50 Shades of … Rape? Rape Hoax at the University of Illinois at Chicago: Anonymous Co-Ed Charges that Muslim Hook-Up and Previous Quickie “Raped” Her, à la 50 Shades of Grey; She Went Back to His Room with Him, Stripped for Him, and Did S&M

By Nicholas Stix

I thank the reader who gave me the heads-up on this story.
 


 

In Peter Holley’s blog for the Washington Post, he writes,

After bringing the 19-year-old woman back to his dorm room at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Saturday, Mohammad Hossain, 19, used multiple belts to restrain and beat his victim while he assaulted her, the state’s attorney’s office told The Washington Post.

How did Hossain “bring” the nameless co-ed “back to his dorm room”? Did he kidnap, tie her up on the street, and carry her there across his shoulders?

Note that Holley did not quote the state’s attorney’s office, he paraphrased a press rep, and took great liberties in doing so.

Why would a girl go back to the dorm room of a classmate with whom she’d previously had—by her own admission—consensual sex, but who does not say that he ever was her boyfriend? To look at his etchings? But she’s already done that!

To do a strip-tease for him, natch. Doesn’t every “woman” go back to the dorm room of a guy she’s had at least one quickie with to do a striptease for him, and let him tie her up, with no sex involved?

Peter Holley is pathetic, and this case screams either “reasonable doubt,” a much lesser charge, or throwing out the charges. This young Moslem man is looking at potentially 30 years in the can, on the word of a very entitled young woman, for some role playing that got out of hand, because he and his girlfriend or sometimes sex partner had seen and re-enacted some high-class porno, but they couldn’t agree on when to stop.

Holley’s blog was a tendentious re-write of Steve Schmadeke’s Chicago Tribune report, which was written in a much more neutral and ambiguous style. For instance, Holley writes that the defendant claimed “he” was re-creating 50 Shades of Grey, and knew it was wrong, while Schmadeke writes that prosecutors said that “they” were re-creating 50 Shades, which is a horse of a different color. And Schmadeke doesn’t play word games to make it seem as if the accused kidnapped his anonymous accuser.

Prosecutors said Hossain and the woman went to Hossain's dorm room about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The two had "previously been intimate" but were not dating, said Assistant State's Attorney Sarah Karr.

Once inside his dorm, in the 900 block of West Harrison Street, Hossain allegedly asked the woman to remove her clothing and she did, keeping on her bra and underwear, Karr said. He then bound her hands above her head and to a bed with a belt, used another belt to bind her legs and stuffed a necktie into her mouth, Karr said.

Hossain used a knit cap to cover the woman's eyes, Karr said, and removed the woman's bra and underwear. He then began striking the woman with a belt. After hitting her several times, the woman told Hossain he was hurting her, told him to stop "and began shaking her head and crying," said Karr.

The prize for the most stupidly pc comment that I read at the Post goes to one nagatuki, who wrote,

2/24/2015 11:52 AM EST

I don't recall anything in the article indicating his religion; that you assume he must be Muslim b/c of his name is showing your own ignorance (also, please spare us your "expertise" on Islam).

I responded,

"Mohammad Hossain." Are you telling me that non-Moslems name their sons Mohammad? No adult could be that stupid. You have to be lying.

It sounds like the accuser consented to being tied up, and wasn’t upset about the sex—that’s what she was there for!—but about the beating. Then charge him with third-degree assault, for smacking her around. That would get him, if convicted, a year’s probation, rather than up to 30 years as a sex slave, and death from AIDS, unless the prison Moslems protect him.