{"id":77022,"date":"2015-10-15T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77022"},"modified":"2015-10-15T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:28:43","slug":"worse-than-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77022","title":{"rendered":"Worse Than Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Goldman writes<\/a>: The body <\/a>of a 20-year-old Syrian woman, “Rokstan M.,” was unearthed from a shallow grave in the small Saxon town of Dessau last week. Her father and brothers stabbed her to death on her mother’s orders, after she was gang-raped by three men. The rape left her “unclean” and the mother allegedly demanded the killing to restore the family’s honor. German police are seeking the father and brothers. That by itself is not newsworthy; what is newsworthy is the news itself, which appeared in not one of Germany’s major daily newspapers or websites. The tabloid Bild-Zeitung<\/em> ran the story, along with the regional press, while the arbiters of enlightened opinion buried it. Der Spiegel<\/em>, the country\u2019s biggest news site, and the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung<\/em>, the newspaper of record, made no mention.<\/p>\n

The case of Rokstan M. is heart-rending. She had found work in Germany as a translator for the government, but she knew her family would track her down and kill her. \u201cI am awaiting death. But I am too young to die,\u201d she had written on a social media profile<\/a>. Her story deserves a line or two in the quality press. But it\u2019s one of many that German leaders want to ignore.<\/p>\n

Political leaders in Germany\u2014which may absorb 1.5 million migrants<\/a> this year\u2014are struggling<\/a> to respond to reports of a sex crime epidemic among newly-arrived Muslims. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere urged Germans not to believe rumors of widespread rape at refugee centers, while Germany\u2019s police union chief Rainer Wendt<\/a> warned, \u201cThere is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesn\u2019t represent reality.\u201d Wendt added, \u201cIt is understandable that there is the desire to calm things down politically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s elite knows perfectly well that the migrants bring social pathologies, because they have already seen the world\u2019s worst sex crime epidemic unfold in Scandinavia. Sweden now has the highest incidence of reported rape outside of a few African countries, and nearly ten times the rate of its European peers\u2014and all this has happened in the past ten years. Sweden ranks near the top of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Gender Gap Index<\/a>, yet it has become the most dangerous country for women outside of Africa, with an incidence of rape ten times that of its European peers. Sweden\u2019s political leaders not only refuse to take action, but have made it a criminal offense to talk about it.<\/p>\n

Even in liberated, feminist, gender-neutral Sweden, there is something more horrible than rape, something horrible enough to persuade the political elite to sacrifice the physical and mental health of tens of thousands of Swedish women. That is the horror of social disintegration in the Muslim world. Sweden opened its borders to refugees twenty years before the migrant flood arrived on Germany\u2019s doorstep, and the foreign born rose from 9% of the population in 1990 to 15.4% in 2012. Foreigners have a higher birth rate, so the percentage is higher including second-generation immigrants.<\/p>\n

There have been protests, to be sure, and nationalist parties like the Sweden Democrats have gained support on an anti-immigration platform, but Sweden will remain supine as its social fabric unravels. So, I expect, will Germany. Europe is transfixed by the horror unfolding from Libya to Afghanistan, as one of the world\u2019s major civilizations unravels in real time. In its moment of agony, the Muslim world\u2019s most potent weapon is its own weakness. The human cost of the collapse of Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria is horrendous, but it is small thus far compared to the horrors that would attend instability in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The West can\u2019t bear to look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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