“An alleged rape gang shocks Italy and gives ammunition for an emboldened extreme right,” read the headline on CNN’s piece. It was a reference to something that happened in the Sicilian city of Catania on January 30. Catania was “in shock over what occurred to a thirteen-year-old girl, raped by a gang of seven Egyptian guys in the municipal grounds of Villa Bellini, one of the two oldest gardens in the Sicilian city,” according to an article published in the Italian-language il Giornale on February 3. There were three minor Egyptians.
The group approached the girl and her 17-year-old companion next to the Villa Bellini municipal garden’s restrooms, which were at the time almost completely empty. Later, the foreigners threatened the couple: two of the suspects sexually assaulted the thirteen-year-old as the other five watched on, beating and immobilizing the kid in the process. Following the second abuse, the young lady—who was in agony and panic—found the wherewithal to break free from her abuser and flee with her lover. This horrific event has rocked Italy as a whole and is now the focal point of a national conversation on the influx of large numbers of Muslims into the nation.
That’s the issue from CNN’s perspective. According to its Sunday article, gang rape “has become a cause for Italy’s far-right as well as a symbol of violence against women in the nation.” The crime was quickly used as justification for preventing immigrants from entering the nation. It appears that the right “seizes” in Italy while Republicans “pounce” in the United States.
According to Catania police, the alleged gang rapists “reached Italy by water in 2021 and 2022 as unaccompanied adolescents,” as CNN reported. One of the most well-known far-right politicians in Italy, deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, stated on X that they shouldn’t have been allowed to remain. Meanwhile, Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, “expressed her support for the alleged rape victim and her family.”
Since this is CNN, we are informed that racism—specifically, the manner in which the cases involving Italian and Egyptian suspects are being handled—is the true story here, rather than the horrific gang rape of a thirteen-year-old girl. This was due to the fact that the Egyptians “would be held behind closed doors and sealed, according to their attorneys, who told CNN they had been given fast-track trials.”
“The prosecutor in the legal case has already filed further charges connected to illegal immigration.” More information to this effect Two of the suspects’ attorneys clarified that because their clients were older than eighteen, they were not considered unaccompanied kids and so did not have the right to remain in the country, as Italian refugee laws do not provide asylum to Egyptians.
You’re ruining my heart; stop it. Without a sizable proportion of Egyptian gang rapists, how can Italy survive?
Elena Biaggioni, a supporter of abused women, is quoted in CNN’s story in an attempt to downplay the severity of what occurred and to blame Italy for it. She states that “of course, in countries where there’s a macho culture and sexism is stronger, like Italy, this violence is justified in a different way.”
Naturally, CNN made no mention of the reality that, although sexual molestation occurs worldwide, Muslim immigrants are frequently the victims of this sort of incident. This is due, in part, to the Qur’an’s endorsement of treating unbeliever women in this way.
A Muslim raped his victim in France while quoting the Qur’an. A Muslim rape gang survivor in the UK said that her attackers would reference passages from the Qur’an to her, making her feel as though Islam supported their acts. When Muslim immigrants in France sexually assaulted a girl and recorded the act while thanking Allah and quoting the Qur’an, it was thus not shocking.
A Muslim in India offered the lady he was abducting and raping several times a prayer mat and a Qur’an. “He informed me that according to Islam, he is permitted to rape an unbeliever,” the victim of a jihadi rape committed by an Islamic State member remembered. He said that by raping me, he was becoming more like God. He claimed that his prayer to God was to rape me.
An Indian Muslim abducted and sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old Hindu girl, compelling her to recite Islamic prayers and the Qur’an. Another Christian lady in Pakistan said that her attacker was likewise a religious person, saying, “He pushed me on the bed and tried to rape me.” He insisted that I marry him and become an Islamist. I declined. Jesus threatened to kill me if I didn’t comply, but I’m not willing to deny him. Rapists claimed that a different girl had repeated the Islamic declaration of faith during the rape and could not live among unbelievers, therefore, they asked that her family give her over to them.
Given that similar incidents may easily occur again, this indicates the broad significance of the Italian case. Reevaluating immigration rules is a necessary step after it. What worries CNN is that.
Failures and crimes by Democrats in the United States are only regrettable because they provide Republicans a chance to “pounce.” Furthermore, the only reason gang rape is unacceptable in Italy is that it fuels resistance to the country’s massive Muslim immigration. The preservation and advancement of the left’s narrative is the only priority for CNN and other far-left propaganda organizations.