BBC Avoids 'Muslim Gang Kidnap and Rape'

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This article appears today in the Daily Mail, you can see from the headline and first passages exactly what the story is about.

Muslim gang jailed for kidnapping and raping two girls as part of their Eid celebrations

Searching the BBC website just now to see if they had anything on it yet, I was unsurprised to see that they hadn't, but on the sidebar under 'Elsewhere on the web' they did link to this article from The Times of India, of all places.
UK men who abducted, raped 2 minor girls laughed while being sentenced

Now why do you think would they link to an article from India, of all places, that specifies 'UK men' as opposed to our very own Daily Mail?

Perhaps specifying 'UK men' for Times of India is indicative of their bias, but it sure works for the BBC.

Wonder how they'll be wording their own article when if and when they ever get around to it. My guess is more along the lines of the Times of India than the Mail.

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By way of contrast, another article appears today in The Times of India

100,000 women undergo genital mutilation in Britain
But nothing on it by the BBC to show the numerous incidents of this barbaric practice here.

A few days ago I posted about John Humphreys being sent to Liberia to give a daily account of life there.

In one of his reports titled What's Holding Back Liberia? he tells us

It's not only the war that holds this country back, it's riddled with secret societies each with its own leader called a devil who's known only to the members.
They've exercised real power for centuries and it's a touchy subject in Liberia with many encourage bizarre and cruel traditional practises including female genital mutilation.

Clearly the BBC are aware that it might spoil their 'multicultural' narrative for this country to show the 'bizarre and cruel traditional practices' that go along with it.

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While the following article is not aimed specifically at the BBC, it does highlight the inherent dangers of their 'PC' Muslim appeasing narrative, where innocent people continue to be victims of Muslims because the BBC fails to identify the threat to our society by their beliefs and practices.

Rochdale grooming trial: Police accused of failing to investigate paedophile gang for fear of appearing racist
Police and social workers were last night accused of failing to investigate an Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, allowing them to prey on up to 50 young white girls.

The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex.

However, the true number of victims, who were "passed around" by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted.

Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have now apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim - Girl A - to trial following her cry for help in August 2008.

One 13 year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being called racist", former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said.

Mrs Cryer, who has campaigned to bring the issue of Asian sex gangs to light, said the girls had been "betrayed" and condemned to "untold misery" by the police and social services.

"This is an absolute scandal. They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness," she said.

"They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in dealing with the issues in front of them."

Girl A told police that she had been raped and provided DNA evidence from her attacker, however the CPS twice decided not to prosecute him.

The 15 year-old's abuse continued and at its height she was being driven to flats and houses to be raped by up to five men a night, four or five days a week. She was singled out because she was white, vulnerable and under-age.

Her ordeal only ended when her teachers forced social workers to intervene after she fell pregnant and they became concerned by the number of Asian men picking her up from school.

Girl A said that in a six-hour interview she gave police details about her abusers and where the attacks took place. Crucially, too, she handed officers underwear that proved she had been raped by two men in a single attack.

"I hoped they were going to do something and it would stop," she said.

"But it just carried on. It just started again with different men and more men this time, and that's when it started becoming up to five men a day".

Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons were yesterday found guilty of running a child exploitation ring at Liverpool Crown Court.

Greater Manchester Police is now being investigated by the IPCC over the failings of its first investigation in 2008.

When GMP did finally pass a file on Girls A's rape to the CPS the following year, a Crown lawyer decided not to charge anyone because he said she would not be a sufficiently credible witness to put before a jury. A second CPS lawyer backed that opinion.

It was only after social workers notice an upsurge in cases of child grooming that police reinvestigated and made a series of arrests which led to yesterday's convictions.

It can be reported that the trial was delayed by two weeks when two Asian barristers quit the case due to intimidation by far right groups outside Liverpool Crown Court.

And a tweet from BNP leader Nick Griffin almost caused the trial to collapse when it led to allegations of the jury having a "far-right bias".

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood acknowledged that officers could have dealt with the case "better than we did".

But he denied that the girl's complaints had been "brushed under the carpet" because officers were reluctant to confront the issue of race.

"At the time we did what we thought was best," he said. "We have learned a lot of lessons.

"The issue here is genuinely about vulnerability. It just happens that they are Asian men. In no way did we sweep it under the carpet."

Steve Garner, head of children's services at Rochdale Council, denied the teenager had been let down by his department.

"No," he said. "I think it's really important to remember that what we know now and what we knew in 2008 is very, very different and what we have done is put the lessons in place".

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said: "What's become clear is that if police had acted seriously on these concerns in 2008 many of the victims of this appalling case would not have had to go through such horrific trauma.

"It is simply unacceptable that these young women were let down in this way by people they should have been able to trust."

Jihad Watch has more to add on the subject.

UK: Muslim forced prostitution gang found guilty

The Daily Mail is as clueless as ever, but despite the defendants' protestations, this was not actually a racial issue at all. These men were enjoying the sex slaves allowed by the Qur'an (men may enjoy "what your right hands own," 4:3) and Islamic law from among unbelieving women.

"Grooming gang found GUILTY: Nine men shared girls aged 13 to 15 for sex and raped one up to twenty times a day," by Graham Smith and Damien Gayle for the Daily Mail, May 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Nine men were today found guilty of grooming and passing round vulnerable white schoolgirls aged between 13 and 15 for sex after plying them with alcohol and drugs.

Five girls were 'shared' by Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons.

The ten-week trial was told that the men - who are all from Pakistan, some from the same village, apart from Safi who is from Afghanistan - groomed the teenage girls because they were vulnerable and from broken homes,

The jury of three men and nine women heard that the defendants plied the girls, some as young as 13, with fast food, drink and drugs so they could 'pass them around' and use them for sex.

The victims were picked up from 'honeypot locations' where teenagers congregate, such as outside takeaway restaurants, and were then taken to 'chill houses' around the north of England for sex.

One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted.

Another gave evidence of being raped by two men while she was 'so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed'.

The court heard that some of the girls were raped and physically assaulted and some were forced to have sex with 'several men in a day, several times a week'.

Police said one victim was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night when she was drunk.

Detectives said she could 'barely recount the events' but her friend was downstairs and remembers 'innumerable men' going upstairs.

The leader of the Ramadhan Foundation has accused Pakistani community elders of 'burying their heads in the sand' on the issue of on-street grooming.

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the group, said police should not let the 'issue of race' stop them from addressing the issue.

The Ramadhan Foundation is a Manchester-based moderate Muslim youth group that works for 'peaceful co-existence and dialogue for all communities'.

Mr Shafiq said: 'There is a significant problem for the British Pakistani community, there is an over-representation amongst recent convictions in the crime of on-street grooming, there should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central to the actions of these criminals.

'They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community....

Not "white," actually, but "non-Muslim."

'I urge the police and the councils not to be frightened to address this issue, there is a strong lesson that you cannot ignore race or be over sensitive.'

He added: 'I have been overwhelmed by the support the Ramadhan Foundation has been given by young people for our campaign on child grooming but concerned that community elders are once again burying their heads in the sand, this concerns us all and we must speak out.

'The community elders need to learn from the reaction of young people and reject any attempt to silence the reaction from our community.'

Threat noted.

He said the police would need to 'reflect on their failures' in this case.

'Finally the far-Right and fascist movements are not welcome to Rochdale, we reject their division and hatred and it has no place in a tolerant and diverse society.

'We will learn lessons from this case but not allow outsiders to divide us,' Mr Shafiq added.

But Asian Labour MP Keith Vaz warned that blaming a particular race or religion for grooming young girls for sex risks opening up a Pandora's box over race relations.

Mr Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said the root causes of the criminality against young girls needs to be addressed and the focus taken off the ethnic origin, religion or geographical location of those involved.

Mr Shafiq also today paid tribute to the bravery of the victims. 'Without their contribution justice would not have been possible,' he said.

'Today's guilty verdicts are to be welcomed and I hope the message goes out that if you engage in these crimes, you will be caught and brought to justice.

'These criminals have brought shame on themselves, their families and our community.'

The gang used a 15-year-old white girl they nicknamed 'The Honey Monster' as their recruiter.

She became the girlfriend of one of the gang and often plied the victims with alcohol, food and money. The court heard that she sometimes had sex with one man while another raped a girl in the same room

The 59-year-old man was found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16, two counts of rape, aiding and abetting a rape, one count of sexual assault and an allegation of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation....

Taxi driver Abdul Aziz, 41, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation. He was found not guilty of two counts of rape. Kabeer Hassan, 25, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, was found guilty of conspiracy and rape.

Adil Khan, 42, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation. Abdul Rauf, 43, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Mohammed Sajid, 35, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy, trafficking, one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child. Abdul Qayyum, 44, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy.

Mohammed Amin, 45, of Rochdale, was found guilty of conspiracy and sexual assault. Hamid Safi, 22, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking but not guilty of two counts of rape.

Liaquat Shah, 41, of Rochdale, was cleared sexual assault by the jury and was cleared of conspiracy after the jury was unable to agree a verdict and the prosecution offered no further evidence. Qamar Shahzad, 30, of Rochdale, was found not guilty of conspiracy.

A spokesman for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre said child sexual exploitation spanned 'all cultures and ethnicities'.

Yeah, these guys are Methodists, Presbyterians, Buddhists...

But she added: 'These cases do highlight that Asian males have been involved in an organised manner in exploiting young women....

Nice of you to grant, but if you really don't want this to happen again, you should be warning the Muslim community that they must take action against the beliefs that lead to it, or non-Muslims will make sure that this is done.

A victim of the ring said she was 'let down' by police and the Crown Prosecution Service because the issue of Asian gangs grooming young white girls was 'unheard of' at the time.

The girl, who was 15 when she was targeted by the gang, reported the abuse to police in August 2008 but the CPS decided not to prosecute because they did not believe a jury would find her 'credible'.

After reporting the abuse she suffered for four more months at the hands of the gang and continued to be forced into having sex by her 'friend' - a teenage girl who was acting as a pimp for the men.

She said the problem got 'worse' after telling the police.

'I felt let down. But I know that they (police) believed me... but... because they said to me at the end that something should have been done but the CPS just would not - what's the word? - prosecute is it?

'It's like, then, in 2008 it weren't really heard of... Asian men with white girls.

'It was just unheard of. I've never heard of it. Now it's going on everywhere. You think of Muslim men as religious and family-minded and just nice people. You don't think... I don't know... you just don't think they'd do things like that.'

The girl, now 20, only escaped the gang in December 2008 when she fell pregnant and moved away. She was then made to wait until August 2009 for the CPS to tell her they were not taking the case to trial.

Today, she called the men who abused her 'evil' and said she hopes they pay for their crimes. 'They ripped away all my dignity and all my last bit of self-esteem and by the end of it I had no emotion whatsoever because I was used to being used and abused daily,' she said.

'It was just blocked out, it was just like it wasn't me any more. They just took everything away and I just think hopefully they'll pay for what they've done.'

In 2011, CEOP conducted research where a number of police forces identified cases within their areas. These included men from all ethnic backgrounds - white British, British Pakistani, British Kurds, British Turks, Somalian and others.

'In one case it is known that the first contact had been by a white British male who groomed the girls as girlfriends and then passed them on to an Asian gang,' the spokesman said. 'We therefore feel it is important that we do not focus solely on one ethnic minority in case the groomer is part of a multi-racial group.'

CEOP said there has been evidence that recent cases of group-related child sexual exploitation have been perpetrated by of Asian or black offenders. The spokesman added: 'There may be many reasons for this, including the locations of the crime, the type and timing of the crime.'

No figures have yet been published to highlight whether this is a wider issue.

CEOP's spokesman said: 'It may seem to the public that there are a lot of stories in the media at present focusing on cases involving predominantly Asian groups exploiting white young women.'

She said it was 'important to recognise that these are not the only child exploitation cases in the UK at present', adding: 'If you focus too much on one particular type of offending you may miss sexual exploitation elsewhere.'...

Then, on hearing that the jury was about to return some unanimous verdicts, the 59-year-old ring leader stood up and shouted at the judge: 'I don’t want this biased jury. You are a biased judge. You are a racist bastard. You bastard!'

He was restrained by security staff and forcibly removed from the dock. Adil Khan also stood up and said: 'I don’t want to attend for BNP jury,' and he also left the dock.

On Friday afternoon the 59-year-old was allowed back into court only to be restrained again after a complaint was made about him by a jury member. He shouted: 'They are all racist b******s!'

Judge Clifton ordered him to be taken down and he shouted again: 'You racist judge. You racist jury. You lying b******s!'

One female juror was visibly upset by the outburst and Judge Clifton barred the defendant from coming back into court for the rest of the trial. He said: 'I’m not having members of this jury intimidated or threatened.'...

But the 59-year-old defendant protested from the dock. He said it was a 'very poor jury' adding: 'There are not any black faces on there. Only white people.'

He said: 'No black people. No Chinese people, no Asians. Only white people trying this. Surely there must be more blacks?' However, there was only one non-white person on the panel of 30 people from which the jury was selected and the trial continued....

The Daily Mail -- to say nothing of the judge -- should have called him out on this race-baiting. But that would have entailed getting into Islam, and no British judge would dare do that.

Perhaps because of the 'must avoid identifying Muslims in negative stories' attitude of the BBC they do mention at last in thier latest article that these men are originally from Pakistan, with one from Afghanistan. Still no direct Muslim connection though it's easy enough to deduce, but still won't appear on any search of the BBC website.

Rochdale grooming trial: Nine men jailed

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Ed West in the Telegraph makes a similar observation and notes the BBC and Guardian avoidance of stating the obvious.

Why liberals turned a blind eye to the 'grooming' of girls
By Ed West Politics Last updated: May 9th, 2012


To understand how a modern liberal will come down on any complicated issue, simply look for a victim. It’s been the case in every major battle of the last 50 years, and it’s an almost infallible guide to Leftist thinking.
The conviction yesterday of nine men in Rochdale on “grooming” charges, a rather gentle word for the sexual abuse of children, is a classic example. Almost immediately the Guardian produced a comment piece vigorously playing down any racial element. Sunny Hundal made the same point, even while linking to a criminal justice report which seemed to suggest the opposite. The BBC this morning went out of its way to deny there was a cultural element to this phenomenon.

Yet if the overwhelming majority of perpetrators of a particular type of crime come from one ethnic group, we can say that this crime has a racial or cultural element; if the vast majority of their victims come from another group, definitely so. To deny this seems bizarre. As Norman Dennis once wrote: “One of the unintended effects of teaching statistics to students in social-affairs departments is that a historically unprecedented large number of people have been equipped with the tools that enable them to dismiss out of hand all figures but those they want to believe.”
Yet despite several prominent Pakistani-Britons saying as such, the liberal media still see their primary job as dismissing these figures in order to defend their favoured victims.

It was different a century ago. As the Leveson report intensifies, it’s worth recalling that investigative journalism began with a child prostitution scandal, which led to the age of consent being raised to 16. Such outrages were eliminated by sturdy Christian feminists who hated the sex trade but saw that a human being could be both sinner and victim; yet such atrocities were to return to British soil in the 21st century.

That this has been allowed to happen can be partly explained by the victimisation of politics from the 1960s. The two great liberal reforms of that period, in attitudes to nationality and sex, both came about because of how certain people were perceived as victims: immigrants the victims of white racism, and young working-class girls the victims of male hypocrisy. In the latter case this influenced the Abortion Act, the change in housing rules that gave preference to lone parents, and the move away from moralistic approaches to sex towards safe-sex teaching.

Whatever the noble intentions, in practice this has not been a success: there are now 80,000 children in care, about four times as many in “chaotic” homes and, as these grooming cases showed, very large numbers of vulnerable young girls available for sexually exploitation. Yet the authorities, so desperate to turn away from any sort of moral judgment, even officially sanction children being sexually active.

At the same time as sexual attitudes were changing, Britain was experiencing the arrival of large numbers of people from countries with conservative ideas about sexuality. The theory behind free movement was that people around the world were interchangeable and that, once exposed to British air, people would adopt British attitudes and world views. But that doesn't necessarily happen, especially when a society is in its decadent stage; and history tells us that where barbarism and decadence clash, women are going to get hurt. Because the anti-racism movement became the core of the liberal conscience, when stories of sexual harassment and more began to filter down no one wanted to know, Nazir Afzal being one of the exceptions.

That this was ignored, that the police were weary of investigating, and that the media’s initial reaction is to worry about racism rather than the thousands of young girls who are in a similar situation, is testimony to the power of victim politics.

It’s why modern liberals can end up justifying some of the most bizarre, illogical, illiberal or morally repulsive situations, from the actions of Palestinian Islamists, late-term abortion, hate speech laws or the ban on mixed-race adoption. All of these came about because of the need to help an identified victim.

And it’s why, over a century after the scandal was first exposed, we turn a blind eye to the sickening return of organised child rape to these shores.

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The hypocrisy of the BBC is very evident if you were to do a search on their website for 'Catholic Church'. Nearly every article that will be shown has a reference to child abuse. Without a doubt the paedophile actions of some of the adherents of that faith is not indicative of the majority, and there is nothing in the scriptures that exhort its followers to commit such a practice.

So why when those of the Muslim religion commit a similar crime isn't the same association made. particularly where there are phrases in the Koran that make it acceptable?

Let's talk about this
DOUGLAS MURRAY 12:42pm
What a strange place Britain has become. You sometimes need some time away to realise quite how strange. Take yesterday’s main story: the latest paedophile rape-gang case from the north of England. The judge in the trial told the men, during sentencing, that they had selected their victims ‘because they were not part of your community or religion’.

But that is the sort of fact which causes the most terrible contortions in modern Britain. The perpetrators were all Muslim men of Pakistani origin and the victims all underage, white girls. We know exactly how we should think, how loud would be our proclamations and our desire to analyse the ‘root-causes’ were this situation reversed. But this way round? Gulp.

First there is the official attempt — in this case originating from the police — to avoid dealing with the issue at all. But once the facts did come out, the second reaction kicks in: politicians and media swiftly determine what the parameters of discussion should be.

So yesterday morning we had Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, saying on the Today programme, ‘I do not believe it is a race issue.’ Fine. So is it then a religious issue? So far I have been able to find no comment whatsoever about this. Since no meaningful analysis of the causes behind the crime occurred (a situation that might not have been the case had the perpetrators been white Christians), this morning’s Times went the other way. Marring an otherwise typically brilliant piece by Andrew Norfolk, the paper’s front-page headline-writers tried to claim the guilty men were in fact all of us. The headline: ‘A nation’s shame.’



Taking a leap and assuming that most of my readers are not involved in gang-organised child-rape, how much of that shame do you feel like shouldering? Does a family of four have more shame to shoulder than a childless couple? Are singletons more to blame, or proportionately less-so? Incapable of drawing any lines where they should be drawn, our society appears to have become expert at either failing to discern lines altogether or drawing them so wide that they become meaningless.

Of course there is the problem of how certain people might react to a case like this. Of course the racists of the BNP tried to use the situation to stem their own declining popularity. And of course (though it shouldn’t need to be said I’ll say it anyway) the vast majority of Pakistanis and Muslims would abhor these criminals as much as everybody else. But why should a pre-emptive fear of how some predictable thugs will react to the case mean that you don’t address the issue at all? It is all rather reminiscent of the aftermath of the Toulouse shootings in France. There too everyone was more than content to analyse the ‘root-causes’ when it seemed that the killer might be a ‘far-right’ extremist. But when it turned out to be a young man called Mohammed Merah? Nothing to see here. Please move along.

It should go without saying that facts can be misused by bad people in bad ways. But to respond to that by ignoring facts is not just a recipe for making the initial problem worse, but a sure-fire way to make the reaction worse as well.

We have got stuck in a desperate situation. Pathological people are often said to lack the ability to analyse their own actions as they can those of other people. Much of Britain has developed a curious flip version of this. Narcissistically intent on analysing our own supposed failings — particularly our allegedly unending racism, intolerance and bigotry — we appear to have completely lost the ability to analyse, or even interest ourselves in, the actions of anybody else. The Rochdale case is not representative of all Muslims. And it’s not representative of all Pakistanis. But it is representative of something. Isn’t it?

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Melanie Phillips does a brilliant opinion piece on this issue in the Daily Mail.

The BBC meanwhile continues to follow their same (see no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil - where Islam is concerned) path, learning nothing from what has been said since the first 9 above were sentenced, and that there is a strong Muslim element involved in these crimes. A new story about another gang doing the same - and again with no reference to the Muslim background of these foul beings.
Rochdale grooming: More child sex arrests

The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain's 'Islamophobia' witch-hunt

By Melanie Phillips

So now we can see the outcome of the witch-hunt against ‘Islamophobia’.

With the conviction of nine men for organised sexual crimes from rape to sex trafficking, the full horrific details of more than two decades of sexual violence against young, predominantly white girls living in children’s homes in the north of England have been revealed.

The gang lured an officially estimated 47 girls (the figure may well be higher) aged 12 to 16 with gifts, alcohol and drugs before passing them around to have sex ‘with several men a day, several times a week’ in flats, houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops.

After phone calls inviting them to come and have sex with a girl, men would turn up to do so by the taxi-load. One 13 year-old was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.

Terrible as all this is in itself, there is far worse. For this monstrous abuse could all have been stopped years ago. The authorities had evidence this was going on as long ago as 1991.

The question immediately arises: how on earth could a blind eye have been turned to all this by the social services departments under whose care these girls were living, as well as by the police to whom they went for help?

The answer is as clear as it is devastating. For these men were all Muslims: eight of them of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan. Early last year, the Times reported that 50 of the 56 men convicted in 17 street-grooming prosecutions from 13 northern towns and cities were Muslim. Identifying this particular behaviour meant identifying the particular community in these northern towns where it was being committed. And what paralysed these authorities was that, in politically correct Britain, no criticism is allowed to be made of religious or ethnic identities. The authorities could not allow themselves even to think there was a problem with any minority community. So they pretended the problem was not what it actually was. And so the child rape industry proceeded with repeated failures to prosecute.

Exactly the same paralysis of the mind is on display in the reaction today to these atrocious and horrifying disclosures. The word Muslim is simply absent from much of the coverage. The men are described as Asian or Pakistani. But this cowardly euphemism wrongly implicates communities that have nothing whatever to do with such terrible crimes. They don’t involve Pakistani Christians or Pakistani Hindus; they don’t involve Chinese or Malaysians, Sri Lankans or Thais.

While it is the case that in general the overwhelming majority of sex crimes against girls are committed by white men, this particular phenomenon of street gangs in northern towns targeting white girls and passing them around for sex is disproportionately committed by Muslims.

The police maintain doggedly that this has nothing to do with race. What a red herring. Of course it doesn’t! This is about religion and culture - an unwesternised Islamic culture which holds that non-Muslims are trash and women are worthless. And so white girls are worthless trash. Which is itself of course a race issue.

The Times reports:

‘Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for northwest England, said that “imported cultural baggage” played a role in the crimes but what defined the convicted men was their attitude to women. They think that women are some lesser being. The availability of vulnerable young white girls is what has drawn the men to them.

‘... A care professional close to the case said it would be misleading to suggest that group sex grooming involved only men of Pakistani heritage, but “on such a large scale the only investigations I know about have involved Asians”. The worker said: “We can’t say they haven’t got an issue within their community because we’ve now had so many cases. What no one is going to say publicly is that some of them may regard and treat white girls in a totally different way to their own girls.”’

Another person, described only as ‘a professional of Pakistani heritage, said that

‘conduct unthinkable with Muslim girls became “acceptable” with “corrupted” white girls. ‘

And Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, has said:

‘... we need the entire Pakistani community to speak out against such crimes and to disown the actions of the men who believe that teenage white girls are worthless and can be abused.’

Now look at how the authorities reacted. As the Times reports:

‘In 1991, nine girls from three homes in Bradford fell victim to pimps who collected them from their home each evening, took them to be used for sex in houses, flats and guest houses, then returned them to the care of residential staff in the early hours of the morning. The local authority ordered an inquiry but did not reveal that the men were all of Pakistani heritage.

‘In 2006 a specialist child protection team was formed in Manchester because the city, according to its former children’s services director, had clear evidence of “targeted sexual exploitation of girls in children’s homes”. It was a stark admission, but again the shared ethnicity of most of the men was not identified.’

As for the police, they refused to take seriously the first girl who came forward in 2008 to say a gang of men had repeatedly raped her on successive days – with the result she was sent right back into the hands of her abusers.

The Telegraph reports that in the four months after she spoke to the police, she was driven to a succession of sordid flats and houses where she would be raped by up to five men each night, four or five days a week.

In the case of this girl, it’s possible that her story was dismissed on the grounds that as a child in care she was not a credible witness – itself a pretty damning indictment of official attitudes. But the overwhelming reason for the failure for two decades to take the appropriate action to halt this systematic abuse was undoubtedly that when it comes to matters to do with minorities or Islam, the British mind simply switches off.

Like a mantra, people brainlessly intone ‘Islamophobia’, ’racism’ or ‘BNP’. But the BNP, which really is racist and hates all who are not white Anglo-Saxons, has been able to make huge inroads on account of this issue precisely because the rest of society refuses to talk about it. Self-censorship has been an absolute gift to such true bigots by enabling them to pose heroically as the otherwise suppressed voice of the people. So decency has been doubly abandoned – first by ignoring the plight of these poor girls, and second by giving a boost to the BNP.

For their part, the police deny they were paralysed by fear of treading on ‘cultural sensibilities’. But one former Labour MP has no doubt at all that this was indeed the case. The Telegraph reports:

‘Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being called racist", former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said. Mrs Cryer, who has campaigned to bring the issue of Asian sex gangs to light, said the girls had been "betrayed" and condemned to "untold misery" by the police and social services."This is an absolute scandal. They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness," she said.’

And that scandal continues even today. On the Today programme this morning, presenter John Humphrys laid out the tendentious parameters of the whole discussion when he said the concern was that the perpetrators were all Asian – but that concern played into the hands of the BNP. A veritable cascade of euphemisms, evasions and category errors duly followed.

Martin Narey, former head of the prison service and the children’s charity Barnardo’s, said while sex offenders in general were mainly white, there was ‘troubling evidence’ that Asians were ‘overwhelmingly represented ‘when it came to the street gangs grooming and trafficking girls in northern towns. Brave of him to say that in this oppressive climate - but again - oh dear - ‘Asian’? No!

Earlier on the show the Deputy Children’s ‘Commissioner Sue Berelowitz dismissed the idea that this behaviour was particular to any one community, saying that ‘sexual exploitation is happening over every single racial and ethnic group’. Well, in itself true enough; but in this context surely deeply disingenuous. For this particular phenomenon of targeting young white girls and passing them round for sex among dozens if not hundreds of men is overwhelmingly perpetrated by Pakistani Muslim men.

Then there was Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, who disgracefully tried to yoke concern about the community implications of this crime to the BNP prejudice against all Asians. Vaz huffed and puffed that it was quite wrong to stigmatise an entire community because of a few men in this case who deserved to be prosecuted. Well first of all, it is clear from the evidence in this trial that this problem goes far beyond the nine men who were convicted yesterday. These girls report being passed around dozens if not hundreds of men, all apparently from the same community, but whom the police have failed to identify.

And second, this absurd argument is used time and again to stifle all discussion about ethnic or religious minority issues. No-one is saying that all Pakistanis or all Muslim men are guilty of this kind of abuse. Indeed, how could the expressed concern possibly ‘stigmatise an entire community’ when the chief crown prosecutor in the north west Nazir Afzal, who took the rare step of reinstating the prosecution of two of the perpetrators thus overturning the previous disgraceful decision to drop it, is himself of Pakistani origin although British born?

Of course, many Muslims will be aghast and revolted by the behaviour of these men. But the fact that Muslims are disproportionately represented among the perpetrators of this particular crime means inescapably that a cultural Muslim issue is involved. If this is not acknowledged, this terrible pattern of abuse will simply continue. And those who shriek ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobe’ at all who point this out in order to stifle proper debate thus make themselves also complicit in these outrages.

A Muslim community disproportionately involved in criminal behaviour targeted at non-Islamic people but which refuses to acknowledge any communal responsibility and claims instead to be the victim of a conspiracy; a society that refuses to acknowledge the religious and cultural wellspring of that behaviour and which condemns instead those who express concern about its consequences; where have we heard all this before? Whether in response to threats to life and liberty from within or without, Britain is still sleepwalking off the edge of a cliff.

[thehighlandrebel]

Well done Melanie.

A voice for the voiceless.

[Teddy Bear]

To her credit, Baroness Warsi has come out and stated in an interview with the Evening Standard "a small minority of Pakistani men see white women as "third-class citizens" and "fair game". Lady Warsi said she decided to speak out after her Pakistan-born father urged her: “Sayeeda, uniquely, you are in a position to show leadership on this issue.”

Now when I first saw the report of this story in the Telegraph I was wondering if the BBC were going to cover it. They have, but with one omission in the entire story - they don't use the word Muslim anywhere.

This is not to say that one can't deduce the fact that it refers to the Muslim community, but given that Baroness Warsi is Britain’s most senior Muslim politician, for her to speak out on the clear 'racial' aspect of this incident is certainly relevant.

So why do they omit using the word?
So it doesn't appear in any search of the BBC website in relation to this 'negative' story concerning Muslims. However, earlier this year, when she stated "Britain is under threat from a rising tide of 'militant secularisation'".
In this article the BBC mention her religion twice
'The Muslim peer said Europe needed to become "more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity".'
and
'Baroness Warsi, who is Britain's first female Muslim cabinet minister, went on to write: "You cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes."'

[thehighlandrebel]

Why does the beeb keep calling the 'victims' in Bosnia 'Muslims' instead of Europeans just like Pakistani paedophiles are termed Asian?

[Teddy Bear]

Just that one example shows the agenda of the BBC as clear as day. Let's hope that because the latter story will have touched many peoples lives here, they will start waking up to what is being done by the Beeb.