Excerpting Louise Perry in “The Rotherham cover-up” (The Spectator):
When I use the word ‘Rotherham’, I am talking about the rape and sexual torture of thousands of underage girls in Britain over many decades by Muslim men from the Middle East, East Africa, and South Asia (predominantly Pakistan). The men targeted these girls because they were white and non-Muslim. Authorities failed to investigate the crimes for fear of being called racist. There is no disputing the fact that the motivation for the crimes was – and is – explicitly anti-white. Many of the perpetrators have said as much in both court testimony and police interviews.
‘Rotherham’ has become a catch-all for sex crimes that took place across the UK, not just in the town of Rotherham. The journalist Charlie Peters has described this as the biggest race hate scandal in 21st century Britain, having identified at least 50 places in the UK in which these gangs have operated, and are continuing to operate. Notable among these is Oxford, a city in which predominantly Pakistani areas in the east abut predominately poor white areas at the very edge. Excerpts from the sentencing remarks relating to the 2013 conviction of members of an Oxford gang have been circulated on Twitter this week. They tell the stories of girls between the ages of 11 and 16 being anally raped, branded with their perpetrator’s initials, forcibly injected with heroin and trafficked across Britain to have sex with more men.
The authorities did not want to know. Not only did these crimes go uninvestigated, but victims and their families were frequently stonewalled or persecuted by the police. The father of one 15-year-old girl in Rotherham, whose attack had been so brutal she later needed surgery, was told by a police officer that the experience would ‘teach her a lesson’. Again and again, adults in positions of authority discovered what was going on, and yet decided that these underage girls were making their own decisions – that they were demonstrating agency – and so took no action. During this long period of failure, at least three victims were murdered: Laura Wilson (17), Lucy Lowe (16), and Charlene Downes (14).
It’s awful, I know. So awful that it’s tempting to dismiss it all as exaggeration, or even as a malicious invention by the far-right. When Suella Braverman announced the creation of a Grooming Gangs Taskforce in 2023 when she was home secretary, even so many decades after the problem first emerged, one Guardian writer accused her of inflaming ‘Islamophobic and xenophobic prejudice’. Dismissing all of this evidence as lies has been the preferred coping mechanism of the British elite – the people with no social connections to places like Rotherham, who are all eager to believe in the success of our multicultural project. The establishment did not want to know about ‘Rotherham’ – still does not want to know about ‘Rotherham’ – because it upsets that fantasy.
Horrific reading.
It seems that the establishment is still denying justice to the victims of grooming gangs. The Labour party has rejected calls for an Oldham grooming gang inquiry.
The institutional failures must be exposed and accounted for.
We should probably start by implementing some of the recommendations from any of the previous inquiries.
But, I think a good response from Labour would be along those lines & with a detailed exposition of which recommendations they are implementing and how long it would take in order to prevent this sort of thing happening.
Unfortunately, Jess Phillips seems to be saying that it is up to the Council to decide if there is an inquiry or not. That seems like a joke.
A parliamentary enquiry to address a national issue, surely?
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Update: I found a Channel 4 news piece on more grooming/sexual exploitation situ:
Yes, it is truly appalling how extensive misogyny and rape culture are among men of all descriptions, nationalities, races, religions, classes, etc., whether perpetrated individually or by organized criminal networks against both girls and women. Society needs to wake up and realize just how prevalent these attitudes and actions really are.
ReplyDeleteA strong response from the Labour party should include a detailed exposition of the recommendations they are implementing, along with a clear timeline for their implementation. This would demonstrate their commitment to addressing the issue and ensuring that justice is served for the victims
ReplyDeleteWhere were the parents ? On the couch with chips and beer, half drunk ? The UK is in many ways a strange country. A monarchy with an immense fortune , really decadent, hooligans .A snapper atmosphere . The only good thing the music and some really beautiful landscapes. This sexual abuse scandal happened under the Tories or am I wrong Lisette
ReplyDeleteHorrifying. In a just world all the police and officials who tried to obfuscate this and denied the victims justice would be fired, prosecuted, and publicly flogged. A police officer telling a rape victim's father that the crime would "teach her a lesson" is the kind of barbarity one would only expect to see in places like, well, Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteBut this is the kind of thing which is prone to happen when dogma becomes more important than objective reality. In this case, there's a dogma that all cultures are equally civilized and have equal merit, and that mass immigration of hugely culturally-different people simply cannot have serious destructive effects. Once that dogma is established, it becomes imperative to ignore and suppress all evidence to the contrary, and to intimidate into silence those who insist on calling attention to such evidence.
It should have been obvious all along that importing violent religious barbarians into a secular civilized low-crime country, where people are simply not mentally geared to deal with the behavior of the former, would result in disaster. But even that shouldn't have resulted in turning the police and politicians into accomplices to rape gangs.
The British Empire was not civilised. Slavery, raping and destroying local rituals .Civilisation doesn"t mean the laws of the western world. And most of our knowledge comes from Arab or Asian civilasations. And today? White Britains are not murders, do not abuse their women and children ? If I remember well the British nuns killed the babies of young not married girls who were placed in the institution and priests abused nuns, young boys and girls.. So before pointing on immigrants just say that humans can be very evil wherever they come from.
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Yep infidel.
DeleteNot all cultures treat women equally, or regard the sexual abuse of girls in the same way clearly.
And, there was a fear against being seen to call out the wrong cultures which would implicitly impune the government's siren call of multiculturalism.
In European countries every second day a woman is killed by her husband , partner or ex partner. White men. So just look at reality, never forget you who is so obsessed by Israel, that ultraorthodox jews will never walk on the same sideway as women and during the menstruation not sleep in the same bed with their wife and after women need to take a ritual bath to be clean . How do you call that ? Respect or discrimination ? You will never be on a woman 's place !
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The children were LAC children, i.e. Looked After Children, in the care of the local authority and living in childrens homes. Social Services owed them a duty of care.
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