Rape in Oslo and males of non-Western background

Figures released by the Norwegian police show that between 2005 and 2010, there were 86 rapes, in which 83 of the perpetrators were described as having a “non-Western” appearance. The women attacked were overwhelmingly Norwegian. At the beginning of 2010, over 150,000 persons or 3.1% of the Norwegian population had a refugee background, with Iraqis (19,768) and Somalis (17,665) forming the largest groups. On the Norwegian TV news report that mentioned the rapes, one of the victims, a young blond girl mentioned that her attacker was a man of Pakistani origin who claimed that he had the right to do exactly as he wanted to a woman, “because that is how it was in his religion.”