Posted on 09/09/2014 2:24:07 AM PDT by servo1969
Last week, it was revealed that between 1997 and 2013, at least 1,400 girls -- in just one relatively small English city (Rotherham, population 275,000) had been raped by gangs of men over the past decade.
As summarized in a British government inquiry:
"It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators."
Why was nothing done for 16 years?
Police incompetence was a factor, but not the primary reason.
The primary reason was political correctness. It turns out that the perpetrators were all, or nearly all, of "Pakistani heritage" and the girls were all, or nearly all, white.
This explanation is not that of conservatives alone. Virtually everyone, including media and politicians on the British left, acknowledge that this is the reason. What neither they nor the American left have acknowledged is that political correctness was created and is sustained by the left.
It is a testament to the lack of self-awareness on the left that it experiences no cognitive dissonance. The New York Times and other left-wing media have thoroughly reported this story and the fact that political correctness is to blame for the ongoing atrocities against these girls. Yet they are oblivious to the fact that they are the very ones who created the moral monsters known as political correctness, multiculturalism and diversity -- the doctrines that forbid judging non-whites, Muslims and others by the same moral standards as whites and Christians.
These left-wing doctrines made 16 years of gang rapes of English girls possible.
In 2002, a Labor Party MP from nearby Keighley, Ann Cryer, complained to the police about "young Asian lads" raping girls in her constituency. In her words, she "was shunned by elements of her party." And note, that as is demanded by the left in the U.K., she didn't even mention that the rapists were Pakistani, lest Muslims be blamed for this evil. They were "Asian lads."
And, for the record, her attempts to get local imams to intervene with the men failed; she was called a racist.
National Review editor Rich Lowry reports that, "In a BBC documentary, the author of a 2002 report to the Rotherham council on the scandal said her work was quashed. When she noted that the perpetrators were from the Pakistani community, a colleague told her 'you must never refer to that again -- you must never refer to Asian men.' She was sent to diversity training and, by her account, nearly fired."
British Home Secretary Theresa May told Parliament that "institutionalized political correctness" was responsible for the lack of attention given to the mass rape.
In 2001, Jack Straw, then-MP from Brighton, and formerly U.K. home secretary, announced that "there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men ... who target vulnerable young white girls." Straw was dismissed by the left. For example, Keith Vaz, a Labour MP, told the BBC: "I disagree with Jack Straw ... I don't think you can stereotype an entire community."
The immediate case that prompted Straw's statement was the conviction of two Brits of Pakistani heritage on charges of rape. Multiculturalism and political correctness clearly infected the judge in that case. He "said he did not believe the crimes were 'racially aggravated,' adding that the race of the victims and their abusers was 'coincidental.'"
"Coincidental."
Lies are to political correctness, multiculturalism and diversity what water is to fish.
From the Guardian in 2001: "Retired detective chief superintendent Max McLean, who led a previous police investigation into sexual exploitation involving the grooming and trafficking of young girls in Leeds, questioned whether it was a cultural problem" (italics added).
Perhaps Detective Chief Superintendent is unaware of the following from his own country (as reported last week in the New York Times):
"The same [as in Rotherham] was true in recent prosecutions in Oxford, in southern England, and the northern towns of Oldham and Rochdale, where nine men of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghan origin were given long prison sentences in 2012 for abusing up to 47 girls. Investigators in Scotland have reportedly uncovered a similar pattern of abuse."
So why did the judge "question whether it was a cultural problem"?
Because morally judging cultures (except Christian, Israeli and American cultures) is forbidden by the left. Indeed not judging non-Western cultures is the very definition of "multiculturalism."
And finally, from the same report: Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of Muslim organization the Ramadhan Foundation, "to suggest that this is somehow ingrained in the community is deeply offensive."
"Offensive?" But what, Mr. Shafiq, if it's true?
The answer is clear and important. For the multicultural left and the victim-status groups it defends -- and for the millions of young people the Left has indoctrinated at schools and universities -- whether something is true is not what matters. What matters is whether it can be deemed offensive by the left.
Some 1,400 girls were raped by gangs of men -- "[While one girl was being raped] the rest of the men, all in their 20s, stood over her, cheering and jeering, and blinding her with the flash of their cameras" -- thanks to leftism's morality-denying doctrine of multiculturalism.
This is all but one more example of the most important moral rule since the beginning of the 20th century: Almost everything the left touches is either damaged or ruined.
In this case, it was the lives of 1,400 English girls.
Instead of the morning headline being, "Local girl assaulted by multiple unknown males", they would read,
"Two youths found dead in ditch"
...incompetence & political correctness - is what the enemy counts on....this is one level of the Islamic terror campaign - left unchecked - the number of victims will grow!
anyone who rapes a girl or a woman, or even now we are seeing men are being raped then they all deserve to rot in prison
A few years back this started to happen in Sydney with a few Muslim youth. Nobody, it seemed, wanted it to be so but luckily they were caught fairly early in the piece. Still there was a lot of resistance to calling them Lebanese let alone Muslim.
There out to be a Royal Commission in the UK to say why and how all those red flags were missed and was there any deliberate misdirection, political interference or covering up or whether it was the PC nonsense that kept it from being discovered. At a minimum jobs should be on the line! Maybe some people should be going to jail!
Be a white guy and try to hold a girl’s hand in college (in California) without getting the proper documentation signed and notarized by her - and you’re up before a board that will likely end your college hopes.
Be a “protected minority” and participate in the gang rape of 1400 young girls and those same people will not have time for you, as they continue to search for that one guy who might quote something out of the bible about gays.
The antidote for Political Correctness is to publicly flout it.
Where were all of these girls parents? Didn’t anyone question where the 12\14 year olds were?
“......then they all deserve to rot in prison.”
No, they belong rotting in the ground. Why should the tax payers be burdened with the rapists survival for numerous years? Kill them and be done with it. You rape, you die! End of story.
I’d add in the govt officials who ignored this.
From what I read, the girls were from public housing. Perhaps the parents were employed in one or two jobs and weren’t around? Apparently some parents complained and were ignored by social services. Racist! Don’t you know?
Instead of the morning headline being, "Local girl assaulted by multiple unknown males", they would read,
"Two youths found dead in ditch"
Yup. A few like that - left to be found (missing their offending body parts) by their "community" would send a clear message.
I suppose the Brits are too civilized for such things these days.
Guys on death row ... whether sooner or later ... die because they were/are evil and had/has been adjudicated as such.
NO one wants to murder someone, but IMO .. some humans should be dead and no longer active or an influence.
Just further proof that multiculturalism and political correctness are mental illnesses. All of this suffering by these young girls because the cowardly brainwashed police and bureaucrats didn’t want to be called racist.
Not having been raised in religious homes, I'm late to the Christian party and find myself especially intrigued by Biblical prophecy as a program to help explain the actors and the plot.
When reading this article or almost any headline these days, this quote from Ezekiel 28 really jumps out at me:
such is your skill in trading, your wealth has continued to increase, and with this your heart has grown more arrogant; since you consider yourself the equal of God, very well, I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most barbarous of the nations;That would explain it.
Not just PC or multiculturalism. But political agenda & corruption of ‘authorities’ in Yorkshire. The rapes (or some) were reported to members of the policeforce there but ignored. According to a recent article by The Telegraph newspaper, members of the police considered these girls ‘white trash’ & took no action, while Pakis just took advantage of inaction & continued to rape. This is another related article —http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11066244/Rotherham-is-not-an-isolated-incident.html — all in all it really begs the question why Britain, as an example of a Western country continues to allow easy immigration to add a major layer & dimension to Britain’s own social problems.
Leni
Some Rotherham Child Welfare official basically said these girls were asking for it if I read some comments right.
Someone at the UK Telegraph blogged about it:
“His statements are staggering. He begins by claiming race was not an issue in the targeting of victims. ?He argues that evidence suggests that victims were not targeted because they were white but because they were vulnerable and their vulnerability caused them to seek out ‘warmth, love, transport, mind-numbing substances, drugs, alcohol and food’,? Gentleman writes. This is factually wrong. The vast majority of sexual abusers select victims of the same ethnic origin. In Rotherham, the opposite happened. As the Jay report explicitly states, ?In a large number of the historic cases in particular, most of the victims in the cases we sampled were white British children, and the majority of the perpetrators were from minority ethnic communities.?”
In this case i reckon race did play a major role. Several yrs ago there was a similar case of gang rape in australia by a bunch of muslim youth & their victims were 2 white australian girls. The rapists were caught, put on trial & jailed. The girls were later interviewed. It was a fairly high profile case & according to public accounts & interviews with the victims it was racial as well. The basis overtly stated was that the rapists saw the girls as easy prey because they weren’t muslims & were ‘white’. IOW, the victims were deliberately chosen. It was fairly quickly put to rest to not cause massive social upheaval. But soon thereafter, it prompted a few from the muslim community in australia to be interviewed on tv & those interviewed specifically stated that not wearing the hejab doesn’t mean girls are ‘asking for it’. I very much doubt 1400 or thereabouts were looking for ‘comfort, warmth, etc...’ by being raped & abused. Even if 3 were reported then it should’ve been investigated & promptly dealt with, regardless of the heritage of the perpetrators. British authorities are to be blamed & held responsible equally if not more than the rapists.
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