The Muslim rape epidemic in Europe we never hear about

In autumn last year, Sweden was shaken by a scandal that shares some disturbing similarities with the grooming-gangs scandal in Britain, but on a far smaller scale. In Sweden, as in Britain, it seems that many vulnerable elderly women have been raped and sexually abused by Muslim male caregivers, while the people whose job it should have been to protect them failed to do so.

SPIKED-online (h/t Marvin W) What’s more, those in positions of authority sometimes downplayed or hushed up allegations because of their low view of the elderly victims and, potentially, the ‘Muslim’ identity of the perpetrators.

Elsa lives in Uppsala, a city just north of Stockholm. In 2023, a foreign-born carer sent to her home by Uppsala municipal council started to be unpleasantly intimate with her. He called her ‘sweetheart’ and turned her face so as to kiss her on her mouth. He started questioning her about her flat, asking her if she owned it and whether she had any relatives who might inherit it. He even asked if could move in and live with her.

‘He was so pushy’, recalled Elsa in the interview. Then things took an even darker turn: ‘One day when I was sitting here by my dining table, he took out a tube of lubricant, which he said was especially for the elderly. Then he pulled down his trousers and showed me his erect penis. At that moment, the doorbell rang. Two missionaries who wanted to preach the word of God showed up. I have never been so thankful for such people as that time.’

Elsa contacted the manager responsible for organising her home care and reported what had happened. She said that she didn’t want to have any more visits from that carer. The manager agreed to her request.

Elsa felt reassured that matters had been taken care of, especially after the carer appeared to have been replaced. But she was mistaken. After several weeks, he returned. It turned out the manager hadn’t dealt with the incident at all. There is certainly no record in the council’s files of Elsa’s complaint.

Upon his return, the carer behaved himself initially. But then he started to be overly intimate once again. Elsa tried to call the manager many times, but she either did not pick up the phone or, when she heard that it was Elsa, put down the receiver.

Then in spring 2024, the carer attacked Elsa. ‘I feel so ashamed’, Elsa told the UNT: ‘I tried to push him away, but he was strong, and I am very weak. He raped me here in my own bed, in my own flat. I shower myself extra carefully. I feel so dirty. But it doesn’t go away.’

A few weeks after the attack she broke down in front of a social worker who had come to check up on her. He promptly contacted the head of the home-care service. The manager said he believed Elsa’s account and said the man would no longer be visiting her. But he also said that her attacker would still be working elsewhere with elderly people because dismissal was a decision that only the HR department could take.

The police were also involved. But due to a lack of evidence – it had been weeks since the rape – Sweden’s prosecutors decided that a criminal case against him couldn’t proceed.

When UNT interviewed Elsa last September, she used the pseudonym, ‘Vera’, because she was so frightened of what people would think of her. But her courage proved to be a wake-up call for Uppsala and, in many ways, for Sweden as a whole. Within days, more elderly ladies started to come forward to allege that they, too, had been abused by their carers.

In particular, there was Siv, also from Uppsala. She told reporters how she was regularly raped by three different carers ‘from the same country’. One of these men was the man who raped Elsa. They didn’t just visit her when they were supposed to work, but started to turn up in the evenings, too. This went on for months. Siv says she was in shock and was fearful of saying anything to anyone – that is, until Elsa gave her interview.

Soon, other media started to cover the story. And the government-backed Swedish Gender Equality Agency began compiling a report on the violent abuse of the elderly.

The abuse clearly went beyond just a few cases. UNT contacted Sweden’s Health and Social Care Inspectorate (IVO) and demanded to see all reports of elder sexual abuse in the Swedish care system over the past five years. It turned out that councils across Sweden had received a staggering 45 reports. Some of these reports involved more than one perpetrator abusing a single victim. Others involved several victims reporting a single perpetrator.

The cases of elder abuse just keep coming. On 13 January this year, Baasim Yusuf, a 28-year-old of Somali origin, was sentenced by an Uppsala court to eight years in prison for two cases of rape and three cases of sexual assault, all of which he filmed. Some of his victims, suffering from poor memory, did not recall what had happened to them until the police showed them the video recordings.

Somali-born Baasim Yusuf, 28, a healthcare worker in Sweden who viciously sexually assaulted elderly women under his care, will not face deportation, a local court ruled.

Yusuf was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Uppsala District Court after being found guilty of two counts of aggravated rape, three counts of aggravated sexual assault, five counts of possessing offensive photography, and minor drug offences.

The sexual crimes took place between December 2023 and August 2024 during his employment with Forenade Care’s home service in Uppsala, where he was responsible for visiting elderly clients. The court heard how Yusuf targeted four women between 77 and 88 years of age, two of whom had dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

The public anger after Elsa spoke out, unleashing a torrent of horrific allegations, has been palpable. It has been matched only by the determination of the authorities to suppress the scandal.

One victim, aged 77, was attacked so violently that Yusuf chose to record the ordeal on his phone.  Another, aged 88, pleaded with Yusuf to stop, but he ignored her cries and later demanded money.

In one instance, Yusuf forced a woman to perform sexual acts, filming them for his own satisfaction.

His threatening behaviour continued during police interviews, where he reportedly laughed at the accusations. Yusuf confessed to some of the sex acts. However, he denied criminal intent, insisting the victims had agreed to the assaults and that he should be paid for having sex with them.

These claims directly contradicted testimony from the women, who described profound physical and emotional suffering. In the sentencing, the judge said that Yusuf showed extreme disregard for the victims well-being and that his crimes deserved a harsh penalty.

Despite the seriousness of his offences, the law prevents Yusuf from being deported because he became a Swedish citizen in 2018.

Given the scale of the scandal that has slowly emerged over the past six or seven months, the main question is why reports of elderly abuse were ignored for so long. No doubt one reason is the low view of the elderly held by too many in positions of authority in Sweden and indeed the West more broadly. For a variety of reasons, their lives are not deemed as valuable as those of younger people.