And here's why women are being raped in Australia

[Devastatin Dave]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...7-2702,00.html

Anyone agree want to disagree with our distinguished "member" of Western society? I wonder how many riots this is going to create throughout the Western World. I'll take a wild guess... 0

[Samurai Waki]

Thats because people in Western Society don't really listen to crack pots, unlike certain people, who are part of a certain faith, in generally a certain part of the world who take everything for gospel. No Us Westies are a Suspicious lot after getting screwed by our leaders time and again.

[whyidie]

Thats because people in Western Society don't really listen to crack pots, unlike certain people, who are part of a certain faith, in generally a certain part of the world who take everything for gospel.

C'mon man. Our crazy conservative brethern would be rioting in the streets if they weren't so downtrodden by the liberal elite. At least they can muster up the will to post all the news thats fit to outrage.

[Major Robert Dump]

Its interesting that he refers to their uncovered flesh as "meat." I've personally never thought of gangraping suggestively dressed young women, but I have to admit I do get an erection when I see the the RibEyes and T-Bones in the meat counter at the local Super Target. who knows what I'd do if there weren't children and cameras around. Men are such....animals

[Crazed Rabbit]

Dave, didn't you read it? Women are the tools of Satan.

Men are the righteous follows of the Prophet. They are who they are and can't change it; is it too much to ask to have the women learn proper control?

Gee, you guys need to get more multi-cultural.

CR

[Duke of Gloucester]

The man is a fool. It is encouraging to note the response of other Moslems though. Even he is trying to backtrack on his original pronouncements.

[Watchman]

Ah, the classic male chauvinist argument. Westerners actually use it too, just without the religious references.

Bollocks anyway of course, as all the "blame the victim" excuses.

'Sides, I seem to recall the sharia "remove the extremity used in the crime" approach was quite explicit in the case of rape. I wonder what the esteemed Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali would have to say about that and "mercy"...

[Fragony]

The imfamous Sidney gangrape, comming to a town near you

everyday's reality, more episodes then 'as the world turns'.

Ah well if they can't control themselves if they see a hot chick, let's tackle this problem at it's root and ban hot chicks. These things need time, we must carefully culturally sensitive explain that this can and must not happen and that it happens anyway is really not their fault. They already have it so tough.

[GoreBag]

Its interesting that he refers to their uncovered flesh as "meat." I've personally never thought of gangraping suggestively dressed young women, but I have to admit I do get an erection when I see the the RibEyes and T-Bones in the meat counter at the local Super Target. who knows what I'd do if there weren't children and cameras around. Men are such....animals

Uncovered flesh is meat. Some languages don't even distinguish between the two words.

[Duke of Gloucester]

Uncovered flesh is meat. Some languages don't even distinguish between the two words.

But English, which you and he both speak does distinguish between them, and because it does, referring to flesh as meat treats with disrespect the person whose flesh we are referring to.

[Don Corleone]

Men who think there's an excuse for raping women will always find one. While it's easy to pile onto Australia's resident mufti, there's plenty of Christian, Jewish and secular leaders that make similar arguments, though typically couched in more politcally correct language to be sure.

At the end of the day, rape isn't about sex. It's an act of power (more accurately, abuse of power) and your typical rapist is more interested in 'getting his way for once' then sexual gratification.

An interesting study.... they interview just about every rapist in jail as to why they did it, when they did it, how they chose their victim, etcetera. The rapist can name details, describe how they were feeling, how they planned the act out, why they made the specific choices they did (such as why in a bush versus dragging the victim into the alley). The one thing the rapist tends to have a difficult time describing? The physical description of the victim herself.

There's a fairly large minority of rapists that are impotent and relatively asexual. They use objects, such as wine bottles and broom handles as the object of phallic penetration. Before people start talking about how provocative dress or clubhopping behavior causes rapes, I'd like somebody to explain to me what 80 year old women, at home in their own house wearing housecoats did to bring about their rape and how they were culpable for it.

[Lemur]

Thanks for those horrific images, Don. I'm glad I read that after lunch.

In other news, it seems the Mufti realized he stepped in it:

Muslim leader apologizes for rape comments

SYDNEY, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- An Australian Muslim leader has apologized for causing offense with a sermon blaming immodestly dressed women for sexual assaults.

Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali apologized after The Australian detailed his comments, which compared women who do not wear Muslim headdresses to "uncovered meat" that attracts hungry animals, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Thursday.

"I unreservedly apologise to any woman who is offended by my comments," Alhilali said.

"I had only intended to protect women's honor, something lost in The Australian presentation of my talk."

Alhilali's earlier comments seemed to place blame for sexual attacks on the victims, The Australian reported.

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?

"The uncovered meat is the problem."

Prime Minister John Howard described the comments as "appalling and reprehensible."

"The idea that women are to blame for rapes is preposterous."

[Vladimir]

Thanks for those horrific images, Don. I'm glad I read that after lunch.

In other news, it seems the Mufti realized he stepped in it:

Muslim leader apologizes for rape comments

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?
"

Hmmm, kill the cats?