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Originally posted by swissmiss04
This is f*cking sick...as much as I hate to admit it, I honestly understand why non-Muslims have such unfavorable views of Muslims. Western society hears far too many stories like this, and can't help but make assumptions. Too often culture takes precedent over religious beliefs, which sets a terrible example. Yet these types of people are the first to b*tch about anti-Muslim sentiment in the West.
What I don't understand is 1) why the French government doesn't do more to prevent this kind of crap and 2) Why these sick bastards only got a few years in jail. Maybe the American justice system isn't the only one a bit too lenient towards criminals.
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Oh, come on. There is plenty of f*cked up stuff that Christian extremists do, and if you were to just Christians only by the worst things that they do -- bombing abortion clinics and killing gays -- you would have a pretty skewed version of what Christianity is like. Anybody who judges any entire religion based on the bad things they read about it is pretty dumb, IMO.
The thing is that stuff like this happens in America, too. All over America? Of course not. But in certain places? Definitely. And obviously this sort of thing doesn't happen ALL over France, as the article made clear. Attitudes towards rape are sometimes not much different here than the people quoted in this article. I was eating dinner with my family last weekend while the people in the booth next to us were discussing the Kobe case. They distinctly used the phrase "Boys will be boys" and said that if girls wear "scandalous clothing" they're asking for it. That's not all that far from "If they go in that basement, they know what will happen," which is in itself not far from the Italian argument that if a girl was wearing pants, she couldn't have been raped, it had to have been consensual. After all, it's not like someone could have forced her to take her pants off . . .
I agree with Rudey though. "Respect the culture" is bullsh*t in cases like this.