Stop calling them ‘Asian’ grooming gangs

[Premi5]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/20/stop-calling-them-asian-grooming-gangs/

Stop calling them ‘Asian’ grooming gangs

This is just another way of obscuring the truth about the ethnicity of most of the perpetrators.

HARDEEP SINGH

20th July 2022

 

Last week’s landmark report into grooming gangs in Telford made for truly horrifying reading. It revealed that 1,000 mainly white girls had been subjected to horrific sexual abuse by groups of men of mainly Pakistani heritage since at least the 1980s.

 

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Last week’s landmark report into grooming gangs in Telford made for truly horrifying reading. It revealed that 1,000 mainly white girls had been subjected to horrific sexual abuse by groups of men of mainly Pakistani heritage since at least the 1980s.

Tom Crowther QC, who chaired the Telford inquiry, said that ‘the overwhelming theme of the evidence has been the appalling suffering of generations of children caused by the utter cruelty of those who committed child sexual exploitation’. He then went on to say that the failure of the authorities to intervene was in part driven by ‘a nervousness that investigating concerns against Asian men, in particular, would inflame racial tensions’.

‘Asian’ men? This is an odd description of the perpetrators. Crowther pulled almost no punches in his summing up. But this was definitely one he did pull. The members of the grooming gangs were not simply ‘Asian’ – by and large, they were Muslim men of Pakistani heritage.

This was not a mere slip on Crowther’s part. The report contains nearly 200 or so references to the ‘Asian’ members of grooming gangs. And subsequent media coverage of the report has generally repeated its characterisation of the perpetrators as ‘Asian’.

‘Asian’ is a deliberately vague and non-specific descriptor for men identified as being largely of Pakistani heritage. Referring to these perpetrators of organised child sex abuse as ‘Asian’ is as absurd as referring to the German perpetrators of the Holocaust as ‘European’. It gives the impression that grooming gangs might have been full of men of Chinese, Korean or Japanese heritage. It suggests that members of Britain’s Sikh and Hindu communities might have been heavily involved, too.

 While grooming-gang victims have tended to be white British girls, the gangs have also sometimes targeted Sikh girls, as they did in Leicester. What’s more, some of the white victims of grooming gangs have told me themselves that the sexual abuse had a racial and religious element. The perpetrators would refer to them as ‘white slags’ and claim that ‘white girls and non-Muslim girls are bad because [they] dress like slags’.

Characterising these wicked men only as ‘Asian’ obscures one of the motives for their actions – that, as far as they were concerned, those they were abusing were non-Muslim and therefore fairgame...

To describe them as Pakistani is to risk accusations of Islamophobia and racism. Indeed, we need only recall the experience of the Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion. In 2018, she wrote an op-ed for the Sun addressing the ‘problem [of] British Pakistani men raping white girls’, in reference to the Rotherham grooming-gang scandal. She was subsequently accused of being Islamophobic and was forced to quit the shadow cabinet. Given the treatment of Champion, you can see why many in the public eye opt, in the interests of self-preservation, to describe Pakistani grooming-gang members as ‘Asian’ – if indeed they talk about the issue at all....

 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11055747/Rishi-Sunak-vows-launch-major-crackdown-grooming-gangs.html

Rishi Sunak vows to launch a 'major crackdown' on grooming gangs plus wider efforts to give women the freedom to go out at night without fear

• Sunak insists he will create new laws to target members of child sex abuse rings
• It will also be a crime for men to take intimate photos of women without consent
• The NCA would set up a database to help police monitor gang members 

By MARTIN BECKFORD POLICY EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 17:55 EDT, 27 July 2022 | UPDATED: 17:55 EDT, 27 July 2022

 

 

Rishi Sunak today promises a 'major crackdown on grooming gangs' as well as wider efforts to protect women if he wins the Tory leadership contest.

The former chancellor will create new laws to target members of child sex abuse rings and set up emergency task forces in towns and cities where they have taken hold.

Writing in today's Daily Mail, he also warns that fears over racism must not deter the fight against grooming gangs, after an inquiry revealed that police failed to tackle widespread abuse by south Asian men in Telford for fear of looking 'politically incorrect'.

In a separate move, Mr Sunak will make it a crime for men to take intimate photos of women without their consent.

'Sexual violence against women and girls should be treated as a national emergency until it has been defeated,' he said last night. 'As a father of two girls, I want them to be able to go for a walk in the evening or to a shop at night without any fear of threat.'.....

[5aaban]

I've noticed the media tends to highlight "Sikh" if a person of Sikh origin commits a crime. Yet they refrain from writing Pakistani or Muslim if someone of that background does anything wrong. Especially the UK media seems to have an anti-Sikh rhetoric running. The BBC has also received criticism for pro-Muslim bias in their reporting. 

Another one is when Al-Jazeera, an Arab-Muslim news network made a hypocritical video on UK Gurdwaras not allowing interfaith Anand-Karaj but they never question Muslims for not allowing interfaith weddings in their religion.  

 

[MisterrSingh]

On 7/29/2022 at 11:43 PM, Premi5 said:

Rishi Sunak vows...wider efforts to give women the freedom to go out at night without fear

Most sane people would argue this is part of the problem. A genuine social conservative would advise people to ensure their daughters, girls, and women should stay indoors at night. No, but this bandhar decides they need to embrace more of the randhi behaviour that gets them into trouble. And these bhainchods are our leaders, FFS!