Article on the threat to UK women from Afghan immigrants

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"The statistics clearly show that Afghan nationals pose a disproportionate threat when it comes to sex offences. Last year, Sky News’s data and forensics unit – using annual population survey data from 2021 and Met Police figures – found that, for Afghan nationals, there were 59.2 sexual offence charges per 10,000 across England and Wales. The corresponding figure for UK nationals was 2.7 offences per 10,000 people."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/17/we-need-to-talk-about-afghan-sex-offenders/

The Spiked article actually misrepresents the Sky article, which does a deeper dive into the data and concludes "Our estimates conclude that Afghans are closer to three times more likely to be convicted of a sexual offence than someone born in the UK". NB though age is mentioned, i.e. recent migrants are more likely to be young and criminally active, neither seem to analyse sex, though it is mentioned in Farage's figures - there must be more male immigrants than female; presumably this has been taken into account?

More and more I find the threat, especially to women, troublesome and worrying. To generalise, the Left view all immigration as all fine and dandy; the Right disagree and want it reduced or stopped. On the other hand, Burnham's proposal to place asylum seekers in middle-class areas implicitly shows that he knows that they are problematic: "We cannot have a situation where it's only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers." If the refugees and asylum seekers are beneficial to the UK, which is promoted as the Left-wing view, then he would be saying that the rich/middle class areas will benefit from his plans, rather than saying they need to share the burden. "Blackpool, and other communities ... have had to take more than their fair share of asylum seekers," she [immigration minister Anna Turley] added. "That's put a huge burden on local communities and created real civil unrest." www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c204d4z1gg8o

TL:DR Are male immigrants, especially illegal ones, a particular threat to women, and if so what can be done?

I'm noticing the absolute pivot in language.
Stop the boats, smash the gangs, end the conveyor belt from France.
The abuse of asylum would be stopped.
Then, when that didn't happen and numbers started increasing after lockdowns ended, it was that the asylum hotels scheme would be replaced.
Then the asylum hotels became visible.
Still, no more ending the abuse of asylum, now it's that they will be housed, but other than hotels.
In the meantime, ex military accomodations, again only temporary, be patient.
Temporary as to what? To sending them back to their countries of origin?
No, temporary as to housing them right in the community, in HMOs.
Again, we're way past the messaging from 5-10 years ago, when it was all about stopping the numbers getting here.
Now the messaging is, oh we understand people's dismay, but <we all> have a duty to help accommodate asylum seekers locally, and communities will be expected to cooperate.
If I wasn't so horrified by this, I'd be in awe of this national scale experiment in changing a message from eradicating the problem at source to dealing with the fallout as close to those who en masse object.
This is no accident, this is what govt does, what govt always planned to do.
All they have to do is simmer the frog gently for many years.

It is totally the boiled frog analogy. If they told the truth about how big this is and how completely unable they are to stop it, they know they’d be riots.

I'm always disgusted when the left label dissenters to all of this as racist.
If we really were a racist country, the violence you saw on the streets after Southport and Henry Nowak wouldn't have stayed low level, the country would be on fire.
A racist country would have pogroms against Pakistanis when the grooming gangs scandal broke.
Mosques in Manchester and elsewhere would be ransacked after the Manchester Arena bombing.
Asylum seekers, illegals and Muslims would be spat at as Parisians regularly do every day of the week.
Indeed, we're as far from a racist country as you can imagine, as we see the fallout of illegals re violence and violence sexual crime, and effectively keep our heads down.

They could stop it if they wanted to. It might take the navy in the channel, but they could.

Everyone said Trump couldn't stop illegal immigration from Mexico. He did. It's been done elsewhere too.

The question is whether the government is willing to put those already living here (legal immigrants included) first. Currently they're not doing this. I don't know why. Because the pretence of an insoluble problem means they can siphon off taxpayers money to companies like Serco and profit along the way? Who knows.

They cannot be seen to be racist, it's an absolute religion and mantra.
I see this refusal to deal with bogus asylum seekers and illegals as a parallel to their inability to deal with the grooming gangs, have that inquest and atone.
A policy of: illegals at Calais > holding depot > return to country of origin/third country a la Rwanda is the only thing that will work.

Well firstly because they’re a bunch of socialists, the only thing they’re interested in is running the country into the ground and secondly because the back benchers and civil servants are actually in charge and they are so far left they’re positively hanging off the pendulum.

I’m not sure how politicians have convinced people this is ok.

@EasternStandard right? And those are just ones I remember because I think it’s important to remember their names because they have been disrespected in death in my opinion, in that nobody seems to care what happened to them

That’s why there’s not much on the Europe list because I don’t really know about those, but they have a very long list I think.

Some European countries do keep official data on this, but the UK doesn’t. The Ministry of Justice is currently appealing a decision that they have to release data at least by nationality. Though I suspect it wouldn’t give you the specifics of asylum seekers.

meanwhile, I’m still thinking whether @AnitaCam comment about rape in other countries was another “joke” on this thread. We’ve had too many of those.

be interesting to see if @GreySkySummer comes back to reply to my reply!

They're relying on anger being able to be controlled.
It's hard to know how angry Brits are.
I genuinely don't know what they feel about the grooming gangs scandal.
I think it's common knowledge.
Yet you'd be hard pressed to find pressure to sort the inquest and justice, let alone talk about and express true anger.
I have my theories, none of them palatable.
And so Brits propensity to let such examples of violence pass them by is now baked in to politicians' responses.
Don't Look Back In Anger is on permanent repeat play.

My problem is that I’m too well informed nowadays.

I didn’t actually understand the grooming gangs properly until I listened to an eminent specialist discussing the child sex abuse industry and how these organised gangs are using technology to make and share child sex abuse images and what’s feeding it, and then I was completely furious. I’d heard of the Bacha bazi and the link to using young boys to abuse as girls and women are too well protected, but what I hadn’t understood was the link to Persian culture and its link to Pakistan and of course round to the grooming gangs. I’ll see if I can find the podcast to link to.

When they let out local hotel they (council leader and staff) said it'd be for 'not just men'. What they meant was just men in a never ending stream.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast this might be a case of semantics but I’m curious to know how they’re connected

I don’t believe that they are but I don’t keep up-to-date on this stuff. I’m not going to listen to a podcast so I’m curious if you can summarise it.

That link was five minutes long and covered the topic directly.

Yes that’s what gets to me too. It’s such a blatant dismissal and ostracism of victims / families to fit the political agenda.

Look at Labour writing letters re Jason Arday v the treatment of Rhiannon Whyte’s family.

I’m so sorry this is happening to people, worse they others are manipulated not to care.

A few threads on here and you can see how Labour and other parties build the idea the crimes are worth it. And the heavy attacks if you think they are not.

Oh I saw your post when there was no link

I will listen to that

why Is comment racist? I find the fact we can’t stand up for women’s rights because of fire of being called racist! A whole gender is being silenced and essentially having all their rights taken away from them in Afghanistan, but got you can’t criticise the Taliban or the men for fear of being racist! Cats and dogs have more freedom than women in Afghanistan. I don’t believe every Afghan male is a threat, but I believe every undocumented male (white, brown, pink or purple) is a threat to women in this country until we know who they are! But yes, you cry racism!!!!

The treatment of Rhiannon Whyte's family is awful. No accountability.

I really hope the family manage to pursue some accountability from those who left Rhiannon so unprotected. Rhiannon's human right to life was totally disregarded. There was an obvious risk to female staff working at the hotels full of unvetted illegal immigrants, she should never have been left alone to walk home late at night. Really there should be corporate manslaughter charges.

Her mother said her murder was totally unnecessary in every way, and this is true.

The biggest question with Rhiannon's murder is why her murderer was left free to roam to follow and kill her. He didn't have a right to be in the UK, he'd arrived via small boat 3 months earlier and had already been denied asylum in Germany so why was he free to murder Rhiannon? His cold bloodedness is chilling, he threw her phone away, bought beer, then was seen dancing via CCTV. Then he claimed to be a child in law to try and pervert the course of justice which delayed everything. Why was he allowed to do this, further torturing Rhiannon's family?

Why people aren't more angry about this is beyond me.

Sadly it's usually women defending these men and calling people racists. I remember expressing my view that unvetted immigration from countries that stone women to death and engage in group sexual assaults in public is risky.

People on here were banging on about how most sex crimes in Europe are perpetrated by European men and how most of 'the flaggers' are abusers (which is a ludicrous claim as no authorities were ID'ing them all and undertaking CRB checks).

It's because liberal women believe in equal representation for the worlds rapists and murderers in Britain .

They expect victims to be provided.

Ah but you see racism is always always worse than misogyny and rape because it affects men too.

Let’s make no bones about it. What’s happening to women and little girls in Afghanistan is slavery. But there’s no furore or liberal leftie woke bro buy- in to any movement to counter such misery because it’s only women adversely affected. Instead we have travel features about travel to Afghanistan, their all male sports teams being welcomed at events, etc

Rubbish - I don't deny some will be traumatised but that gives no one whoever they are, where ever they came from the right to commit a sexual assault.

@GreySkySummer
I’m sure asylum seeker accommodation is not a particularly pleasant environment for them. But it’s news to me that they are being starved or left without a roof over their heads or at risk of death or torture in the U.K.? If things are bad enough that they have fled their own country and are relying on others for food and shelter, is it not still an improvement here?

And the U.K. is an island. Many of these people must have travelled here from safe countries on the way to the U.K. - why? What is giving rise to the expectation that they’d be better off here?

In an ideal world we’d provide psychological support and counselling, but we are struggling as a country to provide that for our own troubled children.

There are more white British men so statistically that makes sense but as a whole you sound pretty deluded.
A lot of the men that come here laugh in the face of our laws.
I wonder if you would mind large groups congregating in your neighborhood.

You assume they are all fleeing persecution. If that is the case, why are these single young men, who are the vast majority of those arriving via boats, leaving their female family members behind to be persecuted?