Rape case councils brand ‘Asian grooming gangs’ a racist term in new Islamophobic definition
RAPE case councils have branded "Asian grooming gangs" a racist term in a newly endorsed Islamophobia definition.
Oxford, Newcastle, Manchester and Calderdale, four local authorities where British-Pakistani men raped young white girls, have backed a report.
The report claimed the phrase is a modern version of "age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam" of "sexual profligacy and paedophilia, or Islam and violence".
It concluded that this "heighten[s] the vulnerability of Muslims to hate crimes".
It comes after Shadow Home Secretary Chris Phlip accused Labour figures of burying the grooming scandal as he ramped up demands for a national inquiry.
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He vowed to keep pushing for a new public probe after last night’s Commons bid was defeated by Sir Keir Starmer.
He told the Sun's Never Mind the Ballots: “I want to know who covered this up.
“I want to know who failed these victims by being negligent, by disbelieving their accounts. I want to see a day of reckoning for those people who did not do their job properly.”
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Labour's official definition of Islamophobia also suggests it's racist to use the term "grooming gangs" in relation to Muslims.
The definition is set out in a report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, which at the time was co-chaired by current Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
The Government said: "We are committed to tackling hatred in all its forms."
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch declared that according to the APPG "talking about sex groomers was an example of Islamophobia".
She added: "This is exactly why people are scared to tell the truth."
It comes as Mr Streeting warned of the dangers of vilification in regards to grooming gangs.
He pointed to the 2019 mosque massacre in New Zealand as what the result could look like for Britain if "entire communities" are "tarred with the same brush".
In March 2019 Australian far-right extremist Brenton Tarrant opened fire in two mosques in the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's south island.
A total of 51 people were killed and a further 89 were injured making the atrocity New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting.
Tarrant livestreamed the atrocity on the social media platform Facebook with his weapons and ammunition adorned with white supremacist symbols.
One clip of ammunition clip had the "For Rotherham" scrawled upon it; seemingly a reference to the child sexual exploitation scandal uncovered in the UK town.
JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER Labour played politics when girls as young as 11 were raped
By Julia Hartley-Brewer
SO which are you – a paedophile grooming gang apologist or a far- right troll exploiting the thousands of rape victims to score political points?
It doesn't feel like either option is very appealing, does it? Yet apparently we all have to pick a side now.
Anyone calling for a national public inquiry into the mass rape gangs scandal is just playing politics, while everyone else doesn't really care about the plight of white working-class girls.
Which is hardly helpful when it comes to winning justice for the many thousands of young girls who were so horrifically abused by their largely Pakistani- heritage rapists.
Or to getting to the truth of why so many people whose job it was to protect these vulnerable girls chose instead to turn a blind eye to — or, even worse, enabled — the heinous crimes.
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And it will certainly do NOTHING to stop those very same crimes still happening today to young girls in 50 or more towns and cities across our country.
The sad truth is that every single aspect of this gruesome story has been about political point-scoring ever since the first allegations came to light more than two decades ago.
But it wasn't the Right who were playing politics on this issue for so many years. It was the Left.
Year after year, again and again, the Left was willing to sacrifice white working-class girls on the altar of political correctness and their own misguided ideas of community cohesion.
Anyone who spoke out about this was quickly told to shut up or face the end of their career — whether they were a social worker, a police officer or a local Labour MP.
The idea of British-Pakistani men gang-raping white girls on the streets of Britain was, quite simply, unthinkable.
To admit such a thing would be to give fodder to the Right about the wisdom of mass immigration, and that wouldn't do.
The grooming-gang claims could not be allowed to be true because they didn't tally with the Left's woke thinking that insisted anyone brown-skinned or Muslim must always be seen as a victim.
So the Left used the most extraordinary mind contortions to turn the whistleblowers into the baddies and the rapists into the victims of racism and Islamophobia.
It is true that those on the Right opposed to mass immigration were quick to exploit the scandal for their own political ends.
But they were only able to do so after councillors in Labour constituencies warned off investigations into the grooming gangs for so many years.
And it is Labour MPs today who are worried about upsetting their many Muslim voters if they agree to a public inquiry (although why they think an inquiry into these crimes should upset the majority of law-abiding Muslims is beyond my comprehension).
The Left even turned on their own.
Speaking to the Sun, Mr Philp went on to say the Commons vote was “just the latest installment” of the party ignoring the grooming gangs scandal.
He pointed to former Labour MP Simon Danczuk claiming he was told not to speak out about the issue, and the party’s Sarah Champion “dumped from the front bench because she raised this issue”.
He also criticised the "well-meaning, but ultimately fundamentally misguided and warped views of political correctness" of police and council agencies that let down thousands of children who desperately needed their protection.
The Ilford North MP said: "At the same time, there are people in my community who have either Pakistani heritage or look different, who are now more fearful today than they were before.
"Victims' voices have been completely marginalised, and I think that's a disgrace," he said.
He then challenged Ms Badenoch to look halfway around the world to see where "irresponsible and coarse public discourse can lead on this issue".
"If Kemi Badenoch is in any doubt whatsoever ... look on the other side of the world, in Christchurch, New Zealand, where someone walked into a mosque and killed innocent Muslims stone cold dead with a gun whose magazine had inscribed on it 'for Rotherham'.
"We have to be extremely clear about the failings and the nature of it, and not allow political correctness, fear of stating the truth as it is to fail victims, as has happened before.
"We must also make sure that entire communities are not tarred with the same brush."
Elon Musk's barrage of attacks against the Prime Minister have dominated Westminster over recent days and led Sir Keir to accuse critics of spreading "lies and misinformation".
He has defended his tenure as director of public prosecutions and claims he tackled child sexual abuse charges "head-on".
The Conservatives accused Labour MPs of having "turned a blind eye to justice" for victims of grooming gangs after their amendment to the Government's child protection Bill calling for another national inquiry was rejected.
Tech billionaire Mr Musk described it as ";unbelievable".
Mr Streeting's comments come in the wake of recent online and political debate that has seen calls for an inquiry into child rape by Pakistani men.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage demanded a probe into "to what extent were gangs of Pakistani men raping young white girls."
Grooming gangs are behind two child sexual abuse offences reported to police every day, The Telegraph reported.