British Home Secretary Suella Braverman is accusing the British-Pakistanis of allowing a culture of exploiting vulnerable children. The Home Secretary singled out ‘gangs of British Pakistani men who have worked in child abuse rings or networks’ to target ‘vulnerable white English girls.’... A special report by Kaliph Anaz
In the UK, the term “grooming gang” refers to a group of individuals who occasionally sexually abuse and exploit impressionable children through the use of compulsion, intimidation, and grooming. These gangs typically operate in areas with a high concentration of children who are at risk, such as those in foster care or from low-income families.
However, this is not the first time that, British-Pakistani grooming gangs have come to the limelight; there were horrid instances in past involving Pakistani men grooming children in the UK.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 2nd April swore to ‘stamp out’ grooming gangs, and accused ‘political correctness’ of letting them flourish. Sunak stated, “What is clear is that when victims and other whistle-blowers came forward their complaints were often ignored by social workers, local politicians, or even the police. The reason they were ignored was due to cultural sensitivity and political correctness. That is not right…these crimes are horrific and that is why the actions we are announcing today are right and have been welcomed by people, and I have been speaking to survivors today and others involved.”
Sunak also said that he is leading the most robust action UK Government has ever taken to crack down on grooming gangs. This includes: launching a new task force of specialist officers to tackle child abuse; introducing mandatory reporting for adults working with children; implementing tough sentences for gang members; and collecting ethnic data of suspects.
Also, Home Secretary Suella Braverman singled out ‘gangs of British Pakistani men who have worked in child abuse rings or networks’ to target ‘vulnerable white English girls’.
“There have been several reports since about the predominance of certain ethnic groups – and I say, British Pakistani males – who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values, who see women in a demeaned and illegitimate way and who pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach in terms of the way they behave.” She said, “As a result, thousands of children have had their childhoods robbed and devastated and there are many of the perpetrators still running wild, behaving in this way, and it’s now down to the authorities to track these perpetrators down without fear or favour relentlessly and bring them to justice.”
In an interview on Sky TV’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, the home secretary said police and council workers had “turned a blind eye to these signs of abuse out of political correctness and out of fear of being called racist” – referencing findings in several reports into grooming in Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford.
Meanwhile, Tory peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has warned that what she describes as Braverman’s “racist rhetoric” is putting British Asian families at risk.
The peer, the UK’s first South Asian cabinet minister and a former Conservative chairperson claimed the home secretary’s comments on small boats and grooming gangs “emboldened racists”.
She told the BBC she feared a backlash against British Asians and had told her dad not to walk home from the mosque.
In a series of joint letters to the prime minister, a coalition of groups including senior medics and the British Pakistan Foundation called on Ms Braverman to withdraw her comments, which some labelled as “inflammatory and divisive”. Is there any truth behind the home secretary’s statement?
Rotherham & Rochdale Gangs
In Rotherham of South Yorkshire, such abuses took place between 1997-2013 in which about 1,400 children were raped, trafficked, beaten, and sometimes doused in petrol. As reported the enquiry conducted by Prof. Alexis Jay, concluded that almost all men were of Pakistani origin. The children were threatened with guns and made to witness brutally violent rapes and intimidated. In 2010, a confidential police report had warned that vast numbers of children were being sexually exploited in South Yorkshire each year by organised networks of men ‘largely of Pakistani heritage’. South Yorkshire Police and local child-protection agencies were shown to have knowledge of widespread, organized child sexual abuse but they still failed to act on that knowledge. Later the Jay Report also took the local authorities to task for increasing concerns about racial sensitivities over the protection of the children in their care. As the Jay Report put it: ‘Several [council] staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.’
A 202-page investigative report is authored by Malcolm Newsam, a renowned childcare expert, and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent with Cambridgeshire Police. The report also has a detailed description of how Shabir Ahmed, the ring leader of a notorious grooming gang in Rochdale, was employed by Oldham Council as a welfare rights officer and seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre. Despite multiple concerns being raised about him and his arrest for the sexual assault of children, police failed to tell his employers. The Rochdale scandal was finally exposed in 2012 when people learned that for years, authorities had been suppressing knowledge of abuse rings of primarily Pakistani men preying on primarily white teenage girls. Young women were being raped by multiple men on a nightly basis, after being plied with gifts and alcohol. Nine men were sentenced in 2012, and another nine in 2016. In 2012, the men were given sentences ranging from 04 to 19 years. The men sentenced in 2012 included Mohammed Amin; Abdul Qayyum, known as ‘Tiger’; Adil Khan; Mohammed Sajid; Abdul Rauf; Abdul Aziz; Kabeer Hassan; Hamid Safi; and the Ring Leader- Shabir Ahmed. Later Abdul Rauf and Adil Khan were reportedly deported to Pakistan after losing a seven-year legal fight to remain in Britain.
In 2020, an independent review concluded that dozens of teenage girls thought to have been groomed and sexually abused in Manchester by groups of largely Pakistani men had failed to be caught by police and officials. The review exposed that the authorities were frightened that an in-depth investigation would destabilise race relations in Manchester. The report suggested that Greater Manchester Police and Manchester City Council effectively sidelined an investigation into grooming gangs due to ‘sensitive community issues’ and concerns over the risk of inciting ‘racial hatred’. Much of the report’s focus was on Operation Augusta, which was set up in 2004 after the death of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia in 2003. Two months after her death the report testified that an older man had sexually battered her and injected her with heroin. Augusta subsequently identified at least 57 victims, mainly white girls aged between 12 to 16 and some 97 potential suspects, mainly of Pakistani origin, across the Greater Manchester region.
The report into grooming gangs in Telford in the West Midlands, published in July 2022, told that groups of men, of largely Pakistani origin and heritage, sexually abused young girls for years while the authorities, fearful of appearing racist, did nothing. The pattern has become distressingly familiar. Very young, mostly working-class white girls from challenging backgrounds are groomed by mainly Pakistani Muslim men, often working in the nighttime economy. These girls get convinced these men are their ‘boyfriends’. They are given food, drugs and alcohol. And they soon begin to view sexual activity with these men as a form of paying off. They are trafficked out for sex with other men. They are methodically threatened, brutally abused and even killed now and then when they try to alert the authorities or escape. Many of these girls end up having forced terminations or go on to bear the perpetrators’ children.
Political correctness
People in Britain have accepted without confrontation the huge changes that have been imposed on them over the last few decades, mainly by activists working through the Labour Party. They have accepted immigration policies that have filled cities in the UK with disaffected Muslims. They have accepted the growth of Islamic schools in which children are taught to prepare themselves for jihad against the surrounding social order. They have accepted the constant denigration of their country, its institutions, and its inherited religion, for the simple reason that these things are theirs and consequently tainted with forbidden loyalties.
Burden of ‘multi-culturalism’:
In the majority of such cases, defending multiculturalism was prioritized over the safety of child victims of the most sickening crimes. When it comes to the hierarchies of victimhood that is oh-so delightedly endorsed by our cultural elites, vulnerable white working-class girls just don’t make the cut. Exploitation was not investigated because of nervousness about race, that such investigations would inflame ‘racial tensions’.
Police forces lean over backwards to avoid the accusation of racism, while social workers will hesitate to intervene in any such case in which they could be accused of discriminating against ethnic minorities. Matters are made worse by the rise of militant Islam, which has added the old crime of racism to the new crime of ‘Islamophobia’. No social worker today will risk being accused of this crime. Unfortunately, the best policy has been to sweep this issue under the carpet, find ways of accusing the victims or their parents or the surrounding culture of institutionalised racism and attending to more urgent matters such as the housing needs of recent immigrants, or the traffic offences committed by those racist middle classes. It is a well-known fact in Britain that Pakistani Men often do not treat white girls with the respect they treat girls from their own community. Still, let slip the mere hint that Pakistani Men are more likely than indigenous Englishmen to commit sexual crimes and one will be branded as a racist and an Islamophobe, to be ostracized in the workplace and put hereafter under observation.
This crisis can no longer be disregarded. Politicians must take the initiative and lead. They must exhibit moral and political fortitude. To this purpose, the government should direct all police forces and local councils to gather particular data for all cases of recognized or suspected child sexual abuse and exploitation, broken down by socio-demographic traits including ethnicity and sex. Rishi and especially Braverman are under the radar of the leftist liberal cabal of the UK for not only coming out in the open with courage but also devising steps to tackle this social evil of grooming gangs.