Rape in India
India has significantly lower rape rates than any Western country, though higher than in East Asia.
A common retort to this is that India must have a higher rate of underreporting than other countries. To put it in context, the rape rate in India (per UNODC) is 2.2 per 100,000 people—compared to 41.4 in the U.S., 117.3 in England and Wales (the highest reported rate in the world), 15.5 in Germany, 62.7 in France, 24.4 in Sweden etc.
To suggest that these orders of magnitude in difference are caused by underreporting is simply innumerate. Furthermore, we also have numbers for rapes as directly self-reported by women in a survey, and India comes out better than most of the West:
Note that these numbers are universally much higher than the numbers of reported rapes. E.g. marital rapes are severely under-reported everywhere, whether or not they are criminalized.
(We also have some estimates of under-reporting rates, though they are quite old or uncertain: a 2006 report by the National Crime Records Bureau estimates that 71% of rapes are unreported and a report by Madiha Kark suggests a number of 54%. Compare the often-cited number of 60% for the U.S., or the U.N. estimate of 89% rapes globally going unreported.)
India’s conviction rate for reported rapes hovers around 25-30%, compare 2% in the U.S. or less than 1% in the UK.
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To be clear: it doesn’t matter that India has a lower rape rate than the West. Obviously, every rape is evil, and there are obvious and effective ways in which the rate of rapes in India can be brought down: increased quantity of courts/judges, wider use of the death penalty especially in cases of rape-and-murder, and purge parties like the TMC (which use rape as a tool to exert political power) from existence.
The reason it is still important to mention, is that the people (left-wing activists) blocking these obvious solutions cynically portray India as uniquely worse in terms of rape, in order to deflect from the obvious solutions, and instead shift the blame to vacuous, amorphous concepts like “patriarchy” and “rape culture” and promote self-evidently stupid solutions like “teach boys not to rape”.
These people are quite open about it, by the way. Here’s Indira Jaising, who saved serial-rapist-and-murderer Surendra Koli from execution and then bragged about it on Twitter celebrating his acquittal:
Recall this is the sane cade where I approached the them chief justuce Dattu at 1230 am at his residence to stay the 7am scheduled execution , which he did . I am glad one innocent life had been saved , tells you why the Dearh penalty must be abolished , it’s irreversible
https://x.com/IJaising/status/1988127652868427778
Quoting: The \#SupremeCourt acquits Nithari killings convict Surendra Koli in the sole case in which his conviction still stands; orders for his immediate release if not wanted in any other case.
This is also the same woman who famously attempted to convince the mother of the Nirbhaya victim to forgive her daughter’s rapists/murderers, asking her to “learn from Sonia Gandhi”.
Similarly, two weeks after the Nirbhaya case, prominent feminists and groups such as Kavita Krishnan signed a petition (archived here) against the death penalty arguing that:
As seen in countries like the US, men from minority communities make up a disproportionate number of death row inmates
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The logic of awarding death penalty to rapists is based on the belief that rape is a fate worse than death. Patriarchal notions of “honour” lead us to believe that rape is the worst thing that can happen to a woman.
and instead urged Indians to “challenge this stereotype of the destroyed woman who loses her honour”, and focus on the “culture of impunity” and the “patriarchy” because “rape is a tool of patriarchy”.
(the victim had already died from the rape.)
For some reason, the petition then went on to repeat the debunked and libellious hoax that the Indian army had “raped and murdered” two women named Neelofar and Aasiya in Kashmir (this had already been disproven and rejected by courts at the time).
As an alternative to the death penalty, the petition demanded “Greater dignity, equality, autonomy and rights for women and girls from a society that should stop questioning and policing their actions at every step.”, gender sensitization training for police officers (yes, seriously), an “audit” of the National Commission of Women, and punishing, not actual criminals, but … Indian army-men deployed in Kashmir and against Naxals.
In another example, the Nadia nun gangrape case was falsely blamed on Hindu groups by Rana Ayyub and others, despite overwhelming evidence (already at the time) implicating a group of Bangladeshi Muslims, who were later charged for the crime.
From Streetlight:
Literally the only contribution of feminists to women’s issues is deflecting blame from the perpetrators to “all men”.
Rapists catching heat? → blame “all men” instead
TMC openly using rape as a political tool? → blame “all men”
Women being persecuted in Muslim countries/by Muslim personal code in India? → blame “all men”, equate their horriffic oppression with some random grievance about your father or boyfriend or employer
Eve-teasing practised by certain communities? → blame “all men”
The good-faith explanation of this is the “Streetlight effect”: the guy who knows he dropped his keys in the dark, but searches under the streetlight because he’s afraid of the dark.
But these people also without exception support Left-liberals and all of their activist groups and policies that cause these problems in the first place, and fight tooth-and-nail any RW attempt to fix them.
- they are soft on crime (the last death penalty in India was for Nirbhaya; anti-death penalty activists routinely brag here about saving some child-rapist or murderer from death row)
- they defend the TMC (or the commies before them, whom they learned to use rape as a political tool from)
- they support Muslim personal law, and all of the moral corruption in Indian muslim society that comes with it
- heck, they even fight for the “rights” (read: supremacy or favouritism) or even separatism of the very groups that commit these crimes.
Feminists should just be seen as pro-rape and pro-crime. There is no other explanation for why they constantly diffuse blame away from rapists onto “all men”, and support the very policies that encourage rape and crime.