She had it coming…
A lot to do about Hilali’s comments on rape and women. His comparison with meat is ridiculous of course:
If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem […]
Since when is rape the fault of women. Yes of course you can say women should be careful and but of course you should say that men should keep their hands (and whatever else) to themselves. Something like Hilali’s comments are also made about veiled women but then the other way around by the distinguished French scholar Bernard-Henry Lévi:
Our time is almost up, but BHL becomes the most animated I have seen him when I ask him about Jack Straw’s intervention on Muslim women and the veil. ‘Jack Straw’, he says, leaning close to me, ‘made a great point. He did not say that he was against the veil. He said it is much easier, much more comfortable, respectful, to speak with a woman with a naked face. And without knowing, he quoted Levinas, who is the philosopher of the face. Levinas says that [having seen] the naked face of your interlocutor, you cannot kill him or her, you cannot rape him, you cannot violate him. So when the Muslims say that the veil is to protect women, it is the contrary. The veil is an invitation to rape […]
Or by people who write for Cosmopolitan:
Unless he drugged you or you were desperately ill, you are responsible for yourself. If you cannot say, hand-on-heart, you have absolutely no responsibility for this unfortunate event, I’m afraid the best thing you can do, is learn from it. If a woman goes alone to a man’s room and lies down on his bed, it will not generally be seen as an innocent act.
These lines of reasoning are ridiculous and insulting:
This is insulting to men and women. It implies that all men are idiots or worse, all rapists, who when presented with a woman asleep (or pretending to be asleep) on their bed, they take this as an ‘invitation’ for sex, whether consenting or not.