"A muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook has been spared a prison sentence after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless." This man is a British citizen and has been educated in Birmingham.
Yeah. I think I prefer the way a defence like that would be dealt with where I live. The law clearly states ignorance of the law is not a defence.
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Can people please stop trying to shoe horn gang rapists and people who gang sexual assault under the umbrella of "mentally ill" please. The stigma towards the mentally ill, specifically that they are the primary perpetrators of dangerous and disgusting crime, is still a major issue. It is very hard keeping a desperately unwell person safe when the outside world is being induced to believe they are walking crime statistics in waiting.
It is not PC, compassionate, kind, virtuous, or even half decent to hurl one of the most vulnerable and most at risk groups of all under the bus becuase you are struggling to defend some people's actions without making fact-lite leaps under the thin guise of ".asking questions"
Likewise can people please desist from using implications of other posters' being mentally ill as personal attacks. Using terms like "vulnerable" with evident and profound insincerity, in order to diminish another person's opinion with the "smear" of mental ill health is yet more grist to the mill of sustaining and deepening the stigma of mental illness.
I consider the people who do the above to be at best ignorant, at worst abhorrent, morally reprehensible and in no position to lecture others on their ethics. Look first at the fecking great tree trunk in your own eye before trying to perform optic surgery on any other bugger.
There is nothing wrong with asking questions. Google can provide hours of reading on the question of both trauma and culture and the implications for behavoirs, and HOURS (as in days, weeks) of reading is what it will take for questions to be answered fully. If your interest is genuine, put in the time and effort required to learn the answers, But to repeatedly ask the same question, without using one's declared piqued interest as a springboard into personal reading on the matter, suggests that an answer is not the point of the question. The motive for asking the question is merely one of deflection in debate and to hell with one of the world's most vulnerable groups if they get smeared and trampled in the process.
Do not confuse me with somebody who is merely making a point because they can. I cared for my severely mentally ill mother in law for the best part of 2 decades. I spent more time in locked psych wards and wrestling a very ill woman into restraints than I care to remember. I learned to fear the general public becuase they feared her and that put both her and I in danger. Attempting to baselessly associate these crimes with mental illness is knowingly or unknowingly an attempt to increase the degree of suspicion, surliness and downright threat the mentally ill and their carers have cope with every time they go out in public. And they have to go out. There are no tunnels from home to hospital, or clinic.
There have been enough victims in this equation so far. Shame on those who persist in single mindedly dragging mental health into it as a convienent scapegoat.