“We have to help them adapt to their new culture.”
In order to stem an epidemic of sexual assault committed by Muslim immigrants, so-called refugees from Muslim-majority countries are being offered voluntary classes in Norway designed to educate them about sexual violence and "the difference between right and wrong" when it comes to interacting with Scandinavian women.
The New York Times reports that asylum centers in Norway have been mandated since 2013 to offer such courses to young men from African and Arab nations. Per Isdal, a clinical psychologist in the program, said that many of the refugees “come from cultures that are not gender equal and where women are the property of men... We have to help them adapt to their new culture."
Of course, considering that participation is voluntary and the worst offenders probably have no inclination to adapt to their new culture in the first place, how much are the classes likely to accomplish?
The course material points out that women in Norway have more freedoms than in their home countries, and “to force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person.” The fact that this basic concept of human rights is alien to many Muslim immigrants should be enough reason for European immigration authorities to reconsider their refugee policies, but hey, multiculturalism uber alles, right?
Norway’s first program started after a string of rapes between 2009 and 2011 in the city of Stavanger, which had attracted many migrant workers. Of 20 rape convictions handed down in the city, all but three were immigrants. Stavanger’s former police chief, Henry Ove Berg told The Times that “People from some parts of the world have never seen a girl in a miniskirt, only in a burqa."
Linda Hager, who runs 34 asylum centers in Norway, told a local Danish news website,
“We had some problems in Stavanger because some of the refugees had sexually violent episodes with Norwegian girls in the centre of the town. So the police, the immigration department and Hero Norge launched a project to teach refugees about Norwegian behavior.”
Similar programs are being considered in Denmark, where in 2013 and 2014, 34.5 percent of convicted rapists were immigrants or descendants of immigrants, even though those groups make up just 12 percent of Denmark’s population.
Most European nations, however, have avoided implementing similar programs for fear of stigmatizing Muslim and African immigrants. Hanne Kristin Rohde, the former head of violent crimes with the Oslo police department, told The Times that she ran into resistance when she went public in 2011 with data showing that a disproportionate number of rapes were committed by immigrants. She said,
“There are lots of men who haven’t learned that women have value. This is the biggest problem, and it is a cultural problem.”
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