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Abdirashid Dahir is a senior at George Mason University who was charged with abduction — after a dispute with a female student over a study room. After the female student refused to share a study room with Abdi, she called the police on him. The police only listened to her side of the story and kicked him out of the library. Only hours later did they go to his dorm, where he serves as an RA, to arrest him.
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When Abdi refused to leave, the girl decided to call Mason Police. While Abdi and the girl waited for the police to arrive, the girl expressed her dislike of “foreigners,” referring to Abdi’s accent, saying how her father was a Federal police officer, and that she intended on getting him into a lot of trouble. She also told him he ought to go back to his country.
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<p>I'm kind of scared this happened in a college in my state. I mean, it's not even high school, where ignorant administrations have freer reign and have less checks and public pressures.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s clearly racist, if that girl’s daddy really is a federal agent he should honestly be reprimanded for her behavior, and she should be reprimanded for using him as a threat. That sort of thing is not cool at all. The sheer arrogance of people.</p>
<p>Yeah the article is really biased, and at the original source of the article, Sarah Evans facebook page, She specifically mentions that the story is only told from Abdi’s perspective.</p>
<p>For one thing, it’s not racist, because Muslims aren’t a race, they are a religion. Second of all, if this story is being reported accurately, then it’s a complete outrage and a typical example of how we allow our civil liberties to be trampled on.</p>
<p>This is certainly not a Muslim/anti-Muslim story either, because you hear of such injustices happening all of the time to people of all races, ethnicities, and creeds, especially on college campuses. IF ANYTHING, THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A WOMAN’S WORD HAVING MORE WEIGHT IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM THAN A MAN’S.</p>
<p>Don’t believe me? A woman could literally ruin a man’s entire life with one false, unfounded accusation. It is appallingly easy to be arrest, hauled before court, or put on a sex offender list, all for no reason other than the unsubstantiated word of a single person. In all honesty, the only thing men have on their side in these situations is when these lying women change their stories. Then, and only then, do men have the opportunity to clear their names.</p>
<p>@Tom – fine, xenophobic, excuse me for using the wrong term. Xenophobia, Bigotry, and Racism usually march together. And most people correlate Muslims as a race by grouping in Middle-Easterners into the single category, as evidenced by her “foreigners” comment, THAT’S what was racist. But the proper term there is probably closer to “Nationalist” or “Ethnocentric.”</p>
<p>Also, your “women will ruin mens lives through false accusations” misogyny is rather frightening. Things like this, as this proves, DO happen, but it’s not because “woominz” have more power. In most places do you know how hard it is for a woman to get justice? Just recently in Georgia or South Carolina or something, it’s been a few weeks I forget exactly, one of the congressmen wanted to change the rape laws so the person who filed the rape charge was changed from “victim” to “accusor” based on your logic. Do you understand how screwed up that is? Don’t use this to push your agenda there. This is disgusting enough as it stands. This IS 100% absolutely a civil rights abuse BECAUSE he was Muslim and the girl was a bigot. End of story. None of your anti-woman stuff.</p>
<p>Well… accuser is better than it being called "survivor’ up North. Things that happen in the South are a bad example, the South is backwards anyway.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this is true. I recently read about the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings and most feminists – without knowing any details – automatically blamed Thomas.</p>
<p>There are too many instances where women have lied about domestic abuse, and men are locked up before they even have a right to defend themselves. Domestic abuse in any form should never be tolerated; however, it’s wrong to automatically believe one side over the other before any facts are established.</p>
<p>Women lie. Men lie. What society needs to do is not make assumptions about guilt and innocence based on nothing more than sex/gender.</p>
<p>Itach, I’m as much anti-woman as I am anti-food. Just because I complain about a particular meal or particular restaurant hardly means I’m against food, and complaining about one woman or one particular type of woman hardly makes me a misogynist. You are apparently unaware that there is a large controversy in this country about the ease with which a woman (or a child sometimes) can ruin a man’s life with an accusation. We all want to see justice meted out, but in recent decades a situation has emerged where men are guilty until proven innocent, which is the exact opposite of how things are supposed to be–you should be innocent until proven guilty. That is, nobody’s rights should be taken away without due process. There are plenty of women who have weighed in on this controversy and who agree with me, because they see their husbands, sons, brothers, nephews, etc. have their careers and their reputation taken away from them by unscrupulous women. (obviously, I have to explain to–shall we say–certain people, that when I say “unscrupulous women” I’m not saying all women are unscrupulous)</p>
<p>Which leads me to the think in Georgia you complained about. I looked it up. All it is is a proposal to call rape victims “victims” only after a conviction has been secured, and to call them “accusers” as long as the alleged rapist hasn’t been convicted. IOW, innocent until proven guilty. How would you like to be falsely accused of rape, and the person making the accusation is called a “victim” of your transgression?</p>
<p>This isn’t about going soft on <em>real</em> rape, or <em>real</em> abduction, or <em>real</em> sexual harassment, it’s about protecting the innocent, which is what I thought we both would agree with.</p>
<p>Want to cry this is so ridiculous. I’m not even going to take the bait. I know I’m just another woman being emotional! You can discredit me that way, most women are so it won’t be anything new. You can think of it as the grand tradition of patriarchy.</p>
<p>Nothing I post on a stupid message board is going to undo decades of sexism, and frankly, that’s not my responsibility. So I’m not going to bring out the studies and the recent history and the rape culture and knowledge in general and tell you why I know what I know.</p>
<p>Just want to say that there are people who disagree with what you posted. I am one of them.</p>
I think it’s important for the word of a potential victim to be given more weight than the word of the alleged perpetrator - initially, to prevent further damage. (Don’t some states have laws saying that someone needs to be taken into custody when the police encounters a domestic disturbance?) Once the immediate situation is taken care of, we need to go back to “innocent until proven guilty” though.</p>
<p>“one of the congressmen wanted to change the rape laws so the person who filed the rape charge was changed from “victim” to “accusor” based on your logic.”</p>
<p>I think that change is ok. It removes the connotations behind “victim.” Calling someone a victim tends to push toward the fact that the rape happened. Simply calling someone an accuser, at least until a conviction is reached, has less connotations. Just my thoughts on that.</p>
<p>Wanton, please remember what you wrote when and if your husband/boyfriend/son ever is accused of any crime against a woman. You can believe whatever you want, but the tragedy is that there are documented cases (not just opinions) of women falsely accusing men of crimes. If you have a son and a daughter and they fight, do you automatically believe your daughter for no other reason than she is a girl? </p>
<p>If you logically look at what has been written, none of it is against women at all. It’s simply imploring fairness for all.</p>
<p>Yeah there was this crime recently in Maryland where two women were working in a store at night. They were the only two women in the store. One of the women was found dead and the other woman accused two masked guys of raping them and killing the other woman. At first this seemed to be the truth until they reviewed the case and the painfully obvious question of how is the other woman still alive. It turns out that this woman killed the other woman. I’m not making this up, you can do a google search for this case.</p>
<p>I’m gonna just say that anybody who could actually support this doesn’t understand the intent behind it and is truly detestable in my eyes. False accusations happen but they’re RARE. So rare that it doesn’t justify this. Consider the fact that it’s ALL done to scare women away from reporting rape. It’s already SO hard for a woman to report when a rape has happened, it’s so painful, so emotionally devistating. Now instead of being called the victim they are, they’re an “accusor” like the law itself isn’t behind them. Like the law itself is giving them the evil eye and saying “I don’t care that you were raped, you don’t deserve sympathy.” The change would be enough to cause many women to just not want to report the rape at all, keep quiet, and put up with that abuse in silence. You know? Never mind the men who are raped by women or other men. It’s just as bad for them. If you want proof of that, your answer to me saying that will be proof. How you respond to hearing female-on-male or male-on-male rape being possible will be proof of why it’s so difficult to report. That’s disgusting. Supporting that at all is disgusting. I cannot comprehend that kind of ruthless heartlessness towards other people.</p>