Quote:But my original point was that Deen seems to think that all non-muslims are rapists. I don't know anyone at all who has ever been raped, or even slightly sexually assaulted, or carried out any such actYou know, this may have nothing to do with the topic at all, but a friend of mine once conducted a non-scientific field study. He went around and asked many of the women he knew whether they had ever been sexually assaulted or molested in some way. Not one said "No."
Now, this isn't the sort of conversation people normally have in public, and as I said his "study" was hardly scientific. It does, however, suggest that a huge number of women -- far more than most of us would ever think -- face sexual abuse during their lives. I find that really disturbing. What's more disturbing is that they're people we know and see every day.
I have no idea what these numbers would look like in Muslim countries, as I've never lived in one. Perhaps routine separation of genders does reduce the number of cases of sexual abuse. Then again, I hear enough horrendous stories coming out of the Muslim world (even about things like "Eve-teasing," which targets women the perpetrator doesn't even know) that I'm not so sure...
p.s. -- Chemical castration is reversible? I didn't know that. How does that work? :unsure: