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Remember the "youth riots" in France last year?
Remember when "youths" set a bus on fire a few weeks ago for no reason, horribly burning a woman?
"Youth" is often code these days for "angry young male Muslim" and mentioning this in a newspaper article will be strenuously avoided until the last sentence (if it is included at all). This woman has the correct impression. There is a reason feminists and leftists are not outraged over these kinds of things, and that's because it was their multi-cultural tolerance lovefest that caused this travesty. How? By allowing millions of intolerant, misogynist Muslims into their liberal societies. These people think raping a non-Muslim is morally fine, you expect them to integrate? Ha! Talk about wolves among sheep . . .
I am sick to death of feminists saying that most rapes are by people the woman knows, like family members or dates --- it may be technically true, but that fact should not be used to make women LESS VIGILANT of stranger rape! Stranger rape is not a figment of the evil patriarchal journalism industry, it is a hideous reality for women that they should be aware of.
Unfortunately for this poor woman, she lives in a country that severely restricts her right to bear arms for self-defense. Pepper spray and all the martial arts lessons in the world will not give the same degree of protection as a firearm (if she is well-trained in using it AND has martial arts training to boot). Anti-gun legislation hurts women the most, because women are not as physically strong as men and are the only ones at risk for rape!
My advice to the young woman is to get the best martial arts training you can (Krav Maga is pretty good for that kind of thing) and carry a small pistol illegally.
Wouldn't you rather be judged by [however many people there are on a jury in Scandinavia] than carried by six?
---- Hans
