In March 2010, an immigrant from Morocco, Mbarek Lafrem severely beat a nurse because she wouldn’t dance with him in a Manhattan bar

He followed her into the women’s restroom where he attempted to rape her and fractured her skull, eye socket, nose and jaw and cut her forehead, requiring 50 stitches. Being a Muslim man, he blamed the woman for trying to defend herself - in the women’s restroom. He regarded any American woman behaving as a free individual to be a prostitute and therefore not entitled to refuse him. Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel has promised Lafrem a 16-year prison term at his sentencing, set for Sept. 1, 2011. Prosecutors had asked for 20 years.