Yet again, you have to turn to the conservative papers to find one dissenting voice in the rest of the media-driven babble.

Didn’t anyone learn anything from the build up to the Iraq war? Remember all the rhetoric about Iraq, Iraqi culture, their mistreatment of women? Did anyone actually bother to dissect the statistics?

Brendan O’Neill in The Telegraph does that:

“Why is the secretary general of the United Nations making solemn statements about the dreadful rape and murder of a woman in Delhi?

[Lila” Because this is an NGO manufactured crisis, to be followed by deconstruction of the unreconstructed Indian male, not before first subjecting to him a barrage of pornography and drugs, courtesy of the heroin trade (beloved of the BCCI and the CIA black ops) now routed through Goa and Kochi.]

Since when was it the job of the UN to comment on horrific crimes that are executed, not by states or armies or guerrillas, but by a handful of depraved men? I don’t remember the UN aiming stern warnings at the United Kingdom when, in 2006, the Ipswich serial killer murdered five prostitutes, or at Belgium in the late 1990s when a warped man raped and murdered five girls. Yet now, following the death of the physiotherapy intern who was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi on 13 December, the UN is telling India to get its act together and protect its women.

The reason for this double standard seems pretty clear. The Ipswich killings were not seen as being indicative of British culture in general, as a sign that British society and all those who inhabit it are rapacious and repulsive, but the Delhi gang rape is being treated as the logical end result of the allegedly depraved culture and attitudes of India and its “hyena-like” populace (as one Times writer refers to Indian men). The Delhi rape/murder is being held up, not simply as evidence that the men who carried it out are craven individuals who deserve the severest punishment, but as evidence that India itself is craven, that its hundreds of millions of men have been so warped by “macho culture” that they are one Bollywood film screening away from becoming rapists. That is why the UN is getting involved: the Delhi rape is being used to induce collective guilt in India, over everything from its morals to its mad males to its economic growth.

Almost as soon as it was announced that the still unnamed rape victim had died, Western observers rushed to condemn all of India. In The Times, Libby Purves skated on very thin ice when she decreed that “murderous, hyena-like male contempt is a norm [in India]”. Echoing those Victorian ladies who visited faraway continents and were shocked by the sexual depravity of foreign menfolk, Purves claimed that in the subcontinent “sexual harassment and assault” are looked upon as a “male birthright”, especially in Delhi, where there are “tens of thousands of newly urbanised [men], from villages still almost medieval”. Other female columnists have used the Delhi rape case to riff about the time they were propositioned or felt up by men in India, as if unwanted sexual attention and the most horrific gang rape you could imagine are just different sides of the same coin of “macho culture”; as if there is not a profound difference between experiencing a come-on from an over-eager Indian male and suffering an extreme violent assault on a bus.”

The author makes a further excellent point:

“A handful of observers have challenged the sweeping demonisation of India and its people in the wake of the Delhi rape – but strikingly they have done so on the basis that we in the West are just as rapacious as the “hyena-like” men of the subcontinent. In the past, progressives would have critiqued the heaping of collective guilt on to foreign nations on the basis that it was inhumane and inaccurate; now they critique it on the basis that rape is not just “a cultural phenomenon in India”, but is “endemic everywhere”, with verbal or violent misogyny “happening all around us”, including in civilised countries like Britain. In other words, it isn’t just Indian men who are hyenas – all men are.””

And at the Eurasia Review,  Gajanan Khergamkar makes the same point about the vastly higher rape rate in the US.