RAPISTS are targeting Bahraini and Asian women because they know social stigma will stop most from reporting it, says a top doctor and community activist.

Seventy-five cases in just six months were reported to a Bahrain help centre, but the majority of the victims did not go to the police, says Dr Banna Bu Zaboon.

They were all aged under 22 and of both sexes, including children, said the Batelco Centre for Family Violence Cases president, who is also a leading clinical psychologist.

She was speaking a day after the GDN reported that an Indian nurse was kidnapped and gang raped as she left Salmaniya Medical Complex after her shift - but had refused to report it to the police or hospital authorities, for the fear of being disgraced.

Rape carries such a stigma in cultures with strong taboos regarding sex, such as in Bahrain and other Asian countries, that victims are too afraid to report it, said Dr Bu Zaboon.

As a result, Asian and Bahraini women are the common victims of rape in this country, she said.

A rape victim (especially one who was virgin) may be viewed by society as being "damaged", said Dr Bu Zaboon.

"Victims in these cultures may suffer isolation by being prohibited from marrying and be divorced if already married," she said.

"The victim and her family fear other people finding out and thus shaming the entire family.

"Like any other crime, a rape should be reported, at least for the victim's sake.

"Westerners should be taken as an example for this because they are not ashamed to report it.

"The Muslim clergymen need to be educating the society that rape is a crime and that they should fight to get justice for their women."

Victims also often feel that the courts will barely punish the rapists, so it is not worth the ordeal of an investigation and trial, said Dr Bu Zaboon.

"Victims fear that despite going to court, which may result in publicising the incident, justice will not be served," she said.

"Even if there is enough evidence, the culprit may only be sentenced to a few months in jail.

"For example, a couple of years ago, a Bahraini man who raped his wife's nine-year-old niece was sentenced to just six months in jail.

"This adds insult to injury.

"I can state so many such cases where victims have been embarrassed by the outcome at the court.

"Unless proper punishment is handed out the number of rapists and their victims will keep increasing.

"Reporting a rape is a social responsibility to prevent further crime and the only way to see the criminal punished.

"A rape victim has to be immediately medically examined after the incident and the more time is lost, the evidence will be lost.

She said that the most shocking of all practices in Bahrain, like other countries in the region, was that the rapist may be absolved if he is willing to marry the victim.

"Most of the rape victims here have been offered marriage to make up for their crime and many of them do accept," said Dr Bu Zaboon.

"The court asks the rapist if he is willing to marry the woman he has raped and if he agrees, he escapes punishment.

"It's like giving complete control of the victim to the criminal.

"Moreover, the women are (often) divorced after a couple of days."

Rape victims may become suicidal, since they often feel soiled and blame themselves, she said.

"Victims may resort to self-blame thinking that they should have done something differently, or not been at a particular place," said Dr Bu Zaboon.

The GDN had reported yesterday how nurses are living in fear following the alleged kidnapping and gang rape of a colleague as she left the hospital.

The Indian woman was forced into a car as she waited to be picked up by her driver at the main entrance of the hospital, after her shift ended at around midnight earlier this month.

She was allegedly snatched from the street by a group of Arab men, driven to an isolated area near Zallaq, raped several times and dumped.

A passer-by reportedly took her to the BDF Hospital after finding her dishevelled and dazed, still in her uniform.

A male relative of the victim confirmed the incident, but would not comment further.

An Interior Ministry official said no complaint had been filed, but urged the woman to come forward, promising total confidentiality. The attack follows repeated complaints by nurses that they are stalked by sex pests who roam the areas around the hospital, particularly at night. begena@gdn.com.bh

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=255132

Rape MUST be the biggest problem within Muslim communities.

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this is mostly the Shia's mentality in Bahrain and they are the majority there...these people are unbelievably backwards and uneducated. the local sunnis despise them..

they are utterly lazy and worthless, they do the same jobs benghalis do and get pay marginally better...Bahrain doesn't sponsor its citizens like the rest of the Gulf Arab countries, so if they don't work their families will starve (they have like 8 kids each)..their mentality is that as far as they pray 5 times a day they can do whatever they want.

you'll find people with that mentallity in all arabic countries. Egyptians and Palestinians are said to be the worst along with Saudis (despite the fact they are not shia).



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Quoting a Turkish forumer:
"It's a well known fact that most of the boys or girls living in south-eastern Turkey are losing their virginities to horses or dogs of their villages, so I don't think this will suprise any Turk in this forum; we are used to these kinda news..."

Shias are probably the most educated in the muslim world. They accepted their old Zardushti religion and mixed it with Islam in order to keep their traditions while investing in their persian rooted culture.

This while Arabs have been neglecting themselves to such an extent!!!

Now you see the results in all Arab emirates of the persian gulf...

Turkey - OUT OF EUROPE!!!!!

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www.armenian-genocide.org

i'm talking about shias of Arab descent not Persians.

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Quoting a Turkish forumer:
"It's a well known fact that most of the boys or girls living in south-eastern Turkey are losing their virginities to horses or dogs of their villages, so I don't think this will suprise any Turk in this forum; we are used to these kinda news..."

the sunni oppress shia everywhere i say that as a sunni i dont like it because it comes from salafi/wahabiu teaching and serves a sectarian american/israeli agenda to sew fitna rebellion amongst muslims

Lol, the second Bahrain seperated from iran it went down the toilet and became the b1tch of all the countries in the region.

I say Iran declares that the Persian Bahrainis who comprise more than 30% of the population as oppressed and liberates them, cyprus style

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"You should not be afraid of the ideology but of the determination and will of the men behind it"

they are 75% not 30% but they are forbidden to speak farsi nd treated like sub humans

When people study to become a Islamic scholar in Pakistan one of the languages they learn is Farsi because of good chunk of Islamic text are written in that language.

There is no such thing as a culture, Islam is everything.

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"You should not be afraid of the ideology but of the determination and will of the men behind it"

there is a paradox in Bahrain...

whilst quite a few of the most prominent and "modern" families are of Persian origin they are not Shia but Sunni.
Also there are Iranian families in Bahrain (Shia) who are more modern than the Arab Sunni families.

Yet the Arab Shias are worst than Benghalis, not interested in obtaining an education or a decent job...they live in appalling conditions, they are lazy and backwards and they demand special treatment (in recent clashes with the police 2 policemen were burnt to death and the Shia MP's demanded that all charges are dropped and the murderers should walk away free because they're Shia).



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Quoting a Turkish forumer:
"It's a well known fact that most of the boys or girls living in south-eastern Turkey are losing their virginities to horses or dogs of their villages, so I don't think this will suprise any Turk in this forum; we are used to these kinda news..."

When will people learn it is PERSIAN NOT FARSI in the english language?



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