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There was a time when Europe stood as a beacon of liberty — the birthplace of Enlightenment ideals, the defender of individual rights, the champion of human dignity.
Today, that same Europe hosts classes to teach adult men — not boys — that women are not public property, sexual objects, or spoils of war.
Not because these men are mentally unstable. Not because they come from war zones. But because they come from Islamic countries, where modesty is law, where female autonomy is rebellion, and where sexual violence is normalized — by culture, by clerics, and sometimes by the law itself.
These aren’t fringe cases. They are embedded practices. This is not satire. This is policy.
In Norway, asylum seekers — overwhelmingly from Islamic-majority nations like Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan — are now enrolled in government-sponsored “rape prevention classes.” These men are shown images of Western women in dresses, walking alone, drinking wine, or dancing — and are told: “This is not an invitation.”
They are taught that a woman’s smile doesn’t mean she consents. That women are equal. That sex without permission is rape.
Here’s the chilling part: to many of these men, this is news. This isn’t remedial education — this is reprogramming.
Because the worldview they bring isn’t just incompatible with Western norms. It’s antagonistic to them.
Islamic law — Sharia — does not merely fail to protect women. It codifies their subjugation.
A woman, in traditional Islamic law, is not seen as an equal partner — but as a field to be cultivated, a sexual object owned, not honored.
“Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish.”
— Quran 2:223
This is not metaphor. This is ownership language — one that frames the woman not as a subject, but as an object.
If a wife disobeys her husband, Quran 4:34 prescribes a sequence: admonish her, banish her from the bed, and if she remains defiant, strike her.
The 14th-century Islamic legal manual Reliance of the Traveller, certified by Al-Azhar University, expands on this:
- m10.12 states a wife may not refuse sex to her husband, and that doing so justifies disciplinary action.
- o17.4 explains that a woman’s silence or physical availability implies consent.
In other words, marital rape is impossible under Sharia — because a wife has no legal standing to deny her body once married.
Rape victims are not protected. They are prosecuted. If a woman accuses a man of sexual assault but cannot produce four male witnesses, she can be charged with zina (fornication) — a crime punishable by stoning, lashing, or even death.
These rulings aren’t extremist fatwas. They are mainstream Sunni jurisprudence, taught in madrasas and Islamic legal academies across the world.
In Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Saudi Arabia, Sharia-based penal codes routinely criminalize female victims while shielding male aggressors. Honor killings, forced marriages, and court-sanctioned floggings are not anomalies — they are features of a system built on the devaluation of women.
From childhood, they are raised in systems where the honor of the family rests on a woman’s silence, modesty, and obedience. Where a woman who is unveiled, outspoken, or sexually independent is seen not as free — but as filthy, corrupt, or worthy of punishment.
So when these men encounter Western women — walking alone, speaking boldly, dancing, drinking, wearing what they choose — they do not see humans deserving of respect.
They see prey.
And in their eyes, war is already underway — not with tanks, but with demographic conquest, ideological supremacy, and the belief that Allah has promised them dominion over unbelievers and their women.
“And He caused you to inherit their land and their homes and their wealth…”
— Quran 33:27
“[Forbidden to you are] married women except those whom your right hands possess.”
— Quran 4:24“They guard their private parts, except from their wives or those their right hands possess.”
— Quran 23:5–6
Consent is irrelevant.
According to Sahih Muslim 3432, Muhammad’s companions were hesitant to rape captive women in front of their husbands. Muhammad permitted it: “It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with captive women.”
Reliance of the Traveller, section o9.13, affirms: “When a child or woman is taken captive, they become the property of the captor, who may have sexual intercourse with the female captive.”
In Nigeria, Boko Haram abducted thousands of Christian girls — including 276 from Chibok in 2014. Many were brutalized, converted, and sold. Their justification? The Quran. The Prophet’s precedent.
One girl reported being told: “You are a Christian, and now you belong to us. Allah has given you to us as booty.” Girls were tied to trees and raped. Others were forcibly married or impregnated.
ISIS escalated it further. In Iraq, Yazidi villages were invaded. Men were executed. Women and girls as young as nine were enslaved and raped.
ISIS distributed pamphlets explaining the Sharia rules of rape — including allowances for prepubescent girls. One escapee recalled being told:
“This is allowed. Allah has permitted it.”
This is the mindset many of these men bring to the West.
Not all — but enough to matter.
Enough to overwhelm communities. Enough to justify assault as divine entitlement. Enough to see Western women as unclaimed property in a civilization too weak to defend them.
In Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve 2015, over 1,200 women were groped, assaulted, or raped by mobs of men described as “Arab or North African.” The government tried to cover it up — until citizen reports forced them to confront reality.
In Sweden, now dubbed the “rape capital of Europe,” sexual assaults have skyrocketed — especially in migrant-heavy areas. Sweden’s own National Council for Crime Prevention reported in 2017 that 58% of convicted rapists were foreign-born, mostly from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Then came the UK’s grooming gang scandal — one of the greatest failures of law enforcement in modern Western history.
Thousands of underage British girls were raped, branded, drugged, and trafficked by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men. In cities like Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, and Oxford, the abuse was systematic — and authorities looked the other way.
Why? Because they were afraid of being called racist.
So they sacrificed girls to ideology.
Tolerance became treason the moment it protected predators over children.
Women are not thought experiments.
They are human beings — equal, free, and sovereign.
If a government must teach men not to rape, then the immigration system has failed.
If a woman must worry that her lipstick, her laughter, or her legs might “invite” violence, then the culture has surrendered.
And if we’re too cowardly to name where the threat comes from — Islamic countries, Islamic doctrine, and Sharia-based mindsets — then we are complicit.
These men aren’t coming from Buddhist monasteries or shaped by Confucian ethics.
They are shaped by Sharia, by family codes, and by theology that devalues women.
You cannot teach a man who believes Allah gave him dominion over women that she is his equal.
You cannot reform a worldview that considers modesty a measure of morality, labels rape victims adulterers, and declares that women are worth half a man.
You cannot integrate Sharia with freedom.
You can only choose one.
And if we don’t choose ours — boldly, unapologetically, immediately —
we will lose it.
History doesn’t forgive cowardice.
And neither will our daughters.
Not only has Anni Cyrus had an amazing life, and not only is she beautiful, she is also an accomplished writer.