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Report: ‘Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Identity’ Raised in U.K. Rape-Gang Case

Posted on | November 27, 2010 | 35 Comments

A report on the sexual exploitation of British girls as young as 12 by a gang led by two 28-year-old Muslim men found that cultural issues were “a critical factor in making [the victims] easy targets for abusers.”

Official agencies “missed opportunities” to protect two victims of the gang, according to the newly released report by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board (PDF).

England was shocked this week by the news — made public after the conclusion of three trials in which nine men were convicted — that at least 27 girls in Derbyshire had fallen prey to the gang led by Abid ­Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, “each British-born and of Pakistani origin with an arranged marriage,” according to the U.K. Daily Mail. Authorities say the gang may have had dozens more victims.

Saddique and Liaqat cruised the streets in a BMW looking for young girls, sometimes approaching them near schools or shops. The men would use cell-phone calls and text messages to “groom” the girls, then ply them with alcohol and drugs and invite them to parties where they would be sexually assaulted. One girl said she was gang-raped by eight men.

In addition to the two gang leaders, four other Asian men – Akshay Kumar, 38, Faisal Mehmood, 24, Mohamed Imran Rehman, 26, and Ziafat Yasin, 31 — were convicted of sex and drug charges in the case. According to the Mail, Graham Blackham, 26, a convicted sex offender “was the only non-Asian member of the gang” tried in the case. Two other men — Naweed Liaqt, 33, brother of one of the gang leaders, and Farooq Amed, 28 — pleaded guilty to “perverting the course of justice,” the British newspaper reported.

‘Worthy of Wider Discussion’

In a “serious case report,” the Derbyshire board examined issues involved in the cases of two girls (identified as YP1 and YP2) who had been under care of local authorities and were victimized by the Liaqat-Saddique gang. The board also incorporated findings of a multi-agency review in the cases of 25 other victims of the gang.

“Issues of culture, ethnicity and identity were a feature both in relation to the victims and the alleged perpetrators,” the Derbyshire board reported. The two girls “were confused about their identity and sense of belonging. They both had a poor self image and had difficulty making friends and fitting in.”

These issues were “a critical factor in making [the girls] easy targets for abusers,” according to the board report. “Questions have been raised for this review as to whether the ethnic background and culture of the perpetrators had any bearing on their decision to take part in this activity, and also whether the ethnic origin of the victims was significant in making them targets for abuse.”

The board suggested these issues are “worthy of wider consideration, possibly on a national basis.”

According to a 2001 census report, about 4% of the British population is of Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi ancestry — about 2.3 million immigrants and children of immigrants, generically referred to as “Asians” in the United Kingdom. (Chinese and other Asians account for less than 1% of the total British population of 60 million.)

Despite the relatively small size of the Asian minority — the U.K. population is still more than 90% white — British race relations have often been fractious. Asian enclaves have been called “no-go areas” for whites. Since 9/11, British officials have struggled to address the issue of terrorism while also placating the Asian community, which is largely Muslim. Immigration was a topic of concern in the most recent parliamentary election, although major parties sought to avoid addressing it directly. Only the right-wing British National Party (BNP) has continued to agitate the issue.

The racial aspect of the Derbyshire case “is a subject that in politically correct modern Britain is almost taboo — rarely spoken about by the police, the courts or even the agencies that counsel the girls afterwards,” Sue Reid of the Daily Mail wrote in a special report. “The simple fact is that the ­perpetrators are almost all Asian and from the north of England — and their victims white.”

‘Girls I Did Not Respect’

Reid noted: “This week, the BBC reported the Derby case repeatedly on radio with barely a mention of the fact all but one of the gang members were Asian, or the fact the vast majority of the victims — 22 of the 27 mentioned in court — were white girls.”

Reid compared the Derbyshire gang-rapes to a case in South Yorkshire where five men were convicted earlier this month of similar crimes:

Five British-born Pakistanis have been jailed for abusing white girls as young as 12.
The ‘sexual predators’ preyed on their victims over several months and threatened them with violence if they refused their advances.
One of the men branded his victim a “white bitch” when she resisted, while a second smirked, “I’ve used you and abused you.”
The men attacked the four girls in play areas, parks and in the back of their cars, Sheffield Crown Court heard. . . .
The five, Umar Razaq, 24, Razwan Razaq, 30, Zafran Ramzan, 21, Adil Hussain, 20, and Mohsin Khan, 21, were found guilty of a string of sexually related offences against the girls, one aged 12, two aged 13 and one aged 16.

Reid also cited another case in the Manchester area, where a 14-year-old runaway was a “sex slave” for an Asian gang. Nine men ages 25 to 33 – Asad Hassan, Mohammed Basharat, Mohammed Khan, Ahmed Noorzai, Mohammed Anwar Safi, Aftab Khan, Abid Khaliq, Mohammed Atif and Najibullah Safi — were convicted in that case.

According to Reid, “there is a controversial, but relevant, cultural issue. Asian men of Pakistani heritage often believe white girls have low morals compared with Muslim girls.” She quoted testimony in the Derbyshire case, when Saddique told the court: “These are girls I did not respect and these are girls who are just ­partying and taking drugs and we had consensual sex.”

‘The Only Outlet Left to Them’

In 2003, Ann Cryer, a Labour Party member of Parliament, provoked controversy when she blamed Asian culture — specifically, arranged marriage — for the phenomenon of Asian men preying on underage girls:

“I believe there is a very strong cultural reason, it’s nothing to do with the religion let’s make it quite clear, it’s to do with the Asian culture, which wants these young men to marry these very young girls from their village, usually in Mayapore, and as with any other young men, they are seeking relationships elsewhere, and the sophisticated white woman wouldn’t have anything to do with them because they understand that at the end of the day, they are just seeking sex not genuine relationships and therefore the only outlet left to them is to look for very young girls through this organised sex ring that we are seeing in Keighley.”

Britain’s Channel 4 was forced to pull a 2004 program about the problem, ”because of fears it could incite racial violence,” after complaints from Muslim leaders. Last year, three men from the Keighley area – Mohammed Zackriya, 21, Mohammed Taj, 37, Mohammed Shabir, 36 — were convicted of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old.

One British Muslim leader, Mohammed Shafiq, has spoken bluntly about the problem:

Shafiq’s comments were included in a May 2008 special episode of the BBC’s Panorama program:

Daily Mail: Asian gangs, schoolgirls and a sinister taboo

Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board: Serious Case Review

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers, and thanks for the link, Jimmie Bise! Now a thread at Mememorandum.

UPDATE II: The BlogProf reports on the rape epidemic in South Africa, while Bob Belvedere sees this as “what the future holds” for us.

Linked at Sister Toldjah and included in “Links of Note” by Conservative Hideout.

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  • http://twitter.com/nohammernosickl Dan

    The Prophet says: Rape is the bomb.

  • http://twitter.com/AmPowerBlog Donald Douglas

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  • ID

    Muslims seem to be selectively violent. In fact, they more likely would perform “honor killings” of these innocent rape victims rather than put these Muslim men to death. What say you Muslims? Disagree?

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  • Anonymous

    Yep. They do this because they know the families of the girls will not go after them and castrate them or rape their own sisters and brothers. That’s what would happen in their country of ethnic origin.

  • SenatorMark4

    How racist! Uh…got carried away for a minute. There’s nothing like having married Asian dudes cruising the streets to indulge young white girls willingness to do drugs with strangers. It’s just a cultural thing that we can live with once y’all get those second and third generation Britons to accept freedom of religion and other things we all used to hold dear. Oh…no constitution. Good luck!

  • Anonymous

    They judge the girl based on her adherence to islamic cultural norms. Girls who visibly show adherence to those norms are considered protected. Girls that do not are considered whores who fall outside of the protection of islamic law. Since Mohammad said it was okay to wage war against these communitites and force their women to become sex slaves, predatory behavior becomes quite natural. There was a similar case of mass rape in Australia and the senior Imam in the country – Sheik Hilali – basically said that the girls were “uncovered meat.” Had they they stayed in their homes and worn the hijab, according to Hilali, the “problem” would have been avoided. He finished by suggesting that it’s not the cat’s fault if he steals “uncovered meat.” (Paraphrasing). Attitutudes from senior muslim clerics like this are one reason I have concerns about allowing women to wear hijab/niqab. It’s not a “socially neutral” event. It can have serious repercussions for other women in the area because it becomes a dividing line between who is a western whore and who is a protected muslima – between the rule and order within the house of islam (dar al islam), or the free for all of Dar al harb (the house of war where islamic rules don’t apply and females have no islamic “protection”). After a while submitting to islamic dress norms and gender aparteid in such areas becomes less of a choice and more of an act of self-preservation.

  • Anonymous

    “Asian” cultural norms? “Racial” aspects of the case?

    Oh, no. No no no. It ain’t Hindus and Sikhs who are the problem here. It’s those whose ‘perfect man’ to be emulated was a rapist and pedophile.

  • Alex Bensky

    But…all cultures are equally valuable and equally good, except ours, of course. You all above are showing a regrettable lack of sensitivity and understanding–exploiting and raping girls is an expression of their natural frustration anyway, isn’t it?

    But you guys just wait–western feminists are going to be all over this like white on rice, insisting on the universality of women’s rights and…well, something.

  • J Griff

    Why is it that ONLY WHITE NATIONS are being wrecked by “diversity”?

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if this new batch of girls would have suffered in this way if the BBC hadn’t censored the original report?

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  • Anonymous

    blockquote>Why is it that ONLY WHITE NATIONS are being wrecked by “diversity”?
    JG, when this kind of predation happens to non-whites, it is called “colonialism” or “imperialism” and liberals denounce it as intolerable. If the victims of predation are working-class white girls in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, however, liberals denounce as “racist” anyone who points out that the pimps are Pakistanis.

    More seriously: When you read the Safeguarding Board’s report, you sort of need to read between the lines to understand that part of the “identity” issues they’re dealing with is the lack of any coherent cultural identity among many English youth in post-Christian Britain.

    BTW, I’m not going to let the comments get hijacked into “white nationalism.” The alternative to fanatical multicultural drivel is not fanatical separatist drivel.

  • Anonymous

    blockquote>Why is it that ONLY WHITE NATIONS are being wrecked by “diversity”?
    JG, when this kind of predation happens to non-whites, it is called “colonialism” or “imperialism” and liberals denounce it as intolerable. If the victims of predation are working-class white girls in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, however, liberals denounce as “racist” anyone who points out that the pimps are Pakistanis.

    More seriously: When you read the Safeguarding Board’s report, you sort of need to read between the lines to understand that part of the “identity” issues they’re dealing with is the lack of any coherent cultural identity among many English youth in post-Christian Britain.

    BTW, I’m not going to let the comments get hijacked into “white nationalism.” The alternative to fanatical multicultural drivel is not fanatical separatist drivel.

  • Anonymous

    blockquote>Why is it that ONLY WHITE NATIONS are being wrecked by “diversity”?
    JG, when this kind of predation happens to non-whites, it is called “colonialism” or “imperialism” and liberals denounce it as intolerable. If the victims of predation are working-class white girls in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, however, liberals denounce as “racist” anyone who points out that the pimps are Pakistanis.

    More seriously: When you read the Safeguarding Board’s report, you sort of need to read between the lines to understand that part of the “identity” issues they’re dealing with is the lack of any coherent cultural identity among many English youth in post-Christian Britain.

    BTW, I’m not going to let the comments get hijacked into “white nationalism.” The alternative to fanatical multicultural drivel is not fanatical separatist drivel.

  • Rob De Witt

    I’ve been following this in the Daily Mail this morning too. “Asian” would appear to be the latest euphemism for “Muslim,” all right.

    What’s notable is that this continued testing for boundaries is causing more and more commenters in GB to go ballistic over the PC police. Sooner or later this kind of behavior will result in the ultimate confrontation, I think. What’s being exposed, in fact, is the ultimate reality of Natural Law, e.g. that normal people worldwide can in fact see insanity for what it is.

    Man, I’m 65 now, and I never expected to see the truth argued to this extent. Interesting times indeed.

  • Anonymous

    “Asian” would appear to be the latest euphemism for “Muslim,” all right.

    That’s just what they call them in Britain, Rob. It’s not political correctness, just custom.

    Of course, when Americans hear the term “Asian,” we tend to think of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. The term has different connotations because our Asian-American youth population tends to be high-achieving upper-middle-class.

    One occasionally hears of Vietnamese gangs and such, but insofar as the average American has any complaint about Asians, it tends to be along the lines of, “How come they’re half the student body at MIT?”

  • Lcate2

    The news media smears all “asian” when they just refer to the girl abusing criminals as “asians”, the media should clarify that the men are second generation Pakistani Muslims.

  • George B

    Too bad the UK, or the US, can’t just exclude Muslim men from immigration. Just say no to Jihad. There are plenty of good non-Muslims in India, China, etc. that are much more likely to breed Valedictorians than criminals. Why can’t we pick who gets to be on our team?

  • Ericdondero

    Stacy, I wanna know where in the bloody hell is the libertarian movement on this??? Cliff and I are the ONLY LIBERTARIANS BLOGGING ON THIS STORY (besides you, of course. But you don’t count cause you’re a libertarian/conservative.)

    Where’s Cato? Reason? LewRockwell.com? The Ron Paul people? Libertarian Party?

    I’ll tell you where. Absolutely silent. Cause no, no, no, can’t criticism Islam. They they’ll be on the side of those awful Pro-Defensers, Hawks and Bushies.

    Pathetic! My fellow Libertarians suck.

  • Anonymous

    In addition to Sheik Hilali from Australia, we have the Copenhagen Mufti, Shahid Mehdi:

    ” . . . Women who don’t were hijab are asking for rape . . .” :

    http://www.jimball.com.au/features/Political%20%20uproar%20over%20mufti's%20rmearks%20-The%20Copenhagen%20Post.htm

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  • Anonymous

    Why are you so ignorant of Islam? Rape of Kafir women and girls is not prohibited by Sharia Law and is supported by Islam, The Koran, Sira and Hadith.

    These barbarians are simply obeying Mohammad and his faux-Deity, Allah.

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  • Anonymous

    The West is not a race or ethnicity. It is a set of traditions, practices, and morality that anyone can adopt. Unlike every other society, it is blind to color and tribe. If any separatist has got a problem with that, take it up with Thomas Sowell.

  • daveinboca

    I’m an Arabist trained by the State Dept. who’s lived in three Arab countries for a decade. The attitude of Arab men toward western women of a lower or equal social status is often that of “rape bait” and these UK gangs don’t surprise me. At all. And as long as the UK puts PC tolerance above the safety of its citizens, this is only going to get worse.

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  • Fred

    There are a lot of comments from Scots.
    We English have no say in Scotland.
    Even the future of the UK is in Scottish hands because you can vote yourselves out of it.
    A privilege that the Scottish dominated British Government ensured for you.
    So just keep your noses out of English affairs it has nothing to do with you.
    Go wreck your own country like you wrecked ours.

  • Steve Abutalib

    Being a Rape Victim is a very serious crime in Islam & is punishable by death under Sharia law. Just read the holy Quran.
    I see the minister of immigration is doing a great job giving these Pakistaniis a home in the UK. Wonderful contributions the muslims have made to UK society don’t you think?

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