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Rape Victim in Indonesia Expelled For “Tarnishing” School Image

We have another outrage involving cultural and religious prejudices against rape victims. In Indonesia, a 14-year-old girl was expelled as “tarnished” after she was raped.


The private school just outside Jakarta expelled the teenager during a formal ceremony for “tarnish[ing] the school’s image.”

As mystifying as it seems to most of us, some parts of the world view victims as blameworthy for being raped. Other victims have faced worse treatment than expulsion in areas following Sharia law.

Source: Timeslive

95 thoughts on “Rape Victim in Indonesia Expelled For “Tarnishing” School Image”

  1. http://acvoice.com/2012/10/23/surviving-at-amherst-college/

    “Surviving, at Amherst College

    (Dana Bolger)– [Trigger warning for sexual assault]

    Dear Amherst College community:

    “The photographs below feature eleven men and women who were sexually assaulted at Amherst College and the words that members of our community said to them following their assaults. Not every survivor is holding his or her own sign; some of the students have transferred or dropped out of Amherst out of fear of their attackers’ continued presence on campus or from lack of options in the face of an unsympathetic administration.”

  3. Elaine, Colleges and universities are covering up for the rapes committed by their athletes.

  4. AY,

    Here’s another story:

    An Account of Sexual Assault at Amherst College
    By Angie Epifano
    Epifano is a former student of the class of 2014
    http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article%2F2012%2F10%2F17%2Faccount-sexual-assault-amherst-college

    Amherst Severely Mishandles Rape Charge. Amherst’s Female Students Are Not Surprised.
    By Virginia Choi
    Posted Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/25/after_angie_epifano_amherst_rape_victims_speak_out_no_wonder_college_students.html

  6. Malisha

    Men wrote the Bible, it is no wonder there is a huge incongruity in the value of Men and Women expressed in it. ….
    There is no incongruity in it that 90% (?) of preachers and priests are male.
    No incongruity that the (self centered) male ego found this a good thing and has been exploiting it for centuries.
    Your term Adamic is the first I’ve seen used. It is a wonderful expressive word that contains 6 letters that sum up the males use of God to systematically subjugate women for their own continuing caveman fantasies.
    There is hope of true equality in the future, as long as voices such as yours and many here continue speaking the logic and truth of equality.
    My daughters will have a chance to live in a fairer and juster (sic) world.

  8. You know this is not the only society that does this…. Take for instance right here in the good ole USA…… How many girls have been ostracized by the schools and fellow students if they had the audacity to report such an occurrence…..

    OS,

    The 9th Century is not too far behind here either…

  9. As Frank Zappa once said,

    “You can’t run a country by a book of religion
    Not by a heap or a lump or a smidgeon of foolish rules of ancient date, designed to make you all feel great while you fold, spindle and mutilate those unbelievers from a neighbouring state”

    Maybe Frank should have worked brutalizing and suppressing your women into those lyrics.

    I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: In the history of bad ideas, theocracy is one of the worst ideas ever. Good governance never comes from a basis in superstition and religious edicts that have little or no basis in reality.

  10. Arthur, There are other Christian religions than Catholic. Some of the Protestant religions are as extreme as some Islamists and also blame the victim with as much vehemence.

    1. I MENTIONED OTHERS in my post as well. I don’t have the time to list all the crazy Protestant nut cases, but so far they are a minority in christianity. That is not the case in Islam.

  11. The over/under for comparing this to Republicans was 7. Syrbal came in on 4. All those who bet the under can cash their tickets in @ the window.

  12. “As mystifying as it seems to most of us, some parts of the world view victims as blameworthy for being raped.”

    Does “some parts of the world” include the United States? We certainly seem to have some people in this country who think “some girls rape easy,” believe that some rape victims haven’t been “legitimately” or “forcibly” raped.

    Let’s not forget the following case:

    Court Rules Severely Disabled Woman Wasn’t Raped Because She Didn’t ‘Bite, Kick or Scratch’ Her Assailant
    http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/court-rules-severely-disabled-woman-wasnt-raped-because-she-didnt-bite-kick-or

  13. Blaming the rape victim is simply a continuation of the Adamic Fraud. Every sexual crime is the fault of the female.

  15. I recently read the first 50 pages of Howard Zinns A Peoples History of America. We as a civilization only recently have put one foot outside the caves of our ancestors. There are many people still deep inside, and many more capable of running back in.
    Any human born 4 hundred years ago if born and raised today could become an enlightened and productive citizen today. It is the availability of information, the structure of education and spreading of knowledge that has raised many of us above the environmental ignorance and prejudice of our recent ancestors.
    The human brain and capabilities have not evolved an iota from the people of the 17th century. It is knowledge and desire for equality that raises us.
    It is rule of Law that holds us up and creates fair and just living fields.

    The caves of ignorance will always exist. Some people can only live within its walls, and only find comfort in their shiny reflective darkness.

  16. Islam?? Didn’t you pay attention to the neanderthal republicans [all of whom lost] and their comments about rape this election season?? 14th century thinking is also alive and well in the US!

    1. When I see a parochial school do the same to one of their kids, THEN I will denounce them as well. Unfortunately, it seems that Islam is the latest religion to regresss and is the most egregious offender NOW! The anti-woman disease is more prevelant in Islam now than other religions and they provide some of the worst examples.

      I think all religion is bad for humanity and the Catholic Church and others have been just as bad.

  17. Frankly, the attitude that the rape victim is somehow to blame is not merely an Islamic idea….it is a common monotheistic idea, found enshrined in the Christian Bible’s Old Testament. It is the base cause of Right Wing types saying nasty similarly “unenlightened” things about rape right here in the USA. It is a pretty nasty “ideal” no matter which religious crew is hoisting its banner of blame-the-victim.

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