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France: Muslim migrant on trial for the rape of a teen girl, his lawyer pleads ‘the weight of tradition’
What tradition, exactly?
Such treatment of infidel women is sanctioned in the Qur’an.
In France, a Muslim quoted Qur’an while raping his victim. A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. In India, a Muslim gave a Qur’an and a prayer rug to the woman he was holding captive and repeatedly raping. And the victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God…He said that raping me is his prayer to God.” In India, a Muslim kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl, and forced her to read the Qur’an and Islamic prayers. In Pakistan, another Christian woman recounted that her rapist was also religious: “He threw me on the bed and started to rape me. He demanded I marry him and convert to Islam. I refused. I am not willing to deny Jesus and he said that if I would not agree he would kill me.” Rapists demanded that another girl’s family turn her over to them, claiming that she had recited the Islamic profession of faith during the rape and thus could not live among infidels.
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.
“10 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment required for the rape of a teenager in a squat in Aubagne,” translated from “10 à 12 ans de réclusion criminelle requis pour le viol d’une adolescente dans un squat à Aubagne,” by Marguerite Dégez, La Provence, January 14, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
After a day and a half of trial, the attorney general of the departmental criminal court Sylvaine Schumacher requested late this morning on Tuesday, January 14, the conviction of El Bachir Rahmouni and a sentence of 10 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment and a permanent ban from French territory.
The attorney general Sylvaine Schumacher highlighted the credibility of the complainant, aged 17 at the time of the events, on November 7, 2021, and her “courage” in coming to testify. On the other side of the bar, the multiple contradictions of the accused, El Bachir Rahmouni, convinced the prosecution of his guilt. His lawyer, referring to “the weight of tradition,” argued that the teenager had consensual relations, but not assumed.
The moment of truth is approaching for El Bachir Rahmouni. This 29-year-old Algerian has been on trial since Monday, January 13, by the criminal court of Bouches-du-Rhône for rape. On November 7, 2021, he allegedly gained the trust of Neïla, a 17-year-old runaway, and took her to a sordid squat in Aubagne, where, according to the young girl’s statements, he raped her with great brutality. She was found by the police the next day, and immediately reported a traumatic scene, corroborated by the medical examinations carried out on her.
After denying sexual relations, the accused admitted to consensual intercourse
After a day and a half of trial, the attorney general of the departmental criminal court, Sylvaine Schumacher, therefore requested late Tuesday morning, January 14, the conviction of El Bachir Rahmouni and a sentence of 10 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment and a permanent ban from French territory.Describing “a predator”, the “very opportunistic act of someone who managed to target a victim who was somewhat vulnerable because of her situation and personality and who will allow himself to act without taking into account what she may want and feel”, she weighed up against her many contradictions, “the consistency” of those of Neïla, despite rare inconsistencies attributed to a phenomenon of dissociation common in rape cases, and her “courage” in the dock. The “very serious consequences” for her, too.
When the requisitions were read out, the accused collapsed into loud sobs, before falling in the dock, trying to vomit, moaning. Interrupting his lawyer, Me Said Benhamed, who had just started his plea. A ten-minute suspension was ordered, the council continued. Me Said Benhamed, who argued for acquittal, put forward “the weight of traditions” to justify the hypothesis of a complainant who would have consented, but would not have been able to “assume in front of her family”.
Verdict expected at the end of the day
A theory accredited in particular, according to him, by the fact that the young woman did not file a complaint immediately, that she remembered fellatio late in the day, that she accompanied her supposed attacker back to Marseille without visible constraint on the video surveillance images. The five professional judges of the departmental criminal court retired early in the afternoon to deliberate. Their verdict is expected by the end of the day.