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''See also:'' [[Atheistic Sweden and rape]] and [[Atheism vs. Islam]] and [[Atheism and rape]]
 
''See also:'' [[Atheistic Sweden and rape]] and [[Atheism vs. Islam]] and [[Atheism and rape]]
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[[Sweden]] is one of the most [[atheism|atheistic]] countries in the world and the website adherents.com reported that in 2005 46 - 85% of Swedes were agnostics/atheists/non-believers in God.<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics(Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref> Sweden also has the 3rd highest rate of belief in evolution as far as [[Western World]] nations (see: [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]]).<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html Photo: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds]</ref>
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[[Sweden]] is one of the most [[atheism|atheistic]] countries in the world and the website adherents.com reported that in 2005 46 - 85% of Swedes were agnostics/atheists/non-believers in God.<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics(Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref> Sweden also has the 3rd highest rate of belief in evolution as far as [[Western World]] nations.<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html Photo: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds]</ref>
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The ''International Business Times'' reported in 2014:
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{{cquote|Sweden has the highest rate of rape in Europe, with the UN reporting 69 rape cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2011, according to author and advocate of power feminism Naomi Wolf on opinion website Project Syndicate.
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In 2010, Swedish police recorded the highest number of offences - about 63 per 100,000 inhabitants - of any force in Europe. That was the second highest in the world after Lesotho.
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"According to rape crisis advocates in Sweden, one-third of Swedish women have been sexually assaulted by the time they leave their teens. According to a study published in 2003, and other later studies through 2009, Sweden has the highest sexual assault rate in Europe, and among the lowest conviction rates," Wolf wrote.
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A 2010 Amnesty report said: "In Sweden, according to official crime statistics, the number of reported rapes has quadrupled during the past 20 years. In 2008, there were just over 4,000 rapes of people over 15, the great majority of them girls and women."<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/top-5-countries-highest-rates-rape-1434355 Top 5 Countries with the Highest Rates of Rape] By Ludovica Iaccino,  ''International Business Times'', January 29, 2014 16:34 GMT</ref>}}
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[[India]]'s  Maneka Gandhi, who is the Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development, said when comparing India's rape rate to Sweden's: “We have four rapes per 100,000 women, while Sweden has more than 130."<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/20150524/worse-rape-problem-in-sweden-than-india-says-indian-minister 'Rape worse in Sweden than India', says Gandhi], ''The Local SE'', Published: 24 May 2015</ref>
    
James Lewis wrote in ''The American Thinker'':
 
James Lewis wrote in ''The American Thinker'':
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