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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   3406 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 2, 2023

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Hm, let's see:

According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, in Sweden, in 2013, 700 women, and 300 children, were raped by Muslims in the first 7 months of the year. . . . Therefore, one could extrapolate that if rape rates hold true across Western Europe, 43.44 (the ratio of the total Western European population vs the total Swedish population) @ 142.857 (rapes per month in Sweden) = 6,205.896 white women and children raped per month by Muslims in Europe.

Note that the original claim is re ALL women and children, not WHITE women and children. Also note that the source cited for the data says that there were about 1000 TOTAL rapes in Stockholm County to date (ie. the first seven months of 2013), not 1000 rapes by MUSLIMS.

Therefore, one could extrapolate that if rape rates hold true across Western Europe

Sweden's rape rate is in fact apparently unusually high.

Edit: I note that one of the comments to the post uses the term, "jewsmedia." And that is one of the less inflammatory comments.

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