Norway offering classes to teach refugees it's wrong to rape women

One of the unfortunate side effects of importing over a million (mostly male) refugees from a misogynist third world hell-hole is that their views of women have a tendency to be ...archaic. We're not talking about a "woman's place is in the home" level of chauvinism, either. This is more of a "women are property" mindset. With that comes widespread issues of violence and sexual abuse. So Norway is offering asylum seekers a course, in which they will be challenged to master difficult concepts like "rape is wrong."

It's "a pioneering and, in some quarters, controversial program that seeks to prevent sexual and other violence by helping male immigrants from societies that are largely segregated or in which women show neither flesh nor public affection to adapt to more open European societies." As the New York Times reports:

Mr. Kelifa, 33, attended the education program at an asylum center in this town near the western Norwegian city of Stavanger. Like similar courses now underway in the village of Lunde and elsewhere in Norway, it was voluntary and was organized around weekly group discussions of rape and other violence. The goal is that participants will “at least know the difference between right and wrong,” said Nina Machibya, the Sandnes center’s manager. A course manual sets out a simple rule that all asylum seekers need to learn and follow: “To force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person.”

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It skirts the issue of religious differences, noting that while Norway has long been largely Christian, it is “not religion that sets the laws” and that, whatever a person’s faith, “the rules and laws nevertheless have to be followed.”

Now, perhaps you're a good little liberal, and you worry that the government could use this plan to implant all sorts of horrible notions about life in the modern world. Never fear. The classes are completely voluntary. If a refugee doesn't want to learn that rape is bad, he doesn't have to. That brings us to a couple of exit questions: 1. If the immigrants you're receiving are so colossally backwards that your country needs to offer classes to tell them women have rights, should you really be importing them in the first place? 2. If these refugees are so awful that they think rape is no big deal, how many of them are really going to volunteer for a class that will tell them they're wrong? If this is a legitimate issue, shouldn't the classes be mandatory? 3. If you've been raised to think rape is OK, are you really going to change your ways because some guy in an elbow-patched tweed jacket wags his finger at you? The fact that governments are allowing these people into their countries - knowing full well that this is a problem - is yet another indicator that the world has gone mad.