Amid Gang Rapes, Europeans Unsure: Blame Victims Or Israel?

“Israeli insistence on its own security, sovereignty, and survival disempowers Muslims, whose culture takes Islamic superiority for granted.”

Stockholm, February 21 – As a trend of sexual assaults on women continues, perpetrated by groups of immigrant men from Muslim countries, disagreement has arisen among European politicians, journalists, and pundits regarding whom to blame for the phenomenon: the victims themselves or Israel.

Sharp differences of opinion have surfaced in recent months over the triggers for the many dozens of rapes – several of them gang rapes – across Western Europe at the hands of the Muslim immigrants. Strident assertions that the women could have avoided being raped had they dressed more modestly are competing with a powerful, reflexive desire to blame Israel or Jews for all ill phenomena.

A survey of media and commentary on the Continent and in Britain found no statistically significant difference in size between the two schools of thought, though certain industries were more likely to blame one or the other, said Dutch political observer Dr. Skejp Goot. “Among politicians, the trend overwhelmingly favors blaming Israel,” he explained. “That holds true in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain, and to a slightly lesser extent in France and Belgium.”

“By the same token,” he continued, “journalists, social activists, and commentators are much more prone to accuse the women of inviting or provoking the rapes by not dressing according to the mores of the societies in which the perpetrators were raised. That trend was more pronounced across Scandinavia, but less so elsewhere.”

The mechanism for blaming Israel varies widely, noted some experts. “You can see how Israeli insistence on its own security, sovereignty, and survival disempowers Muslims, whose culture takes Islamic superiority for granted,” said British politician George Galloway. “It’s a no-brainer from there to behavior that helps the Muslim assert some degree of dominance over others in a most visceral way, to make things right again, or perhaps just as  protest.”

“Alternatively,” he suggested, “Jews control the government and economy of every European country, as everybody knows, and the entire society is complicit in that control, not having allowed Hitler to finish what he started. That line of justification does not fit into only one of the two categories, but it also is invoked by a small number of the gang rape apologists.”

A key element of both approaches, stresses Goot, is the importance of ensuring that the immigrants who did the actual raping do not get tainted with any of the blame. “They can’t be held responsible for their behavior,” he averred. “That would go against decades, perhaps centuries, of well-grounded European bias.”