The following is not exclusive to the United Kingdom and occurs nationwide in America, in every Western nation. Daily. Weekly. And has for years. Fear of writing or speaking the truth allows tragic abuses and evil to continue. Fear of being called racist rather than a fear of God, a fear of being negligent and complicit prevails.

Fear of the truth. Turning a blind eye. Remaining silent. Pointing fingers elsewhere are all symptomatic of weakness and bowing to evil rather than standing up to and fighting against the growing lies and evil.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, July 19th, 2022

Race is a crucial part of grooming scandals

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

By Melanie Phillips

Reprinted from The Times [London]

An inquiry report published last week tells an appalling story. Over the past 30 years, more than a thousand young girls in Telford, Shropshire, were sexually abused by grooming gangs. Blind eyes were turned to this by police, social services and other welfare agencies.

What makes the report infinitely more dreadful is that we’ve heard this story before. Many, many times.

In 2013 seven men were jailed in Telford following a police investigation that found girls as young as 13 were being groomed with offers of alcohol and money and then were drugged, beaten and raped. As in many other parts of the country, the number of convictions represents only a tiny fraction of this particular pattern of abuse.

This first became known in 2011, when Andrew Norfolk revealed in The Times that hundreds of young teenage girls in Rotherham were being groomed, gang-raped, pimped and otherwise abused by organised groups of men “largely of Pakistani heritage”.

This was followed over the years by reports of similar patterns of mass abuse in Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester and Oxfordshire. In every case, the police and welfare agencies had failed to act against the perpetrators for fear of being called racist.

Although child abuse has many kinds of perpetrator, this type of rape and pimping network has a particular characteristic: its members are disproportionately drawn from the Pakistani community.

Tom Crowther QC [Queen’s Counsel], who chaired the Telford inquiry, suggested that a “disastrous” council decision in 2006 to suspend taxi licensing enforcement was also “born entirely out of fear of accusations of racism” — even while council safeguarding staff were aware of taxi drivers offering children free rides for sex.

Former Detective Chief Inspector Alan Edwards says that when he joined the Telford division of West Mercia police he was told “not to rock the boat” for fear of inflaming racial tensions with the town’s Pakistani community. He discovered that paperwork from 1999 identifying key gang members who were preying on teenage girls had lain in a police vault for more than a decade before being properly investigated.

Crowther says he has no doubt that concern about “being seen to be racist” permeated West Mercia police as well as council members and employees. “I am satisfied,” he writes, “that this nervousness led to a reluctance to act.”

But there’s evidence of precisely such nervousness in inquiry reports too. For they employ euphemisms to conceal the fact that a particular demographic is involved.

The report on the grooming gangs commissioned by Sajid Javid when he was home secretary claimed there was a “lack of evidence” for any ethnic link. In similar vein, Crowther writes: “The majority of the men responsible, we are told, ‘were men of southern Asian heritage’.” But southern Asia covers a multitude of ethnicities, cultures and religions. These perpetrators were not Sri Lankan Buddhists, Indian Jains or Thai Christians. Most were Pakistani Muslims.

Crowther’s language becomes even more tortuous. He says that not too much should be inferred from the perpetrators’ names, which are “wholly unreliable indicators of national background and (in particular) religious belief”.

But religious belief is beside the point. The important thing is culture, in which religion plays a key role. And Pakistani here is shorthand for the even more toxic religious aspect of these abusers’ Pakistani heritage.

Muslims who may not follow any Islamic religious practices may nevertheless be shaped by certain Muslim attitudes — particularly towards women and girls, and more balefully still, among some, towards white girls whom they classify as prostitutes on account of their free behaviour.

In any event, if Crowther couldn’t infer the ethnicity of the perpetrators from their names, why didn’t he do some research to find out? The answer, as in previous such reports, is that these authors didn’t want to find out. That would have meant reaching conclusions which would be politically explosive.

That’s also why, as recently as December 2019, the South Yorkshire police force, which was at the centre of the Rotherham rape-gang scandal, was still not routinely recording the ethnicity of child sexual exploitation suspects.

As a result, Priti Patel, the home secretary, said she would make it mandatory for police forces to record the ethnicity of those arrested and held in custody over their suspected involvement in grooming gangs.

It surely takes an especially perverse blindness not to acknowledge that the one thing the majority of these hundreds of perpetrators around the country have in common is that they are of Pakistani heritage.

Indeed, the police forces that ignored their activities have repeatedly reported that they were drawn mainly from this group. That’s precisely why the police were so frightened of being called racist if they tackled them. Yet this crucial demographic fact is utterly unsayable without being accused of racism and Islamophobia. Which is why this terrible abuse continues.

If even ministers and those they commission to write reports detailing this national horror can’t bring themselves to analyse it properly, how can the country ever deal with it?

Until the government states unequivocally that this is a problem that has its roots in a specific community and demands that this community must deal with it, thousands more children will be horrifically abused.