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The Western world is facing a rape crisis.
In 2015, there were 62.02 rapes per every 100,000 people in England and Wales. By 2022, that rate had grown to 117.3, second in the entire world only to the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada. Sweden was sixth in the world in 2022 with 85.6 rapes per 100,000 people, up from 56.29 in 2015. During the same seven-year span, the rape rate in France nearly tripled, going from 20.09 per 100,000 people in 2015 to 58.94 in 2022. In Germany, there was a relatively low 8.56 rapes per 100,000 people in 2015, but by 2022, that rate had almost doubled to 15.06. By comparison, the rape rate in the United States remained fairly static, going from 38.85 in 2015 to 41.82 in 2022.
Meanwhile, in 2016, Muslims comprised 6.1 percent of the population of Germany, 6.3 percent of the United Kingdom, 8.1 percent of Sweden, and 8.8 percent of France. Since then, millions of Muslim migrants have settled in those countries and others in Europe. According to the British census, “the proportion of the overall population who identified as ‘Muslim’ increased from 4.9% (2.7 million) in 2011 to 6.5% (3.9 million) in 2021.”
Eight hundred thousand Muslims entered Germany in 2015 alone. Because of the low birth rates among the native populations and the high birth rates among the migrants, many predicted that there would be Muslim majorities in many Western European countries by the end of the twenty-first century.
Did the massive influx of Muslims into Europe account for the sharp rise in rape rates? As Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It shows, the reflex action of Western political and law enforcement authorities, as well as the Western media, is to regard such questions as offensive and “Islamophobic,” and hence unworthy even to be asked, much less answered. Yet this is not simply an instance of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy: the rise in rape rates followed a rise in the number of Muslims in Europe, therefore Muslims are responsible for the rise in the number of rapes. However unwelcome the fact may be, there is a good reason to think that Europe’s rape problem is a component of its problem with Islam.
This may appear to be counterintuitive at first glance, for rape rates in Muslim countries are generally extremely low. In Pakistan, the rape rate in 2022 was 2.22 per 100,000 people. In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, it was 0.52 in the same year. In Iraq, it was 2.53 in 2021. So how can it possibly be argued that Muslims are responsible for the rise in the number of rapes in Europe, when they don’t commit the same crime in any significant numbers in their home countries?
The answer is twofold. One is that many rapes go unreported in Muslim countries because the behavior involved simply isn’t considered a crime. Islamic law, based on words attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad himself, forbids a woman to refuse sexual intercourse to her husband under any circumstances. With such a rule in place, how can a rape ever even be said to have occurred? It never could in the context of a marriage; it could only take place when a man forces himself upon a woman who is not his wife.
The second reason is as shocking as it is unmistakable: the Islamic religion forbids the rape of Muslim women, but it does not forbid the rape of non-Muslim women. In fact, the Qur’an specifically allows for this as a legitimate sexual outlet for Muslim men (cf. 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). And such activity doesn’t make its way into crime statistics, as it is not considered to be a crime at all.
In light of these two factors, it’s no surprise whatsoever that rape rates in Muslim countries would be low to nonexistent, but that mass Muslim migration into Europe would account for the continent’s new rape crisis.
This is not solely a European problem, either. As Muslim populations continue to rise all over the West, if Islam does indeed justify the rape of non-Muslim women, we can expect that there will be a great deal more such crimes than we have seen up until now. Yet any public discussion of this problem thus far has been stifled completely with claims that such concerns are “Islamophobic” and “racist.”
The supposedly enlightened, non-bigoted stance is to find other explanations, however implausible, for the spike in rape rates in the West, and steadfastly to ignore, or deny outright, that there is or could be any connection between the growth of Islam and rising rape rates.
Societies with a healthy sense of self-preservation, however, and those may not include some of the great nations of Western Europe in these dark days, cannot afford to take refuge in fantasies and self-delusion. If there is a connection between Islam and the rape of infidel women, Western authorities would be doing an extraordinary disservice to their own people if they ignored or discounted it.
And they are.
