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Grooming gangs being labelled as "Muslim grooming gangs"

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Olga009933 · 19/01/2025 17:48

Why is religious heritage of child sex offenders only mentioned in headlines when the offenders are of south Asian and predominantly Muslim heritage.
Why not just label them as "grooming gangs" or "Asian grooming gangs" (if wanting to be be specific).
Just thinking and wondering about the thousands of white British and presumably non-Muslim sex offenders who make the news. How many of them are labelled "Christian sex attacker" or "Jewish pervert" etc? Why is the religious heritage of a sex offender only mentioned why the offenders are of Muslim background?
If mentioning religion for one particular demographic then surely its only fair to mention the religious heritage of them all?

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justasking111 · 20/01/2025 21:00

The victims they say were children in care.

Question are children in care allowed to stay out all night. Should care home staff be more on the ball.

Onemorenamechangeagain · 20/01/2025 21:01

TENSsion · 20/01/2025 20:50

Ah. So it’s just your “hunch” which you think carries more credibility than hundreds of accounts from people who have lived and worked there.

Fair enough 🙄

There is documented evidence of people who tried to expose it and do something about it and they were hushed. That is not a "hunch".

Onemorenamechangeagain · 20/01/2025 21:04

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 20/01/2025 20:48

And all the top people are in on it

This is the point which seems to go over a lot of peoples heads

Feelingathomenow · 20/01/2025 21:04

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 20:27

@Xenia yes it's all very quiet but if people who are Muslim believe you are born Muslim then doesn't that make it a race??

Got to give it to the creators of Islam, every part is nailed down.
You can't escape it or get out of it.

I mean Islam was created purely for the purpose of conquering and empire building.

That is largely the MO of most large religions. The way the method was used with Christianity by the Roman Empire is obviously well known.

The founders of Islam wanted access to to the Mediterranean - Israel has always been strategically important. So Islam was devised to enable such a conquest more likely.

Hence the positioning of Islam as the natural successor to Christianity and Judaism

Hence the freeing of POW if they converted

Hence the appropriation of sites holy to Christianity and Judaism. Mohammed “being taken up into heaven” from Jerusalem was a marking of territory - stories were borrowed to make Islam seem familiar.

whippy1981 · 20/01/2025 21:05

TENSsion · 20/01/2025 20:56

I haven’t claimed to have experience of these.
I HAVE had vast experience of living in Rotherham and experiencing the extent of the power the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs hold there.

But what is the cause of the gangs being covered up - racism?

The quota is based on misogyny and rapists being within the justice system so wanting other rapists to walk free.

mommatoone · 20/01/2025 21:05

TENSsion · 19/01/2025 19:12

I grew up in Rotherham. In my class in secondary school, there were 3 girls who were victims of this, two children who were products of their mums being victims of this in the 80’s and five children who had dad’s/ brothers arrested for this in the last few years.
There was a councillor who was the uncle of “mad Ash” who made sure he evaded justice for years and years. He’s also been accused of rape and being part of the grooming gangs but, so far, this has only got to the “alleged” stage. Two of his daughters, whom he is very close to, are both involved in working with victims of domestic abuse and grooming. They have access to all the information from their dad’s alleged victims.
The reach and extent of this is beyond comprehension if you don’t live there. The young Muslim men act with complete disregard because they know they are above the law. They deal drugs openly. They commit acts of violence with impunity. You cannot report them for anything because they will claim you started the interaction with a tirade of racist abuse and it will be you who ends up being arrested. Even the low level crimes such as how they will stop their cars in the middle of the road to have a chat with a friend driving in the opposite direction, bringing all the traffic to a complete standstill, can escalate into extreme repercussions for anyone reporting it. Everyone bites their tongues and keeps their mouths shut.
Think about the teacher in Batley. He showed an image of Mohammed as part of a lesson. He has been hounded out of a job and had credible and ongoing threats against his life made. Has anyone been arrested, charged and prosecuted for these death threats? No. Instead he’s encouraged to change his identity and his entire life. With the shrug of “what did he expect?” echoing around us.
Can you think of a single other instance of a teacher showing an educational picture would be met with accepted death threats?
I moved far away when I fell pregnant. I will not have my children growing up in that environment and thinking it’s normal. I will not have them called racist or liar when they speak out on it.

Thanks for posting this. Just a small insight into the reality of what is going on this country. People need to start listening and take action. Sadly, I fear it's too late.

Hoppinggreen · 20/01/2025 21:07

The ringleader of the grooming gang in my area was a Hindu.

suburburban · 20/01/2025 21:08

@Feelingathomenow

Yes definitely

Doesn't Islam mean submission

Yazzi · 20/01/2025 21:17

Khayker · 20/01/2025 20:34

Unfortunately when faced with facts you dont like, this is the response I anticipated. Until just over a year ago, I dealt with the fall out of radicalisation and exploitation. You can't change facts by name calling and people like you are the reason why grooming gangs in Bradford etc went unchallenged for so long and why so many young people suffered and are still suffering. Societies aren't either all good or all bad, they're mixed and having a polarised and negative view of other people's suffering on this forum doesn't portray you as someone willing to listen to critisism or find solutions. Should you really be on this forum if you're going to mock people posting and asking for advice in their hour of need? That really isn't what it's for and as far as Muslim men are concerned, think you need to read my post again...stop generalising

I'm not confronted with "facts" I don't like, though. I don't dispute that there are grooming gangs, and grooming gangs which coalesce around race. But the actual facts state that there isn't one specific race or religion that has a tendency to gang based grooming. The attempts to make that argument in the face of actual facts and data and the experience of those who work in the sector, is what is racist.

And if course I am not mocking women in their hour of need. I am being sarcastic to point out that the attempt to act like it's Muslim men specifically who are patriarchal and abuse flies in the face of what we see on this site all day every day.

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 21:18

@Khayker I couldn't read all that article but it said "being underage was of little consequence because here (Pakistan) once the girls hit puberty they are fair game.

Paraphrased.

A girl at my school said her dad checked her bed to see when she was ready to marry.

pompey38 · 20/01/2025 21:19

Olga009933 · 19/01/2025 17:48

Why is religious heritage of child sex offenders only mentioned in headlines when the offenders are of south Asian and predominantly Muslim heritage.
Why not just label them as "grooming gangs" or "Asian grooming gangs" (if wanting to be be specific).
Just thinking and wondering about the thousands of white British and presumably non-Muslim sex offenders who make the news. How many of them are labelled "Christian sex attacker" or "Jewish pervert" etc? Why is the religious heritage of a sex offender only mentioned why the offenders are of Muslim background?
If mentioning religion for one particular demographic then surely its only fair to mention the religious heritage of them all?

This must be one of the stupidest question I’ve read on MN

Yazzi · 20/01/2025 21:19

suburburban · 20/01/2025 21:08

@Feelingathomenow

Yes definitely

Doesn't Islam mean submission

Submission to the will of God.

A doctrine essential to every religion including Christianity... "Thy will be done" being a phase you might have heard before

SilverBowl · 20/01/2025 21:20

I haven't RTFT but have read quite a bit of it.

This might be a naive question, and we know that certain organisations didn't want to be seen as 'racist' towards Muslim men of Pakistani origin who were routinely raping vulnerable white girls.

Has anyone considered whether there was a heightened sense of not wanting to be accused of being 'institutionally racist' in the light of the McPherson report? Can I even ask this without being considered to be racist?

GeneralPeter · 20/01/2025 21:21

Yazzi · 20/01/2025 19:18

The logic here is ridiculous. If that's so, as OP has pointed out elsewhere in the thread, then there would be Sudanese Muslim grooming gangs, Yemeni Muslim gangs, Indonesian Muslim gangs.

I'm afraid I don't think that logic works.

Because your same logic would also 'disprove' that the Crusades were motivated by religion. After all, if they were, why don't we see Christians in all countries and all centuries going on crusades?

If you don't think the perpetrators' religious beliefs were relevant here then argue that, but you do need to actually engage with the evidence either way. You can't just say "you mean all Muslims are rapists. I can prove they aren't" because you are having a fantasy argument against a position that no-one is advancing.

suburburban · 20/01/2025 21:22

@Yazzi

I think Christianity has more choices and freedom and people aren't disowned by their families if they don't want to be a Christian anymore.

I think that is something I would find hard to come to terms with.

GrouachMacbeth · 20/01/2025 21:24

Saschka · 19/01/2025 18:10

Based on your experience of the police, do you think it is more likely they ignored this because they were incredibly racially-aware and woke, or because they were lazy and/or bent?

I don’t see the police worrying about looking racist when they stop and search black teenage boys. They do have a long history of corruption and association with organised crime however (which this certainly was). Remember that the police called gang members to let them know when at least one of the victims tried to make a statement.

Of course it is much more convenient for them to say “oh sorry we were just too keen to avoid being racist” than it is to say “our senior officer was getting backhanders for us ignoring this”

A number of the rank and file may well have racist views. You can be sure the senior ranking ones, the ones who can push or quosh a referral to CPS know which side of their bread is buttered.

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 21:24

Do Indonesian people live in huge communities in the UK?
Or Sudanese?

Bernardo1 · 20/01/2025 21:25

Olga009933 · 19/01/2025 17:54

Exactly! This is what I mean. It's almost as though the word Muslim is thrown into the mix to deliberately feed the likes of Tommy Robinson type mentalities.
Given that the overwhelming majority of child sex offenders in UK prisons are white and presumably from some kind of Code or otherwise "Christian" heritage or ancestral background, why is Their religious affiliatiom never mention? Is it because they're not Muslim?!

Believe the majority of white, indeed most child sex offenders are individuals, not gangs.

Religious affiliation can only be assigned to those who have it. Sadly this largely, is not the case in U.K. Given this, perhaps we might refer to any white gangs thus, or as non Muslim, or non Asian grooming gangs

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 21:28

@suburburban.
We went through the enlightenment in Europe and Europe largely separated church from state.

Look at Henry and the pope.

Even a few decades ago it was frowned on to divorce in large Catholic families etc

However because people moved away from families and can set up in new places away from family and communities, if someone didn't go to church or did divorce who cared?.
You are allowed to lapse in your faith, no one will probably know and the last ting they would threaten you with death etc.

You are born Muslim, you can't leave Islam, everyone knows you and what you do and extremists live dotted about the community.

suburburban · 20/01/2025 21:29

@SomethingSScintillating

Yes I know our history 😀

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 21:33
  • as far as I am aware and could be wrong the major organised rape gangs who are white have been from eastern Europe smuggling white ee girls in as prisoners where they get raped.

Unfortunately men rape, and men and some women enslave girls for money.
I'd love it if our government declared war on organised sex slave gangs in the UK.
Why have we allowed it?

We need to scrutinise all marriages backgrounds and people coming from any culture which isn't compatible with our own.

I remember years ago during brown time about a stand off between Latvians I think and another community somewhere in the north.
Ss were on their knees because the people from whichever ee country it was didn't treat their dc as we would expect them too.

Unfortunately we are not all on the same page.

Khayker · 20/01/2025 21:34

Yazzi · 20/01/2025 21:17

I'm not confronted with "facts" I don't like, though. I don't dispute that there are grooming gangs, and grooming gangs which coalesce around race. But the actual facts state that there isn't one specific race or religion that has a tendency to gang based grooming. The attempts to make that argument in the face of actual facts and data and the experience of those who work in the sector, is what is racist.

And if course I am not mocking women in their hour of need. I am being sarcastic to point out that the attempt to act like it's Muslim men specifically who are patriarchal and abuse flies in the face of what we see on this site all day every day.

Yes, you were sarcastically mocking people asking for help on here, why on earth would you use that language and condescending tone for any other reason? I've just put a post above this one by a Pakistani male journalist writing about Pakistani grooming culture and how this has contributer to the grooming scandal in the UK.
I would suggest you read it as its full of facts you probably won't like but will help you be a little more tolerant of opinions based on facts and data other than your own.

TENSsion · 20/01/2025 21:37

whippy1981 · 20/01/2025 21:05

But what is the cause of the gangs being covered up - racism?

The quota is based on misogyny and rapists being within the justice system so wanting other rapists to walk free.

It was caused by white people not wanting to be seen as racist and Pakistani Muslim men in positions of power being involved in it.

Look at how people are STILL being accused of racism for talking about. Now imagine you’re an MP relying on the votes of your Pakistani Muslim constituents and your liberal white constituents. How well would it go to be considered racist?

Consider you’re a police officer or a teacher or a social worker and your boss has a cousin who has been accused of it and a huge proportion of the people you deal with on a day to day basis support the men who do this. Consider your boss says the family are dealing with it and you’re better off staying out of it. How do you think your career in Rotherham will go once you’ve been accused of being racist?

We can see the accusation of being called racist shuts down discourse. It’s evidence on this thread alone. Now consider your job depends on your relationship with the Pakistani Muslim community. People kept their mouths shut.

Khayker · 20/01/2025 21:37

SomethingSScintillating · 20/01/2025 21:18

@Khayker I couldn't read all that article but it said "being underage was of little consequence because here (Pakistan) once the girls hit puberty they are fair game.

Paraphrased.

A girl at my school said her dad checked her bed to see when she was ready to marry.

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