27 January 2013

Muslim faith school’s misogyny led to teen’s rape conviction

THE failure of an Islamic faith school in the UK to provide a pupil with any knowledge about sexual relations, other than to teach him that women were “no more worthy than a lollipop dropped on the ground”, led to the trial of an 18-year-old who was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl.

But, according to this report, instead of being jailed, the “naïve” Birmingham teenager, Adil Rashid, was handed a suspended sentence in Nottingham Crown Court by Judge Michael Stokes, who said:

"Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters." [The Freethinker] Read more