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While ISIS endorses rape, American college administrations similarly facilitate the rape of women on campuses http://bit.ly/1ljgsdB
David French writes at The Corner,
Not only is this tweet hysterical on its face, take note of its target — liberal college administrators who are even now systematically violating the law to crack down on a fake crisis. They have stripped the burden of proof for sexual misconduct (including misconduct that would violate criminal law) down to a bare “preponderance of the evidence” standard and denied accused students the due process they’d receive even in civil — much less criminal — court. Some schools have even functionally reversed the burden of proof by imposing new “affirmative consent” standards that essentially create a presumption of guilt.
The tweet, however, is no crazier than the linked article:
ISIS’ treatment of Yazidi women as sexual slaves may seem far removed from fraternity or athletic team members’ treatment of women as sexual objects for conquest, however the results are distressingly similar. As tempting as it is to deny the parallels, we must acknowledge that institutionalized rape exists throughout the world and in the face of legal prohibitions. Recognition will help identify and eliminate the behaviors within our own culture.
ISIS’ sexual enslavement of the Yazidi population is abhorrent and must be addressed. Propagating the idea that “they” commit atrocities while implying that “we” are innocent of condoning sexual assault does not help us understand and effectively act to end sexual violence against women and girls everywhere.
No, the results are not “distressingly similar.” Here’s a Yazidi woman describing her sexual slavery:
At first, she tried to prevent [her "owner" from] raping her but when the Turkmen beat her one-year-old son in front of her, she was forced to stop resisting.
’I agreed to everything that this man wanted for the sake of my son,’ she said clutching her adorable infant child a little bit tighter.
And when she questioned his beliefs, he screamed at her and said that the sexual trade in Yazidi women is permitted ‘according to Islam’ . . . After 10 months of constant abuse and cruelty, she became despondent and numb and let him rape her ‘whenever he wanted’. But she refused to commit suicide because she feared what would happen to her child.
She was later moved to the house of another ISIS fighter in Mosul, Iraq, before being sold for a third time to a Libyan man in the Islamic State’s adopted capital of Raqqa, Syria.
She lived there for around 20 days, in a house with two other Yazidi girls, one aged 22, the other only 15, before an elderly mother and her five-year-old daughter moved in too.
It was here that she saw something so sickening, it convinced her that she had to risk it all and try to flee.
He came into the home and pointed at the mother and her daughter, she recalled.
He then brought them into a room and raped the mother before molesting the daughter.
Yep, that’s basically Yale, right? These people are losing their minds.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/426973/left-starting-tear-itself-apart-college-coeds-are-yazidi-slaves-david-french
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