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The study focused on nine countries in the southern Mediterranean: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Syria and Tunisia.

Only one nation was non-Muslim but had a sizable Muslim population in its borders - probably accounting for a large percentage of domestic violence, as in Oslo, where ethnic minorities who make up 20% are responsible for 70% of reported cases of domestic violence and 94% of assault rape.

"The spread of domestic violence among a figure between 40% and 75% of women is not an overestimate," says Florence Raes, a team leader at EGEP. "There have been interesting investigations into this, the most recent in Morocco, and others have been carried out in the Palestinian Territories and in Syria. Indeed, they all show figures of above 50% and have an impact on emancipation and on the employment market. Women do not leave the house to go to work covered in bruises". The report stresses that the problem is particularly acute in Jordan, where almost seven out of ten women have been the subject of some form of domestic violence, while the figure in Lebanon is over two thirds.

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=ht ... 2011-05-11

Domestic violence is a big problem in much of the world. It is a shame that some want to spin this very real issue to suit a hatred of Muslims and Islam.

Now eh trying to spin the same global issues in the Arab world with his view that Islam is responsible.

In Norway, the spin was that rapists etc were Muslims (then it became 'immigrants') and then fell apart when official stats and official statements made it clear that the majority of rapists are Norwegian (and indeed, that the figure is a staggering 1 in 10 women above 15 being raped - most in their own homes by people they knew).

The WHO treat the issue seriously and don't spin it like eh is doing:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/

Facts, not spin.

Cheers,

Shafique

Actually, the story about assault rape in Oslo is and always was that the vast majority of assault rapes in Oslo are carried out by assailants of non-Nordic heritage. The author was clear to mention that he was discussing assault rape.

I understand your need to lie, but anyone can go back to the original article and confirm what was said.

Anyway, I understand you changing the topic of this thread - which is about very high rates of domestic violence in the Arab world.

We also see a majority of domestic violence in Oslo are by people of non-Nordic heritage.

I totally agree that people can go back and check out whether your allegations of lies has any basis in reality.

You're the one that tried to spin the selective quote with your discredited theories about Norway. How is my commenting on this aspect of your post off topic?

Cheers,
Shafique

That the majority of assault rapes in Oslo are carried out by non-Nordic ethnic groups is well documented as is the fact that non-Nordic ethnic groups account for 70% of domestic violence in Oslo as well.



But here we're talking about 45-70% of women in mostly Muslim majority countries suffering domestic violence - with 75% of Jordanian women experiencing domestic violence (seven out of ten and the article title saying 75%).