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Delving deeper into her experiences, the survivor highlighted a disturbing pattern: her abuse was colored by the perpetrator's racial and religious prejudices. She endured slurs linked to her being white, as her abuser took advantage of his twisted interpretation of religious and cultural ideals coupled with deep-seated racial hatred.
"They were always calling me a 'white slag'… The references to my whiteness were always at the forefront of my perpetrator's mind," she explained. This intertwining of race and religion not only signified the attacker’s motivations but also served to normalize and justify the violence against her in his eyes.