These comments are just silly.
We all know that British men also commit rape.
We also know that having more single men around, many of whom are very bored or traumatised, will add to the number of attacks simply because there are more men here. And it’s well documented the world over anyway that, culture aside, large numbers of young men away from their families do generally increase crime rates across the board, so why would we want to do that? The safety of our own citizens is the most fundamental duty of Government and the purpose of a nation state.
And then on top of this we know, from the MOJ data posted earlier, that the prosecution and conviction rates per capita vary significantly by ethnicity, so there is clearly a cultural element to these crimes.
As I pointed out earlier, we don’t have the full picture of just how wide the gap is based on culture because we’d need to cross-section that ethnicity data with the data by nationality, which the MOJ is refusing a legal order to release. One has to question what motivation they have for that, given the grounds for their appeal against the ICO’s decision seem spurious (to put it politely).
It’s just silly to say “but British men do it too!” when it’s clear even from the data we do already have that there are significant variances by ethnicity (when obviously men born in Britain - who will make up the majority of these statistics obviously just because there are more of them here! - have various ethnicities, hence it being clear from this data that there’s a cultural element to offending rates even amongst those who are British nationals).
It’s absurd to demand that we ignore the evident fact that some men pose a significantly higher risk to women and children than others and that culture has a significant impact on this. It would be ludicrous to pretend that it doesn’t when the data is clear, and that obviously for those who have moved here from a country where they were raised exclusively in a misogynistic culture where women are treated as sub-humans and inferior the variance in offending rates caused by these cultural differences is going to be far wider than it is between those who were born in Britain, raised within our society with our legal and societal norms but amongst whom we already can see a large mathematical variance in risk which can only be explained by cultural differences, i.e. that some, despite being raised here, live in culturally isolated self-segregating communities within the UK and have misogynistic values taught to them and reinforced by friends and family.
The patterns even based on the limited ethnicity data (i.e. most of the data relating to British citizens/ long-term residents) are statistically significant so there’s little point continually trying to pretend this isn’t the case to shut down the discussion, and no rational argument I’ve seen to think the variance in offending rates due to cultural differences would be lower when it comes to people moving here from completely alien cultures who view women as property or objects. It’s disingenuous of you to try to shut down discussion with whataboutery when you’ve put forward no argument for why you think these men would pose a lower risk than those raised here in our society with our laws. And if you do genuinely believe this, then presumably you’ll be campaigning for the MOJ to release the data of crime rates by nationality of perpetrator, to prove you are correct?
Women and children deserve to be protected so we need to be able to discuss facts no matter how unpalatable you might find them otherwise more unnecessary and avoidable tragedies will be inevitable.