‘Legal rape’ group leader ‘Roosh’ Valizadeh books flights, taunts Australia, customs officials

THE “legal rape” advocate being ridiculed for his views on women is coming to Brisbane whether you like it or not.

AUSTRALIANS have blasted “legal rape” advocate Daryush Valizadeh but the backlash appears to have only made the Return of Kings founder more determined to bring his hateful messages to our shores.

Valizadeh, known as “Roosh V”, taunted Australians on his official Twitter account on Monday night and told customs officials they can’t stop him entering the country.

“F*** it, I just booked a flight to Australia. See you somewhere there on 2/6. I’ll stay a while, see some sights,” he wrote.

When told he’d never get through customs, Valizadeh wrote: “I’ll just take a private boat to Darwin from Indonesia or East Timor. I’ll find a way to enter. I won’t be stopped.”

The controversial pick-up artist and author of books including Bang Iceland, Bang Colombia and Poosy Paradise is planning on hosting meetings for followers in Australian capital cities later this month.

Planned are three events in Sydney and one each in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

The meetings are likely to incorporate the group’s core messages that rape on private property should be legal and women with eating disorders make ideal girlfriends.

It appears he also wants to spend some time getting to know Australian women, or “girls”.

“To all attractive Australian girls in age range 18-22. I’m coming to your country and am free to meet for drinks,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday night.

Worldwide anger building against social happy hour for men, mostly in England, Australia, and New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/QX71DIQhFs

— Roosh (@rooshv) February 1, 2016

Australians are having none of it. A petition calling for Valizadeh to be banned from holding meetings with Australian supporters had been signed more than 21,000 times on Tuesday morning.

“This man is advocating terrorism against women. This type of medieval thinking should not be tolerated in today’s world and certainly not a progressive country like Australia,” Dan Hui Wang wrote beneath the petition.

“This pathetic excuse for a man needs to be locked up on the basis of what he advocates - long before any ‘legal’ rapes take place,” Melinda Jensen wrote.

“This idiot is dangerous and has no place in civilised society,” Sarah Coad added.

Online, a number of high profile Australians have added their voice to the conversation. Australia’s former sex discrimination commissioner wrote that the views espoused by Return of Kings “are deeply offensive and have no place in Australia”.

Author Melinda Tankard Reist wrote that Return of Kings is the “KKK of misogyny”.

Victorian Police have confirmed they are looking into the Melbourne meeting but the group’s leader says he won’t be dissuaded.

To all attractive Australian girls in age range of 18-22. I'm coming to your country and am free to meet for drinks. Email [e-mail].

— Roosh (@rooshv) February 1, 2016

In the lead up to the meetings, Valizadeh implored members to “come out of the shadows and not hide behind a computer screen for fear of retaliation”.

“Up to now, the enemy has been able to exert their power by isolating us and attacking with shrieking mobs, but we’ll be able to neutralise that tactic by amassing in high numbers come February 6,” Valizadeh wrote.

“Let the sixth of February be a clear signal to all that we’re not going anywhere. We have finally arrived.”

Valizadeh and his supporters describe themselves as “neomasculinists”. They also believe movements like socialism and feminism destroy the family unit, decrease the fertility rate and impoverish the state.

They are against the “elimination of traditional sex roles and the promotion of unlimited mating choice in women (because it) unleashes their promiscuity and other negative behaviours that block family formation”.

As well as thinking rape should be legal if done on private property and advocating for dating girls with eating disorders, other beliefs include women should not have the right to vote, females should be treated like “disposable razors”, the “transgender movement” is a “horror story” and fat people are “a threat to the planet”.

Fuck it, I just booked a flight to Australia. See you somewhere there on 2/6. I'll stay a while, see some sights. pic.twitter.com/d9CTFG1nqd

— Roosh (@rooshv) February 1, 2016

Men attending the Return of Kings meet-ups must ask a specific secret question before they are taken to a bar where the official event will take place.

Valizadeh instructs his supporters that if a “pretty girl shows up and begs to be a fly in the wall”, to just get her number and “tell her to buzz off”.

It’s not the first time a so-called “pick-up artist” has been met with opposition upon trying to spread their messages in Australia. US-based Julien Blanc cut short his Australian tour in November, 2014, after his visa was cancelled.

Then immigration minister Scott Morrison said Blanc’s visa was cancelled because he was “putting forward abuse”.

“The matter was raised with us and we had it investigated and this fellow looked at,” Mr Morrison said.

“This guy wasn’t putting forward political ideas, he was putting forward abuse that was derogatory to women and that’s just something, those are values abhorred in this country.”

New Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been asked to follow suit, but there’s not yet been any word from his department.

News.com.au has approached Valizadeh for comment.

I love how I can trigger entire countries and get women clutching their pearls without stepping foot inside them. pic.twitter.com/jI4klcwfNT

— Roosh (@rooshv) February 1, 2016