Muslims react with outrage at UK sex abuse report
ROTHERHAM: Members of Britain's Pakistani community reacted with outrage Wednesday amid reports that officials failed to act on sex abuse cases because of concerns about racism in the northern English town of Rotherham.
Muhbeen Hussain, founder of Rotherham Muslim Youth Group, told the Daily Mirror on Wednesday that Muslims are disgusted that justice was not done – leading to some 1,400 children being sexually exploited over a 16-year period, mostly by Pakistani men.
“Race, religion or political correctness should never provide a cloak of invisibility to such grotesque crimes.”
Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in the town of some 250,000. Charities that deal with abused children have expressed shock not just at the number of victims and by the apparent reluctance of authorities to address the question that people of Pakistani heritage were involved for fear they would be labeled racists.
Barnardo's, a charity that works with vulnerable children, unilaterally condemned the abuse that left so many to suffer for so long. “No one should ever be frightened to act decisively because of fear of being seen as racist or politically incorrect,” said Barnardo's chief executive, Javed Khan.
Britain's Labour Party called for the resignation of the police commissioner in the town, a member of its own ranks, after the report found that “collective failures,” led to inaction. But Jay said Rotherham is not the only place in Britain struggling with this issue.
She told the BBC that “demand for this kind of sexual activity with children is on the increase and that is validated across not just the UK but Europe and worldwide.”
“We can't say that Rotherham is any better or worse than other places because the information simply doesn't exist at a national level to tell us that,” she said.
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What a weird reason not to prosecute!
If they act against these Pakistani men then another group will come out and protest against it saying they are innocent and just prosecuted because they are Pakistani.
A cheap attempt to malign Pakistani men.
@Ahmer : The facts are not out yet. Too early to pass a judgement like that.
How come they are Pakistanis? They have lived in UK all their life and don't even know Urdu or have any idea of our culture and yet British authorities call them Pakistanis.
We Pakistanis should not accept this criticism to label them as Pakistanis. What for?
@Citizen26 Many of them speak Urdu as well as, if not better than they speak English, and not all of them were born here.
@Citizen26 So you only wish to take credit for boxers like Amir Khan !! all credits no discredits .......if they do some thing good they are Pakistani and if they do some thing bad then they are British citizen! Wah bhai wah
@Citizen26 If you jump with joy when boxer Aamir Khan wins a fight, then you should also be ready to take blame for the deeds of other pakistanis.
@Citizen26 So was Mooen Ali. I hope you read the comments by Pakistanis when he helped England defeat India in third test match.
@Citizen26 Official report has not labelled them as Pakistanis.
@Sherman ...hahaha Well Said!!!
@Ahmer ...Hain?
@VM OMG.... wow....Tussiii Great Ho Jee....Well Said!!
@someone ... Kya baat hai jee... Well Said!!!
@Citizen26 blood has to show it's true colour one day.
It happens in India too. Its the cause of riots as Hindus can fight back in India.
Police incompetence blamed on race and culture
In order to be called either British or Pakistani they first have to qualify to be human. In my opinion they are savages who have ruined 1400 innocent lives and they should be brought to justice regardless of their ethnic heritage.
I wonder, why is there so much sex oriented crimes among the Indians and Pakistani? The culture is full of abuses based on the caste system adopted by the Muslims, Sikh and the Hindus where there is complete disregard to fellow human being. There must be many more sex related crimes go unreported and unpublished on a daily basis What a shameful society is being created in South Asia with Bollywood and Lollywood being the main culprit promoting sex in the nations with culture full of hypocrisy.
@Citizen26 This is what happens in the west, you are british if you do something amazing like win a medal in sports but you are a Pakistani or Indian etc. if you commit a crime.
KINDLY PUNISH THESE PAKI AND DEPORT THEM BACK LIKE SAUDI ARABIA DO.
@Akil Akhtar : @Kala Ingrez:
Request you not to drag Indians in this matter . We are a respected society through out the world and when any Indian does something wrong , we hang our heads in shame and we don't remain in denial . The richest man in UK is an Indian . The largest manufacturing company which employs most in UK is Indian company . Our image , our culture , our teachings are completely different . Please don't bracket us with you .
@Socrates Really - in which parallel report is your claim in? Read UK papers of yesterday, today and this weekend.
@Sudhakar The maority of them in Rotherham are of Pakistani heritage - what is bad is that their abuse of their own women was also, according to the report, suppressed by the "community elders".
@Kala Ingrez I am yet to read a more confused comment and thoughts as of yours.... Pakistani men in UK are being accused and you have blamed everything from caste to religion to Bollywood....
If all these factors are the cause then why don't you hear such acts in foreign lands related to other south asians ? Why just Pakistani men ?
They are British citizens now, not our problem. They should be punished as any other British citizen would be in these circumstances.
@Devil - you must be living in fantasy land - if you believe sex crimes are not a South Asian issue then you must also think that the racist term 'PAKI' is attributed to only Pakistanis? The problem is that you coconuts, after acquiring a little wealth in UK, act like Brown Englishman too ashamed to admit the flaws in your culture and education system.
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What a weird reason not to prosecute!
If they act against these Pakistani men then another group will come out and protest against it saying they are innocent and just prosecuted because they are Pakistani.
A cheap attempt to malign Pakistani men.
@Ahmer : The facts are not out yet. Too early to pass a judgement like that.
How come they are Pakistanis? They have lived in UK all their life and don't even know Urdu or have any idea of our culture and yet British authorities call them Pakistanis.
We Pakistanis should not accept this criticism to label them as Pakistanis. What for?
@Citizen26 Many of them speak Urdu as well as, if not better than they speak English, and not all of them were born here.
@Citizen26 So you only wish to take credit for boxers like Amir Khan !! all credits no discredits .......if they do some thing good they are Pakistani and if they do some thing bad then they are British citizen! Wah bhai wah
@Citizen26 If you jump with joy when boxer Aamir Khan wins a fight, then you should also be ready to take blame for the deeds of other pakistanis.
@Citizen26 So was Mooen Ali. I hope you read the comments by Pakistanis when he helped England defeat India in third test match.
@Citizen26 Official report has not labelled them as Pakistanis.
@Sherman ...hahaha Well Said!!!
@Ahmer ...Hain?
@VM OMG.... wow....Tussiii Great Ho Jee....Well Said!!
@someone ... Kya baat hai jee... Well Said!!!
@Citizen26 blood has to show it's true colour one day.
It happens in India too. Its the cause of riots as Hindus can fight back in India.
Police incompetence blamed on race and culture
In order to be called either British or Pakistani they first have to qualify to be human. In my opinion they are savages who have ruined 1400 innocent lives and they should be brought to justice regardless of their ethnic heritage.
I wonder, why is there so much sex oriented crimes among the Indians and Pakistani? The culture is full of abuses based on the caste system adopted by the Muslims, Sikh and the Hindus where there is complete disregard to fellow human being. There must be many more sex related crimes go unreported and unpublished on a daily basis What a shameful society is being created in South Asia with Bollywood and Lollywood being the main culprit promoting sex in the nations with culture full of hypocrisy.
@Citizen26 This is what happens in the west, you are british if you do something amazing like win a medal in sports but you are a Pakistani or Indian etc. if you commit a crime.
KINDLY PUNISH THESE PAKI AND DEPORT THEM BACK LIKE SAUDI ARABIA DO.
@Akil Akhtar : @Kala Ingrez:
Request you not to drag Indians in this matter . We are a respected society through out the world and when any Indian does something wrong , we hang our heads in shame and we don't remain in denial . The richest man in UK is an Indian . The largest manufacturing company which employs most in UK is Indian company . Our image , our culture , our teachings are completely different . Please don't bracket us with you .
@Socrates Really - in which parallel report is your claim in? Read UK papers of yesterday, today and this weekend.
@Sudhakar The maority of them in Rotherham are of Pakistani heritage - what is bad is that their abuse of their own women was also, according to the report, suppressed by the "community elders".
@Kala Ingrez I am yet to read a more confused comment and thoughts as of yours.... Pakistani men in UK are being accused and you have blamed everything from caste to religion to Bollywood....
If all these factors are the cause then why don't you hear such acts in foreign lands related to other south asians ? Why just Pakistani men ?
They are British citizens now, not our problem. They should be punished as any other British citizen would be in these circumstances.
@Devil - you must be living in fantasy land - if you believe sex crimes are not a South Asian issue then you must also think that the racist term 'PAKI' is attributed to only Pakistanis? The problem is that you coconuts, after acquiring a little wealth in UK, act like Brown Englishman too ashamed to admit the flaws in your culture and education system.