If I were asked to name the most vicious, ignorant, and jealous person among all the New-Atheist-hating atheists, there would be no contest: C. J. Werleman wins the gold, silver and bronze trifecta. With Werleman’s career now derailed because of his serial plagiarism (see below), one would think that he’d dial back his invective, but, afflicted with Acute Maru’s Syndrome, the man simply can’t. In fact, exposure of his plagiarism seems to have only intensified his craziness. After all, he was exposed not by religious people but by his fellow atheists.

Here’s a series of tw**ts Werleman was involved in yesterday (thanks to Heather Hastie for calling them to my attention). Werleman has accused the entire United States of being a “rapist,” presumably to show that we’re just as bad as any Muslim country. Agent Number 67 and Godless Spellchecker, who uncovered several instances of Werleman’s plagiarism, call him out.

Where did Werleman’s data come from? I suspect from this Wonderslist page written by one Ejaz Khan, since that page makes not only the same assertion about the U.S. (“The super power of the world is at the first position in the race of rapes. Males are majorly the rapist holding a proportion of 99%” [sic sic sic]), but also has the very same picture that Werleman used. Yet that page also says this:

Note:- These stats are two years old. Here are recent stats for the countries with highest rape cases.

And when you go to the link with “recent stats”, also on Wonderslist, you find this statement, completely contradicting what Khan (and Werleman) say:

The countries with highest rape cases are Lesotho (91.6 per 100000), Trinidad & Tobago (58.4 per 100000), Sweden (53.2 per 100000), Korea (33.7 per 100000), New Zealand (30.9 per 100000), United States of America (28.6 per 100000), Belgium (26.3 per 100000), Zimbabwe (25.6 per 100000) and United Kingdom (23.2 per 100000).

The Wikipedia page on “rape statistics” gives this figure for a 2012 survey of reported rapes, which again puts the lie to Werleman’s claim:

Clearly, Sweden is the “world’s #1 rapist”! But of course Werleman could still claim that the highest rates occur in non-Muslim-majority countries, so that the U.S. is, say, still worse than any Muslim land (his obvious point). But isn’t he curious why there are no data for those Muslim-majority countries (except for Indonesia and the UAE in the chart above)? Does he not realize that, as Agent Number 67 does, that reporting rapes is a dangerous thing to do in many Muslim-majority countries, and that, in fact, the police often don’t take action even if they are reported? As we all know, in many Muslim lands a woman can be ostracized or even killed for having been raped, since it supposedly brings shame on the family. Under such circumstances, don’t you think there would be a strong onus not to report it?

Finally, lest we forget, this is what Werleman did (from Wikipedia):

It must be really galling to know that every time someone Googles you, they’ll find a list of your transgressions. And let us not forget that Alternet did the right thing by removing Werleman’s articles, while Salon, eager for clicks, did not.