France's Casual Attitude Toward Rape
Qatar's Normalization Toward Israel
The Indian attitude.
The Economist magazine recently posed the question as to whether the former head of the IMF would have faced the same prosecution in Paris or Rome. If an African immigrant hotel maid came to the police in these capitals and made stunning allegations of sexual misconduct against a prominent international figure, would here claims have been seen as credible and even then enough to incite action? Likely not.
She would have been teased and sent packing. I hate to be an American nationalist (or I do?) since American nationalists, like all nationalists, tend to be the most vulgar of patriots, but the US of A does kick ass in protecting rights far better than most countries.
A case in point its this Dominique Strauss-Kahn or DSK affair. France is in uproar not because a Frenchman and a heretofore likely future president sexually attacked an innocent woman, but because New York City prosecutors had the temerity to apprehend him and equally enforce the rule of law.
The French though haughtily dismiss "dess Amercain jousteec". They are offended at the sight of handcuffs, banned in Mother France, and condemn what they view as the accusatory nature of American jurisprudence whereby the accused have to prove innocence (these was the silly point made by phony sleaze bag Bernard Henri-Levi forgotten that accusation are only taken seriously by the police if they are credible, as is in this case).
And the French also seem to believe that the remit of the state should not apply to the indiscretion, to put it lightly, of prominent officials. Many seem to believe that the powerful should be immune to justice and that even if he did wrong, so what? Let the man go she's only an African. And, after all, it was simply a rough amore:
"The groups said that 75,000 women were raped in France every year and that sexist language in public tended to minimise the gravity of crime, turning it into a vague and more or less acceptable act. The groups referred to specific statements, including one by former culture minister and Strauss-Kahn ally Jack Lang, who said Strauss-Kahn should have been released on bail earlier, considering that "nobody has died". Journalist Jean-François Kahn, no relation, denied rape had taken place and dismissed the affair as "troussage de domestique", a phrase that evokes a master having non-consensual sex with a servant."
Yikes! This silly country with its asinine culture and then they have the nerve to attack Americans as brutes.
Fortunately French women, who are the victims of such a chauvinistically misogynistic mindset, have risen up in protest and condemnation.
