Arizona girls attack sheds light on rape in Liberia

**Moorish guy** · July 29, 2009, 06:54 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa...mes/index.html

**Pontifex Maximus** · July 29, 2009, 07:41 PM

I hate to mass axe posts, but off topic posts and personal references will not be allowed. Please PM me if you have any concerns.

**Boyar Son** · July 29, 2009, 08:04 PM

anyway, TIA. this is africa.

**nopasties** · July 29, 2009, 09:39 PM

Sadly this happened in alot of African countries with a civil war lately. I hope Charles Taylor gets what is coming to him.

I hope he gets the Hitler treatment for eternity

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**Primvs Sextvs Loverlord** · July 29, 2009, 11:55 PM

I demand a regime change in the Africa. Wait, is South Africa part of Africa? What about the Iraqians? Is Iran in Mecca? /sarcasm

Anyway:

A 2006 government report said that of 1,600 women surveyed, 92 percent reported some kind of sexual violence, including rape.

Yekeson said an 8-year-old girl from her crisis center in Liberia was persuaded to press charges. But in the courtroom, she was made to testify while her accused attacker sat only feet away.
"You had the rapist right there, staring in her face," she said. "That child was so traumatized, she ran away from the shelter and we had to look for her for days."

This is nothing short of a human tragedy.

And I honestly don't want to side-track this thread but I can say with 100% certainty that if Liberia was a Muslim-majority country, we would've had a whole bunch of the regular pubescent and prepubescent wannabe Nazis and conservatives on this thread claiming how all the rapes took place because of Islam. I am 100% sure of this. So jankern has a point.

Anyway, this thread is not about that. The fact is that both Christians (40% of the population) and Muslims (20%) participated in these horrific crimes and they acted in spite of their religions, which both forbid rape.

**nopasties** · July 30, 2009, 12:03 AM

Did a quick google search and this sheds some light on the subject of why children in this case are sexuaL predators. It has nothing to do with culture or religion. These kids were refugees from a brutal civil war. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data...0/1a/f2/f6.pdf

**boofhead** · July 30, 2009, 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by Mahmud Ghaznavi

And I honestly don't want to side-track this thread but I can say with 100% certainty that if Liberia was a Muslim-majority country, we would've had a whole bunch of the regular pubescent and prepubescent wannabe Nazis and conservatives on this thread claiming how all the rapes took place because of Islam. I am 100% sure of this.

I had a thread about this crime in the TD (it's probably still there) - and when someone asked if it was an ''Islamic'' crime I said ''possibly but probably not because only 20% of Liberians are muslim''. And I'm no fan of Islam. No fan at all. It is possible for people to dislike something and still remain fair, you know.

**~~Caduet~~** · July 30, 2009, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by boofhead

I had a thread about this crime in the TD (it's probably still there) - and when someone asked if it was an ''Islamic'' crime I said ''possibly but probably not because only 20% of Liberians are muslim''. And I'm no fan of Islam. No fan at all. It is possible for people to dislike something and still remain fair, you know.

Yeah, thats what he said. If it were a Muslim majority country you would blame the religion. However, since its only 20% muslim, it only has 20% chance of being an "islamic" crime. According to your logic at least, and that of prepubescent nazis Mahmud mentioned.

OT, since Liberia has more christians than muslims, I blame the christian religion for these rapes.

**Gertrudius** · July 30, 2009, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Caduet

Yeah, thats what he said. If it were a Muslim majority country you would blame the religion. However, since its only 20% muslim, it only has 20% chance of being an "islamic" crime. According to your logic at least, and that of prepubescent nazis Mahmud mentioned.

OT, since Liberia has more christians than muslims, I blame the christian religion for these rapes.

Statistically speaking I'm sure there is merit to saying that more Christians in this country are guilty of these crimes then Muslims, but violent crimes of this nature seem to be something that happens in Africa regardless of religion, and I have yet to see any convincing studies directly linking any religion to a raise in similar violent crimes. As a matter of fact the only things I've seen on this were from an anthropological view point and pointed more toward cultural norms and practices, which transcend religion.

I know you were just trying to make a point, but I wanted to show that not everyone is crazy judgmental about Islam, and can make a neutral observation based on more then personal prejudices.

Take it easy,

**boofhead** · July 30, 2009, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Caduet

Yeah, thats what he said. If it were a Muslim majority country you would blame the religion.

No. He's wrong and you're wrong. If the issue was a war for the institution of sharia law, fair enough. But it's about rape. It's about Africa, not Christianity or Islam. And statistically more of these rapes would be committed by so-called Christians than so-called muslims. Your assumptions are bogus.