[fuser]

but it seems there is more of the view that a woman is "asking for it" for simple things like going out on their own or out at dark or wearing clothing that isn't a burka.

Yeah, there tend to be many people in conservative societies with that sort of thinking. As India is too big, you can't generalize the whole country. For example Haryana is more of a Patriarchal Dystopia where you will find many with these sort of view whereas Kerla is a liberal paradise where you will find hardly any.

It's unfortunate that the media attention given to the "rape epidemic" in India almost always ignores the fact that a huge contributing factor is Islam and Moslems. Sort of like how unmarried urban young-ish black males carry out a hugely disproportionate number of murders (and other violent crimes) in America when contrasted with their proportion of the total population, the same is true more Moslem rapists in India.

What? Wrong on every count. Religion has nothing to do with it, the perpetrators in this case were not Muslims. Why every second thread has to be about Muslims?
Neither there is some sort of "rape epidemic". Its just another bullshit soundbite nothing more. There has been no upsurge of any kind in these cases neither statistically India stands out or anything like that. Of course she is worst than developed countries in these and other social indicators but one should expect that.