Swedish Rape Stats: Where is the Outrage?

by Robin Burk at March 2, 2005 4:00 PM

Please read this longer post which addresses the criticisms noted below.

Rapes commited by Muslim men in Sweden are on the upswing - including against children.

According to Swedish Radio on Tuesday, statistics from Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention show that the number of reported rapes against children is on the rise. The figures have nearly doubled in the last ten years: 467 rapes against children under the age of 15 were reported in 2004 compared with 258 in 1995. Legal proceedings continue this week in a case involving a 13 year old girl from Motala who was said to have been subjected to a group rape by four men. (Note: These four men were Kurdish Muslims, who raped the girl for hours and even took photos of doing so)

The number of rape charges per capita in Malmö is 5 – 6 times that of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a larger city, but the percentage of immigrants is much lower. And it’s not just the rape statistics that reveal a scary increase in Malmö or Sweden.

Virtually every kind of violent crime is on the rise. Robberies have increased with 50 % in Malmö only during the fall of 2004. Threats against witnesses in Swedish court cases have quadrupled between 2000 and 2003. During the past few decades, massive immigration has changed the face of Sweden’s major cities, as well as challenged the viability of the welfare state.

Where is the outrage on the part of feminists here and there? This angers me deeply - both the rapes and also the silence.

Fjordman says the Swedish authorities are downplaying the significance of the numbers. But then Sweden is the country that has outlawed research into differences between the sexes ... (citation when I can dig it up later).

H/t: lgf.

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