberately made it that way.</p>
<p>Oklahoma was forced to use a new and untried drug cocktail to put down the brutal murderer and rapist because death penalty opponents had cut off the supply of reliable pharmaceuticals. Due to pressure by domestic activists and the European Union on pharmaceutical companies, states have been forced to secretly assemble drug cocktails of medications without the knowledge of their manufacturers. Each lawsuit filed by the pro-criminal lobby risks revealing the means by which a medication was obtained and shutting down its supply channel.</p>
<p>Executions in the United States are rare and a tiny part of the market for pharmaceutical companies who would rather please liberal regulators and the medical establishment.  While prison systems work to ease the suffering of condemned prisoners, the death penalty activists who claim to care about them labor night and day to make their executions as painful as possible.</p>
<p>There is a method to their cruelty.</p>
<p>In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection did not represent cruel and unusual punishment. The question hinged in part on the risk of pain through the procedure. In 2010, the American Board of Anesthesiologists warned it would decertify any anesthesiologist participating in the death penalty. Then the supply of sodium thiopental, the medication mentioned in the ruling, was cut off.</p>
<p>The goal was to raise the “substantial risk” of serious pain in lethal injections and move the Supreme Court toward outlawing or suspending the death penalty. The worse an execution went, the more likely it was that future executions would be stopped based on the risk of it happening again. By making lethal injection as messy as possible, the pro-criminal lobby was torturing killers now to save future killers.</p>
<p>Lockett’s execution showcased the left’s warped morality and brought its goal closer.</p>
<p>European countries continue to use sodium thiopental, whose export to the United States they refuse to allow because of the death penalty, to kill their own people.</p>
<p>Belgium, which uses sodium thiopental for euthanasia, voted to euthanize children. The Netherlands, which employs sodium thiopental for the same purpose, permits killing children over the age of twelve. The last “minor” executed in the US was a man in his thirties who at the age of seventeen had set a couple on fire after locking them in the trunk of their own car.</p>
<p>In the UK, which was the first to cut off the supply of sodium thiopental, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists proposed “active euthanasia” for disabled children because, “A very disabled child can mean a disabled family.”</p>
<p>European countries condemn the cruelty of lethal injection for murderers, but use the same method to kill their children. Despite their posturing over the death penalty they are not our moral superiors. Like their Third Reich counterparts who also murdered sick and disabled children, they are on the same moral level as the murderers we execute.</p>
<p>It’s no wonder they oppose the death penalty.</p>
<p>Driven by that same foul mix of self-righteousness and sadism, death penalty opponents want to make executions appear as grotesque as possible so that voters, politicians, judges and juries will be more reluctant to follow through when the electric chair replaces the needle.</p>
<p>But they don’t intend to stop there.</p>
<p>While some opponents of the death penalty act on religious grounds, most are pro-criminal advocates. Their agenda is to damage the justice system as much as possible through lawfare that exploits its weak points. They believe that the criminal justice system is a capitalist tool for protecting private property and oppressing minorities. Their lawfare seeks to overload the criminal justice system and make every phase of it as expensive and burdensome as possible so as to discourage and limit its use.</p>
<p>Outlawing the death penalty is only one step in their campaign to free as many criminals as possible.</p>
<p>After California’s death penalty was shut down by a Clinton judge, more Federal judges stepped in ordering California to release 46,000 prisoners after ruling that prison overcrowding was, like the death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment.</p>
<p>Supreme Court Justice Alito warned that “the majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California.”</p>
<p>A quarter of California prisoners are lifers and so the state has gone from tough sentencing laws supported by the voters to a judicial activism forcing it to free 1,400 lifers in the past three years.</p>
<p>81% of California lifers are murderers. 10% are attempted murderers. 6% are rapists.</p>
<p>After 2008, 3,000 lifers were freed; over 1,000 more than had been freed in three decades. Governor Jerry Brown has been responsible for the lowest rate of parole denials of all three previous governors.</p>
<p>The overcrowding ruling was a means of extracting murderers from prison, just as the death penalty ruling was a means of keeping them alive. The endgame for the pro-criminal lobby, whether its members call themselves death penalty opponents or prison reform activists, is to free criminals.</p>
<p>California shows that for the pro-criminal lobby the next step after the death penalty is revolving door prisons for murderers and rapists. Obama has been doing his part to help free drug dealers and crackheads through what his attorney general, euphemistically, calls sentencing reform, but at the state level this is a war fought by leftist lawyers and radical foundations against the families of their victims.</p>
<p>Violent crime rates in the US have dropped sharply because increased prison sentences took career criminals off the street. Average time served for violent criminals increased by 37%. The $10 billion cost criticized by the pro-criminal lobby was modest compared to the savings in human lives and budgets when the murder rate was nearly cut in half.</p>
<p>There were 20,000 fewer rapes, 300,000 fewer aggravated assaults and 270,000 fewer robberies.</p>
<p>These successes gave the public a false sense of security leading to decreased support for the death penalty and increased support for pro-criminal leniencies. Like a patient who wants to stop taking antibiotics because he feels better, some forgot that crime hadn’t been solved; only locked behind bars.</p>
<p>Once crime rates rebound under the impact of the pro-criminal “reforms”, the backlash will lead to a return to harsh penalties. Meanwhile tens of thousands will suffer until the effects kick in on a large enough scale to destroy any public support for the pro-criminal lobby and its killer clients. And then the only legacy of their efforts will be the corpses stacked in morgues and rape victims in hospitals.</p>
<p>Victims of their cruel war against life sentences and the death penalty.</p>
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