I dislike Yasmin Alibhai-Brown for her racism against white men, white Englishmen and the white British in general (despite the benefits she has acrued from her 25+ years of marriage to a white Englishman – things like good treatment and fidelity) but when she does speak rightly I will commend her for it. From the Mail on Sunday
It is a rainy day in June and I am in a terraced house in Manchester. It belongs to an acquaintance who I will call Mrs Soni, a retired Asian school teacher. . . Our guests had said they would come at nine in the morning, after the children had gone to school. The street is quiet. Few Asians live here, which is important. I am meeting the wives of three men convicted of a terrible crime – of grooming and raping dozens of white girls. Nila, the 18-year-old daughter of one of them, will be there as well.
Nila … approached me in Leeds when I gave a talk earlier this year. . . She was upset. ‘My dad is in prison because he was with others raping small white girls,’ she told me. ‘I hate him. He made my mum pregnant eight times even when she didn’t want to do it. I heard her crying. Six babies died. He did that to her for so long. But never went to prison.’
Since reports of a gang of Pakistani-British sexual predators in Rotherham first emerged in 2011, there has been a string of horrific cases: in Rochdale, Peterborough, Bristol, Aylesbury and at least 20 other towns across the country.
Even now white girls, many from troubled homes, are being violated by men who profess to be good Muslims. Such are the explosive racial and religious implications that, to our shame, many refuse to face the problem.
Look at what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, who was sacked from the shadow front bench for saying just this. Or take the case of Amina Lone, a Muslim councillor from Birmingham, who rightly defended Champion but was then told she cannot stand for re-election.
Yes, sexual predators come from all classes and races. However, in organised group rapes, such as those in Rotherham and Rochdale, the issues of race and ethnicity are undeniable. They must be addressed.
As a female British-Muslim writer, I am deeply troubled by the Muslim men who work in packs and entrap and ravage young white girls and teenagers.
But we know nothing about how these rapists behaved behind their own closed doors. They had wives and children – how could they commit such abhorrent crimes? And now, at last, I was getting access to the family members. I had to promise their names would be changed and that none would be identified. The consequences, if discovered, would be unimaginable.
It will be a long time before I forget the three hours of emotional chaos, disorientation and pain that followed. I learned that they, too, had been subject to despicable sexual abuse. But I also discovered that, trapped in a world of obedience and ignorance, too many also blame the white teenaged victims for leading their abusers on.
…two women, Homa and Mariam, came as young, virgin brides from villages in Pakistan. Arriving here, they spoke no English and their mothers-in-law treated them like slaves. The women would not discuss the intimate parts of their lives at first, resorting instead to vague words and platitudes: ‘Muslim women must give husband,’ said one of them. ‘He want, she don’t like but must give.’
But bit by bit, they opened up, describing a world of loveless sex on demand, of domestic violence, routine debasement. ‘He did it hard, it hurt,’ said Nusrat. ‘It was always painful. He say I am his toy. I say no, he pushed me down, made me cry. He was like a dog.’
These are not matters that are commonly discussed among Muslim women.
I tried to dig further down. How, exactly, did their relationships work? The men, always controlling, had become more so with time, angry as they grew older and as the children grew up. These were marriages with no hugs or kisses, with little overt love and a great deal of fear.
Did the wives know about the criminal abuse committed by their husbands, or at least suspect? They all claimed not to, and I believed them. They could not discuss, let alone question, their husband’s movements. As one said: ‘He is a man. He comes and goes as he wants. He doesn’t answer to me.’
Perhaps what took place was beyond their comprehension. They do not seem to understand the concept of consensual sex. In their world, the sex drive is a male urge that must be satisfied. Their men took the white girls as they took their wives.
Yet, painful as it is to say, it became clear, too, that the men are not alone in blaming the victims. I asked the women how they would feel if their children had been drugged and raped. They agreed it would break their hearts. But, Mariam said: ‘It can’t happen to our children because they are not in the streets. We look after them.’
Only Nusrat and Nila were prepared to condemn the abuse without reservation. The others, it seemed, privately blamed the girls and even their parents. It became clear they had a very confused sense of morality.
I would say a sense of morality which is not Christian, or based on the Judaeo-Christian ethos.
But later, at a separate meeting, I encountered Suju, the wife of another jailed groomer. She was afraid of him but she, too, thinks white girls are: ‘Filthy. How they dress. They have no shame, no fear of Allah.’
Was it OK to hurt them the way the men did?, I asked. ‘No. You can’t hurt people. Allah does not want that,’ she replied. ‘But it is the girls who should be careful. They did something to him, maybe bad magic. I am now alone, no money, no life.’
Muslim activists fear talking about the abusers encourages racism. They may be right. But the grooming gangs are responsible for much greater racial hostility. Progressive Muslims must make this crime socially unacceptable. The communities which shelter and defend these men must be confronted.
These predators – and the wives who seek to justify their behaviour – must understand that women are not white or brown flesh to be consumed at will.
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One Response
I went to the original article and read the Comments. Interesting to observe which were the highest-rated. There were two standout comments. From ‘devilmaybe’ there was this – “The Quran (Chapter 2, verse 223) – “Your women are your ploughed fields: go into your fields when you like”. Is it any wonder the men behave like this (and the women accept it) when it is sanctioned by their deity?” (and 3546 people upclicked him, so that means nearly 4000 other people are seeing the continuity between a/ the way these Muslim men behave *both* toward non-Islamic girls *and* toward their own wives, daughters, etc and b/ the teachings in the founding texts of Islam.
And here is the other standout comment: by a woman who identifies herself as having been a victim of mohammedan predation, years and years ago. ” ‘donnah’, of Willenhall, said, “This happened to me from a broken home at 13 lived alone picked up manipulated abused passed around by these men [i.e. MUSLIM PREDATORS – CM] still can’t report it 20 years on [i.e. the abuse happened late 1990s – CM] the shame the taboo the fear of racism stigma so glad that these girls were brave enough to speak out I wish I had been.” One hopes that ‘donnah’ *will* screw up her courage today and maybe find Liberty Great Britain or Gavin Boby’s lot and share her story and get some legal help; 20 years ago is not too long ago for her to report that level of abuse and organised criminal activity. Men who at 20 or 30 were abusing her, back then, would now be 40 or 50 and are highly likely to be still doing it NOW, to other girls in the same situation that she was.